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• The warrior is not afraid of space

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Warrior, Space, Not Afraid

  Chogyam Trungpa (2008). “Ocean of Dharma: The Everyday Wisdom of Chogyam Trungpa”, p.196, Shambhala Publications

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• meditation is a way of developing clarity, which allows us to see the precision of daily life situations as well as our thought process so that we can relate with both of them fully and completely.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Rose, Meditation, Way

  Chogyam Trungpa (2011). “Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness”, p.19, Shambhala Publications

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• If you must begin then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Unfinished Business, Way, Quitting

  Chogyam Trungpa (2002). “The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation”, p.187, Shambhala Publications

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• You are actually doing something. You are getting into this process without making sure that what you're doing is okay. Things are actually taking place, almost of their own accord, very simply and directly. That is meditation.

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  Meditation, Process, Okay

  Chogyam Trungpa (2017). “The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa, Volume 10: Work, Sex, Money - Mindfulness in Action - Devotion and Crazy Wisdom - Selected Writings”, p.650, Shambhala Publications

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• If there is some profound method that offers a quick way, we would rather follow that than undertake arduous journeys and difficult practices. But some manual work and physical effort is necessary.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Journey, Practice, Profound

  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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• The courage to work with ourselves comes as basic trust in ourselves, as a sort of fundamental optimism.

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  Optimism, Fundamentals

  Chogyam Trungpa (2011). “Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness”, p.214, Shambhala Publications

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• There seems to be a hypnotic quality to ambition and speed, so that you feel that you are standing still just because you want to go so fast. You might actually be getting close to your goal.

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  Ambition, Goal, Quality

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• No one can stop or control your thought process or your thinking. You can think anything you want. But that doesn't seem to be the point. The thinking process has to be directed into a certain approach... not in accord with certain dogma, philosophy, or concepts. Instead, one has to know the thinker itself.

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  Philosophy, Thinking, Want

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Seven: The Art of Calligraphy (Excerpts); Dharma Art; Visual Dharma (Excerpts); Selecte d Poems; Selected Writings”, p.150, Shambhala Publications

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• When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are not too much on the side of absolute truth, or you would become too theoretical. You are not too much on the side of relative truth, or you would become too precise. When you put them together, you realize that there is no problem.

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  Together, Too Much, Sides

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• One day passes and another day comes along, and everything happens the same. But basically, we are so afraid of the brilliance coming at us, and the sharp experience of our life, that we can't even focus our eyes.

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  Eye, Focus, Grace

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Seven: The Art of Calligraphy (Excerpts); Dharma Art; Visual Dharma (Excerpts); Selecte d Poems; Selected Writings”, p.90, Shambhala Publications

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