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Just 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.

Chogyam Trungpa

We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.
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Caught Discuss Jam Traffic
Life is a straight drink – straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.
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Drink Life Is Pain
Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.
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Bad Bird Emptiness Good Happy Imprint Sad Sky Thought
There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.
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Awareness Such Talent Thng
Any perception can connect us to reality, properly and fully. What we see doesn’t have to be pretty, particularly; we can appreciate anything that exists. There is some principle of magic in everything, some living quality. Something living, something real, is taking place in everything.
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Appreciate Magic Real
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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Gentle Issue Naked Raw Skin Soft Warriorship Without
Fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart.
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Fearlessness Heart Human Softness Work
Gentle day’s flower – The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.
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Air Bird Flower
The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.
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Anything Convert Ego Even Own Problem Spirituality Use
A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don’t appreciate themselves.
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Appreciate Chaos Deal Great Occur People Themselves World
There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.
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Absence Freedom Itself Need Struggle
The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.
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Enlightenment Own Trouble Want Westerner Witness
we must continue to be open in the face of great opposition. No one is encouraging us to be open and still we must peel away the layers of the heart.
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Faces Heart Layers
Enlightenment is ego’s ultimate disappointment.
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Disappointment Ego Freedom
In order to develop love – universal love, cosmic love, whatever you would like to call it one must accept the whole situation of life as it is, both the light and the dark, the good and the bad. One must open oneself to life, communicate with it.
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Accept Cosmic Develop Life Like Love Must Order Situation Universal
When there is no desire to satisfy yourself, there is no aggression or speed… Because there is no rush to achieve, you can afford to relax. Because you can afford to relax, you can afford to keep company with yourself, you can afford to make love with yourself, to be friends with yourself.
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Desire Love Making Love

Just 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.

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Just 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.

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