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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

Chogyam Trungpa

Look. This is your world! You can’t not look. There is no other world. This is your world; it is your feast. You inherited this; you inherited these eyeballs; you inherited this world of color. Look at the greatness of the whole thing. Look! Don’t hesitate – look! Open your eyes. Don’t blink, and look, look – look further.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Feast Look Other World
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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Advice Demanding Difficult Long Path Spiritual Too Undertake
We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Future Jump More Now Past Threatened
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
we must continue to be open in the face of great opposition. No one is encouraging us to be open and still we must peel away the layers of the heart.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Faces Heart Layers
In Tibetan, authentic presence is wangthang, which literally means, ‘field of power’… The cause or the virtue that brings about authentic presence is emptying out and letting go. You have to be without clinging.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Authentic Field Literally Mean Power Presence Tibetan
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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Bravery Change Defense Gemtieness Many Open Ourselves Way World
The challenge of warriorship is to step out of the cocoon, to step out into space, by being brave and at the same time gentle
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Brave Challenges Space
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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Able Although Complete Dedicate Experience Help Other Realize Share Warrior
Gentle day’s flower – The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Air Bird Flower
You can’t feel the earth if you can’t feel the space.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Earth Feels Space
You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Accept Improve Life Must Own Personally Responsibility
The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Anything Convert Ego Even Own Problem Spirituality Use
Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Alter Fear Hope Season
We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you’ll have no problem.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Always Just Problem Relax Transition
Life is a straight drink – straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Drink Life Is Pain

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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