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There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.

Chogyam Trungpa

There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Absence Freedom Itself Need Struggle
In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Bombarded Coconut Garden Gentle Sanity Wakefulness
If kindness doesn’t work, try more kindness.
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Kindness More Work
We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.
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Caught Discuss Jam Traffic
We 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.
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Actual Behind City Cloud Say Sun View
I would like to say, ladies and gentlemen, that you shouldn’t be afraid of who you are. That’s the first key idea. You shouldn’t be afraid of who you are. You should NOT be afraid of who you are. It’s very important for you to realize that.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Afraid First Gentlemen Idea Key Ladies Say Would
Just fully being skillful involves total lack of inhibition. We are not afraid to be. We are not afraid to live. We must accept ourselves as being warriors. If we acknowledge ourselves as warriors, then there is a way in, because a warrior dares to be, like a tiger in the jungle.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Fully Inhibition Just Lack Skillful Total
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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Actual Attention Feed Need Obsessively Relate Survive Thought
Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.
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Another Different Exist Life Ordinary Spiritual
Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.
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Area Between Convention Extreme Impulse Inhibition Looseness Morality Sanity Somewhere
The 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 TRUNGPA

Basic Become Full General Health Human Being Inspire Practical Profession Psychotherapist World
When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Attitude Emotional Serenity
It’s no use trying to be different than you are.
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Different Try Use You
The 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.
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Acceptance All Complete Day Develop Emotion Every People Experience Practice Simply Situation
If 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 TRUNGPA

Eye Heart Magical Mind Open Place Word
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

Being Genuine Genumneness Help Other Projection Question

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