CTR Quote of the Week

April is Poetry Month, so this month we offer several poems by Chogyam Trungpa As skylarks hunt for their prey, I am captured by their

April is Poetry Month, so this month we offer several poems by Chogyam Trungpa Completely intoxicated by you, This longing for Padma Trimê. There is

The essence of Buddhism is like pure water; it is wisdom that is transparent and fluid.  Like pure water, it is without any inherent shape

Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche was a master genuinely confident of his mission and realization. He demonstrated a sharpness of intellect that cut through all delusion and

Dharma is just simple truth. But truth can be diverted or challenged or relocated by all kinds of conceptual ideas. Truth can be cut into

As a result of accumulating merit, (see last week’s quote), because you have learned to block out hope and fear, you have developed a sense

Accumulating merit is not accumulating anything for our own ego trip, but from the point of view of relating with what is sacred. We are

Meditation tends to cut through unnecessary thought chatter, subconscious gossip, and mental duplicity. It’s not immediate, and because of that your approach is simple-minded: just

When we talk about spiritual advancement or development, we are not talking about expanding ourselves and becoming more professional. We are talking about unknowing and

You don’t have to nurse compassion. It is like making yogurt. You add the culture to milk, and then you keep the milk warm until

Without compassion, meditation cannot be transferred into action at all. We have a tendency, which almost feels automatic, to freeze up, to keep things frozen

Compassion is not logical. It’s basically spacious and generous. A compassionate person might not be sure whether they are being compassionate to you or whether

Practically speaking, how do we link our meditation with the everyday challenges that we face all the time? How do we build a bridge between

The world is filled with magical energy. We, on the other hand, are filled with unmagical properties. We do not understand who or what we

The most important point about magic is that it cannot happen in the realm of spiritual materialism. Magic can only take place when you begin

As students and teachers, we can cut down the fortress of spiritual materialism through how we work with situations. We don’t combat spiritual materialism through

In the beginning, a person uses the technique of meditation as a kind of game, because they are still imagining that they are meditating. But

The attitude one brings to meditation practice should be very simple, not based upon trying to collect pleasure or avoid pain. Rather meditation is a

The Buddhist view of freedom is misinterpreted a great deal. According to an encyclopedia from 1937, “nirvana” is freedom from all pain, all suffering, and

When a person is executing a work of art, there is a sense of contact, concentration, and a sense of mindlessness. At the time you

When you read poetry you shouldn’t try to understand the words, not even with the words of vajrayana disciplines. Don’t try to scrutinize and finger

Relating to the commentaries and treatises that great Buddhist scholars and saints have written: They weren’t thinking of which publisher they should go to, or

Karma provides clear, precise evidence that what we do is our own action, and what we get back is the result of our own state

Attaining enlightenment is related with giving up ego’s territory. When ego’s territory is completely surrendered–to no particular authority or present, but simply surrendered–to the point