Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAYou are feeding them energy because you are not seeing them as simple phenomena. If one tries to quiet them down, that is another way of feeding them.
More Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.
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Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons
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The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.
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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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In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.
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Life is a straight drink – straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.
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You 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.
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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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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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Things get very clear when you’re cornered.
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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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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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You are feeding them energy because you are not seeing them as simple phenomena. If one tries to quiet them down, that is another way of feeding them.
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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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Luxury is experiencing reality
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