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

Chogyam Trungpa

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 you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power.
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Gently Power Speak Tell Truth Word
Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.
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Artistic Clarity Fall Love See Vision
When we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative [enough] to wake a person up
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Being Compassion Creative Enough Talk Term Work
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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Being Genuine Genumneness Help Other Projection Question
We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.
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Future Jump More Now Past Threatened
Right mindfulness does not simply mean being aware; it is like creating a work of art. You can therefore trust what you are doing; you are not threatened by anything. You have room to dance in the space, and this makes it a creative situation. The space is open to you.
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Art Mean Space
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
Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce. There is no authentic Tantra without profound commitment, discipline, courage, and a sense of wild, foolhardy, fearless abandon.
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Against Blood Fierce Happiness Hot Joyful Path Practice Smashes Spiritual Swift Tantra Thunderbolt Unreasonable
To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy.
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Broken Heart Must Spiritual Tenderness Vulnerable Warrior
We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you’ll have no problem.
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Always Just Problem Relax Transition
We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.
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Ashamed Background Sentient Wonderful
We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.
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Caught Discuss Jam Traffic
There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.
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Awareness Such Talent Thng
When there is no desire to satisfy yourself, there is no aggression or speed… Because there is no rush to achieve, you can afford to relax. Because you can afford to relax, you can afford to keep company with yourself, you can afford to make love with yourself, to be friends with yourself.
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Desire Love Making Love
There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Absence Freedom Itself Need Struggle

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