Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“Warriorship is a continual journey. To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.” — Chögyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
The complexities of life situations are really not as complicated as we tend to experience them. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
The basic wisdom of Shambhala is that in this world, as it is, we can find a good and meaningful human life… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Life is a straight drink - straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Our path is sometimes rough and sometimes smooth; nonetheless, life is a constant journey... whatever we do is regarded as our journey,… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Whether we eat, sleep, work, play, whatever we do life contains dissatisfaction, pain. If we enjoy pleasure, we are afraid to lose… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“It could manifest and grow like seeds planted throughout your life, so that life itself becomes the guru. The idea is that… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
One day passes and another day comes along, and everything happens the same. But basically, we are so afraid of the brilliance… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
You begin to understand that warriorship is a path or a thread that runs through your entire life. It is not just… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
The discovery of magic can happen only when we transcend our embarrassment about being alive, when we have the bravery to proclaim… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
In order to develop love - universal love, cosmic love, whatever you would like to call it one must accept the whole… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“We must surrender our hopes and expectations, as well as our fears, and march directly into disappointment, work with disappointment, go into… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Although the warrior's life is dedicated to helping others, he realizes that he will never be able to completely share his experience… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Magic is the power within oneself. You have enough strength, exertion and energy to view things as they are, personally, properly, and… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“But finally we begin to question what spirituality means really. Is it simply a matter of attempting to be religious, pious, and… — Chögyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is like witnessing the brilliant sun for the first time in the morning. It is like seeing the beautiful flowers that… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Our life is an endless journey; it is like a broad highway that extends infinitely into the distance. The practice of meditation… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
meditation is a way of developing clarity, which allows us to see the precision of daily life situations as well as our… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Mindfulness does not mean pushing oneself toward something or hanging on to something. It means allowing oneself to be there in the… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
We cannot avoid our lives. We have to face our lives, young or old, rich or poor. Whatever happens, we cannot save… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
The past situation has just occurred and the future situation has not yet manifested itself so there is a gap between the… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share
Acknowledging foolishness is a very powerful and important experience. We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share
We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share
When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice,… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share
Anything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share
“There is a saying in the Tibetan scriptures: “Knowledge must be burned, hammered, and beaten like pure gold. Then one can wear it as… — Chögyam Trungpa Copy Share
“Warriorship is a continual journey. To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.” — Chögyam Trungpa Copy Share
The courage to work with ourselves comes as basic trust in ourselves, as a sort of fundamental optimism. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share
Enlightenment is like witnessing the brilliant sun for the first time in the morning. It is like seeing the beautiful flowers that grow in… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share
If you look into the mirror, you see that [every part of you] belongs there and you belong there, as you are. You begin… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share
When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share
One day passes and another day comes along, and everything happens the same. But basically, we are so afraid of the brilliance coming at… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share
Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw and beautiful heart. You are willing… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share
We can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spirituality when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share
