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Chogyam Trungpa - From the Activity category:
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. (Chogyam Trungpa)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Ambition category:
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. (Chogyam Trungpa)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Awareness category:
Watchfulness is experiencing a sudden glimpse of something without any qualifications - just the sudden glimpse itself. (Chogyam Trungpa)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Beauty category:
Elegance means appreciating things as they are. There is a sense of delight and of fearlessness. You are not fearful of dark corners... (Chogyam Trungpa)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Boredom category:
Boredom is part of the discipline of meditation practice. This type of boredom is cool boredom, refreshing boredom... Such boredom seems to be absolutely necessary. (Chogyam Trungpa)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Chaos category:
Very beautiful situations have developed using chaos as part of the enlightened approach. There is chaos of all kinds developing all the time... If you are trying to stop those situations, you are looking for external means of liberating yourself, another answer. But if we are able to look into the basic situation, then chaos is the inspiration, confusion is the inspiration. (Chogyam Trungpa)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Chaos category:
A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves. (Chogyam Trungpa)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Complaining category:
In your cocoon, occasionally you shout complaints, such as, "Leave me alone!" "Bug off!" "I want to be who I am!"... which comes from fighting against your environment... You can raise your head and just take a little peek out of the cocoon... The environment is friendly. It is called "Planet Earth." (Chogyam Trungpa)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Confidence category:
Developing confidence is like watching the sun rise. First it seems very feeble and one wonders whether it will make it. Then it shines and shines. (Chogyam Trungpa)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Creativity category:
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. (Chogyam Trungpa)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Difficulty category:
Because there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point. (Chogyam Trungpa)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Dreams category:
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)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Effort category:
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)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Ego category:
As well as making friends with yourself, fundamentally one should be cynical and critical. This doesn't mean that you should punish yourself, but you just attack the areas of ego's indulgence. At the same time, you continue the friendship with yourself. (Chogyam Trungpa)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Ego category:
Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment. (Chogyam Trungpa)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Environment category:
When human beings lose their connection to nature, to heaven and earth, then they do not know how to nurture their environment or how to rule their world... healing our society goes hand in hand with healing our personal, elemental connection with the phenomenal world. (Chogyam Trungpa)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Experience category:
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. (Chogyam Trungpa)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Faith category:
Faith is the readiness to reveal whatever is concealed. You don't have to conceal doubts by putting on patches of self-confirmation. The readiness to be exposed seems to make the difference between ego's approach to spirituality and an enlightened one. (Chogyam Trungpa)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Fear category:
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. (Chogyam Trungpa)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Focus category:
Becoming 'awake' involves seeing our confusion more clearly. (Chogyam Trungpa)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Future category:
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. (Chogyam Trungpa)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Habit category:
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)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Intellect category:
As long as we relate with our underlying primordial intelligence and as long as we push ourselves a little, by jumping into the middle of situations, then intelligence arises automatically. (Chogyam Trungpa)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Journey category:
Our path is sometimes rough and sometimes smooth; nonetheless, life is a constant journey... whatever we do is regarded as our journey, our path. That path consists of opening oneself to the road, opening oneself to the steps we are about to take. (Chogyam Trungpa)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Language category:
Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by. (Chogyam Trungpa)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Life category:
We cannot avoid our lives. We have to face our lives, young or old, rich or poor. Whatever happens, we cannot save ourselves from our lives at all... the more you understand, the more you will realize your own responsibility. (Chogyam Trungpa)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Life category:
Life is a straight drink - straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent. (Chogyam Trungpa)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Loneliness category:
'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. (Chogyam Trungpa)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Magic category:
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. (Chogyam Trungpa)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Meditation category:
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)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Meditation category:
Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquility, nor is it attempting to be a better person. It is simply the creation of a space in which we are able to expose and undo our neurotic games, our self-deceptions, our hidden fears and hopes. (Chogyam Trungpa)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Money category:
People's creativity is very much alive, but when they get paid for their creativity, they often experience that as rather meaningless. Money as the reward for their creative process is very one-dimensional, a tremendous comedown. (Chogyam Trungpa)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Money category:
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)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Optimism category:
The courage to work with ourselves comes as basic trust in ourselves, as a sort of fundamental optimism. (Chogyam Trungpa)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Reality category:
The meditator develops new depths of insight through direct communication with the reality of the phenomenal world... He or she is able to see not only the absence of complexity, the absence of duality, but the stoneness of stone and the waterness of water. One sees things precisely as they are, not merely in the physical sense, but with awareness of their spiritual significance. (Chogyam Trungpa)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Religion category:
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. (Chogyam Trungpa)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Strategy category:
What is needed is the constant unmasking of ego's strategy. (Chogyam Trungpa)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Thinking category:
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. (Chogyam Trungpa)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Thought category:
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. (Chogyam Trungpa)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Tradition category:
We must see with our own eyes and not accept any laid-down tradition as if it had some magical power in it. (Chogyam Trungpa)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Travel category:
If we go somewhere on foot, we know the way perfectly, whereas if we go by car or airplane, we are hardly there at all. It becomes merely a dream. (Chogyam Trungpa)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Truth category:
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. (Chogyam Trungpa)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Vulnerability category:
You don't know how to take off your suit of armor. You have no idea how to conduct yourself without the reference point of your own security... You can expose your wounds and flesh, your sore points. You can be completely raw and exposed... (Chogyam Trungpa)
Chogyam Trungpa - From the Windows category:
When you have a brilliant sun, which is a source of vision, the light from the sun shines through every window of the house, and the brightness of its light inspires you to open all the curtains. In the vision of the Great Eastern Sun, no human being is a lost cause. (Chogyam Trungpa)
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