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.
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.
More Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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Gentle day’s flower – The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.
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Becoming “awake” involves seeing our confusion more clearly.
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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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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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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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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.
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A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don’t appreciate themselves.
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Ultimately, that is the definition of bravery: not being afraid of yourself.
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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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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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Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.
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Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path.
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It’s easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.
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Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.
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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.
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