The Myth of Freedom

“Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.”
― Chögyam Trungpa, The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation

“The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.”
― Chögyam Trungpa


If we seek to relieve our loneliness, we will be distracted from the path. Instead, we must make a relationship with loneliness until it becomes aloneness.”

― Chögyam Trungpa 

“When you relate to thoughts obsessively, you are actually feeding them because thoughts need your attention to survive. Once you begin to pay attention to them and categorize them, then they become very powerful. You are feeding them energy because you are not seeing them as simple phenomena. If one tries to quiet them down, that is another way of feeding them.”
― Chögyam Trungpa 

“Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.”
― Chögyam Trungpa

 

“Delight in itself is the approach of sanity. Delight is to open our eyes to the reality of the situation rather than siding with this or that point of view.”
― Chögyam Trungpa

“Whether we eat, sleep, work, play, whatever we do life contains dissatisfaction, pain. 

If we enjoy pleasure, we are afraid to lose it; we strive for more and more pleasure or try to contain it. 

If we suffer pain we want to escape it. We experience dissatisfaction all the time. All activities contain dissatisfaction or pain, continuously.”
― Chögyam Trungpa