The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAWe are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.
More Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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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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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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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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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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If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power.
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Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.
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The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.
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Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see.
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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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You can’t feel the earth if you can’t feel the space.
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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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The challenge of warriorship is to step out of the cocoon, to step out into space, by being brave and at the same time gentle
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You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.
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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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Look. 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.
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