Fundamentally, no one can help us. If we seek to relieve our loneliness, we will be distracted from the path. Instead, we must make a relationship with loneliness until it becomes aloneness.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPATantra 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.
More Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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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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You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there – fully, personally, genuinely.
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There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.
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Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see.
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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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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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We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you’ll have no problem.
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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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Gentle day’s flower – The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.
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Becoming “awake” involves seeing our confusion more clearly.
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Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path.
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We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.
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The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.
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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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The discovery of magic can happen only when we transcend our embarrassment about being alive, when we have the bravery to proclaim the goodness and dignity of human life, without either hesitation or arrogance. Then magic can descend onto our existence.
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