Chogyam Trungpa Quotes

To increase our objectivity, we must learn to switch off the mini-movies. Objectivity requires us to be mindful, present in the moment, and experiencing what is happening without judgment.

When you're playing, every ball seems like the biggest event. When you're sitting back, you can see the overall picture better.

There is no ideal in observation. When you have an ideal, you cease to observe, you are then merely approximating the present to the idea, and therefore there is duality, conflict, and all the rest of it. The mind has to be in the state when it can see, observe. The experience of the observation is really an astonishing state. In that there is no duality. The mind is simply - aware.

I have definitely had experiences where I can feel the shift from simply living my life to being slightly outside of my life and taking notes.

The opposite of speculation is to be present to the world simply as it is.

Look at what's in front of you, not what you've been told or what you expect or what you want to see.

If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure or avoid it as non-pleasure. There must merely be the silent observation of a fact.

You don't always have to look in the distance for what's going on over there, when you actually see what's right in front of you.

Meditation teaches us to focus and to pay clear attention to our experiences and responses as they arise, and to observe them without judging them.

Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception.

In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible.

Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?

Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.

Relax, let go. But remember only one thing: You are a witness.

My approach is neither of attachment nor of detachment, but of simple understanding.

Observe what is with undivided awareness.

Observe, and in that observation there is neither the "observer" nor the "observed" - there is only observation taking place.

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.

Have a mind that's open to everything, get attached to nothing.