Chogyam Trungpa Quotes

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• What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words, renunciation is making yourself more…
• Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce. There is no…
• The way of cowardice is to embed ourselves in a cocoon, in which we perpetuate our habitual patterns. When we are constantly recreating our basic…
• Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious, and direct. If we…
• In Tibetan, authentic presence is wangthang, which literally means, 'field of power'... The cause or the virtue that brings about authentic presence is emptying out…
• Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are numerous sidetracks which leades to…
• To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.
• When we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative [enough]…
• The challenge of warriorship is to live fully in the world as it is and to find within this world, with all its paradoxes, the…
• Enlightenment is like witnessing the brilliant sun for the first time in the morning. It is like seeing the beautiful flowers that grow in the…
• Our life is an endless journey; it is like a broad highway that extends infinitely into the distance. The practice of meditation provides a vehicle…
• For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we don't look for bliss.
• The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried.
• Watchfulness is experiencing a sudden glimpse of something without any qualifications - just the sudden glimpse itself.
• The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything. We can never say that we…
• A genuine sense of humor is having a light touch: not beating reality into the ground but appreciating reality with a light touch. The basis…
• We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot of…
• Even fear itself is frightened by the bodhisattva's fearlessness.
• The challenge of warriorship is to step out of the cocoon, to step out into space, by being brave and at the same time gentle
• Fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart.

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