CTR Quote of the Week

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

The memory of our past action evokes a habitual pattern. This is described in the Buddhist scriptures as being like the face we make when

According to the Buddhist tradition, the karmic situation evolved right at the beginning of the birth of ego. Karma arises when basic bewilderment develops. That

In relationship to crazy wisdom, we know we are supposed to work with negativity and use it as an adornment. Nevertheless, there is still a

Question: Do Buddhists have a tendency to be isolationists? Chogyam Trungpa: I don’t think so. The mahayana Buddhist’s concept is to relate to your surroundings

Applying basic Buddhist logic in looking at the whole development of society, we cannot say that there is going to be a Golden Age. For