Working With The World

"With regard to your inquiry about my lifestyle, you must understand that I regard myself as an ordinary person. I am a householder, who makes mortgage payments. I have a wife and three children whom I support. At the same time, my relationship with the teachings is inseparable from my whole being. I do not try to rise above the world. My vocation is working with the world... There is a fundamental idea which refuses to divide things into this and that, sacred or profane, right or wrong. That is why I write and speak of meditation in action. It is much easier to appear holy than to be sane. So the idea is to separate spirituality from spiritual materialism. This requires a practice and some courage."

~ Excerpt from a letter from Chogyam Trungpa to Steven Morrow, May 10, 1973

Photo ~ Chogyam Trungpa, Lady Diana and Taggie, with handwritten note from the Dorje Dradul