Luxury is experiencing reality
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAToo often, people think that solving the world’s problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.
More Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you’ll have no problem.
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Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.
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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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It’s no use trying to be different than you are.
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To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy.
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Just fully being skillful involves total lack of inhibition. We are not afraid to be. We are not afraid to live. We must accept ourselves as being warriors. If we acknowledge ourselves as warriors, then there is a way in, because a warrior dares to be, like a tiger in the jungle.
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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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Becoming “awake” involves seeing our confusion more clearly.
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You are feeding them energy because you are not seeing them as simple phenomena. If one tries to quiet them down, that is another way of feeding them.
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Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons
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Things get very clear when you’re cornered.
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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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In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.
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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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It’s easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.
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