Life is a straight drink – straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAIt’s easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.
More Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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You are feeding them energy because you are not seeing them as simple phenomena. If one tries to quiet them down, that is another way of feeding them.
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Luxury is experiencing reality
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That combination of love affair and loneliness is what enables the warrior to constantly reach out to help others. By renouncing his private world, the warrior discovers a greater universe and a fuller and fuller broken heart. This is not something to feel bad about; it is a cause for rejoicing.
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Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.
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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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Things get very clear when you’re cornered.
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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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The challenge of warriorship is to live fully in the world as it is and to find within this world, with all its paradoxes, the essence of nowness. If we open our eyes, if we open our minds, if we open our hearts, we will find that this world is a magical place.
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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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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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Just fully being skillful involves total lack of inhibition. We are not afraid to be. We are not afraid to live. We must accept ourselves as being warriors. If we acknowledge ourselves as warriors, then there is a way in, because a warrior dares to be, like a tiger in the jungle.
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The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.
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You begin to understand that warriorship is a path or a thread that runs through your entire life. It is not just a technique that you apply when you are unhappy or depressed. Warriorship is a continual journey. To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life. That is the warrior’s discipline
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You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.
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The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.
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When you relate to thoughts obsessively, you are actually feeding them because thoughts need your attention to survive. Once you begin to pay attention to them and categorize them, then they become very powerful.
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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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There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.
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Gentle day’s flower – The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.
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There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.
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Becoming “awake” involves seeing our confusion more clearly.
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Right mindfulness does not simply mean being aware; it is like creating a work of art. You can therefore trust what you are doing; you are not threatened by anything. You have room to dance in the space, and this makes it a creative situation. The space is open to you.
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The challenge of warriorship is to step out of the cocoon, to step out into space, by being brave and at the same time gentle
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Fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart.
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A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don’t appreciate themselves.
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