SHAMBHALA
Chogyam Trungpa
Subtitled 'The Sacred Path of the Warrior', this book is a guide to enlightened living, written by the founder of the Naropa Institute. 'Warrior', in this context, doesn't mean a military fighter, but rather one who has found his own innate bravery to face life honestly and openly, with love and compassion for all that exists.
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"Arrogance comes from hanging on to the reference point of me and other."
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"You do not possess basic goodness but you ARE the basic goodness itself."
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"We must try to think how we can help this world. If we don't help, nobody will. It is our turn to help the world."
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"There is something basically good about our existence as human beings. Unless we can discover that ground of goodness in our own lives, we cannot hope to improve the lives of others."
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"The goodness in everyone's heart CAN be realized without doubt."
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"What you are is genuinely, basically good."
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"The magical strength and wisdom of reality are always there. That wisdom abides in the cosmic mirror. By relaxing the mind, you can reconnect with that primoridal, original ground, which is completely pure and simple."
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"If you actually look, if you take your whole being apart and examine it, you find that you are genuine and good as you are."
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"You are living in a rich world, one that never runs out of messages."
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"The ground or root of wakefulness and sanity exists as a potential within every human being."
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"Sacredness goes back and back through history to prehistory to before history, before thought, before mind had ever thought of anything at all. So experiencing the greatness of the sacred world is recognizing the existence of that vast and primordial wisdom, which is reflected throughout phenomena. This wisdom is old and young at the same time, and it is never tarnished or diminished by the relative problems in the world."
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"Something living, something real, is taking place in everything."
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"There is a natural source of radiance and brilliance in this world – which is the innate wakefulness of human beings."
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"There may be thousands or billions of perceptions, but they are still One."
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"Understand that your life, as it is, contains the means to unconditionally cheer you up and cure you of depression and doubt."
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"Human beings have basic goodness, not next door, but IN them already."
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"There is no fundamental separation or duality between you and your world."
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"We need to find the link between our traditions and our present experience of life. Nowness, or the magic of the present moment, is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present."
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"Appreciating sacredness begins very simply by taking an interest in all the details of life."
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"You can learn to experience the sacredness, the nowness, of reality. That is the basis for creating an enlightened society."
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"That mind of fearfulness should be put in the cradle of loving-kindness."
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"The failure to appreciate the resourcefulness of human existence – which we call basic goodness – has become one of the world's biggest problems."
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"It is necessary to appreciate that, for many thousands of years, human beings have been collecting wisdom….We should not ignore the contributions of the past."
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"When we are afraid of ourselves and afraid of the seeming threat the world presents, then we become extremely selfish."
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"The world around us is very sacred, so we have to constantly serve our world."
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