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There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.

Chogyam Trungpa

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
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
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
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
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
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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Against Blood Fierce Happiness Hot Joyful Path Practice Smashes Spiritual Swift Tantra Thunderbolt Unreasonable
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
Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw and beautiful heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world. You are willing to share your heart with others.
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Beautiful Come Fairness Heart Letting Product Raw Real Tenderness Tickle World
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
Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.
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Acquire Apply Attempt Benefit Constant Ego Own Spirituality Teaching
When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink.
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Attitude Emotional Serenity
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
Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!
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Chaos Extremely Good News Regard Should
Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path.
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Away Delay Incorporated Path Right Shake
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
The basic work of health professionals in general, and of psychotherapist s in particular, is to become full human beings and to inspire full human-beingness in other people who feel starved about their lives.
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Basic Become Full General Health Human Being Inspire Practical Profession Psychotherapist World

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