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Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.

Chogyam Trungpa

There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.
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Awareness Such Talent Thng
You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.
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Accept Improve Life Must Own Personally Responsibility
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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Helping Ideals Independent
Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.
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Automatically Compassion Drain Energy Invite Longer People Regard Relate
The everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions and to all people, experiencing everything totally without mental reservations and blockages, so that one never withdraws or centralizes into oneself.
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Acceptance All Complete Day Develop Emotion Every People Experience Practice Simply Situation
In 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.
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Always Brought Fact Fin Meditation Out Person Practice Problem Sort
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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Actual Attention Feed Need Obsessively Relate Survive Thought
We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot of people. A lot of people turn to something that they hope will liberate them without their having to face themselves. That is impossible.
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Face Fear Obstacle Ourselves
When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink.
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Attitude Emotional Serenity
If kindness doesn’t work, try more kindness.
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Kindness More Work
The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.
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Emphasis Karma Life Only Practice Situation Steer Time
Fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart.
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Fearlessness Heart Human Softness Work
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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Hang Mindfulness Oneself Push Something Towards
Real 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.
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Beautiful Come Fairness Heart Letting Product Raw Real Tenderness Tickle World
In Tibetan, authentic presence is wangthang, which literally means, ‘field of power’… The cause or the virtue that brings about authentic presence is emptying out and letting go. You have to be without clinging.
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Authentic Field Literally Mean Power Presence Tibetan
Anything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.
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Buddhist Enlightenment Later Sooner

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