Chogyam Trungpa

There is no promise of love and light or visions of any kind - no angels, no devils. Nothing happens: it is…

— Chogyam Trungpa

The meditator develops new depths of insight through direct communication with the reality of the phenomenal world... He or she is able…

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when one learns a different way of dealing with the situation, one no longer has to have a purpose. One is not…

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When you relate to thoughts obsessively, you are actually feeding them because thoughts need your attention to survive. Once you begin to…

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Meditation practice begins by sitting down and assuming your seat cross-legged on the ground. You begin to feel that by simply being…

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Meditation is another dimension of natural beauty. People talk about appreciating natural beauty-climbing mountains, seeing giraffes and tigers in Africa, and all…

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You begin to understand that warriorship is a path or a thread that runs through your entire life. It is not just…

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Free passion is radiation without a radiator, a fluid, pervasive warmth that flows effortlessly. It is not destructive because it is a…

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Nowness is the essence of meditation. Whatever one does, whatever one tries to practice, is trying to see what is here and…

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You don't know how to take off your suit of armor. You have no idea how to conduct yourself without the reference…

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Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation…

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Faith is the readiness to reveal whatever is concealed. You don't have to conceal doubts by putting on patches of self-confirmation. The…

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“There is a saying in the Tibetan scriptures: “Knowledge must be burned, hammered, and beaten like pure gold. Then one can wear…

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The experience of a sad and tender heart is what gives birth to fearlessness. Conventionally, being fearless means that you are not…

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As well as making friends with yourself, fundamentally one should be cynical and critical. This doesn't mean that you should punish yourself,…

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“We are not interested in developing eternity or immortality, or in preventing being sick or being born. We are interested in doing…

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No one can stop or control your thought process or your thinking. You can think anything you want. But that doesn't seem…

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Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious, and…

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In fact, a person always finds when he begins to practice meditation that all sorts of problems are brought out. Any hidden…

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Whether we eat, sleep, work, play, whatever we do life contains dissatisfaction, pain. If we enjoy pleasure, we are afraid to lose…

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Any perception can connect us to reality, properly and fully. What we see doesn't have to be pretty, particularly; we can appreciate…

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Our path is sometimes rough and sometimes smooth; nonetheless, life is a constant journey... whatever we do is regarded as our journey,…

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Look. This is your world! You can't not look. There is no other world. This is your world; it is your feast.…

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Right mindfulness does not simply mean being aware; it is like creating a work of art. You can therefore trust what you…

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We need to encourage an attitude of constant questioning, which is a genuine part of our potential as students. If students were…

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The point of meditation is not merely to be an honest or good person in the conventional sense, trying only to maintain…

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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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When there is no desire to satisfy yourself, there is no aggression or speed... Because there is no rush to achieve, you…

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“Thus openness and surrendering are the necessary preparation for working with a spiritual friend. We acknowledge our fundamental richness rather than bemoan…

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Magic is the power within oneself. You have enough strength, exertion and energy to view things as they are, personally, properly, and…

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“When we find ourselves in a situation in which our buttons are being pushed, we can choose to repress or act out,…

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Warriorship is so tender, without skin, without tissue, naked and raw. It is soft and gentle. You have renounced putting on a…

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The everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions and to all people, experiencing…

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In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the…

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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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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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“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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“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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