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 More Quotes by Chogyam Trungpa More Quotes From Chogyam Trungpa Just fully being skillful involves total lack of inhibition. We are not afraid to be. We are not afraid to live. We must accept ourselves as being warriors. If we acknowledge ourselves as warriors, then there is a way in, because a warrior dares to be, like a tiger in the jungle. Chogyam Trungpa warrioracceptingway Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment. Chogyam Trungpa egofreedomdisappointment When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice, so airy and fresh. You can stretch your wings and breathe the air. You can do anything you want. You have experienced cheerfulness and joy, and finally the bliss of freedom occurs in you. Chogyam Trungpa freedomniceair 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. Chogyam Trungpa powerletting-gomean 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. Chogyam Trungpa thorough-knowledgeshyreal 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. Chogyam Trungpa titleshelping-othersnames In order to develop love - universal love, cosmic love, whatever you would like to call it one must accept the whole situation of life as it is, both the light and the dark, the good and the bad. One must open oneself to life, communicate with it. Chogyam Trungpa lightdarklife 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 confidenceshiningfirsts 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 warriorshouldbrave 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. Chogyam Trungpa journeypathsteps Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit. Chogyam Trungpa benefitsegoteaching In the cocoon, there is no idea of light at all, until we experience some longing for openness, some longing for something other than the smell of our own sweat. When we examine that comfortable darkness - look at it, smell it, feel it - we find it is claustrophobic. Chogyam Trungpa sweatlightchange Why don't we just expand ourselves into our perfect form, our perfect being? Chogyam Trungpa formperfect We have to make the first move ourselves rather than expecting it to come from the phenomenal world or from other people. If we are meditating at home and we happen to live in the middle of the High Street, we cannot stop the traffic just because we want peace and quiet. But we can stop ourselves, we can accept the noise. The noise also contains silence. We must put ourselves into it and expect nothing from outside, just as Buddha did. And we must accept whatever situation arises. Chogyam Trungpa homepeacemoving The artist has tremendous power to change the world. Chogyam Trungpa power-to-changeartistworld The visual impact of the stupa on the observer brings a direct experience of inherent wakefulness and dignity. Stupas continue to be built because of their ability to liberate one simply upon seeing their structure Chogyam Trungpa dignityimpactstructure Opening to oneself fully is opening to the world. Chogyam Trungpa openingoneselfworld Sit and do nothing. Every once in a while a golden fish swims by and lays her golden eggs. You'll know. Chogyam Trungpa goldeneggsswim The strongest of us are those that are spiritually strong, and a spiritual warrior is one of vulnerability. Chogyam Trungpa warriorstrongspiritual Are the great spiritual teachings really advocating that we fight evil because we are on the side of light, the side of peace? Are they telling us to fight against that other 'undesirable' side, the bad and the black. That is a big question. If there is wisdom in the sacred teachings, there should not be any war. 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. Chogyam Trungpa teachingspiritualwar
