Mindfulness does not mean pushing oneself toward something or hanging on to something. It means allowing oneself to be there in the very moment of what is happening in the living process - and then letting go. Chogyam Trungpa More Quotes by Chogyam Trungpa More Quotes From Chogyam Trungpa Watchfulness is experiencing a sudden glimpse of something without any qualifications - just the sudden glimpse itself. Chogyam Trungpa qualifications glimpse awareness The courage to work with ourselves comes as basic trust in ourselves, as a sort of fundamental optimism. Chogyam Trungpa optimism fundamentals The past situation has just occurred and the future situation has not yet manifested itself so there is a gap between the two. This is basically the bardo (life between life) experience. [This is the place where your life is reviewed - where you get another chance to let life teach you and end the cycle of pain. -EM] Chogyam Trungpa karma pain past The point is that whatever one is trying to learn, it is necessary to have firsthand experience, rather than learning from books or from teachers or by merely conforming to an already established pattern. Chogyam Trungpa learning teacher book 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. Chogyam Trungpa helpful experience taste While you're meditating, all kinds of thoughts arise... You don't find your thoughts threatening or particularly helpful. They just become the general gossip of your thoughts. This traffic of your thoughts and the verbosity of your mind are simply part of the basic chatter that goes on in the universe. Just let it go through. Chogyam Trungpa gossip let-it-go mind 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. Chogyam Trungpa jumping littles long 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. Chogyam Trungpa fighting memories past We must see with our own eyes and not accept any laid-down tradition as if it had some magical power in it. Chogyam Trungpa tradition accepting eye
