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• Things get very clear when you're cornered.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Life, Clear, Cornered

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Four: Journey without Goal; The Lion's Roar; The Dawn of Tantra; An Interview with Cho gyam Trungpa”, p.423, Shambhala Publications

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• For the warrior, every moment is a challenge to be genuine, and each challenge is delightful. When you let go properly, you can relax and enjoy the challenge.

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  Letting Go, Warrior, Challenges

  Chogyam Trungpa (2009). “Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior”, p.77, Shambhala Publications

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• You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there - fully, personally, genuinely.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Deserve You, Sitting, Earth

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.30, Shambhala Publications

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• The discovery of magic can happen only when we transcend our embarrassment about being alive, when we have the bravery to proclaim the goodness and dignity of human life, without either hesitation or arrogance. Then magic can descend onto our existence.

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  Discovery, Bravery, Arrogance

  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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• The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.

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  Practice, Emphasis, Situation

  Chogyam Trungpa (2015). “The Teacup and the Skullcup: Where Zen and Tantra Meet”, p.134, Shambhala Publications

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• Buddhism doesn't tell you what is false and what is true but it encourages you to find out for yourself.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Buddhism

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• Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Pain, Heart, Sadness

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• Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Falling In Love, Mind, Vision

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• The basics teachings of Buddha are about understanding what we are, who we are, why we are. When we begin to realize what we are, who we are, why we are, then we begin to realize what we are not, who we are not, why we are not. We begin to realize that we don't have basic, substantial, solid, fundamental ground that we can exert anymore. We begin to realize that our ideas of security and our concept of freedom have been purely phantom experiences.

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  Freedom, Teaching, Ideas

  Chogyam Trungpa (2009). “The Mishap Lineage: Transforming Confusion into Wisdom”, p.4, Shambhala Publications

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• You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.

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  Responsibility, Accepting, Improving

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• Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Falling In Love, Vision, Artistic

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• The experience of a sad and tender heart is what gives birth to fearlessness. Conventionally, being fearless means that you are not afraid or that, if someone hits you, you will hit him back. But we aren't talking about that street-fighter level of fearlessness. Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world.

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  Real, Heart, Mean

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• Compassion has nothing to do with achievement at all. It is spacious and very generous. When a person develops real compassion, he is uncertain whether he is being generous to others or to himself because compassion is enviromental generosity, without direction, without " for me" and without " for them". It is filled with joy, spontaneously existing joy, constant joy in the sense of trust, in the sense that joy contains tremendous wealth, richness.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Buddhist, Real, Compassion

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• In order to develop love - universal love, cosmic love, whatever you would like to call it one must accept the whole situation of life as it is, both the light and the dark, the good and the bad. One must open oneself to life, communicate with it.

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  Life, Dark, Light

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism”, p.118, Shambhala Publications

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• 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] to wake a person up

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Compassion, Creative, Be Kind

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• If we open our eyes, if we open our minds, if we open our hearts, we will find that this world is a magical place. It is magical not because it tricks us or changes unexpectedly into something else, but because it can be so vividly and brilliantly.

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  Heart, Eye, Mind

  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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• Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.

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  Lying, Morality, Sanity

  "The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation".

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• It's no use trying to be different than you are.

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  Trying, Different, Use

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• In fact, a person always finds when he begins to practice meditation that all sorts of problems are brought out. Any hidden aspects of your personality are brought out into the open, for the simple reason that for the first time you are allowing yourself to see your state of mind as it is.

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  Simple, Practice, Personality

  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.217, Shambhala Publications

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• Any perception can connect us to reality, properly and fully. What we see doesn't have to be pretty, particularly; we can appreciate anything that exists. There is some principle of magic in everything, some living quality. Something living, something real, is taking place in everything.

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  Real, Appreciate, Magic

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.83, Shambhala Publications

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• We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.

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  Pride, Intelligent, Peaceful

  Chogyam Trungpa (2005). “The Sanity We Are Born With: A Buddhist Approach to Psychology”, p.85, Shambhala Publications

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• 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.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Letting Go, Mean, Power

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• The ideal of helping is to make others independent of you. You help them to become more independent rather than making them addicted to you.

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  Independent, Helping, Ideals

  Chogyam Trungpa (2009). “The Mishap Lineage: Transforming Confusion into Wisdom”, p.7, Shambhala Publications

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• We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the first wisdoms. So acknowledging foolishness is always a very important and powerful experience. The phenomenal world can be perceived and seen properly if we see it from the perspective of being a fool. There is very little distance between being a fool and being wise; they are extremely close. When we are really, truly fools, when we actually acknowledge our foolishness, then we are way ahead. We are not even in the process of becoming wise — we are already wise.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Wise, Powerful, Distance

  "The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa".

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• Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

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  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism”, p.115, Shambhala Publications

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