It’s easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPABecause there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point.
More Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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Things get very clear when you’re cornered.
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Meditation practice is a way of making friends with ourselves. Whether we are worthy or unworthy, that’s not the point. It’s developing a friendly attitude to ourselves, accepting the hidden neurosis coming through.
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Because there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point.
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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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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 need to encourage an attitude of constant questioning, which is a genuine part of our potential as students. If students were required to drop their questions, that would create armies of zombies- rows of jellyfish…The questioning mind is absolutely necessary.
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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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There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.
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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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Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw and beautiful heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world. You are willing to share your heart with others.
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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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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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There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.
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Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.
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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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