Acknowledging foolishness is a very powerful and important experience. We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
If you look into the mirror, you see that [every part of you] belongs there and you belong there, as you are.… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
If you must begin then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
The practice of meditation is a way of continuing one's confusion, chaos, aggression, and passion—but working with it, seeing it from the… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Helping others is a question of being genuine and projecting that genuineness to others. This way of being doesn't have to have… — 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
When you relate to thoughts obsessively, you are actually feeding them because thoughts need your attention to survive. Once you begin to… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Generosity is self-existing openness, complete openness. You are no longer subject to cultivating your own scheme or project. And the best way… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the first wisdoms. So acknowledging foolishness is always… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Meditation practice is a way of making friends with ourselves. Whether we are worthy or unworthy, that's not the point. It's developing… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
If there is some profound method that offers a quick way, we would rather follow that than undertake arduous journeys and difficult… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
When we clean up after ourselves, we have nothing to blame. When we begin to live our lives in that way, cleaning… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Habit is formed out of memory... We often shape our present situation according to those habitual memories. Instead of starting fresh, we… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
If we go somewhere on foot, we know the way perfectly, whereas if we go by car or airplane, we are hardly… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
We could say that compassion is the ultimate attitude of wealth: an anti-poverty attitude, a war on want. It contains all sorts… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Meditation practice is regarded as a good and in fact excellent way to overcome warfare in the world; our own warfare as… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
By means of meditation, I feel that we have planted dynamite to transcend the world of confusion. So it would be good… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
When we hide from the world in this way, we feel secure. We may think we have quieted our fear, but we… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
The way of cowardice is to embed ourselves in a cocoon, in which we perpetuate our habitual patterns. When we are constantly… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
The idea of buddha mind is not purely a concept or a theoretical, metaphysical idea. It is something extremely real that we… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Just fully being skillful involves total lack of inhibition. We are not afraid to be. We are not afraid to live. We… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
when one learns a different way of dealing with the situation, one no longer has to have a purpose. One is not… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Free passion is radiation without a radiator, a fluid, pervasive warmth that flows effortlessly. It is not destructive because it is a… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 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 courage to work with ourselves comes as basic trust in ourselves, as a sort of fundamental optimism. — Chogyam 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 grow in… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
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 Image
When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
