the drala principle (2):
luxury is experiencing reality
Bill Scheffel
Photo: Bill Scheffel
Read the first part of this text at http://magazine.dharma.art.br/2009/11/o-principio-do-drala-1_english/.
A course of study
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Discover that, “Luxury is experiencing reality”
The intriguing quote, “Luxury is experiencing reality” is another phrase Chögyam Trungpa used which goes to the heart of the drala principle. In our modern world of technology and consumerism we live tremendously and unnecessarily shielded from the elements; as Trungpa taught, “so many devices are presented to us [...] ten thousand types of gloves and a hundred thousand types of shoes and millions of masks to ward off animals in the real world [...] Just in case you smell a cow, you have an aerosol.”
Chögyam Trungpa counseled his students that the life envisioned in Nova Scotia must be highly connected to the earth.
We are talking about a farming situation in some sense: how we are going to experience the land properly, the real land, the land that grows crops and the land on which animals are raised. It is very, very important for us as students of Shambhala that when we first wake up in our bedrooms, the first incense we smell is either cow manure or horse manure or the smell of plants… We have to back and experience how the earth words rather than purely smelling our neighbor’s bacon cooking as soon as we wake up… We all have to work on the earth, literally and properly.
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