The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAThe problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.
More Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
-
-
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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
It’s possible to be completely enlightened… except with your family.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
You can’t feel the earth if you can’t feel the space.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
There is very little distance between being a fool and being wise; they are extremely close. When we are really, truly fools, when we actually acknowledge our foolishness, then we are way ahead. We are not even in the process of becoming wise – we are already wise.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
Luxury is experiencing reality
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA