Too often, people think that solving the world’s problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.
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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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.
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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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Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.
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The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.
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The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.
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Luxury is experiencing reality
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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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In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.
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You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.
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It’s no use trying to be different than you are.
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There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.
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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.
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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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Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see.
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Fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart.
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