It’s easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAIt’s easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAReal 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.
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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPALuxury is experiencing reality
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAWhen we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative [enough] to wake a person up
CHOGYAM TRUNGPADeveloping confidence is like watching the sun rise. First it seems very feeble and one wonders whether it will make it. Then it shines and shines.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAA great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don’t appreciate themselves.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAEnlightenment is ego’s ultimate disappointment.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAIn fact, a person always finds when he begins to practice meditation that all sorts of problems are brought out. Any hidden aspects of your personality are brought out into the open, for the simple reason that for the first time you are allowing yourself to see your state of mind as it is.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAThere is more to fearlessness than merely having overcome fear… This state of being is not dependent on any external circumstances. It is individual dignity… that comes from being what we are, right now.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPATo be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAHope and fear cannot alter the seasons
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAWe are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAThe point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAThe emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAYou 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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