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Trungpa Rinpoche's Training the Mind Seminar: Talk One


Interview with
Khandro Rinpoche:
Part Two


Fifty years ago,
January 24, 1960:
Chogyam Trungpa arrives in India


Interview with
Khandro Rinpoche:
Part One


Chogyam Trungpa's Journal of the final weeks of the escape

updated most days from December 15 and January 24


Dilgo Khyentse Yangsi Rinpoche's upcoming visit to Europe and North America


Chronicles Highlights 2009


We are the warriors of Shambhala

A new song by Sakyong Mipham and Khandro Tseyang


Chogyam Trungpa on Meditation:
Talk Three (video)


Early December 1959, preparing to cross the Brahmaputra


Essential Chögyam Trungpa Class 10: Sacred World


Scattered pearls

A brief encounter by Sarah Trefethen Whitehorn


Chogyam Trungpa on Meditation:
Talk Two (video)


Research Expedition to Prince Edward Island


Essential Chögyam Trungpa Class 9: Work, Sex, and Money


You knocked over the musician!

A Brief Encounter by Mark Hazell


Meditation instruction from Chogyam Trungpa (video)

Meditation: The way of the Buddha, Talk One


Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche on Let Loose


Essential Chögyam Trungpa Class 8: Emptiness, Wisdom, and Seeing Things as They Are


Jamgon Kongtrul Seminar talk 6

by Chogyam Trungpa (audio)


Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche in Quick Charcoal

by William Gilkerson


Judith Lief
on Dispatches


Meditation in the
fourth moment

a talk by Chogyam Trungpa (audio)


Mark Szpakowski
on Dispatches


Meditation

from the Jan 2010 issue of the Sun


Chogyam Trungpa audio recording: Talk Four of the Jamgon Kongtrul Seminar is now online


Update: November 1959


Larry Mermelstein
on Dispatches: Part Two


Class 5 of the Essential Chogyam Trungpa:
The Battle of Ego, with Sherab Chodzin Kohn


Tashi—a member of Trungpa Rinpoche’s escape party—tells his story


Larry Mermelstein
on Dispatches: Part One


Mindfulness and Awareness, a talk by Clarke Warren


Halloween edition:
Chogyam Trungpa on spookiness


Thrangu Rinpoche
on Let Loose


Karmapa speaks of kindness on International Day of Climate Action


Lineage & Non-Theistic Devotion, a talk by Peter Volz


Arthur Borden's 49th day


The Sun of Wisdom
A guru-sadhana by Trungpa Rinpoche


Touch and Go

A documentary by Grant MacLean


Finding the route

Uncovering CTR's path
to India via Flight Simulator, Google Earth, and more


Dharma Classes

Karma, a talk to sangha teens by Ken Friedman


Gesar Mukpo
talks about Tulku


Rolpa Dorje and wife perish in torrential rainstorm


Jeanine Greenleaf
on Dispatches

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Ocean of Dharma

Quotes at random


© Diana J. Mukpo. Used here by arrangement with Diana J. Mukpo and Shambhala Publications, Inc.

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

These teachings by Chögyam Trungpa are selected at random from Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week—the email service that brings Trungpa Rinpoche's dharma to your inbox several times each week. For more information, or to add your name to the list, visit OceanofDharma.com.

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week is edited and produced by Carolyn Rose Gimian. Thank you to Lady Diana Mukpo, Mrs. Gimian, and Shambhala Publications for making these teachings available on the Chronicles.




Training the Mind seminar starts on February 6


The Chronicles is delighted to present Chögyam Trungpa's Training the Mind seminar, which took place at Rocky Mountain Dharma Center in Colorado in August 1974. It is one of several complete teachings by Trungpa Rinpoche on the four foundations of mindfulness. Other teachings on this subject were presented at the 1973 Seminary, and the Techniques of Mindfulness seminar given at Karme Chöling, also in August of 1974.

Talk One of the six-lecture seminar is online now. A new talk will be posted each week. We would like to invite everyone to join in a discussion on these teachings, which will be hosted by Robert Walker, a long-time sangha member. Robert has studied and worked with Trungpa Rinpoche's teachings on mindfulness and mind training for many years.

The four foundations of mindfulness, or four foundations of close placement, have been taught by many Buddhist teachers, often as a series of contemplative practices. These teachings by Chögyam Trungpa, on the other hand, were given in the context of the view and practice of mindfulness-awareness sitting meditation, as well as vipashyana awareness teachings on the postmeditation experience.

Although the students at that time (1974) were, for the most part, engaged in basic sitting practice, these teachings are applicable to all levels of practice. They are not philosophy. Rather, they are a practical guide to engaging and working with obstacles that arise in meditation practice. In particular, the obstacles of lack of settledness and hot boredom, the tendency to cling to painful and pleasurable states of mind, the obstacle of too much goal orientation, and the obstacle of being unbalanced and one-sided (contrasted with having a sense of “totality”) are addressed.

In each of these three presentations, Rinpoche begins by defining mind, and showing the desperation, pain, and hypocrisy of ego-process. Based on that, he shows how to practice with simplicity, fearlessness, genuineness, and balance. Beyond formal practice, these seminars show the connection to practice in everyday life, community, and working with awareness in general. These teachings can also be seen as the ground for Trungpa Rinpoche's dharma art teachings, as well as his vajrayana teachings on the nature of mind.

This seminar is highly recommended for anyone who is interested in becoming his or her own meditation instructor. As well, these are invaluable teachings for anyone who instructs others. They are also a wonderful complement to Chögyam Trungpa's later teachings on obstacles and antidotes.





The calligraphy at the top of this page Mukpo is by Trungpa Rinpoche; used here with the kind permission of Lady Diana Mukpo.

The Chronicles of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche bears the Vidyadhara's name with the express permission of Lady Diana Mukpo. We offer our heartfelt gratitude to Lady Diana for her permission, blessings, and trust.














































































































































































































































































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