Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAThe ideal of helping is to make others independent of you. You help them to become more independent rather than making them addicted to you.
More Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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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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Sit and do nothing. Every once in a while a golden fish swims by and lays her golden eggs. You’ll know.
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We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available – not only to us, but to all human beings.
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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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Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.
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There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.
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To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.
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The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.
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Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons
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A great deal of chaos in the world occurs because people don’t appreciate themselves. Having never developed sympathy or gentleness toward themselves, they cannot experience harmony or peace within themselves, and therefore, what they project to others is also inharmonious and confused.
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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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It’s possible to be completely enlightened… except with your family.
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Fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart.
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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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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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