We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAJust fully being skillful involves total lack of inhibition. We are not afraid to be. We are not afraid to live. We must accept ourselves as being warriors. If we acknowledge ourselves as warriors, then there is a way in, because a warrior dares to be, like a tiger in the jungle.
More Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce. There is no authentic Tantra without profound commitment, discipline, courage, and a sense of wild, foolhardy, fearless abandon.
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That combination of love affair and loneliness is what enables the warrior to constantly reach out to help others. By renouncing his private world, the warrior discovers a greater universe and a fuller and fuller broken heart. This is not something to feel bad about; it is a cause for rejoicing.
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Warriorship is so tender, without skin, without tissue, naked and raw. It is soft and gentle. You have renounced putting on a new suit of armor. You have renounced growing a thick, hard skin. You are willing to expose naked flesh, bone and marrow to the world.
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Becoming “awake” involves seeing our confusion more clearly.
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There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.
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You are feeding them energy because you are not seeing them as simple phenomena. If one tries to quiet them down, that is another way of feeding them.
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Too often, people think that solving the world’s problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.
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Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.
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To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.
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Fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart.
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Enlightenment is ego’s ultimate disappointment.
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Things get very clear when you’re cornered.
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The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.
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A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don’t appreciate themselves.
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We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you’ll have no problem.
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