The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAWhatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path.
More Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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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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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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Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see.
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If kindness doesn’t work, try more kindness.
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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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Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce. There is no authentic Tantra without profound commitment, discipline, courage, and a sense of wild, foolhardy, fearless abandon.
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You are feeding them energy because you are not seeing them as simple phenomena. If one tries to quiet them down, that is another way of feeding them.
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Fundamentally, no one can help us. If we seek to relieve our loneliness, we will be distracted from the path. Instead, we must make a relationship with loneliness until it becomes aloneness.
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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 threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.
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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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In order to develop love – universal love, cosmic love, whatever you would like to call it one must accept the whole situation of life as it is, both the light and the dark, the good and the bad. One must open oneself to life, communicate with it.
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Anything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.
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Life is a straight drink – straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.
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Ultimately, that is the definition of bravery: not being afraid of yourself.
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