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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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"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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"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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"That mind of fearfulness should be put in the cradle of loving-kindness."
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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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"Because of the extraordinary vastness of perception, you have possibilities of communicating with the depth of the 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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"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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"You do not possess basic goodness but you ARE the basic goodness itself."
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"Appreciating sacredness begins very simply by taking an interest in all the details of life."
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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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"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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"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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"You can learn to experience the sacredness, the nowness, of reality. That is the basis for creating an enlightened society."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"The goodness in everyone's heart CAN be realized without doubt."
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"There is no fundamental separation or duality between you and your world."
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