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“Once there is groundlessness, there is no notion of choosing compassion – – whatever you do is compassion.“ Chögyam Trungpa

“Once there is groundlessness, there is no notion of choosing compassion – – whatever you do is compassion.“ Chögyam Trungpa

“Compassion arises because you have nothing to hold on to, nothing to work with, no project, no personal gain, and ulterior motives.” Chögyam Trungpa

“The amount of reality that is presented to you depends on how much the lesson of the subjugation of ego has taken holding you.” Chögyam Trungpa

“With any practice on the path, how are you relate with it makes an enormous difference.lf you become dogmatic and snobbish about a practice, thinking it is the higher way, it may become a problem.“ Chögyam Trungpa

“When there is no looker or no searcher, everything is fluid. Everything is seen, experienced, understood, and realized.” Chögyam Trungpa

“It is important to realize how precious the teachings are, and how extraordinary it is that out of millions and millions of people, you are able to study the dharma properly and fully.“ Chögyam Trungpa

“Wisdom happens to be a domestic affair.” Chögyam Trungpa

“Ego is, in fact, stupidity. It is fundamental thickness. It sets up obstacles or values that prevent you from developing any form of intelligence at all.” Chögyam Trungpa

“Decency means giving up our territory properly and fully, and becoming part of the big mind of bodhichitta. It is opening up to big vision, wakeful, vision.“ Chögyam Trungpa

“We have been looking for freedom by proclaiming our imprisonment, by wallowing in a state of existence or rather than a state of freedom.” Chögyam Trungpa

“Greater vision means not having any goal. That greater vision of not having any goal and just doing the discipline for its own sake rather than because of any promises that arise is very important“ Chögyam Trungpa

“Ego is a kind of basic crudeness that exists in us. Usually it is the first thought that arises.” Chögyam Trungpa

“The paramita of exertion is free from regarding ordinary activity is just boring. No matter what you do, you do not regard it merely as a replay of something that you have done many times before.” Chögyam Trungpa

“You should not regard any problem as the ultimate, final problem, but as just a temporary flare that comes and goes. If you regard something as a big deal, it will become that way, but if you regard it as purely a dance that you are responding to, it will be okay.“ Chögyam Trungpa

“When you do not work for personal achievement and are not solely dedicated to yourself, you begin to develop a more expansive vision and more natural communication. You realize that working on yourself is not the biggest project of all. You see that relating with others is more important and real.“ Chögyam Trungpa

“Mind consists of wise, confused, or neutral discursive thoughts. It includes anything that moves, flips, interprets, or goes into a deeper world. Mind appreciates and has tremendous understanding; it has passion. It also has incredible aggression; it can destroy you and others in great depth, boundlessly. Mind also has incredible generosity, which allows it to let go and appreciate nonduality and emptiness.” Chögyam Trungpa

“… in spite of our personal, individual paranoia and our discriminating awareness that looks for danger and separates everything into what is acceptable and what is unacceptable, there is a basic state of existence that is fundamentally good, and that we can rely on.” Chögyam Trungpa

“According to the mahayana, love is entirely without aggression. Love includes accepting others and being noble, reasonable, openhearted, resourceful, and free of possessiveness.” Chögyam Trungpa

“Buddha nature is like a gene, a mind gene or a psychological gene. It is like a gene in that the essence of existence can be transmitted from one generation of your physical body to the next. You transmit that gene from one life to the next, rather than from father to son, or mother to daughter.” Chögyam Trungpa

“It is important to understand that by losing the ego you are becoming benevolent. You realize that caring for others is intrinsic. Once you have removed the fixation on “me” and “my-ness,” behind that fixation you discover a general and natural kindness toward others.” Chögyam Trungpa

“The more we learn to let go of our own pleasure and take in our own pain, as well as the pain of the rest of the world, the more we are becoming very decent human beings.” Chögyam Trungpa

“The more we learn to let go of our own pleasure and take in our own pain, as well as the pain of the rest of the world, the more we are becoming very decent human beings.” Chögyam Trungpa

“Prajna wakes you up and makes you more open and more fascinated in the right sense. Rather than being based upon intrigue, greed, with the desire to make yourself comfortable, fascination in the right sense is based on first thought, best thought.” Chögyam Trungpa

“Discursive thoughts on the dharma should be encouraged.” Chögyam Trungpa

“With prajna, the idea of you practicing the dharma and gaining results is seen as hocus-pocus. Prajna says, "No. You cannot attain anything or gain anything because you do not have 'it' or 'you' at all." This makes you see things in an entirely new light.” Chögyam Trungpa

“The reason the nature of pleasure is suffering is because pleasure is so claustrophobic; as a result, pleasure has an element of imprisonment in it.“ Chögyam Trungpa

“Seeing that whatever happens in your life is dharma takes enormous discipline.” Chögyam Trungpa

“The attainment of enlightenment means joining your world completely, and letting go of any reservations. We usually don’t want to join the rest of our world.” Chögyam Trungpa

“In a theistic approach to enlightenment, power is a victory over something, but in the nontheistic approach, power is based on rejoicing and fearlessness, rather than trying to conquer the world. It is being in the state of power, rather than having power over something or somebody.” Chögyam Trungpa

“Frivolity is anything that creates further confusion, or the longing for further confusion.” Chögyam Trungpa

“A noncentralized existence brings proper conduct.” Chögyam Trungpa

“The very notion of compassion begins with feeling kindness towards yourself.” Chögyam Trungpa

“Renunciation does not mean leaving our mommy and daddy behind or rejecting our culture; it is more fundamental. Renunciation means that we do not cause further harm to others and ourselves, and we do not continue to create the origins of harm.” Chögyam Trungpa

“The nature of generosity is one of not wanting to possess anything for yourself.” Chögyam Trungpa

“Providing all kinds of conveniences provides all kinds of neurosis at the same time.“ Chögyam Trungpa

“Prajna is the wakefulness that occurs to everybody at the moment of panic.” Chögyam Trungpa

“Nirvana means dwelling in peace and openness, and samsara means dwelling in one’s neurosis.“ Chögyam Trungpa

“The hinayana aspect of compassion is based on nonaggression, on doing no harm to others; the continuation of that compassion in the mahayana is doing good for others.” Chögyam Trungpa

“Once there is groundlessness, there is no notion of choosing compassion – – whatever you do is compassion.“ Chögyam Trungpa

“Whenever you take an ego-oriented approach, you’ve become allergic to yourself. There is no other way but to step out of that.“ Chögyam Trungpa

“Whenever you take an ego-oriented approach, you’ve become allergic to yourself. There is no other way but to step out of that.“ Chögyam Trungpa

“At the dawn of his enlightenment, someone asked the Buddha, "What are your credentials? How do we know that you are enlightened?" He touched his hand to the ground. "This solid earth is my witness. This solid earth, this sane earth, is my witness." Sane and solid and definite, no imaginings, no concepts, no emotions, no frivolity, but being basically what is: this is the awakened state. And this is the example we follow in our meditation practice.” Chögyam Trungpa

“The vision of the vajrayana and the vision of the Great Eastern Sun are one. The vision of the Great Eastern Sun expresses the ideas of how to organize society, to inspire a nation. And the vision of the vajrayana expresses how to develop indestructible being, indestructible individual. And both of those are met together without any complaints or hiatus.” Chögyam Trungpa