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
Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw and beautiful heart. You… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
The meditator develops new depths of insight through direct communication with the reality of the phenomenal world... He or she is able… — 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
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
The Shambhala teachings are founded on the premise that there is basic human wisdom that can help to solve the world's problems.… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
We have to make the first move ourselves rather than expecting it to come from the phenomenal world or from other people.… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Warriorship is so tender, without skin, without tissue, naked and raw. It is soft and gentle. You have renounced putting on a… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
When you experience your wisdom and the power of things as they are, together, as one, then you have access to tremendous… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
The experience of a sad and tender heart is what gives birth to fearlessness. Conventionally, being fearless means that you are not… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
...We leave our homeland, our property and our friends. We give up the familiar ground that supports our ego, admit the helplessness… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
When human beings lose their connection to nature, to heaven and earth, then they do not know how to nurture their environmect… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
The point of meditation is not merely to be an honest or good person in the conventional sense, trying only to maintain… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
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 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
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
But again and again, we should reflect back to the darkness of the cocoon. In order to inspire ourselves forward, we must… — 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
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
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
