Being Present

BE GRATEFUL TO EVERYONE

Without this world, we cannot attain enlightenment. Without this world,

there would be no journey. By rejecting the world we would be rejecting the

ground and rejecting the path. All our past history and all our neurosis is

related with others in some sense. All our experiences are based on others,

basically. As long as we have a sense of practice, some realization that we

are treading on the path, every one of those little details, which are

seemingly obstacles to us, becomes an essential part of the path. Without

them, we cannot attain anything at all -- we have no feedback, we have

nothing to work with, absolutely nothing to work with. So in a sense all

the things taking place around our world, all the irritations and all the

problems, are crucial.

  From "Point Three: Transformation of Bad Circumstances" in TRAINING THE

MIND AND CULTIVATING LOVING KINDNESS, pages 88-89 by Chogyam Trungpa.

Being present in the world is a good place. We only conjure that it is not.