Chogyam Trungpa Quotes

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• The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Inspirational, Fall, Air

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• 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 insightful. If we can accept our imperfections as they are, quite ordinarily, then we can use them as part of the path. But if we try to get rid of our imperfections, then they will be enemies, obstacles on the road to our ‘self-improvement’.

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  Spiritual, Mean, Self

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.216, Shambhala Publications

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

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Relax, Transition, Problem

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• To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Spiritual, Heart, Warrior

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• Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw and beautiful heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world. You are willing to share your heart with others.

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  Beautiful, Real, Heart

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.34, Shambhala Publications

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• My advice to you is not to undertake the spiritual path. It is too difficult, too long, and is too demanding. I suggest you ask for your money back, and go home. This is not a picnic. It is really going to ask everything of you. So, it is best not to begin. However, if you do begin, it is best to finish.

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  Spiritual, Home, Long

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• If kindness doesn't work, try more kindness.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Kindness, Trying, Ifs

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• Ultimately, that is the definition of bravery: not being afraid of yourself.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Bravery, Definitions, Being Afraid

  "Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior".

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• We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available - not only to us, but to all human beings.

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  Bravery, World, May

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.107, Shambhala Publications

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• Meditation practice is a way of making friends with ourselves. Whether we are worthy or unworthy, that's not the point. It's developing a friendly attitude to ourselves, accepting the hidden neurosis coming through.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Attitude, Meditation Practice, Friendly

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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 with others...Yet he is more and more in love with the world. That combination of love affair and loneliness is what enables the warrior to constantly reach out to help others. By renouncing his private world, the warrior discovers a greater universe and a fuller and fuller broken heart. This is not something to feel bad about; it is a cause for rejoicing.

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  Loneliness, Heart, Warrior

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• 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 what is happening in the living process - and then letting go.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Letting Go, Mean, Doe

  Chogyam Trungpa (1991). “The Heart of the Buddha”, p.29, Shambhala Publications

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• Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.

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  Confusion, Becoming, Awake

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.255, Shambhala Publications

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• We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Objectivity, Jam, Traffic

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• In the garden of gentle sanity,
  May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Garden, Bombarded By, Coconuts

  "Timely Rain: Selected Poetry of Chogyam Trungpa".

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• There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Struggle, Needs, Absence

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.13, Shambhala Publications

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• Meditation should not be regarded as a learning process. It should be regarded as an experiencing process. You should not try to learn from meditation but try to feel it. Meditation is an act of nonduality. The technique you are using should not be separate from you; it is you, you are the technique. Meditator and meditation are one. There is no relationship involved.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Practice, Meditation, Trying

  Chogyam Trungpa (2008). “Ocean of Dharma: The Everyday Wisdom of Chogyam Trungpa”, p.326, Shambhala Publications

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• Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.

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  Ordinary, Different, Levels

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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 everything totally without mental reservations and blockages,
  so that one never withdraws or centralizes into oneself.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Acceptance, Experiencing Everything, Practice

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

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Sky, Bird, Emptiness

  Chogyam Trungpa (2017). “The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa, Volume 10: Work, Sex, Money - Mindfulness in Action - Devotion and Crazy Wisdom - Selected Writings”, p.490, Shambhala Publications

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• 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 people. A lot of people turn to something that they hope will liberate them without their having to face themselves. That is impossible. We can't do that. We have to be honest with ourselves. We have to see our gut, our excrement, our most undesirable parts. We have to see them. That is the foundation of warriorship, basically speaking. Whatever is there, we have to face it, we have to look at it, study it, work with it and practice meditation with it.

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  Fear, Practice, People

  Chogyam Trungpa (2008). “Ocean of Dharma: The Everyday Wisdom of Chogyam Trungpa”, p.5, Shambhala Publications

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• If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Truth, Power, Speak

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.66, Shambhala Publications

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• ...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 control its world and secure itself. We give up our clingings to superiority and self-preservation...It means giving up searching for a home, becoming a refugee, a lonely person who must depend on himself...Fundamentally, no one can help us. If we seek to relieve our loneliness, we will be distracted from the path. Instead, we must make a relationship with loneliness until it becomes aloneness.

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  Lonely, Giving Up, Loneliness

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• We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Past, Threatened

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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 or how to rule their world - which is saying the same thing. Human beings destroy their ecology at the same time that they destroy one another. From that perspective, healing our society goes hand in hand with healing our personal, elemental connection with the phenomenal world.

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  Healing, Hands, Perspective

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