The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa: volume 4
“Unfortunately, in the Western world, the concept of magic seems to be associated with mysteriousness and impossible powers, such as turning fire into water or the floor into the sky. So magic is considered to be possible only for those few chosen people who develop mysterious magical powers. In comic books, for instance, magical things happen because a person possesses a certain power that he exercises over other people, either destroying them or helping them. Such a magician can change a giant... into a dwarf, a mute into a bard, a cripple into a runner, and so forth.In the West, we often treat spirituality with that comic-book approach, and we view spiritual discipline as the process through which we will eventually end up as magicians. We feel that, although we may have a few little problems as beginners, when we become highly accomplished persons, we won’t have these problems. We will be able to shake them off and do anything we want. That is the simple-minded concept of spiritual practice and the simple-minded concept of magic: that once we are accomplished persons we will be able to do anything.MoreLess
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