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The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.

Chogyam Trungpa

Sit and do nothing. Every once in a while a golden fish swims by and lays her golden eggs. You’ll know.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Egg Golden Know Nothing Once Sit While
It’s no use trying to be different than you are.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Different Try Use You
You can’t feel the earth if you can’t feel the space.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Earth Feels Space
Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Area Between Convention Extreme Impulse Inhibition Looseness Morality Sanity Somewhere
The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Emphasis Karma Life Only Practice Situation Steer Time
Developing 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 TRUNGPA

Confidence Develop Feeble Make Rise Seem Sun Very Watch Whether Wonder
We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot of people. A lot of people turn to something that they hope will liberate them without their having to face themselves. That is impossible.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Face Fear Obstacle Ourselves
We 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 TRUNGPA

Ashamed Background Sentient Wonderful
Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Away Delay Incorporated Path Right Shake
There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Awareness Such Talent Thng
Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw and beautiful heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world. You are willing to share your heart with others.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Beautiful Come Fairness Heart Letting Product Raw Real Tenderness Tickle World
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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Helping Ideals Independent
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 are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you’ll have no problem.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Always Just Problem Relax Transition
Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Another Different Exist Life Ordinary Spiritual
Life is a straight drink – straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Drink Life Is Pain

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