Life is a straight drink – straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAThe emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.
More Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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We say that the sun is behind the clouds, but actually it is not the sun but the city from which we view it that is behind the clouds. If we realized that the sun is never behind the clouds we might have a different attitude toward the whole thing.
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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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Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!
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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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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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It’s no use trying to be different than you are.
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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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There 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.
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You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.
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Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.
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Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons
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Fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart.
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Enlightenment is ego’s ultimate disappointment.
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There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.
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Just 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.
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