Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAHelping 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.
More Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink.
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Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.
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Fundamentally, no one can help us. If we seek to relieve our loneliness, we will be distracted from the path. Instead, we must make a relationship with loneliness until it becomes aloneness.
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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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Too often, people think that solving the world’s problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.
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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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The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.
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The ideal of helping is to make others independent of you. You help them to become more independent rather than making them addicted to you.
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When 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
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Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path.
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I am alone and my spiritual journey is my experience.’ This is the real experience of freedom and independence. Then we begin to see that being alone is a very beautiful thing. Nobody is obstructing our vision. We have complete panoramic vision.
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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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Mindfulness does not mean pushing oneself toward something or hanging on to something. It means allowing oneself to be there in the very moment of what is happening in the living process – and then letting go.
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I would like to say, ladies and gentlemen, that you shouldn’t be afraid of who you are. That’s the first key idea. You shouldn’t be afraid of who you are. You should NOT be afraid of who you are. It’s very important for you to realize that.
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If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power.
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