"In Tibetan, authentic presence is wangthang, which literally……" — 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 and letting go. You have to be without clinging."
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Chogyam Trungpa
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168 Quotes by Chogyam Trungpa
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What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words,…
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To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.
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The challenge of warriorship is to live fully in the world as it is and to find within this world,…
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Enlightenment is like witnessing the brilliant sun for the first time in the morning. It is like seeing the beautiful…
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The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried.
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