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It’s easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.

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
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
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
Enlightenment is ego’s ultimate disappointment.
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Disappointment Ego Freedom
Any perception can connect us to reality, properly and fully. What we see doesn’t have to be pretty, particularly; we can appreciate anything that exists. There is some principle of magic in everything, some living quality. Something living, something real, is taking place in everything.
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Appreciate Magic Real
There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.
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Awareness Such Talent Thng
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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Being Genuine Genumneness Help Other Projection Question
Becoming “awake” involves seeing our confusion more clearly.
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Awake Become Clear Confuisin Involve See
A great deal of chaos in the world occurs because people don’t appreciate themselves. Having never developed sympathy or gentleness toward themselves, they cannot experience harmony or peace within themselves, and therefore, what they project to others is also inharmonious and confused.
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Appreciate Choas Great Idea Occur People Themselves World
It’s easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.
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Earth Pairs Shoes
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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Confidence Develop Feeble Make Rise Seem Sun Very Watch Whether Wonder
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
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!
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Chaos Extremely Good News Regard Should
We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.
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Future Jump More Now Past Threatened
The everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions and to all people, experiencing everything totally without mental reservations and blockages, so that one never withdraws or centralizes into oneself.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Acceptance All Complete Day Develop Emotion Every People Experience Practice Simply Situation

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