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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAFundamentally, 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.
More Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available – not only to us, but to all human beings.
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When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink.
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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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Luxury is experiencing reality
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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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In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.
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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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Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons
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It’s possible to be completely enlightened… except with your family.
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Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.
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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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When you relate to thoughts obsessively, you are actually feeding them because thoughts need your attention to survive. Once you begin to pay attention to them and categorize them, then they become very powerful.
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We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.
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Too often, people think that solving the world’s problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.
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It’s easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.
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