284 Quotes by Chögyam Trungpa

We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you’ll have no problem.

The attainment of enlightenment from ego’s point of view is extreme death.

In order to develop love – universal love, cosmic love, whatever you would like to call it one must accept the whole situation of life as it is, both the light and the dark, the good and the bad. One must open oneself to life, communicate with it.

Becoming “awake” involves seeing our confusion more clearly.

Things get very clear when you’re cornered.

Buddhism doesn’t tell you what is false and what is true but it encourages you to find out for yourself.

Nowness or the magic of the present moment is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present.

We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available – not only to us, but to all human beings.

Helping others is a question of being genuine and projecting that genuineness to others. This way of being doesn’t have to have a title or a name particularly. It is just being ultimately decent.