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 TRUNGPAwe 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 TRUNGPAAnything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAReal fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw and beautiful heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world. You are willing to share your heart with others.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAWhen one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAJust 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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAArtistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAWarriorship is so tender, without skin, without tissue, naked and raw. It is soft and gentle. You have renounced putting on a new suit of armor. You have renounced growing a thick, hard skin. You are willing to expose naked flesh, bone and marrow to the world.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPASanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAMeditation 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 TRUNGPAYou 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 TRUNGPAWe 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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAYou must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAThe 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 TRUNGPAIn the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAFearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPAThe ideal of helping is to make others independent of you. You help them to become more independent rather than making them addicted to you.
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