
Chogyam Trungpa: His Life and Vision

So the problem is not negativity itself, but our reaction to it—or, as Chögyam Trungpa put it, “negative negativity.”
Fabrice Midal • Chogyam Trungpa: His Life and Vision
making these discoveries into an answer. Instead we explore further and further and further without looking for an answer. It is a process of working with ourselves, with our lives, with our psychology, without looking for an answer but seeing things as they are—seeing what goes on in our heads directly and simply, absolutely literally. If we can u
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We can only love if we have first developed true tenderness toward ourselves.
Fabrice Midal • Chogyam Trungpa: His Life and Vision
It is up to us to dismantle the fundamental structure of our ego and learn not to be trapped by our own manipulations, which pretend to help us find comfort but in reality only create more suffering for ourselves and others.
Fabrice Midal • Chogyam Trungpa: His Life and Vision
However innumerable beings are, I vow to save them; However inexhaustible the passions are, I vow to transform them; However limitless the dharma is, I vow to understand it completely; However infinite the Buddha’s truth is, I vow to attain it.
Fabrice Midal • Chogyam Trungpa: His Life and Vision
Obstacles should not be seen as threats to be fought off, because then, instead of trying to establish contact with them, we spend our time warding them off as though they were evil and antagonistic to the teaching. On the contrary, it is necessary to work with negativity and try to use it as an “adornment.”
Fabrice Midal • Chogyam Trungpa: His Life and Vision
Karma literally means “action.” According to this universal law of cause and effect, our experience now is the result of our actions in the past. Our karma is also the potential that guides our behavior and influences our present and future actions and thoughts. All karma is the seed of other karmas to come. We reap the results of our actions in te
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As Chögyam Trungpa explained, the ego is a sort of central government, while “the emotions are the highlights of the ego, the generals of ego’s army; subconscious thought, daydreams, and other thoughts connect one highlight to another. So thoughts form ego’s army and are constantly in motion, constantly busy.”16 With such an army, we strive to rema
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Their primary preoccupation is to devote themselves to all living beings and to help free themselves from their fundamental ignorance, which is the cause of their suffering.