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Means Quotes by Chogyam Trungpa
- 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…
- We must be willing to be completely ordinary people, which means accepting ourselves as we are without trying to become greater, purer, more spiritual, more…
- There is no promise of love and light or visions of any kind - no angels, no devils. Nothing happens: it is absolutely boring. Sometimes…
- Mindfulness does not mean pushing oneself toward something or hanging on to something. It means allowing oneself to be there in the very moment of…
- Nowness is the essence of meditation. Whatever one does, whatever one tries to practice, is trying to see what is here and now. One becomes…
- The main point of any spiritual practice is to step out of the bureaucracy of ego. This means stepping out of ego's constant desire for…
- Elegance means appreciating things as they are. There is a sense of delight and of fearlessness. You are not fearful of dark corners...
- Very beautiful situations have developed using chaos as part of the enlightened approach. There is chaos of all kinds developing all the time... If you…
- ...We leave our homeland, our property and our friends. We give up the familiar ground that supports our ego, admit the helplessness of ego to…
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