We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you’ll have no problem.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPALook. This is your world! You can’t not look. There is no other world. This is your world; it is your feast. You inherited this; you inherited these eyeballs; you inherited this world of color. Look at the greatness of the whole thing. Look! Don’t hesitate – look! Open your eyes. Don’t blink, and look, look – look further.
More Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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Developing confidence is like watching the sun rise. First it seems very feeble and one wonders whether it will make it. Then it shines and shines.
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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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There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.
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Meditation practice is a way of making friends with ourselves. Whether we are worthy or unworthy, that’s not the point. It’s developing a friendly attitude to ourselves, accepting the hidden neurosis coming through.
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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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For the warrior, every moment is a challenge to be genuine, and each challenge is delightful. When you let go properly, you can relax and enjoy the challenge.
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Becoming “awake” involves seeing our confusion more clearly.
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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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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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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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There is more to fearlessness than merely having overcome fear… This state of being is not dependent on any external circumstances. It is individual dignity… that comes from being what we are, right now.
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You can’t feel the earth if you can’t feel the space.
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A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don’t appreciate themselves.
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Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see.
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We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.
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