"Clear and distinct knowledge begets a love towards an immutable and eternal object, of which we are really partakers; a love therefore which cannot be vitiated by the defects which are in common love, but which can always become greater and greater, occupy the largest part of the mind and thoroughly affect it." Benedict Spinoza
Ethics - Benedict Spinoza
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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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"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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"Absence of doubt is trusting in the heart, trusting yourself. Being without doubt means that you have connected with yourself."
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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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"You do not possess basic goodness but you ARE the basic goodness itself."
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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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"The world around us is very sacred, so we have to constantly serve our world."
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"What you are is genuinely, basically good."
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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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"Because of the extraordinary vastness of perception, you have possibilities of communicating with the depth of the world."
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"We experience glimpses of goodness all the time, but we often fail to acknowledge them. When we see a bright color, we are witnessing our own inherent goodness. When we hear a beautiful sound, we are hearing our own basic goodness."
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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 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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"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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"There is basic human wisdom that can help to solve the world's problems."
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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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"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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"There may be thousands or billions of perceptions, but they are still One."
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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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"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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"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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"A bank of self-existing energy is always available to you – beyond any circumstance. It actually comes from nowhere, but is always there. It is the energy of basic goodness."
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"Appreciating sacredness begins very simply by taking an interest in all the details of life."
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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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"You can learn to experience the sacredness, the nowness, of reality. That is the basis for creating an enlightened society."
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"Something living, something real, is taking place in everything."
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