You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAThe bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there’s no ground.
More Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
-
-
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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there’s no ground.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
Fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
Becoming “awake” involves seeing our confusion more clearly.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
There is very little distance between being a fool and being wise; they are extremely close. When we are really, truly fools, when we actually acknowledge our foolishness, then we are way ahead. We are not even in the process of becoming wise – we are already wise.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
You begin to understand that warriorship is a path or a thread that runs through your entire life. It is not just a technique that you apply when you are unhappy or depressed. Warriorship is a continual journey. To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life. That is the warrior’s discipline
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA






