Chogyam Trungpa

Opening to oneself fully is opening to the world.

— Chogyam Trungpa

You can't feel the earth if you can't feel the space.

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Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

— Chogyam Trungpa

It's no use trying to be different than you are.

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“Everyone loves something, even if it's only tortillas.”

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Magic is the total delight (appreciation) of chance

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There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.

— Chogyam Trungpa

What is needed is the constant unmasking of ego's strategy.

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The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death.

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Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see.

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Life is a straight drink - straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.

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The epitome of the human realm is to be stuck in a huge traffic jam of discursive thought.

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Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.

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The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.

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The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.

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We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you'll have no problem.

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Because there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is…

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The basic wisdom of Shambhala is that in this world, as it is, we can find a good and meaningful human life…

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Synchronizing mind and body is not a concept or a random technique someone thought up for self-improvement. Rather, it is a basic…

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The practice of meditation is a way of continuing one's confusion, chaos, aggression, and passion—but working with it, seeing it from the…

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We can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spirituality when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques.

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Generosity is self-existing openness, complete openness. You are no longer subject to cultivating your own scheme or project. And the best way…

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Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

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Mindfulness is like a microscope; it is neither an offensive nor defensive weapon in relation to the germs we observe through it.…

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We could say that compassion is the ultimate attitude of wealth: an anti-poverty attitude, a war on want. It contains all sorts…

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“Our vast collections of knowledge and experience are just part of ego’s display, part of the grandiose quality of ego. We display…

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“When human beings lose their connection to nature, to heaven and earth, then they do not know how to nurture their environment…

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We say that the sun is behind the clouds, but actually it is not the sun but the city from which we…

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A genuine sense of humor is having a light touch: not beating reality into the ground but appreciating reality with a light…

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If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor…

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When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are…

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When human beings lose their connection to nature, to heaven and earth, then they do not know how to nurture their environmect…

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“We also have to give up the notion of a divine savior, which has nothing to do with what religion we belong…

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Although the warrior's life is dedicated to helping others, he realizes that he will never be able to completely share his experience…

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We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the first wisdoms. So acknowledging foolishness is always…

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“As long as you regard yourself or any part of your experience as the "dream come true," then you are involved in…

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“We must surrender our hopes and expectations, as well as our fears, and march directly into disappointment, work with disappointment, go into…

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Becoming awarrior and facing yourself is a question of honesty rather than condemning yourself. By looking at yourself, you may find that…

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The idea of buddha mind is not purely a concept or a theoretical, metaphysical idea. It is something extremely real that we…

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“Very beautiful situations have developed using chaos as part of the enlightened approach. There is chaos of all kinds developing all the…

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