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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.

Chogyam Trungpa

Becoming “awake” involves seeing our confusion more clearly.
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Awake Become Clear Confuisin Involve See
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
Any perception can connect us to reality, properly and fully. What we see doesn’t have to be pretty, particularly; we can appreciate anything that exists. There is some principle of magic in everything, some living quality. Something living, something real, is taking place in everything.
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Appreciate Magic Real
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 Continue Dance exchange Force Yourself
Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.
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Acquire Apply Attempt Benefit Constant Ego Own Spirituality Teaching
The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.
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Anything Convert Ego Even Own Problem Spirituality Use
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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Confidence Develop Feeble Make Rise Seem Sun Very Watch Whether Wonder
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
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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Broken Heart Must Spiritual Tenderness Vulnerable Warrior
That combination of love affair and loneliness is what enables the warrior to constantly reach out to help others. By renouncing his private world, the warrior discovers a greater universe and a fuller and fuller broken heart. This is not something to feel bad about; it is a cause for rejoicing.
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Broken Combination Discover Enable Loneliness Something Universal
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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Able Although Complete Dedicate Experience Help Other Realize Share Warrior
Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.
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Bad Bird Emptiness Good Happy Imprint Sad Sky Thought
There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.
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Awareness Such Talent Thng
Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.
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Artistic Clarity Fall Love See Vision
My advice to you is not to undertake the spiritual path. It is too difficult, too long, and is too demanding. I suggest you ask for your money back, and go home. This is not a picnic. It is really going to ask everything of you. So, it is best not to begin. However, if you do begin, it is best to finish.
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Advice Demanding Difficult Long Path Spiritual Too Undertake
There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.
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Absence Freedom Itself Need Struggle

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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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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