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Chogyam Trungpa

Chögyam Trungpa (Wylie: Chos rgyam Drung pa; March 5, 1939 – April 4, 1987) was a Buddhist meditation master and holder of both the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages, the eleventh Trungpa tülku, a tertön, supreme abbot of the Surmang monasteries, scholar, teacher, poet, artist, and originator of a radical re-presentation of Shambhala vision.

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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.

Desire, Plants Growing, React, Shining, Sunlight, Vegetation

Even fear itself is frightened by the bodhisattva's fearlessness.

Bodhisattva, Fear, Fearlessness, Frightened

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.

Ambition, Goal, Quality, Standing, Hypnotic

The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that, the warrior can be very brave as well.

Brave, Sad, Should, Tender, Warrior, Warriorship

The warrior is not afraid of space

Afraid, Not Afraid, Space, Warrior

Generosity is self-existing openness, complete openness. You are no longer subject to cultivating your own scheme or project. And the best way to open yourself up is to make friends with yourself and with others.

Cultivating, Generosity, Make, Self, Subject, Way

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

Energy, Money, See, Should, Transmute, Use

The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything. We can never say that we are simply falling to pieces or that anyone else is, and we can never say that about the world either. Within our lifetime there will be great problems in the world, but let us make sure than within our lifetime do disasters happen. We can prevent them. It is up to us.

Essence, Fall, Falling, Giving Up, Pieces, Simply

Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.

Awake, Becoming, Confusion, Involves, Seeing

If you look into the mirror, you see that [every part of you] belongs there and you belong there, as you are. You begin to realize that you have a perfect right to be in this universe, to be this way, and you see that there is a basic hospitality that this world provides to you. You have looked and you have seen, and you don't have to apologize for being born on this earth.

Belong, Earth, Look, Looks, Mirrors, Perfect

In fact, a person always finds when he begins to practice meditation that all sorts of problems are brought out. Any hidden aspects of your personality are brought out into the open, for the simple reason that for the first time you are allowing yourself to see your state of mind as it is.

Simple, Practice, Personality, Meditation, See

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.

Afraid, Gentleman, Idea, Ideas, Keys, Like

In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by the coconuts of wakefulness.

Bombarded By, Coconuts, Garden, Gentle, Wakefulness

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.

Acceptance, Complete, Experiencing Everything, People, Practice, Reservations

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.

Meditation, Process, Okay, Simply, Making

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

Ego, Numerous, Referred, Spiritual, Thinking, Walking

This whole world is mind's world, the product of the mind.

Mind, Product, Whole, World

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.

Afraid, Basically, Eye, Focus, Grace, Sharp

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.

Decent, Helping, Helping Others, Names, Particularly, Titles

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.

Actually, Beautiful, Climbing, Colorful, Kind, Practice

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