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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAEnlightenment is ego’s ultimate disappointment.
More Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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Fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart.
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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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You do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is similar to the sun shining and plants growing. The sun has no desire to create the vegetation; plants simply react to sunlight and the situation develops naturally.
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The challenge of warriorship is to step out of the cocoon, to step out into space, by being brave and at the same time gentle
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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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Becoming “awake” involves seeing our confusion more clearly.
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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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We need to encourage an attitude of constant questioning, which is a genuine part of our potential as students. If students were required to drop their questions, that would create armies of zombies- rows of jellyfish…The questioning mind is absolutely necessary.
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Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.
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Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see.
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It’s possible to be completely enlightened… except with your family.
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The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.
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Although the warrior’s life is dedicated to helping others, he realizes that he will never be able to completely share his experience with others…Yet he is more and more in love with the world.
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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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