It’s easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.

CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

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It’s easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.

Chogyam Trungpa

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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

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 Fierce Joyful Smashes Swift Tantra Thunderbolt Unreasonable
Things get very clear when you’re cornered.

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Things get very clear when you’re cornered.
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Concerned Get Thing
Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.

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Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.
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Artistic Clarity See
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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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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All Anything exchange
Becoming “awake” involves seeing our confusion more clearly.
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Awake Become Confuisin Involve See
A great deal of chaos in the world occurs because people don’t appreciate themselves. Having never developed sympathy or gentleness toward themselves, they cannot experience harmony or peace within themselves, and therefore, what they project to others is also inharmonious and confused.

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A great deal of chaos in the world occurs because people don’t appreciate themselves. Having never developed sympathy or gentleness toward themselves, they cannot experience harmony or peace within themselves, and therefore, what they project to others is also inharmonious and confused.
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Choas Idea Themselves
There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.

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There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.
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Awareness Such Thng
We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.

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We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.
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Ashamed Background Sentient
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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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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Real
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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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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Aloneness Distract Oath
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.

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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.
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Acknowledge Become Distance Extremely Foolishness
Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see.
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Artistic See
Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.

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Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.
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Another Ordinary
In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.

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In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.
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Bombarded Coconut Gentle Sanity Wakefulness
Warriorship is so tender, without skin, without tissue, naked and raw. It is soft and gentle. You have renounced putting on a new suit of armor. You have renounced growing a thick, hard skin. You are willing to expose naked flesh, bone and marrow to the world.

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Warriorship is so tender, without skin, without tissue, naked and raw. It is soft and gentle. You have renounced putting on a new suit of armor. You have renounced growing a thick, hard skin. You are willing to expose naked flesh, bone and marrow to the world.
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Gentle Raw Skin Soft Warriorship Without
The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.

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The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.
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Anything Convert Ego Even Own Spirituality Use

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