Chogyam Trungpa Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“In fact, a person always finds when he begins to practice meditation that all sorts of problems are brought out. Any hidden aspects of your personality are brought out into the open, for the simple reason that for the first time you are allowing yourself to see your state of mind as it is.”
-- Chogyam Trungpa

#Simple #Practice #Personality

“The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.”
-- Chogyam Trungpa

#Practice #Emphasis #Situation

“The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.”
-- Chogyam Trungpa

#Inspirational #Fall #Air

“A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves.”
-- Chogyam Trungpa

#People #Appreciate #World

“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

#Healing #Hands #Perspective

“Meditation practice is a way of making friends with ourselves. Whether we are worthy or unworthy, that's not the point. It's developing a friendly attitude to ourselves, accepting the hidden neurosis coming through.”
-- Chogyam Trungpa

#Attitude #Practice #Meditation

“Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of the extreme impulse”
-- Chogyam Trungpa

#Lying #Morality #Sanity

“We say that the sun is behind the clouds, but actually it is not the sun but the city from which we view it that is behind the clouds. If we realized that the sun is never behind the clouds we might have a different attitude toward the whole thing.”
-- Chogyam Trungpa

#Buddhist #Attitude #Clouds

“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

#Sitting #Earth #Realizing

“We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.”
-- Chogyam Trungpa

#Past

“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

#Essence #Generosity #Joy

“Although the warrior's life is dedicated to helping others, he realizes that he will never be able to completely share his experience with others...Yet he is more and more in love with the world. That combination of love affair and loneliness is what enables the warrior to constantly reach out to help others. By renouncing his private world, the warrior discovers a greater universe and a fuller and fuller broken heart. This is not something to feel bad about; it is a cause for rejoicing.”
-- Chogyam Trungpa

#Loneliness #Heart #Warrior

“Facing yourself is a question of honesty rather than condemning yourself. Good or bad the idea is simply to face the facts. Just see the simple, straightforward truth about yourself without cutting yourself down.”
-- Chogyam Trungpa

#Honesty #Cutting #Simple

“The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.”
-- Chogyam Trungpa

#Ego #Use #Spirituality

“Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw and beautiful heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world. You are willing to share your heart with others.”
-- Chogyam Trungpa

#Beautiful #Real #Heart

“Compassion has nothing to do with achievement at all. It is spacious and very generous. When a person develops real compassion, he is uncertain whether he is being generous to others or to himself because compassion is enviromental generosity, without direction, without " for me" and without " for them". It is filled with joy, spontaneously existing joy, constant joy in the sense of trust, in the sense that joy contains tremendous wealth, richness.”
-- Chogyam Trungpa

#Buddhist #Real #Compassion

“I would like to say, ladies and gentlemen, that you shouldn't be afraid of who you are. That's the first key idea. You shouldn't be afraid of who you are. You should NOT be afraid of who you are. It's very important for you to realize that.”
-- Chogyam Trungpa

#Keys #Ideas #Gentleman

“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

#Warrior #Brave #Should

“Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.”
-- Chogyam Trungpa

#Confusion #Becoming #Awake

“We must be willing to be completely ordinary people, which means accepting ourselves as we are without trying to become greater, purer, more spiritual, more insightful. If we can accept our imperfections as they are, quite ordinarily, then we can use them as part of the path. But if we try to get rid of our imperfections, then they will be enemies, obstacles on the road to our ‘self-improvement’.”
-- Chogyam Trungpa

#Spiritual #Mean #Self

“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

#Real #Gains #Firsts

“It's possible to be completely enlightened... except with your family.”
-- Chogyam Trungpa

#Enlightened #Our Family

“Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.”
-- Chogyam Trungpa

#Neurosis #Sanity #Temporary

“One day passes and another day comes along, and everything happens the same. But basically, we are so afraid of the brilliance coming at us, and the sharp experience of our life, that we can't even focus our eyes.”
-- Chogyam Trungpa

#Eye #Focus #Grace

“Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.”
-- Chogyam Trungpa

#Thinking #People #Touching

“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

#Warrior #Way #Accepting

“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

#Journey #Path #Steps

“When we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative [enough] to wake a person up”
-- Chogyam Trungpa

#Compassion #Creative #Be Kind

“Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.”
-- Chogyam Trungpa

#Teaching #Ego #Benefits

“The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.”
-- Chogyam Trungpa

#Views #People #Helping