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“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.”

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Chogyam Trungpa

Tibetan Buddhist teacher and a renowned spiritual mentor and meditation master. Born in Tibet, he later moved to India and North America, making significant contributions to the spread of Tibetan Buddhism and meditation culture in the Western world. more

“The meditator develops new depths of insight through direct communication with the reality of the phenomenal world... He or she is able to see not only the absence of complexity, the absence of duality, but the stoneness of stone and the waterness of water. One sees things precisely as they are, not merely in the physical sense, but with awareness of their spiritual significance.”

World Reality Able Spiritual Water Awareness Communication Stones Direct Depth Insight Absence Complexity Significance Duality Phenomenal Direct Communication

Author:Chogyam Trungpa

“When we speak of God or achieving union with God, we are often merely trying to put that great thing into a small container. One cannot drive a camel through the eye of a needle.”

Trying Eye Speak Achieve Unions Great Things Needles Through The Eyes Camels Containers

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“What is needed is the constant unmasking of ego's strategy.”

Needed Ego Strategy Constant Unmasking

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“No one can stop or control your thought process or your thinking. You can think anything you want. But that doesn't seem to be the point. The thinking process has to be directed into a certain approach... not in accord with certain dogma, philosophy, or concepts. Instead, one has to know the thinker itself.”

Thinking Knows Want Philosophy Seems Certain Process Approach Concepts Thinker Dogma Accord Thought Process Thinking Process

Book:The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Seven: The Art of Calligraphy (Excerpts); Dharma Art; Visual Dharma (Excerpts); Selecte d Poems; Selected Writings

Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Seven: The Art of Calligraphy (Excerpts); Dharma Art; Visual Dharma (Excerpts); Selecte d Poems; Selected Writings

“While you're meditating, all kinds of thoughts arise... You don't find your thoughts threatening or particularly helpful. They just become the general gossip of your thoughts. This traffic of your thoughts and the verbosity of your mind are simply part of the basic chatter that goes on in the universe. Just let it go through.”

Mind Kind Universe Goes On Arise All Kinds Helpful Gossip Traffic Threatening Let It Go Meditating Chatter Just Let It Go

Author:Chogyam Trungpa

“We must see with our own eyes and not accept any laid-down tradition as if it had some magical power in it.”

Ifs Eye Accepting Tradition

Book:The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume One: Born in Tibet; Meditation in Action; Mudra; Selected Writings

Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume One: Born in Tibet; Meditation in Action; Mudra; Selected Writings

“If we go somewhere on foot, we know the way perfectly, whereas if we go by car or airplane, we are hardly there at all. It becomes merely a dream.”

Ifs Knows Way Dream Feet Car Travel Airplane

Book:Meditation in Action

Source: Meditation in Action

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