Chogyam Trungpa Quotes

Meditation is not growth of the ego, it is death of the ego.

By constantly keep one's attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.

Meditation is the art of dying. Then your ego will be shocked. And it is also truer to cal I it the art of dying, because you r ego is not going to grow, your ego is going to die in meditation.

Enlightenment is your ego's greatest disappointment.

The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being.

Awareness and ego cannot coexist.

The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.

You can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when you are totally frustrated with your own mind as it is. If you are still hoping that you can gain something through your mind, yoga is not for you.

The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death.

Do not feed your ego and your problems with your attention. ...Slowly, surely, the ego will lose weight, until one fine day it will be nothing but a thin ghost of its former self. You will be able to see right through it, to the divine presence that shines in each of us.

The need is not to amputate the ego ... but to transcend it.

When you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego.

Our ego never wants to die and it will do anything to prolong its life. But the truth is, we are both spirit and ego and you have to have a balance between the two. Your spirit never dies, but the ego is all about beginnings and ends.

It's only when you become love - in other words, when you have dropped your illusions and attachments - that you will "know." As you identify less and less with the "me," you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything.

The word 'ecstasy' is beautiful; it simply means 'standing out.' Out of what? Standing out of your ego, your personality, your mind; getting out of the whole structure in which you have lived - not only lived but with which you have become identified. Standing out of all this, just a pure witness, a watcher on the hills - and everything is left deep down in the valley.

You cannot fight against the ego and win, just as you cannot fight against darkness. The light of consciousness is all that is necessary. You are that light.

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'

We will not find the inner strength to evolve to a higher level if we do not inwardly develop this profound feeling that there is something higher than ourselves.

Until we give up the world manufactured by the ego, never can we enter the kingdom of heaven. None ever did, none ever will.

How does one get rid of fear? Ramana: What is fear? It is only a thought. If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear. Who sees things separate from the Self? First the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is nothing external. For anything external to oneself implies the existence of the seer within. Seeking it there will eliminate doubt and fear. Not only fear, all other thoughts centred round the ego will disappear along with it.

While doing sadhana you must quieten your mind and keep awake the Purusha consciousness behind all your activities.

The objective of spiritual advancement is not so much 'works' but the quality of life free from ego-consciousness.

How can one become enlightened? One can, because one is enlightened - one just has to recognize the fact.