We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you’ll have no problem.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAHelping 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.
More Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!
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The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.
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To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.
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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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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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Enlightenment is ego’s ultimate disappointment.
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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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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.
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Gentle day’s flower – The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.
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If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power.
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You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there – fully, personally, genuinely.
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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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The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.
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The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.
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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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