Chogyam Trungpa Quotes About Enlightenment

Quotes about: Enlightenment

• Anything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Buddhist, Enlightenment, Sooner Or Later

  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.8, Shambhala Publications

• Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Disappointment, Freedom, Ego

• 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 woods , the frolicking deer, a bird flying proudly, or fish swimming. Life is not all that grim. In the morning when you brush your teeth, you can see how shiny they are. Reality has its own gallantry, spark, and arrogance. You can study life while you are alive. You can study how you can achieve the brilliance of life.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Beautiful, Morning, Life Changing

  "The Path of Individual Liberation (volume 1): The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma, Volume One".

• The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Enlightenment, Want, Trouble

• In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would be a product dependent upon cause and effect and therefore liable to dissolution. Anything which is created must, sooner or later, die. If enlightenment were created in such a way, there would always be a possibility of ego reasserting itself, causing a return to the confused state. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Confused, Confusion, Ego

  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.8, Shambhala Publications

• The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Views, Ego, Enlightenment

  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.192, Shambhala Publications

• If we really prefer basic sanity or enlightenment, it's irritatingly possible to get into it.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Enlightenment, Sanity, Ifs

  Chogyam Trungpa (2008). “Ocean of Dharma: The Everyday Wisdom of Chogyam Trungpa”, p.304, Shambhala Publications

• The practice of meditation is a way of continuing one's confusion, chaos, aggression, and passion—but working with it, seeing it from the enlightened point of view.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Passion, Views, Practice

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Two: The Path Is the Goal; Training the Mind; Glimpses of Abhidharma; Glimpses of Shu nyata; Glimpses of Mahayana; Selected Writings”, p.16, Shambhala Publications

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