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book Cutting through Spiritual Materialism by Chögyam Trungpa. We can become attached to noble views and ideals,
Jack Kornfield • Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are
The truth of Dzogchen is the legacy of being human.
Keith Dowman • Spaciousness: The Radical Dzogchen of the Vajra-Heart: Longchenpa's Treasury of the Dharmadhatu
The heart of existence
Goal:
not to have but to be
not to own but to give
not to control but to share
not to subdue but to be in accord
Your attitude towards things should not be contingent upon their quality. A person who is influenced by the quality of a thing, or who changes his speech or manner according to the appearance or position of the people he meets, is not a man working in the Way.
Kosho Uchiyama Roshi • How to Cook Your Life
In the Shambhala tradition, we use the terms heaven, earth, and human. We start with the ground, which is heaven.
Chogyam Trungpa • True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art
A clay buddha cannot pass through water. A golden buddha cannot pass through a furnace. A wooden buddha cannot pass through fire.
Barry Magid • Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: A Zen Guide
To have devotion to the guru is to trust the undeceiving law of cause, condition, and effect—in other words, karma.
Jamyang Khyentse • The Guru Drinks Bourbon?
On Days I Hate My Body, I Remember Redwoods
Joy Sullivan, Instructions for Traveling West
Give me more time on earth, and I'd take any body. A body ripe or ruined. Monstrous or errant. Make me a redwood tree.
Body becoming branch becoming sky becoming breath. Make me a slug upon her neck. The moth wilting at her roots.
I don't want a heavenly body, but
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