Enlightenment is ego’s ultimate disappointment.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAThere is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.
More Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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Ultimately, that is the definition of bravery: not being afraid of yourself.
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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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Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.
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For the warrior, every moment is a challenge to be genuine, and each challenge is delightful. When you let go properly, you can relax and enjoy the challenge.
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Becoming “awake” involves seeing our confusion more clearly.
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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.
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Too often, people think that solving the world’s problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.
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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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Life is a straight drink – straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.
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Fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart.
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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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Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.
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Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.
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Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!
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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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Gentle day’s flower – The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.
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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.
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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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The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.
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Luxury is experiencing reality
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We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you’ll have no problem.
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You can’t feel the earth if you can’t feel the space.
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To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.
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If kindness doesn’t work, try more kindness.
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Mindfulness does not mean pushing oneself toward something or hanging on to something. It means allowing oneself to be there in the very moment of what is happening in the living process – and then letting go.
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It’s easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.
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