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Ultimately, that is the definition of bravery: not being afraid of yourself.

Chogyam Trungpa

we must continue to be open in the face of great opposition. No one is encouraging us to be open and still we must peel away the layers of the heart.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Faces Heart Layers
It’s easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Earth Pairs Shoes
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
Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Chaos Extremely Good News Regard Should
Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Acquire Apply Attempt Benefit Constant Ego Own Spirituality Teaching
The ideal of helping is to make others independent of you. You help them to become more independent rather than making them addicted to you.
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Helping Ideals Independent
Look. This is your world! You can’t not look. There is no other world. This is your world; it is your feast. You inherited this; you inherited these eyeballs; you inherited this world of color. Look at the greatness of the whole thing. Look! Don’t hesitate – look! Open your eyes. Don’t blink, and look, look – look further.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Feast Look Other World
Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.
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Bad Bird Emptiness Good Happy Imprint Sad Sky Thought
Hold 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 TRUNGPA

Eastern Great Heart Hold Pain Power Sadness Samsara Sun Vision
It’s no use trying to be different than you are.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Different Try Use You
I 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 TRUNGPA

Alone Experience Freedom Independence Journey Real Spiritual
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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Accept Cosmic Develop Life Like Love Must Order Situation Universal
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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Bravery Change Defense Gemtieness Many Open Ourselves Way World
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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Aloneness Distract Fundamental Help Instead Loneliness Oath Relationship
Life is a straight drink – straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.
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Drink Life Is Pain
We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Future Jump More Now Past Threatened

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