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 TRUNGPAChaos should be regarded as extremely good news!
More Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
-
-
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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
Meditation practice is a way of making friends with ourselves. Whether we are worthy or unworthy, that’s not the point. It’s developing a friendly attitude to ourselves, accepting the hidden neurosis coming through.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
In Tibetan, authentic presence is wangthang, which literally means, ‘field of power’… The cause or the virtue that brings about authentic presence is emptying out and letting go. You have to be without clinging.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
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. It is magical not because it tricks us or changes unexpectedly into something else, but because it can be so vividly and brilliantly.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don’t appreciate themselves.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
In fact, a person always finds when he begins to practice meditation that all sorts of problems are brought out. Any hidden aspects of your personality are brought out into the open, for the simple reason that for the first time you are allowing yourself to see your state of mind as it is.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA -
To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA






