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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.

Chogyam Trungpa

The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.
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Enlightenment Own Trouble Want Westerner Witness
You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.
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Accept Improve Life Must Own Personally Responsibility
There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.
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Awareness Such Talent Thng
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
Because there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point.
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Creative Destructive Difficult Involve Must Something Well
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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Buddhist Enlightenment Later Sooner
It’s easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.
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Earth Pairs Shoes
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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Art Mean Space
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
I am alone and my spiritual journey is my experience.’ This is the real experience of freedom and independence. Then we begin to see that being alone is a very beautiful thing. Nobody is obstructing our vision. We have complete panoramic vision.
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Alone Experience Freedom Independence Journey Real Spiritual
The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.
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Emphasis Karma Life Only Practice Situation Steer Time
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
We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the first wisdoms. So acknowledging foolishness is always a very important and powerful experience. The phenomenal world can be perceived and seen properly if we see it from the perspective of being a fool.
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Almost Being First Fool Say Willing Wisdom
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
We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.
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Caught Discuss Jam Traffic
Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.
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Eastern Great Heart Hold Pain Power Sadness Samsara Sun Vision

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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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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