Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAThe trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.
More Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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Anything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.
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Helping 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.
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Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path.
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Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.
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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.
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You can’t feel the earth if you can’t feel the space.
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We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.
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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.
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The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.
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Becoming “awake” involves seeing our confusion more clearly.
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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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Things get very clear when you’re cornered.
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A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don’t appreciate themselves.
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You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there – fully, personally, genuinely.
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To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.
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