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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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• You can't feel the earth if you can't feel the space.

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  Space, Earth, Feels

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• The challenge of warriorship is to live fully in the world as it is and to find within this world, with all its paradoxes, the essence of nowness. 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.

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  Spiritual, Eye, Heart

  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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• There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.

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  Creativity, Talent, Awareness

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• There is more to fearlessness than merely having overcome fear... This state of being is not dependent on any external circumstances. It is individual dignity... that comes from being what we are, right now.

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  Overcoming, Dignity, Individual

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• Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.

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  Thinking, People, Touching

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.78, Shambhala Publications

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• Just fully being skillful involves total lack of inhibition. We are not afraid to be. We are not afraid to live. We must accept ourselves as being warriors. If we acknowledge ourselves as warriors, then there is a way in, because a warrior dares to be, like a tiger in the jungle.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Warrior, Way, Accepting

  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.266, Shambhala Publications

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• When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink.

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  Attitude, Emotional, Serenity

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “Meditation in Action”, p.86, Shambhala Publications

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• Helping others is a question of being genuine and projecting that genuineness to others. This way of being doesn't have to have a title or a name particularly. It is just being ultimately decent.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Helping Others, Names, Titles

  Chogyam Trungpa (2008). “Ocean of Dharma: The Everyday Wisdom of Chogyam Trungpa”, p.359, 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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• Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce. There is no authentic Tantra without profound commitment, discipline, courage, and a sense of wild, foolhardy, fearless abandon.

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  Spiritual, Buddhist, Commitment

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Morning, Life Changing

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

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• The basic work of health professionals in general, and of psychotherapist s in particular, is to become full human beings and to inspire full human-beingness in other people who feel starved about their lives.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  People, Inspire, Health Professionals

  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.532, Shambhala Publications

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• we must continue to be open in the face of great opposition. No one is encouraging us to be open and still we must peel away the layers of the heart.

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  Heart, Layers, Faces

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• We need to encourage an attitude of constant questioning, which is a genuine part of our potential as students. If students were required to drop their questions, that would create armies of zombies- rows of jellyfish...The questioning mind is absolutely necessary.

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  Attitude, Knowledge, Army

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• I am alone and my spiritual journey is my experience.' This is the real experience of freedom and independence. Then we begin to see that being alone is a very beautiful thing. Nobody is obstructing our vision. We have complete panoramic vision.

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  Beautiful, Spiritual, Real

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• Right mindfulness does not simply mean being aware; it is like creating a work of art. You can therefore trust what you are doing; you are not threatened by anything. You have room to dance in the space, and this makes it a creative situation. The space is open to you.

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  Art, Mean, Space

  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.252, Shambhala Publications

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• Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons

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  Hopes And Fears, Seasons

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.32, Shambhala Publications

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• What is needed is the constant unmasking of ego's strategy.

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  Ego, Unmasking, Strategy

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• Meditation is another dimension of natural beauty. People talk about appreciating natural beauty-climbing mountains, seeing giraffes and tigers in Africa, and all sorts of things. But nobody seems to appreciate this kind of natural beauty of ourselves. This is actually far more beautiful than flora and fauna, far more fantastic, far more painful and colorful and delightful.

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  Beautiful, Climbing, Practice

  Chogyam Trungpa (2001). “Glimpses of Abhidharma: From a Seminar on Buddhist Psychology”, p.66, Shambhala Publications

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• We have to make the first move ourselves rather than expecting it to come from the phenomenal world or from other people. If we are meditating at home and we happen to live in the middle of the High Street, we cannot stop the traffic just because we want peace and quiet. But we can stop ourselves, we can accept the noise. The noise also contains silence. We must put ourselves into it and expect nothing from outside, just as Buddha did. And we must accept whatever situation arises.

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  Peace, Moving, Home

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• It's easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.

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  Shoes, Earth, Pairs

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• Magic is the total delight (appreciation) of chance

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  Appreciation, Magic, Delight

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• You do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is similar to the sun shining and plants growing. The sun has no desire to create the vegetation; plants simply react to sunlight and the situation develops naturally.

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  Plants Growing, Shining, Desire

  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.136, Shambhala Publications

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