Chogyam Trungpa
Chogyam Trungpa Quotes about People
Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.
A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves.
Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.
People's creativity is very much alive, but when they get paid for their creativity, they often experience that as rather meaningless. Money as the reward for their creative process is very one-dimensional, a tremendous comedown.
We have to make the first move ourselves rather than expecting it to come from the phenomenal world or from other people. If we are meditating at home and we happen to live in the middle of the High Street, we cannot stop the traffic just because we want peace and quiet. But we can stop ourselves, we can accept the noise. The noise also contains silence. We must put ourselves into it and expect nothing from outside, just as Buddha did. And we must accept whatever situation arises.
The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.