Chogyam Trungpa Quotes - Page 8

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• We should see money in terms of the expenditure of energy and how we are going to transmute that energy into a proper use.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Energy, Use, Should

  Chogyam Trungpa (2011). “Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness”, p.156, Shambhala Publications

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• Why don't we just expand ourselves into our perfect form, our perfect being?

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Perfect, Form

  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.172, Shambhala Publications

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• We must see with our own eyes and not accept any laid-down tradition as if it had some magical power in it.

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  Eye, Tradition, Accepting

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume One: Born in Tibet; Meditation in Action; Mudra; Selected Writings”, p.298, Shambhala Publications

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• Habit is formed out of memory... We often shape our present situation according to those habitual memories. Instead of starting fresh, we go back to what we've done in the past... easier for us than fighting our way through foreign territory.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Memories, Fighting, Past

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• By means of meditation, I feel that we have planted dynamite to transcend the world of confusion. So it would be good if you could practice meditation as much as you can, as much as physically and psychologically possible. You could become more clear and sane, and you could also influence the national neurosis in that way.

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  Mean, Practice, Confusion

  Chogyam Trungpa (2008). “True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art”, p.143, Shambhala Publications

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• Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are numerous sidetracks which leades to a distorted, ego-centered version of spirituality; we can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spiritually when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques. This fundamental distortion may be referred to as spiritual materialism

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  Spiritual, Thinking, Ego

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• The point is that whatever one is trying to learn, it is necessary to have firsthand experience, rather than learning from books or from teachers or by merely conforming to an already established pattern.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Teacher, Book, Learning

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume One: Born in Tibet; Meditation in Action; Mudra; Selected Writings”, p.296, Shambhala Publications

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• For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we don't look for bliss.

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  Beautiful, Freedom, Inspire

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• The past situation has just occurred and the future situation has not yet manifested itself so there is a gap between the two. This is basically the bardo (life between life) experience. [This is the place where your life is reviewed - where you get another chance to let life teach you and end the cycle of pain. -EM]

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  Karma, Pain, Past

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• Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation.

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  Future, Animal, Trying

  Chogyam Trungpa (2008). “Ocean of Dharma: The Everyday Wisdom of Chogyam Trungpa”, p.132, Shambhala Publications

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• If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Silence, Tragedy, Might

  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.89, Shambhala Publications

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• Meditation practice is regarded as a good and in fact excellent way to overcome warfare in the world; our own warfare as well as greater warfare.

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  Meditation Practice, Overcoming, Warfare

  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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• We can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spirituality when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques.

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  Spiritual, Thinking, Technique

  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.7, Shambhala Publications

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• Watchfulness is experiencing a sudden glimpse of something without any qualifications - just the sudden glimpse itself.

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  Glimpse, Awareness, Qualifications

  Chogyam Trungpa (2008). “True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art”, p.107, Shambhala Publications

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• The simplicity of meditation means just experiencing the ape instinct of ego.

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  Mean, Simplicity, Meditation

  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.16, Shambhala Publications

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• While you're meditating, all kinds of thoughts arise... You don't find your thoughts threatening or particularly helpful. They just become the general gossip of your thoughts. This traffic of your thoughts and the verbosity of your mind are simply part of the basic chatter that goes on in the universe. Just let it go through.

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  Gossip, Mind, Let It Go

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• Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Language, Individual, Should

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• When we speak of God or achieving union with God, we are often merely trying to put that great thing into a small container. One cannot drive a camel through the eye of a needle.

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  Eye, Trying, Camels

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• The idea of buddha mind is not purely a concept or a theoretical, metaphysical idea. It is something extremely real that we can experience ourselves. In fact, it is the ego that feels that we have an ego. It is ego that tells us, My ego is bothering me. I feel very self-conscious about having to be me. I feel that I have a tremendous burden in me, and I wonder what the best way to get rid of it is. Yet all those expressions of restlessness that keep coming out of us are the expression of buddha nature: the expression of our unborn, unobstructed, and nondwelling nature.

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  Real, Ideas, Self

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• You can almost convince yourself that you've accomplished things just by thinking about them. The alternative is to be more realistic. You don't necessarily regard the dreaming process as bad or an obstacle, but it's not realistic enough.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Dream, Thinking, Alternatives

  Chogyam Trungpa (2011). “Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness”, p.59, Shambhala Publications

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• As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

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  Silence, Building, Crescendo

  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.89, Shambhala Publications

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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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  Life, Nature, Lying

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• Delight in itself is the approach of sanity. Delight is to open our eyes to the reality of the situation rather than siding with this or that point of view.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Eye, Reality, Views

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• It's all Ati. Now, let's be practical.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Action, Practicals

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• One has to taste an experience for oneself and find out if the thing is genuine or helpful. Then, before discarding something, one has to go further, so that one gets firsthand experience.

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  Experience, Taste, Helpful

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