CTR Quote of the Week

The sensations of being alive may be threatening and a bit confusing, and we may develop a powerful reaction or survival instinct in relationship to

When we talk about elegance, we are not talking in terms of arrogance. When we talk about fearlessness, we are not talking about heavy-handedness. Genuineness

While I was growing up in Tibet, I was so attracted to the American way of life and the Western style of doing things. I

We shouldn’t discount the powerful seed of gentleness that we all possess. Even the most vicious animals possess natural affection and gentleness for their young.

From the dictionary’s point of view, sadness has negative connotations. If you feel sad, you feel unfortunate or bad. Or you may be sad because

In the Buddhist community, or the Buddhist sangha, you have to stand on your own two feet. A sense of individuality and a sense of

Ordinarily, people have many difficulties in relating to the world, which manifest in the form of passion, aggression, and ignorance. Nevertheless, working with others, regardless

From the actual discipline of the sitting practice of meditation, people begin to learn to relate with themselves and they open up. They are willing

The actual day-to-day sitting practice of meditation–watching one’s breath and working with one’s discursive thoughts, keeping one’s good posture and all those small details–sometimes seems

It is very difficult to learn to love. If an object of fascination or some kind of dream or promise is presented to you, you

In our practice and in our life, working with all the challenges is an ongoing journey, not just a one-shot deal. When we meditate over

Demands of all kinds arise in life, and we may have to deal with successive seeming dead ends. Problems often appear to be unsolvable. They

Student: My experience of fear is that it seems to be a major manifestation of my confusion. I try not to get caught up in

Student: Is fear something other than just projections? Chogyam Trungpa: Fear is the message as well as the radar. It is usually a relationship situation.

Decency is being free from trickery, free from the tricks we play on ourselves or on each other to maintain our basic existence. Trickery brings

This is taken from a lojong, or mind-training, slogan that says that when the world is filled with evil, or even when the world is

In meditation practice, you are in the process of developing action along with non-action as you begin to touch the world. In our tradition, when

Personal openness is the important thing, rather than purely living on faith. Faith can be blind or intelligent. Open faith is intelligent, being willing to

Shamatha, or the basic practice of meditation, is both simple and workable. We are not just retelling myths about what somebody did in the past.

It is very important to try to develop your shamatha, your practice of meditation, and to understand it. Shamatha is the point where you begin

I prefer to discuss shamatha practice, the basic practice of meditation, from the point of view of the contemplative tradition, using instructions given by craftspeople

Developing basic sanity is a process of working on ourselves in which the path itself, rather than the attainment of a goal, becomes the working

Once you are in a situation, you go along with the unique patterns of it, its particular textures and so on. Relating to each situation

If you realize that a whole chain reaction of incidents brought you into the present situation, that solves a lot of problems. It means that