Quote from Spectrum of Ecstasy

Spectrum of Ecstasy: Embracing the Five Wisdom Emotions of Vajrayana Buddhism

by Ngakpa Chogyam with Khandro Dechen

Shambala Publications Inc., Boston, MA   © 2003   336 pp.

"Our being is a brilliant pattern of energies, a spectrum of possibilities. At every moment we have the capacity to experience the open dimension of what we are." (p. 3)

"Every thought, every feeling, every sensation or action is enlightenment; but we do not realize it . . . We are never separated from it. There is no need to look for enlightenment in any other place than where we are. It is there, unrecognized, in every moment." (p. 27)

"Awareness is the uncontrived, unattached recognition of the experience of movement -- the movement of the arising and dissolving of thoughts in the continuum of Mind, the appearance and disappearance of phenomena in the vastness of intrinsic space. There is only the sheer exquisiteness of this movement. This is what we actually are." (p. 83)

-- submitted by Jennifer Knight