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Chogyam Trungpa

There is very little distance between being a fool and being wise; they are extremely close. When we are really, truly fools, when we actually acknowledge our foolishness, then we are way ahead. We are not even in the process of becoming wise – we are already wise.
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Acknowledge Become Close Distance Extremely Foolishness Little Process Wise
There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.
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Absence Freedom Itself Need Struggle
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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Being Compassion Creative Enough Talk Term Work
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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Faces Heart Layers
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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Acceptance All Complete Day Develop Emotion Every People Experience Practice Simply Situation
We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you’ll have no problem.
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Always Just Problem Relax Transition
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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Being Genuine Genumneness Help Other Projection Question
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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Hang Mindfulness Oneself Push Something Towards
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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Advice Demanding Difficult Long Path Spiritual Too Undertake
We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot of people. A lot of people turn to something that they hope will liberate them without their having to face themselves. That is impossible.
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Face Fear Obstacle Ourselves
We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.
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Ashamed Background Sentient Wonderful
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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Egg Golden Know Nothing Once Sit While
We say that the sun is behind the clouds, but actually it is not the sun but the city from which we view it that is behind the clouds. If we realized that the sun is never behind the clouds we might have a different attitude toward the whole thing.
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Actual Behind City Cloud Say Sun View
Life is a straight drink – straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.
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Drink Life Is Pain
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.
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Afraid First Gentlemen Idea Key Ladies Say Would
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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Appreciate Choas Great Idea Occur People Themselves World

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