Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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Chogyam Trungpa Quotes & Sayings
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Sit and do nothing. Every once in a while a golden fish swims by and lays her golden eggs. You'll know.
— Chogyam Trungpa
The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried.
— Chogyam Trungpa
Take a friendly attitude toward your thoughts.
— Chogyam Trungpa
Life is a straight drink - straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.
— Chogyam Trungpa
Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.
— Chogyam Trungpa
Disappointment results from the removal of illusion.
— Chogyam Trungpa
If kindness doesn't work, try more kindness.
— Chogyam Trungpa
When we let go of the self, we are more inspired to work with others; and when we are generous to others, we realize that the self is lost.
— Chogyam Trungpa
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
The complexities of life situations are really not as complicated as we tend to experience them.
— Chogyam Trungpa
Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.
— Chogyam Trungpa
Hope and fear cannot alter the season.
— Chogyam Trungpa
The epitome of the human realm is to be stuck in a huge traffic jam of discursive thought.
— Chogyam Trungpa
Buddhism doesn't tell you what is false and what is true but it encourages you to find out for yourself.
— Chogyam Trungpa
As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
— Chogyam Trungpa
In the garden of gentle sanity,
May you be bombarded by the coconuts of wakefulness. — Chogyam Trungpa
May you be bombarded by the coconuts of wakefulness. — Chogyam Trungpa
The challenge of warriorship is to step out of the cocoon, to step out into space, by being brave and at the same time gentle
— Chogyam Trungpa
Opening to oneself fully is opening to the world.
— Chogyam Trungpa
We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.
— Chogyam Trungpa
We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.
— Chogyam Trungpa
It's easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.
— Chogyam Trungpa
Everyone loves something, even if it's only tortillas.
— Chogyam Trungpa
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.
— Chogyam Trungpa
You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there - fully, personally, genuinely.
— Chogyam Trungpa
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.
— Chogyam Trungpa
The courage to work with ourselves comes as basic trust in ourselves, as a sort of fundamental optimism.
— Chogyam Trungpa
It's possible to be completely enlightened ... except with your family.
— Chogyam Trungpa
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
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
To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.
— Chogyam Trungpa
It's no use trying to be different than you are.
— Chogyam Trungpa
We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you'll have no problem.
— Chogyam Trungpa
When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink.
— Chogyam Trungpa
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
Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.
— Chogyam Trungpa
If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power.
— Chogyam Trungpa
Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!
— Chogyam Trungpa
The warrior is not afraid of space
— Chogyam Trungpa
The artist has tremendous power to change the world.
— Chogyam Trungpa
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.
— Chogyam Trungpa
The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.
— Chogyam Trungpa
Fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart.
— Chogyam Trungpa
There are many, many details of action involved in the simplicity and sharpness of being in this very moment, here, now.
— Chogyam Trungpa
This whole world is mind's world, the product of the mind.
— Chogyam Trungpa
Our bodies demand our attention; our bodies demand that we actually pay attention to what is going on with our lives.
— Chogyam Trungpa
The idea is not to regard the spiritual path as something very luxurious and pleasurable but to see it as just facing the facts of life.
— Chogyam Trungpa
Luxury is experiencing reality
— Chogyam Trungpa
Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.
— Chogyam Trungpa
What is needed is the constant unmasking of ego's strategy.
— Chogyam Trungpa
For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we don't look for bliss.
— Chogyam Trungpa
Ultimately, the definition of bravery is not being afraid of yourself.
— Chogyam Trungpa
You can't feel the earth if you can't feel the space.
— Chogyam Trungpa
No matter what the practice or teaching, ego loves to wait in ambush to appropriate spirituality for its own survival and gain.
— Chogyam Trungpa
There is something suspect about our inability to enjoy anything.
— Chogyam Trungpa
The strongest of us are those that are spiritually strong, and a spiritual warrior is one of vulnerability.
— Chogyam Trungpa
If we really prefer basic sanity or enlightenment, it's irritatingly possible to get into it.
— Chogyam Trungpa
Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of the extreme impulse
— Chogyam Trungpa
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
There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.
— Chogyam Trungpa
Fearlessness is extending ourselves beyond our limited view.
— Chogyam Trungpa
The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.
— Chogyam Trungpa
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
Compassion is not having any hesitation to reflect your light on things
— Chogyam Trungpa
It's all Ati. Now, let's be practical.
— Chogyam Trungpa
Even fear itself is frightened by the bodhisattva's fearlessness.
— Chogyam Trungpa
The path of truth is profound - and so are the obstacles and possibilities for self-deception.
— Chogyam Trungpa
Watchfulness is experiencing a sudden glimpse of something without any qualifications - just the sudden glimpse itself.
— Chogyam Trungpa
Nowness or the magic of the present moment is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present
— Chogyam Trungpa
Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.
— Chogyam Trungpa
Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being ... Language should be more than just getting by.
— Chogyam Trungpa
But, if we regard knowledge as an antique, as "ancient wisdom" to be collected, then we are on the wrong path.
— Chogyam Trungpa
Shambhala vision teaches that in the face of the world's great problems, we can be heroic and kind at the same time.
— Chogyam Trungpa
It has been said that sleeping, dreaming, and meditating, or developing awareness, are the only states in which we do not sow further seeds of karma.
— Chogyam Trungpa
There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.
— Chogyam Trungpa
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
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
Someone who is seriously interested in meditation should not expect any feedback or promises from the practice. Most
— Chogyam Trungpa
Things get very clear when you're cornered.
— Chogyam Trungpa
Magic is the total delight (appreciation) of chance
— Chogyam Trungpa
Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.
— Chogyam Trungpa
A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves.
— Chogyam Trungpa
Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path.
— Chogyam Trungpa