Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

friddlydazmilagoolia

• described by Chogyam Trungpa as "karma" (one of 5 buddha families) in Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
  • > Karma is associated with the emotion of jealousy, envy, and the element of wind. However, the terms jealousy and envy are not powerful and precise enough to describe the quality of karma. “Absolute paranoia” probably is a good phrase. You feel that you are not going to achieve any of your goals. You become irritated by the accomplishments of other people. You feel left behind and cannot bear to see others surpass you. This fear, this distrust of oneself, is connected with the element of wind. Wind never blows in all directions but it blows in one direction at a time. This is the one-way view of paranoia or envy. Karma is connected with the wisdom of all-accomplishing action. The quality of paranoia falls away but the qualities of energy, keenness to action, and openness remain. In other words, the active aspect of wind is retained so that one’s activity touches everything in its path. One’s action is appropriate because it does not involve self-conscious panic or paranoia anymore. It sees the possibilities inherent in situations and automatically takes the appropriate course. It fulfills the purpose.
  • me in my book notes:
    • Ha! This is the downward spiral and upward spiral friddlydazmilagoolia! That... makes sense, on reflection. I like having the word friddlydazmilagoolia though because people think they already know what karma means, whether they just thing of it as reward or whether they have some more complex Buddhist frame that still is conceptual overlay not direct perception of the reality of friddlydazmilagoolia/karma. I already recognized friddly in the downward spiral version, and then the upward spiral was clear in the other paragraph