Chogyam Trungpa Quotes

Quotes about:

• 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

  242 Copy quote

• 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

  178 Copy quote

• 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’.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  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

  200 Copy quote

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

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Relax, Transition, Problem

  131 Copy quote

• 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.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Spiritual, Home, Long

  133 Copy quote

• 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.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Beautiful, Real, Heart

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

  164 Copy quote

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

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Kindness, Trying, Ifs

  16 Copy quote

• 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".

  66 Copy quote

• 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.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Bravery, World, May

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

  121 Copy quote

• 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

  137 Copy quote

• 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.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Loneliness, Heart, Warrior

  159 Copy quote

• 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".

  132 Copy quote

• 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

  67 Copy quote

• 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

  19 Copy quote

• The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Giving Up, Essence, Bravery

  Chogyam Trungpa (2009). “Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior”, p.17, Shambhala Publications

  18 Copy quote

• The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Views, People, Helping

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “Smile at Fear: Awakening the True Heart of Bravery”, p.93, Shambhala Publications

  47 Copy quote

• When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice, so airy and fresh. You can stretch your wings and breathe the air. You can do anything you want. You have experienced cheerfulness and joy, and finally the bliss of freedom occurs in you.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Freedom, Nice, Air

  Chogyam Trungpa (2013). “The Tantric Path of Indestructible Wakefulness (volume 3): The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma, Volume Three”, p.761, Shambhala Publications

  32 Copy quote

• I would like to say, ladies and gentlemen, that you shouldn't be afraid of who you are. That's the first key idea. You shouldn't be afraid of who you are. You should NOT be afraid of who you are. It's very important for you to realize that.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Keys, Ideas, Gentleman

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.373, Shambhala Publications

  99 Copy quote

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

  Chogyam Trungpa

  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

  29 Copy quote

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

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Falling In Love, Vision, Artistic

  18 Copy quote

• Warriorship is so tender, without skin, without tissue, naked and raw. It is soft and gentle. You have renounced putting on a new suit of armor. You have renounced growing a thick, hard skin. You are willing to expose naked flesh, bone and marrow to the world.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Suits Of Armor, Skins, Naked

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “Smile at Fear: Awakening the True Heart of Bravery”, p.61, Shambhala Publications

  43 Copy quote

• A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  People, Appreciate, World

  106 Copy quote

• When you relate to thoughts obsessively, you are actually feeding them because thoughts need your attention to survive. Once you begin to pay attention to them and categorize them, then they become very powerful. You are feeding them energy because you are not seeing them as simple phenomena. If one tries to quiet them down, that is another way of feeding them.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Powerful, Simple, Trying

  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

  66 Copy quote

• 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

  79 Copy quote

• 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

  23 Copy quote

Page 1 of 9

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin