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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.

Chogyam Trungpa

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Chogyam Trungpa
Age: 47 †
Born: 1940
Born: January 1
Died: 1987
Died: April 4
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meditation is a way of developing clarity, which allows us to see the precision of daily life situations as well as our thought process so that we can relate with both of them fully and completely.
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when one learns a different way of dealing with the situation, one no longer has to have a purpose. One is not on the way to somewhere. Or rather, one is on the way and one is also at the destination at the same time. That is really what meditation is for.
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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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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.
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Watchfulness is experiencing a sudden glimpse of something without any qualifications - just the sudden glimpse itself.
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You begin to understand that warriorship is a path or a thread that runs through your entire life. It is not just a technique that you apply when you are unhappy or depressed. Warriorship is a continual journey. To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life. That is the warrior's discipline
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The courage to work with ourselves comes as basic trust in ourselves, as a sort of fundamental optimism.
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Even fear itself is frightened by the bodhisattva's fearlessness.
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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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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.
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When we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind it is being creative [enough] to wake a person up
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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.
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You can't feel the earth if you can't feel the space.
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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.
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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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The warrior is not afraid of space
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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.
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In Tibetan, authentic presence is wangthang, which literally means, 'field of power'... The cause or the virtue that brings about authentic presence is emptying out and letting go. You have to be without clinging.
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The point of meditation is not merely to be an honest or good person in the conventional sense, trying only to maintain our security. We must begin to become compassionate and wise in the fundamental sense, open and relating to the world as it is.
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