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It’s possible to be completely enlightened… except with your family.

Chogyam Trungpa

Look. This is your world! You can’t not look. There is no other world. This is your world; it is your feast. You inherited this; you inherited these eyeballs; you inherited this world of color. Look at the greatness of the whole thing. Look! Don’t hesitate – look! Open your eyes. Don’t blink, and look, look – look further.
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Feast Look Other World
In Tibetan, authentic presence is wangthang, which literally means, ‘field of power’… The cause or the virtue that brings about authentic presence is emptying out and letting go. You have to be without clinging.
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Authentic Field Literally Mean Power Presence Tibetan
When you relate to thoughts obsessively, you are actually feeding them because thoughts need your attention to survive. Once you begin to pay attention to them and categorize them, then they become very powerful.
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Actual Attention Feed Need Obsessively Relate Survive Thought
My advice to you is not to undertake the spiritual path. It is too difficult, too long, and is too demanding. I suggest you ask for your money back, and go home. This is not a picnic. It is really going to ask everything of you. So, it is best not to begin. However, if you do begin, it is best to finish.
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Advice Demanding Difficult Long Path Spiritual Too Undertake
You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there – fully, personally, genuinely.
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Deserve Earth Realize Sitting
The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.
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Enlightenment Own Trouble Want Westerner Witness
We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you’ll have no problem.
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Always Just Problem Relax Transition
It’s no use trying to be different than you are.
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Different Try Use You
We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.
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Caught Discuss Jam Traffic
Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path.
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Away Delay Incorporated Path Right Shake
Enlightenment is ego’s ultimate disappointment.
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Disappointment Ego Freedom
If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power.
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Gently Power Speak Tell Truth Word
We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.
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Future Jump More Now Past Threatened
To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.
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Every Genuine Life Moment Want Warrior
If kindness doesn’t work, try more kindness.
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Kindness More Work
Helping others is a question of being genuine and projecting that genuineness to others. This way of being doesn’t have to have a title or a name particularly. It is just being ultimately decent.
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Being Genuine Genumneness Help Other Projection Question

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