Anything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAAnything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAYou must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAWe are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you’ll have no problem.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAA 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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAWe 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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAIn fact, a person always finds when he begins to practice meditation that all sorts of problems are brought out. Any hidden aspects of your personality are brought out into the open, for the simple reason that for the first time you are allowing yourself to see your state of mind as it is.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAThere is more to fearlessness than merely having overcome fear… This state of being is not dependent on any external circumstances. It is individual dignity… that comes from being what we are, right now.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAThe trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAThe point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAHelping 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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAChaos should be regarded as extremely good news!
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAJust fully being skillful involves total lack of inhibition. We are not afraid to be. We are not afraid to live. We must accept ourselves as being warriors. If we acknowledge ourselves as warriors, then there is a way in, because a warrior dares to be, like a tiger in the jungle.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPADeveloping confidence is like watching the sun rise. First it seems very feeble and one wonders whether it will make it. Then it shines and shines.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAHold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAI am alone and my spiritual journey is my experience.’ This is the real experience of freedom and independence. Then we begin to see that being alone is a very beautiful thing. Nobody is obstructing our vision. We have complete panoramic vision.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAA great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don’t appreciate themselves.
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