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 Our bodies demand our attention; our bodies demand that we actually pay attention to what is going on with our lives. Chogyam Trungpa demand body attention We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the first wisdoms. So acknowledging foolishness is always a very important and powerful experience. The phenomenal world can be perceived and seen properly if we see it from the perspective of being a fool. There is very little distance between being a fool and being wise; they are extremely close. When we are really, truly fools, when we actually acknowledge our foolishness, then we are way ahead. We are not even in the process of becoming wise — we are already wise. Chogyam Trungpa distance powerful wise Begin to build up confidence and joy in your own richness. That richness is the essence of generosity. It is the essence of resourcefulness ; that you can deal with whatever is available around you and not feel poverty stricken. Chogyam Trungpa generosity essence joy The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death. Chogyam Trungpa enlightenment ego views If we really prefer basic sanity or enlightenment, it's irritatingly possible to get into it. Chogyam Trungpa sanity enlightenment ifs In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would be a product dependent upon cause and effect and therefore liable to dissolution. Anything which is created must, sooner or later, die. If enlightenment were created in such a way, there would always be a possibility of ego reasserting itself, causing a return to the confused state. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it. Chogyam Trungpa confused ego confusion You do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is similar to the sun shining and plants growing. The sun has no desire to create the vegetation; plants simply react to sunlight and the situation develops naturally. Chogyam Trungpa plants-growing shining desire Even fear itself is frightened by the bodhisattva's fearlessness. Chogyam Trungpa frightened bodhisattva fear 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. Chogyam Trungpa honesty meditation wise The complexities of life situations are really not as complicated as we tend to experience them. Chogyam Trungpa situation complicated life Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path. Chogyam Trungpa delay should path Disappointment results from the removal of illusion. Chogyam Trungpa illusion results disappointment What is needed is the constant unmasking of ego's strategy. Chogyam Trungpa unmasking strategy ego The idea of buddha mind is not purely a concept or a theoretical, metaphysical idea. It is something extremely real that we can experience ourselves. In fact, it is the ego that feels that we have an ego. It is ego that tells us, My ego is bothering me. I feel very self-conscious about having to be me. I feel that I have a tremendous burden in me, and I wonder what the best way to get rid of it is. Yet all those expressions of restlessness that keep coming out of us are the expression of buddha nature: the expression of our unborn, unobstructed, and nondwelling nature. Chogyam Trungpa real self ideas Things get very clear when you're cornered. Chogyam Trungpa cornered clear life 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. Chogyam Trungpa meditation rose way Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons Chogyam Trungpa hopes-and-fears seasons We could say that compassion is the ultimate attitude of wealth: an anti-poverty attitude, a war on want. It contains all sorts of heroic, juicy, positive, visionary, expansive qualities. And it implies larger scale thinking, a freer and more expansive way of relating to yourself and the world. Chogyam Trungpa attitude war thinking Mindfulness is like a microscope; it is neither an offensive nor defensive weapon in relation to the germs we observe through it. The function of the microscope is just to clearly present what is there. Chogyam Trungpa germs weapons mindfulness There is something suspect about our inability to enjoy anything. Chogyam Trungpa suspects inability enjoy
