There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAThere is no such thing as talent, only awareness.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAWe do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAHope and fear cannot alter the seasons
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAWhen there is no desire to satisfy yourself, there is no aggression or speed… Because there is no rush to achieve, you can afford to relax. Because you can afford to relax, you can afford to keep company with yourself, you can afford to make love with yourself, to be friends with yourself.
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 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 TRUNGPAArtistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAWhatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAwe 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 TRUNGPAYou are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there – fully, personally, genuinely.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAWe are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAThe emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAThe essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAIn 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 TRUNGPALuxury is experiencing reality
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAWe are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.
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