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Meditation practice is a way of making friends with ourselves. Whether we are worthy or unworthy, that's not the point. It's developing a friendly attitude to ourselves, accepting the hidden neurosis coming through.

Meditation practice is a way of making friends with ourselves. Whether we are worthy or unworthy, that's not the point. It's developing a friendly attitude to ourselves, accepting the hidden neurosis coming through.

Chogyam Trungpa
Attitude, Meditation Practice, Friendly

We say that the sun is behind the clouds, but actually it is not the sun but the city from which we view it that is behind the clouds. If we realized that the sun is never behind the clouds we might have a different attitude toward the whole thing.

Chogyam Trungpa
Buddhist, Attitude, Clouds

When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink.

Chogyam Trungpa
Attitude, Emotional, Serenity
Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “Meditation in Action”, p.86, Shambhala Publications

We need to encourage an attitude of constant questioning, which is a genuine part of our potential as students. If students were required to drop their questions, that would create armies of zombies- rows of jellyfish...The questioning mind is absolutely necessary.

Chogyam Trungpa
Attitude, Knowledge, Army

Take a friendly attitude toward your thoughts.

Chogyam Trungpa
Attitude, Friendly

We could say that compassion is the ultimate attitude of wealth: an anti-poverty attitude, a war on want. It contains all sorts of heroic, juicy, positive, visionary, expansive qualities. And it implies larger scale thinking, a freer and more expansive way of relating to yourself and the world.

Chogyam Trungpa
Attitude, War, Thinking
Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.76, Shambhala Publications

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