The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPALife is a straight drink – straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.
More Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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Developing confidence is like watching the sun rise. First it seems very feeble and one wonders whether it will make it. Then it shines and shines.
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It’s possible to be completely enlightened… except with your family.
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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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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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Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.
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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.
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Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.
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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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Any perception can connect us to reality, properly and fully. What we see doesn’t have to be pretty, particularly; we can appreciate anything that exists. There is some principle of magic in everything, some living quality. Something living, something real, is taking place in everything.
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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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We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.
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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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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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If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power.
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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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