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We 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 Trungpa

Too often, people think that solving the world’s problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Based Conquer Earth Ground Often People Problem Rather Solve Think Touch
The discovery of magic can happen only when we transcend our embarrassment about being alive, when we have the bravery to proclaim the goodness and dignity of human life, without either hesitation or arrogance. Then magic can descend onto our existence.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Alive Discover Embarrassment Happen Magic Only Transcend
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.
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Faces Heart Layers
Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Acquire Apply Attempt Benefit Constant Ego Own Spirituality Teaching
The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Anyone Control Convert Help Own Point Sanity View Wake
The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.
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Anything Convert Ego Even Own Problem Spirituality Use
Luxury is experiencing reality
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Experience Luxury Reality
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.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Acceptance All Complete Day Develop Emotion Every People Experience Practice Simply Situation
In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.
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Bombarded Coconut Garden Gentle Sanity Wakefulness
You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Accept Improve Life Must Own Personally Responsibility
It’s no use trying to be different than you are.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Different Try Use You
There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Absence Freedom Itself Need Struggle
When there is no desire to satisfy yourself, there is no aggression or speed… Because there is no rush to achieve, you can afford to relax. Because you can afford to relax, you can afford to keep company with yourself, you can afford to make love with yourself, to be friends with yourself.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Desire Love Making Love
It’s easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Earth Pairs Shoes
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
Fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA

Fearlessness Heart Human Softness Work

We 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.

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We 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.

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