Chögyam Trungpa (Wylie: Chos rgyam Drung pa; March 5, 1939 – April 4, 1987) was a Tibetan Buddhist meditation master and holder of both the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism. (wikipedia)
Sit and do nothing. Every once in a while a golden fish swims by and lays her golden eggs. You'll know.
You do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is similar to the sun shining and plants growing. The sun has no desire to create the vegetation; plants simply react to sunlight and the situation develops naturally.
Nowness or the magic of the present moment is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present
Why don't we just expand ourselves into our perfect form, our perfect being?
A genuine sense of humor is having a light touch: not beating reality into the ground but appreciating reality with a light touch. The basis of Shambhala vision is rediscovering that perfect and real sense of humor, that light touch of appreciation.
Watchfulness is experiencing a sudden glimpse of something without any qualifications - just the sudden glimpse itself.
When you experience your wisdom and the power of things as they are, together, as one, then you have access to tremendous vision and power in the world. You find that you are inherently connected to your own being. That is discovering magic.
Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path.
The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried.
For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we don't look for bliss.