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The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.

Chogyam Trungpa

Life is a straight drink – straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.
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Drink Life Is Pain
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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Actual Behind City Cloud Say Sun View
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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Attitude Constant Encourage Genuine Need Part Potential Questioning Student
Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!
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Chaos Extremely Good News Regard Should
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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Creative Destructive Difficult Involve Must Something Well
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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Against Blood Fierce Happiness Hot Joyful Path Practice Smashes Spiritual Swift Tantra Thunderbolt Unreasonable
It’s no use trying to be different than you are.
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Different Try Use You
When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink.
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Attitude Emotional Serenity
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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Fear Fearlessly Merely More Overcome
You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.
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Accept Improve Life Must Own Personally Responsibility
Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.
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Artistic Clarity Fall Love See Vision
Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons
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Alter Fear Hope Season
Fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart.
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Fearlessness Heart Human Softness Work
Enlightenment is ego’s ultimate disappointment.
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Disappointment Ego Freedom
There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.
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Awareness Such Talent Thng
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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Fully Inhibition Just Lack Skillful Total

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