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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"You are living in a rich world, one that never runs out of messages."
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"When you are fully gentle, without arrogance and without aggression, you see the brilliance of the universe. You develop a true perception of the universe."
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"That mind of fearfulness should be put in the cradle of loving-kindness."
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"Human beings have basic goodness, not next door, but IN them already."
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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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"As human beings, we are basically awake and we CAN understand reality. We are not enslaved by our lives; we are free."
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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 is basic human wisdom that can help to solve the world's 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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"This experience of nowness can join together the vastness of primordial wisdom with both the wisdom of past traditions and the realities of contemporary life. So in that way, you begin to see how the world of sacredness can be created altogether."
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"You do not possess basic goodness but you ARE the basic goodness itself."
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"There is no fundamental separation or duality between you and your world."
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"The human potential for intelligence and dignity is attuned to experiencing the brilliance of the bright blue sky, the freshness of green fields, and the beauty of the trees and mountains. We have an actual connection to reality that can wake us up and make us feel basically, fundamentally good."
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"Absence of doubt is trusting in the heart, trusting yourself. Being without doubt means that you have connected with yourself."
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"Every aspect of life has the potential of being upgraded…there is the potential for sacredness in every situation…Begin to view the universe as a sacred world. The sacred world is that which exists spontaneously, naturally in the phenomenal world."
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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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"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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"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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"Because of the extraordinary vastness of perception, you have possibilities of communicating with the depth of the 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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"There may be thousands or billions of perceptions, but they are still One."
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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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"In order to establish an enlightened society for others, we need to discover what inherently we have to offer the world. So, to begin with, we should make an effort to examine our own experience, in order to see what it contains that is of value in helping ourselves and others to uplift their existence."
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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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"Basic goodness is what we have, what we are provided with. It is the natural situation that we have inherited from birth onwards."
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