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I could say to you, "forget all that. Forget your pain and suffering; it is going to be okay." I could give you all kinds of antidotes: tranquilizers, mantras, and tricks. I could say, "Soon you'll feel good. Soon you'll forget your pain, and then you'll be in a beautiful place." But that would be an enormous falsity, and in the long run, such an approach is ungenerous and extremely destructive to the spiritual path. It is like giving our children tranquilizers whenever they begin to misbehave so that they will fall asleep. It saves us the trouble of getting a baby-sitter and changing diapers, but the child becomes a complete zombie. That is not the human thing to do, we must admit, and giving someone a spiritual tranquilizer is just as primitive as that. We suffer tremendously if we treat spirituality in that way, and we have to pay for it later on. Enormous problems arise - both resentment and discontent.

Journey Without Goal by Chogyam Trungpa

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We must surrender our hopes and expectations, as well as our fears, and march directly into disappointment, work with disappointment, go into it, and make it our way of life, which is a very hard thing to do. Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious, and direct. If we can open, then we suddenly begin to see that our expectations are irrelevant compared with the reality of the situations we are facing. This automatically brings a feeling of disappointment. Disappointment is the best chariot to use on the path of the dharma. It does not confirm the existence of our ego and its dreams.

Chogyam Trungpa "Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism"

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There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.

Chogyam Trungpa "Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

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Although you think you have something, you have nothing; but when all you do comes out of nothingness, then you have everything.

Shunryu Suzuki, "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind"

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“You should not try to learn from meditation, but try to feel it. Any tendency to categorize what goes on during meditation as learning is an obstacle to meditation.” “meditation is an act of nonduality. The technique you are using should not be separate from you; it is you, you are the technique. Meditator and meditation are one. There is no relationship involved.”

Chogyam Trungpa “Glimpses of Abhidharma”

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In many cases thoughts do not become resolved because the impression of a thought that you picked out still remains in the cloudy mind, a sort of reproduction of it remains there. In some cases, for instance during meditation, if we relate to thoughts as insignificant, that is, if we do not put them into categories of any kind, then they are not transferred back through the skandhas anymore. They are not put back through the process, so they are suspended on the level of consciousness and are finally resolved. That is the way of resolving the thoughts - through complete nonevaluation. As long as there is nonevaluation, the skandhas have no function. They do not know what to do with a nonevaluated thought because their language is the language of duality and evaluation.

Chogyam Trungpa "Glimpses of Abhidharma"

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"So meditation is coming into contact with the actual situation of ourselves, the raw and rugged, painful, irritating, disgusting things going on within our state of being. But even if our state of being is disgusting we should look into it. It is beautiful to see it. To discover that such things exist in the natural situation is very beautiful. It is another dimension of natural beauty. People talk about appreciating natural beauty - climbing mountains, seeing giraffes and tigers in Africa and all sorts of things; but nobody seems to appreciate this kind of natural beauty of ourselves. This is actually far more beautiful than flora and fauna, far more fantastic, far more painful and colorful and delightful and all the rest."

Chogyam Trungpa, "Glimpses of Abhidharma".

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Meditation practice

The problems you experience in your meditation practice or rather experiences you regard problematic, are not your personal problems. They are more like views from your vehicle or road signs. They tell you more about where you are than who you are.

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BURNING CONCEPTUAL MIND In his synopsis of vipashyana experience, Jamgon Kongtrul writes about seeing the phenomenal world as empty space. He says that the phenomenal world is empty - it does not have any form, any qualities, any perceptions, any anything at all. Out of that nonexistece, and because of it, we are able to shape forms, objects, colors, and conceptualizations of all kinds. Fixed concepts, shapes, and colors arise, but they are like firewood. That firewood is an aspect of one's intelligence, or discriminating awareness; and the fire is the discipline that burns the fabric of discriminating mind. That is through the experience of vipashyana, apparent phenomena are seen as fuel. Such firewood should be burned so that there is no difference between the phenomenal world and its occupants - they are one. When the fuel of fixed concepts is burned up by the fire of discipline, we have nothing to hang on to. And having discovered nothing to hold on to, we find that the whole thing dissipates. That is the total experience of vipashyana.

Path of Individual Liberation by Chogyam Trungpa

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It boils down to this: nobody has fucked up your life, really. The only thing that fucks up your life is that you actually feel somebody has pulled a trick on you or that you have pulled a trick on yourself. And as a matter of fact, there's no you. You don't even exist, you don't exist at all. So nobody's pulling a trick on anybody. Even you don't exist. You are just a myth, a mythical truth.

Chogyam Trungpa "The Path is The Goal"

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