The practice of meditation is a way of continuing one's confusion, chaos, aggression, and passion—but working with it, seeing it from the enlightened point of view. Chogyam Trungpa More Quotes by Chogyam Trungpa More Quotes From Chogyam Trungpa We should see money in terms of the expenditure of energy and how we are going to transmute that energy into a proper use. Chogyam Trungpa energy use should Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary. Chogyam Trungpa neurosis sanity permanent We cannot avoid our lives. We have to face our lives, young or old, rich or poor. Whatever happens, we cannot save ourselves from our lives at all... the more you understand, the more you will realize your own responsibility. Chogyam Trungpa rich-or-poor responsibility faces The way of cowardice is to embed ourselves in a cocoon, in which we perpetuate our habitual patterns. When we are constantly recreating our basic patterns of habits and thought, we never have to leap into fresh air or onto fresh ground. Chogyam Trungpa cocoons buddhist air As well as making friends with yourself, fundamentally one should be cynical and critical. This doesn't mean that you should punish yourself, but you just attack the areas of ego's indulgence. At the same time, you continue the friendship with yourself. Chogyam Trungpa cynical ego mean A genuine sense of humor is having a light touch: not beating reality into the ground but appreciating reality with a light touch. The basis of Shambhala vision is rediscovering that perfect and real sense of humor, that light touch of appreciation. Chogyam Trungpa light real appreciation The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried. Chogyam Trungpa nature life lying When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are not too much on the side of absolute truth, or you would become too theoretical. You are not too much on the side of relative truth, or you would become too precise. When you put them together, you realize that there is no problem. Chogyam Trungpa too-much together sides We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot of people. A lot of people turn to something that they hope will liberate them without their having to face themselves. That is impossible. We can't do that. We have to be honest with ourselves. We have to see our gut, our excrement, our most undesirable parts. We have to see them. That is the foundation of warriorship, basically speaking. Whatever is there, we have to face it, we have to look at it, study it, work with it and practice meditation with it. Chogyam Trungpa practice fear people If there is some profound method that offers a quick way, we would rather follow that than undertake arduous journeys and difficult practices. But some manual work and physical effort is necessary. Chogyam Trungpa journey practice profound The simplicity of meditation means just experiencing the ape instinct of ego. Chogyam Trungpa simplicity meditation mean You can almost convince yourself that you've accomplished things just by thinking about them. The alternative is to be more realistic. You don't necessarily regard the dreaming process as bad or an obstacle, but it's not realistic enough. Chogyam Trungpa alternatives dream thinking Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious, and direct. If we can open, then we suddenly begin to see that our expectations are irrelevant compared with the reality of the situations we are facing. Chogyam Trungpa disappointment expectations reality Because there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point. Chogyam Trungpa aspect difficult creative Delight in itself is the approach of sanity. Delight is to open our eyes to the reality of the situation rather than siding with this or that point of view. Chogyam Trungpa eye views reality It's all Ati. Now, let's be practical. Chogyam Trungpa practicals action 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 unfinished-business quitting way Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by. Chogyam Trungpa individual language should The warrior is not afraid of space Chogyam Trungpa not-afraid warrior space 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. Chogyam Trungpa inward three meditation
