A Good Self-Existing Sword: Desire to Sharpen It Will Make It Dull.
When, out of hope and fear, you apply a competitive or comparative logic to your experience, trying to measure how much you have fathomed, how much is left to fathom, or how much someone else has fathomed, you are just dulling your sword, the sharpness of your mind. Instead, have confidence in your awareness and relax in your ability to connect with a larger vision, the experience of vast mind.
Thrangu Monastery Canada Sangha's wishes you all Happy New Year with prosperity and happiness
What is Enlightenment?
A Heart of Buddha Public Talk and Live Stream with Rigdzin Shikpo
Dön Season Program
The final days of the lunar year: traditionally a time for protector practices
SEARCHING FOR SHAMBHALA
Where and what is it?
Dathün at Dorje Denma Ling
The daily schedule beginnings at 7 am and ends at 9 pm. Sitting sessions are alternated with walking meditation, and with meals, tea, a mid-day work period, and personal time.
Tribute to Marvin Casper
Please keep Marvin, his family and legions of friends in your hearts
The Audio Repair Project
Here is a list of what's working again
The Passing of James George
James George passed away on Friday night, February 7, 2020 at the age of 101. He was an important person in Trungpa Rinpoche's life, and in the history of...
Changling Rinpoche
Changling Rinpoche, a devoted student of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, is the current abbot of the Shechen Monastery Shedra (monastic university) in Nepal.
Rinpoche’s Naropa
1974 Boulder, Colorado 700 hippies cross-legged chanting, "Aditia Radayam Punyam Sarve Shatru Vina Shanum." Clueless, I sing along, staring at braless, white peasant shirted young women, longing to be...
Tea Offering
In 1982, I was encouraged to join the Dorje Kasung, partly, I was told, because it provided good context, structure, and occasions for direct encounters with the Vidyadhara. In...
Memories of Chögyam Trungpa
He replied, “The path is the goal.”
Please Give Me Space
I'd like to share my story of a personal teaching that the Vidyadhara gave to me in the early 1970s. Its import has grown for me over these many...
Grandmother’s Audience
As told by Sarah Cox to Elizabeth Richardson
Born in 1890, Sarah Louise Buffington, was an unusually self determined woman for her generation. With the onset of the First World...
Qualities
My stories of the Vidyadhara are pretty uneventful. As a kasung, as personal guard, I got to be around him many times, and I lived in the Court in...
Glimpses of Tail of the Tiger 1970
Jonathan first heard of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche in 1970 when his mother, Nancy Eric, showed him a brochure she had picked up about Tail of the Tiger. Jonathan read...
Journey to Taktsang
Travel with Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche from Scotland to Taktsang in 1968, and hear him talk about receiving the Sadhana
Togden Achö – Recollections
Escape from Tibet with Trungpa Rinpoche
Saga Dawa Sūtra Resounding
A Message from 84000, Translating the Words of the Buddha
Beyond Comprehension
Book Review: From Lion’s Jaws, Chögyam Trungpa’s Epic Journey to the West
by Grant MacLean
by Grant MacLean
The Karmapa’s Golden Handprints
If the Vajradhara of Dorje Dzong is the living embodiment of the primordial buddha, it has watched and listened ...