It’s possible to be completely enlightened… except with your family.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAIt’s possible to be completely enlightened… except with your family.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAWhen one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPASanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPABecause there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAThe trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAWe are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAThe basic work of health professionals in general, and of psychotherapist s in particular, is to become full human beings and to inspire full human-beingness in other people who feel starved about their lives.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAThings get very clear when you’re cornered.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAIf we open our eyes, if we open our minds, if we open our hearts, we will find that this world is a magical place. It is magical not because it tricks us or changes unexpectedly into something else, but because it can be so vividly and brilliantly.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAToo often, people think that solving the world’s problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAFearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAYou 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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAWhatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAMy 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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPADeveloping 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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAIn 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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