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Relating With the "Other" |
| Posted September 21, 2006 by admin |
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"We are constantly trying to work out our relation to the other. It's like your dog meeting somebody else's dog. There is a growl, a sniff, a step forward, a potential rejection, or maybe an acceptance. That kind of thing is constantly taking place. Dogs do it very generously. As far as we human beings are concerned, obviously we are more subtle, but we are less generous because we have more 'me.' But still this process goes on constantly—we do that when we confront our world."
This quote is from Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, as published in The Path Is the Goal: A Basic Handbook of Buddhist Meditation. (Photo is by quite_peculiar; some rights reserved.) Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche was one of the most dynamic teachers of Buddhism in the 20th Century.
Another metaphorical comparison of dogs and people can be found in Walking the Dog, a Talk by Fear-No-More Zoo Founder Adi Da Samraj. |
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