You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAYou must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAThings get very clear when you’re cornered.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAArtistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAI 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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAIf kindness doesn’t work, try more kindness.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAWe cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available – not only to us, but to all human beings.
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 TRUNGPAWe say that the sun is behind the clouds, but actually it is not the sun but the city from which we view it that is behind the clouds. If we realized that the sun is never behind the clouds we might have a different attitude toward the whole thing.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPACompassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAGentle day’s flower – The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAHold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAThe everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions and to all people, experiencing everything totally without mental reservations and blockages, so that one never withdraws or centralizes into oneself.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAWe are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAWe could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the first wisdoms. So acknowledging foolishness is always a very important and powerful experience. The phenomenal world can be perceived and seen properly if we see it from the perspective of being a fool.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAAlthough 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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAIn the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.
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