Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
Synchronizing mind and body is not a concept or a random technique someone thought up for self-improvement. Rather, it is a basic principle of how to be a human being.
We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path.
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.
Buddhism doesn't tell you what is false and what is true but it encourages you to find out for yourself.
If we really prefer basic sanity or enlightenment, it's irritatingly possible to get into it.
As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.
Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.
Our bodies demand our attention; our bodies demand that we actually pay attention to what is going on with our lives.
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
The strongest of us are those that are spiritually strong, and a spiritual warrior is one of vulnerability.
What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words, renunciation is making yourself more available, more gentle and open to others.
Because there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point.
Watchfulness is experiencing a sudden glimpse of something without any qualifications - just the sudden glimpse itself.
We can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spirituality when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques.
We must see with our own eyes and not accept any laid-down tradition as if it had some magical power in it.
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.
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.
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.
The courage to work with ourselves comes as basic trust in ourselves, as a sort of fundamental optimism.
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.
The practice of meditation is a way of continuing one's confusion, chaos, aggression, and passion—but working with it, seeing it from the enlightened point of view.
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.
Meditation practice is regarded as a good and in fact excellent way to overcome warfare in the world; our own warfare as well as greater warfare.
We should see money in terms of the expenditure of energy and how we are going to transmute that energy into a proper use.
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.
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.
Nowness or the magic of the present moment is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present
Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path.
The complexities of life situations are really not as complicated as we tend to experience them.
Warriorship does not refer to making war on others. Aggression is the source of our problems, not the solution. Warriorship is the tradition of human bravery, or the tradition of fearlessness.
