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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"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 ground or root of wakefulness and sanity exists as a potential within every human being."
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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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"Because of the extraordinary vastness of perception, you have possibilities of communicating with the depth of the world."
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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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"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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"You do not possess basic goodness but you ARE the basic goodness itself."
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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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"Appreciating sacredness begins very simply by taking an interest in all the details of life."
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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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"You are living in a rich world, one that never runs out of messages."
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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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"What you are is genuinely, basically good."
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"There is no fundamental separation or duality between you and your world."
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"The goodness in everyone's heart CAN be realized without doubt."
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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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"From being open and honest with ourselves, we can also learn to be open with others. So we can work with the rest of the world, on the basis of the goodness we discover in ourselves."
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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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"Fearlessness means being able to respond accurately to the phenomenal world altogether."
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"Something living, something real, is taking place in everything."
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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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"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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"That mind of fearfulness should be put in the cradle of loving-kindness."
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