CTR Quote of the Week

When you begin to see your own karmic situation, including your aggression and other emotions, what you are seeing is what the Buddha calls the

If anybody asks if Buddhists believe in reincarnation, you should say, “As Buddhists we don’t believe in any dogma. We believe what we experience.” That’s

Sometimes in meditation there is a gap in normal consciousness, a sudden complete openness. This only arises when one has ceased to think in terms

Free oneself from memories of, and conceptions about, meditation. Each moment of meditation is completely unique and full of the potentiality of new discovery, so

In meditation see through the illusion of past, present and future. The past is but a present memory or condition, the future a present projection,

Meditation is always perfect, so there is no need to correct anything. Since everything that arises is simply the play of the mind, there are

One should think of meditation as just a natural function of everyday life, like eating or breathing, not as a special, formal event to be

In meditation one should get the feeling of opening oneself out completely to the whole universe with absolute simplicity and nakedness of mind, ridding oneself

The point of the practice of accumulating merit is that you have to sacrifice something rather than purely yearning for pleasure. You have to start

Accumulating merit is also based on complete trust in the three types of encouragement. These are not slogans but lines of encouragement for all the

Accumulating merit is not accumulating anything for our own ego trip. Rather it is trying to relate with what is sacred or holy. We are

Lucky moon How she hides behind the clouds– She might be too shy to show her face. Aggressive sun Difficult to keep out of the

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