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Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.

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Chogyam Trungpa
Age: 47 †
Born: 1940
Born: January 1
Died: 1987
Died: April 4
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The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.
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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.
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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.
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We should see money in terms of the expenditure of energy and how we are going to transmute that energy into a proper use.
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The main point of any spiritual practice is to step out of the bureaucracy of ego. This means stepping out of ego's constant desire for a higher, more spiritual, more transcendental version of knowledge, religion, virtue, judgment, comfort, or whatever it is that the particular ego is seeking. One must step out of spiritual materialism.
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Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see.
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The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried.
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You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.
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Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw and beautiful heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world. You are willing to share your heart with others.
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Sometimes one touches on a very painful spot where one is almost too shy to look into it, but somehow one still has to go through it. And by going into it, one finally achieves a real command of oneself. One gains a thorough knowledge of oneself for the first time.
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The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.
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In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the surface rather than hiding them at the bottom of our minds. It enables us to relate to our lives as something workable.
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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.
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Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.
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Buddhism doesn't tell you what is false and what is true but it encourages you to find out for yourself.
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Take a friendly attitude toward your thoughts.
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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.
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Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.
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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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