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Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

Michael: One thing that you wrote which I'd like to ask you about now: in Meditation in Action, you wrote that in reality the transmission is not something given you, it is simply discovered within oneself. Is that discovered through meditation?

Trungpa: Through meditation and environment such as meditative discipline. I suppose you can say that the reason why a person can discover is because of the environment. The environment as being teacher...and, have a relationship with the teacher and also, at the same time, a lot of exersion. So, the idea of discovery in this case is losing one's ego-grasp; this is regarded as discovery. It is sort of an interesting twist that you don't gain anything, but you see clearly because the obscurations have been removed. "