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Take a friendly attitude toward your thoughts.

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Chogyam Trungpa
Age: 47 †
Born: 1940
Born: January 1
Died: 1987
Died: April 4
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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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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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When we hide from the world in this way, we feel secure. We may think we have quieted our fear, but we are actually making ourselves numb with fear. We surround ourselves with our own familiar thoughts, so that nothing sharp or painful can touch us.
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We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.
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Anything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it we have merely discovered it.
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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 courage to work with ourselves comes as basic trust in ourselves, as a sort of fundamental optimism.
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Disappointment results from the removal of illusion.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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The warrior is not afraid of space
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People's creativity is very much alive, but when they get paid for their creativity, they often experience that as rather meaningless. Money as the reward for their creative process is very one-dimensional, a tremendous comedown.
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That is the basic pattern of this kind of meditation, which is based on three fundamental factors: first, not centralizing inward second, not having any longing to become higher and third, becoming completely identified with here and now.
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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.
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Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation.
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