Quotes by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche...

Trungpa Rinpoche escaped from Tibet on foot through the Himalayas.
After he arrived in India, he eventually traveled to the UK and then to the US.
He became one of the most important teachers of Tibetan wisdom in the west.
He is an extrordinary mind to engage with...awe inspiring and enlightening.
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Real peace is nonaction; that is the source of all action. We have to learn how to be a rock
in order to be a tree or a flower or wind or lightning or a typhoon. We have to be still,
then we go beyond that.
-- from The Heart of the Buddha

Trungpa on seeing the world:

The point is to look properly. See the colors: white, black, blue, yellow, red, green, purple.
Look. This is your world! You can't not look. There is no other world. This is your world;
it is your feast. You inherited this; you inherited these eye-balls; you inherited this world
of color. Look at the greatness of the whole thing. Look! Don't hesitate--look! Open your
eyes. Don't blink, and look, look--look further.
-- from Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior

Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news.
-- from The Myth of Freedom


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