Chogyam Trungpa Quotes

9 quotes from 7 authors

Chogyam Trungpa’s teachings blend meditation with everyday life, and a handful of memorable lines capture that spirit. Nine quotes from seven distinct contributors offer perspectives on mindfulness, compassion, and practice paradoxes. Use them as quick prompts for reflection or reminders of his unconventional wisdom.

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When things fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually it’s your fixed identity…

Pema Chodron

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When I was going into one of my first meditation retreats, I asked my father, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, for some advice. He…

Sakyong Mipham

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“The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is there’s no…

Jamie Catto

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“Once I had an opportunity to talk with Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, about the fact that I was not able to do my…

Pema Chödrön

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“The principle of nowness is very important to any effort to establish an enlightened society. You may wonder what the best approach…

Pema Chödrön

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“The Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche once pointed out, “If you put one hundred percent of your heart into facing yourself,…

Lodro Rinzler

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“While the bodies of young children are usually relaxed and flexible, if experiences of fear are continuous over the years, chronic tightening…

Tara Brach

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“The kind of attitude that is implied in the words Just stand up! is not a grim, gritted-teeth determination with which we…

Linda Myoki Lehrhaupt

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“the ten thousand things To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by…

Miriam Louis

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