black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Anything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.

Chogyam Trungpa

The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Anyone Control Convert Help Own Point Sanity View Wake
Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Artistic Clarity Fall Love See Vision
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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Hang Mindfulness Oneself Push Something Towards
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
We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you’ll have no problem.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Always Just Problem Relax Transition
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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Helping Ideals Independent
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
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
Gentle day’s flower – The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Air Bird Flower
There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Absence Freedom Itself Need Struggle
Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Bad Bird Emptiness Good Happy Imprint Sad Sky Thought
It’s no use trying to be different than you are.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Different Try Use You
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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Appreciate Magic Real
Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Chaos Extremely Good News Regard Should
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

Being Compassion Creative Enough Talk Term Work
The challenge of warriorship is to live fully in the world as it is and to find within this world, with all its paradoxes, the essence of nowness. If we open our eyes, if we open our minds, if we open our hearts, we will find that this world is a magical place.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Challenge Fully Withing World World Paradox

Anything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Anything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Chogyam Trungpa Quotes