In this modern spiritual classic, the Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa highlights a common pitfall to which every aspirant on the spiritual path falls prey: what he calls spiritual materialism. The universal human tendency, he shows, is to see spirituality as a process of self-improvement—the impulse to develop and refine the ego when the ego is, by nature, essentially empty. “The problem,” Trungpa says, “is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.” His incisive, compassionate teachings serve to wake us up from this trick we all play on ourselves, and to offer us a far brighter reality: the true and joyous liberation that inevitably involves letting go of the self rather than working to improve it. It is a message that has resonated with students for over thirty years and remains fresh as ever today.
This edition includes a foreward by Chögyam Trungpa’s son and lineage holder Sakyong Mipham.
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In this modern spiritual classic, the Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa highlights the commonest pitfall to which every aspirant on the spiritual path falls prey: what he calls spiritual materialism. The universal tendency, he shows, is to see spirituality as a process of self-improvement—the impulse to develop and refine the ego when the ego is, by nature, essentially empty. "The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use," he said, "even spirituality." His incisive, compassionate teachings serve to wake us up from this trick we all play on ourselves, and to offer us a far brighter reality: the true and joyous liberation that inevitably involves letting go of the self rather than working to improve it. It is a message that has resonated with students for nearly thirty years, and remains fresh as ever today.
This new edition includes a foreword by Chögyam Trungpa's son and lineage holder, Sakyong Mipham.
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In this modern spiritual classic, the Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa highlights the commonest pitfall to which every aspirant on the spiritual path falls prey: what he calls spiritual materialism. The universal tendency, he shows, is to see spirituality as a process of self-improvement—the impulse to develop and refine the ego when the ego is, by nature, essentially empty. "The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use," he said, "even spirituality." His incisive, compassionate teachings serve to wake us up from this trick we all play on ourselves, and to offer us a far brighter reality: the true and joyous liberation that inevitably involves letting go of the self rather than working to improve it. It is a message that has resonated with students for nearly thirty years, and remains fresh as ever today.
This new edition includes a foreword by Chögyam Trungpa's son and lineage holder, Sakyong Mipham.
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Many of us, without even realizing it, are dominated by fear. We might be aware of some of our fears—perhaps we are afraid of public speaking, of financial hardship, or of losing a loved one. Chögyam Trungpa shows us that most of us suffer from a far more pervasive fearfulness: fear of ourselves. We feel ashamed and embarrassed to look at our feelings or acknowledge our styles of thinking and acting; we don’t want to face the reality of our moment-to-moment experience. It is this fear that keeps us trapped in cycles of suffering, despair, and distress.
Chögyam Trungpa offers us a vision of moving beyond fear to discover the innate bravery, trust, and delight in life that lies at the core of our being. Drawing on the Shambhala Buddhist teachings, he explains how we can each become a spiritual warrior: a person who faces each moment of life with openness and fearlessness. “The ultimate definition of bravery is not being afraid of who you are,” writes Chögyam Trungpa. In this book he offers the insights and strategies to claim victory over fear.
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Many of us, without even realizing it, are dominated by fear. We might be aware of some of our fears—perhaps we are afraid of public speaking, of financial hardship, or of losing a loved one. Chögyam Trungpa shows us that most of us suffer from a far more pervasive fearfulness: fear of ourselves. We feel ashamed and embarrassed to look at our feelings or acknowledge our styles of thinking and acting; we don’t want to face the reality of our moment-to-moment experience. It is this fear that keeps us trapped in cycles of suffering, despair, and distress.
Chögyam Trungpa offers us a vision of moving beyond fear to discover the innate bravery, trust, and delight in life that lies at the core of our being. Drawing on the Shambhala Buddhist teachings, he explains how we can each become a spiritual warrior: a person who faces each moment of life with openness and fearlessness. “The ultimate definition of bravery is not being afraid of who you are,” writes Chögyam Trungpa. In this book he offers the insights and strategies to claim victory over fear.
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Many of us, without even realizing it, are dominated by fear. We might be aware of some of our fears—perhaps we are afraid of public speaking, of financial hardship, or of losing a loved one. Chögyam Trungpa shows us that most of us suffer from a far more pervasive fearfulness: fear of ourselves. We feel ashamed and embarrassed to look at our feelings or acknowledge our styles of thinking and acting; we don’t want to face the reality of our moment-to-moment experience. It is this fear that keeps us trapped in cycles of suffering, despair, and distress.
Chögyam Trungpa offers us a vision of moving beyond fear to discover the innate bravery, trust, and delight in life that lies at the core of our being. Drawing on the Shambhala Buddhist teachings, he explains how we can each become a spiritual warrior: a person who faces each moment of life with openness and fearlessness. “The ultimate definition of bravery is not being afraid of who you are,” writes Chögyam Trungpa. In this book he offers the insights and strategies to claim victory over fear.
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Not your average monk
Vancouver Sun - Oct 16, 960
He could be a Thai sex trade worker, but this black and white photograph is of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, perhaps the most significant Buddhist teacher to sit down cross-legged and make a stand in North America. One of the last teachers schooled and
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Kate Linhardt on Kerouac Film 'Crazy Wisdom': 'How do you institutionalize ...
Indie Wire (blog) - Oct 14, 2011
It's very interesting the way religion permeated the whole scene as well, through the teachings of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, who was an exile from Tibet and brought this very Westernized form of Buddhism to the US. Ginsberg was following Rinpoche and
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When Spirituality Becomes a Mask
Huffington Post (blog) - Oct 03, 2011
~Chogyam Trunpga Rinpoche Given that global culture has been turned toward materialistic values in a way unprecedented in human history, it is inevitable that this same ethic would infiltrate our approach to spirituality.
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Capital Punishment, Retribution, Mercy, and Meditation
National Review Online - Sep 30, 2011
In connection with this, I offer a passage from Meditation in Action, by Chögyam Trungpa, a controversial and sometimes outlandish figure who, interestingly, was never rejected by his lineage as a legitimate holder and representative of it.
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INTERVIEW | 'One Lucky Elephant' Director on Her 10 Years in the Making Doc
16.10.10
I sometimes joke that I "films show the social side." My films do not explore the issues facing society, but rather than make films powerful awareness, I tend to make intimate character driven films that follow someone struggling with a problem in a deep personal way . And I tend to follow a number of years. In the case of "A Lucky Elephant," Balding we followed over a period of 10 years, David, I think the story narrative and the lucrative nature are a powerful way to create social change, that real change begins in the heart and moves to the head.
Source: Indie Wire (blog)
Chögyam Trungpa's Epic Journey to the West « Dharma Records
by Anandajoti
This is an unusual documentary by Grant MacLean recounting the heroic escape of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and his followers from Tibet across the Himalayas into India during the Chinese invasion of the country in 1959.
The film is basically a reading of the story as gleaned from Rinpoche’s 1966 book Born in Tibet, and other eye-witness accounts, illustrated with drawings and maps by Rinpoche, satellite photographs from Google Earth and CGIs taken from Microsoft’s Flight Simulator programme following the path taken by the party.
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RT : There is something .....taking place, a basicfukedupedness that is all-pervasive. What Buddha calls it is ego, or neurosis ~Chogyam Trungpa.
There is something .....taking place, a basicfukedupedness that is all-pervasive. What Buddha calls it is ego, or neurosis ~Chogyam Trungpa.
1ST THOUGHT,BST THGHT: .
RT : Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. ~~~ Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche RT : .
First Thought, Best Thought: .