When we clean up after ourselves, we have nothing to blame. When we begin to live our lives in that way, cleaning up after ourselves, what is left is further vision and further openness, which leads to cleaning up the rest of the world. Chogyam Trungpa More Quotes by Chogyam Trungpa More Quotes From Chogyam Trungpa 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 Chogyam Trungpa warrior journey running A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves. Chogyam Trungpa appreciate people world 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. Chogyam Trungpa practice spiritual mean The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality. Chogyam Trungpa spirituality ego use The basics teachings of Buddha are about understanding what we are, who we are, why we are. When we begin to realize what we are, who we are, why we are, then we begin to realize what we are not, who we are not, why we are not. We begin to realize that we don't have basic, substantial, solid, fundamental ground that we can exert anymore. We begin to realize that our ideas of security and our concept of freedom have been purely phantom experiences. Chogyam Trungpa freedom teaching ideas Meditation should not be regarded as a learning process. It should be regarded as an experiencing process. You should not try to learn from meditation but try to feel it. Meditation is an act of nonduality. The technique you are using should not be separate from you; it is you, you are the technique. Meditator and meditation are one. There is no relationship involved. Chogyam Trungpa meditation practice trying You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there - fully, personally, genuinely. Chogyam Trungpa deserve-you sitting earth When human beings lose their connection to nature, to heaven and earth, then they do not know how to nurture their environmect or how to rule their world - which is saying the same thing. Human beings destroy their ecology at the same time that they destroy one another. From that perspective, healing our society goes hand in hand with healing our personal, elemental connection with the phenomenal world. Chogyam Trungpa perspective healing hands There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom. Chogyam Trungpa struggle absence needs Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy. Chogyam Trungpa sanity morality lying A great deal of chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves. Having never developed sympathy or gentleness toward themselves, they cannot experience harmony or peace within themselves, and therefore, what they project to others is also inharmonious and confused. Chogyam Trungpa confused appreciate people we must continue to be open in the face of great opposition. No one is encouraging us to be open and still we must peel away the layers of the heart. Chogyam Trungpa layers faces heart Life is a straight drink - straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent. Chogyam Trungpa drink pain life-is We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought. Chogyam Trungpa traffic objectivity jam Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see. Chogyam Trungpa artistic falling-in-love vision We need to encourage an attitude of constant questioning, which is a genuine part of our potential as students. If students were required to drop their questions, that would create armies of zombies- rows of jellyfish...The questioning mind is absolutely necessary. Chogyam Trungpa army attitude knowledge For the warrior, every moment is a challenge to be genuine, and each challenge is delightful. When you let go properly, you can relax and enjoy the challenge. Chogyam Trungpa warrior challenges letting-go In the garden of gentle sanity, Chogyam Trungpa bombarded-by coconuts garden The discovery of magic can happen only when we transcend our embarrassment about being alive, when we have the bravery to proclaim the goodness and dignity of human life, without either hesitation or arrogance. Then magic can descend onto our existence. Chogyam Trungpa arrogance bravery discovery Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy. Chogyam Trungpa happiness inspirational life
