Ch?gyam Trungpa Rinpoche ‎Quotes

Creativity Poetry & Quotes
#1

[INDENT][LEFT]The joy of fearlessness brings the sadness.
Joy doesn’t stay by itself.
If it did, there would be something wrong,
something perverted about it.
Real fearlessness is like mixing sweet and sour together.

The tone of joyful sadness
is like the sound of a flute,
which is so melodic and beautiful.
It ravishes your mind.
It is not accompanied by any
other musical instruments.
The solo melody of the flute brings
the echo of emptiness into your mind.

Such loneliness is almost romantic,
as if you were in love.
You think you might be falling in love,
but you don’t know with whom.
You are in love
without a particular object in mind.

Such sadness is very soft.
It’s not a miserable sadness,
but it feels sad because it is soft and pliable.

[SIZE=3] Ch?gyam Trungpa Rinpoche, [/SIZE]
[SIZE=3] Smile at Fear: Awakening the True Heart of Bravery

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#2

Learning, from a non-ego point of view, is based on opening one’s heart and discovering a natural sense of discipline. Discipline in this case means attuning ourselves to our inherent purity. We don’t have to borrow anything from outside ourselves or mimic anybody. We are naturally pure and intelligent. We may already have some idea or experience of that, but we also need to go further in opening ourselves. [I]CTR from his book, The Sanity We Are Born With.[/I]

#3

[QUOTE=Nichole;32264] We are naturally pure and intelligent. We may already have some idea or experience of that, but we also need to go further in opening ourselves. [I]CTR from his book, The Sanity We Are Born With.[/I][/QUOTE]

Absolutely true…but I feel a very light sadness when I think of how we became clotted and unnatural:)

But I feel a very enchanting joy when each day discovering something that can bring me to that natural intelligence state!
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#4

This poem reminded me this piece of music: (from Star Trek: The Inner Light)

#5

[QUOTE=Nichole;32264]We don’t have to borrow anything from outside ourselves or mimic anybody. We are naturally pure and intelligent. We may already have some idea or experience of that, but we also need to go further in opening ourselves. [/QUOTE]

I’m listening to this music… I’m thinking also that we don’t have to borrow or mimic anything because we already [B]are[/B]. There is really nothing we can add or subtract from what already is. There is no need for any technique because there is nothing to change. No need for path because there is nowhere to go… Eh, time for bed. Thats my ultimate destination for today :slight_smile:

#6

‎[SIZE=3]We possess what is known as basic goodness. Then we develop an overlay of unnecessary tricks and occupations. We develop little tricks to shield ourselves from being embarrassed or from feeling too painful or naked. Those are habitual tendencies, but they are not fundamental. They are simply temporary habitual tendencies. It’s as though you had a building with nice, white, smooth plaster walls. If you can’t stand the plain white walls, you might decide to put colorful wallpaper on top of them to cheer yourself up. The habitual tendencies we’re talking about here are like the wallpaper that you put on but can be taken off. The paper doesn’t go all the way through the wall; it’s not that deeply ingrained. It’s a veneer of some kind, called habitual tendencies, which have to be renounced, definitely. Seeing the basic goodness in oneself and seeing the sadness of the setting-sun possibilities, one is willing to make some kind of sacrifice. We can take off the wallpaper, take off the veneer.
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#7

I am so glad that others are enjoying the quotes from CTR’s books too. I’d like to keep adding them to this thread, and also seeing that it may be difficult to maintain the readability of the thread and have interspersed discussions too… It might be easier to follow an inspired discussion if a new discussion thread was begun beginning with the quoted post. What do you think? It would be as easy as quoting the post that you’d like to discuss and then copy/pasting that in its entirety as the start of a new thread in the poetry forum.