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Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.

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.
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Feast Look Other World
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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Brave Challenges Space
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.
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Acceptance All Complete Day Develop Emotion Every People Experience Practice Simply Situation
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.
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Face Fear Obstacle Ourselves
You can’t feel the earth if you can’t feel the space.
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Earth Feels Space
We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you’ll have no problem.
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Always Just Problem Relax Transition
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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Challenge Fully Withing World World Paradox
The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.
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Anyone Anything Bravery Essence Give Human Refuse Warrirship
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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Deserve Earth Realize Sitting
We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.
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Caught Discuss Jam Traffic
Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see.
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Artistic Clear Enough Fall Love Mind See Vision
To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.
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Every Genuine Life Moment Want Warrior
My advice to you is not to undertake the spiritual path. It is too difficult, too long, and is too demanding. I suggest you ask for your money back, and go home. This is not a picnic. It is really going to ask everything of you. So, it is best not to begin. However, if you do begin, it is best to finish.
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Advice Demanding Difficult Long Path Spiritual Too Undertake
There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.
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Absence Freedom Itself Need Struggle
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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Began Enter Life Path Run Thread Understand
In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.
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Bombarded Coconut Garden Gentle Sanity Wakefulness

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