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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAArtistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see.
More Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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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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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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We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.
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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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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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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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The ideal of helping is to make others independent of you. You help them to become more independent rather than making them addicted to you.
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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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That combination of love affair and loneliness is what enables the warrior to constantly reach out to help others. By renouncing his private world, the warrior discovers a greater universe and a fuller and fuller broken heart. This is not something to feel bad about; it is a cause for rejoicing.
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Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.
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The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.
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When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink.
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Although the warrior’s life is dedicated to helping others, he realizes that he will never be able to completely share his experience with others…Yet he is more and more in love with the world.
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Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons
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I am alone and my spiritual journey is my experience.’ This is the real experience of freedom and independence. Then we begin to see that being alone is a very beautiful thing. Nobody is obstructing our vision. We have complete panoramic vision.
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