Andrea Cabel

“Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.”
― Chögyam Trungpa

“The Hard Way INASMUCH AS no one is going to save us, to the extent that no one is going magically to enlighten us, the path we are discussing is called the “hard way.” This path does not conform to our expectation that involvement with the Buddhist teaching will be gentle, peaceful, pleasant, compassionate. It is the hard way, a simple meeting of two minds: if you open your mind, if you are willing to meet, then the teacher opens his mind as well. It is not a question of magic; the condition of openness is a mutual creation.”
― Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

“The masters of samsara are going in such big circles that they don’t even know that they are going in circles—they don’t feel [that]; that is what we call ‘success’. But”
― Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa, The Dorje Chang Thungma

“Unfortunately there are many kinds of psychotherapy and many psychotherapists involved with trying to prove themselves and their own theories rather than working with what is. In fact they find it very frightening to work with what is.”
― Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism