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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"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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"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 basic human wisdom that can help to solve the world's problems."
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"There is no fundamental separation or duality between you and your world."
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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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"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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"The goodness in everyone's heart CAN be realized without doubt."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Every human being has a basic nature of goodness, which is undiluted and unconfused. That goodness contains tremendous gentleness and appreciation."
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"Arrogance comes from hanging on to the reference point of me and other."
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"You are living in a rich world, one that never runs out of messages."
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"Human beings have basic goodness, not next door, but IN them already."
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"What you are is genuinely, basically good."
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"The world around us is very sacred, so we have to constantly serve our world."
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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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"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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"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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"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 we are afraid of ourselves and afraid of the seeming threat the world presents, then we become extremely selfish."
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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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"You do not possess basic goodness but you ARE the basic goodness itself."
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