Leaving the Cocoon
A warrior, or pawo in Tibetan, is a brave person, a genuine person who is able to step out of the cocoon–that very comfortable cocoon that he or she is trying to sleep in. If you are in your cocoon, occasionally, you shout your complaints, such as: “Leave me alone!” “Bug off!” “I want to be who I am.” Your cocoon is fabricated out of tremendous aggression, which comes from fighting against your environment, your parental upbringing, your educational upbringing, your upbringing of all kinds. You don’t really have to fight with your cocoon. You can raise your head and just take a little peek out of the cocoon. Sometimes, when you first peek your head out, you find the air a bit too fresh and cold. But still, it is good. It is the best fresh air of spring or autumn or, for that matter, the best fresh air of winter or summer. So when you stick your neck out of the cocoon for the first time, you like it in spite of the discomfort of the environment. You find that it’s delightful. Then, having peeked out, you become brave enough to climb out of the cocoon. You sit on your cocoon and look around at your world.
A Review of BURIED RIVERS by Ellen Korman Mains
A Glimpse of the 16th Karmapa
Through the eyes of Steve Roth
Session Four of Cutting Through Ego Clinging
Changling Rinpoche will teach a fourth session of his extraordinary commentary on Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism along with instructions from Khenpo Gangshar on recognizing and working with ego clinging.
Sunday, January...
Sounds like Children’s Day
A Chronicles Radio Special Edition from December 21, 2006
Children’s Day Candlelight Ceremony
At the Halifax Shambhala Centre, 20 December 2018
Robin Kornman on the The Rain of Wisdom
Robin talks about some of the Kagyü Gurtso and some of the early history of the Nalanda Translation Committee.
Remembrance
My first perception of Khyentse Rinpoche was that of a wonderfully loving grandfather.
Father Thomas Keating Dies at 95
A Trappist monk with a connection to Trungpa Rinpoche
Father Thomas Keating and Trungpa Rinpoche Talk About Egolessness
This conversation took place during Naropa’s 1983 Christian Buddhist Conference
Chogyam Trungpa in Mousehole
Chogyam Trungpa in Mousehole
The west Cornish potter and teacher Bill Picard, died aged 92 in 2007. He was a cultured and charismatic buddhist. In the early 1960s, having been...
Love in the Time of Chaos
Training in Tenderness, by Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, Shambhala Publications, 2018
The Samadhi of the Guru
This is a 2007 recording of Susan Edwards reading her piece, The Samadhi of the Guru, on KGNU Radio in Boulder with music by Thomas Lenk.
Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche
Trungpa Rinpoche came to America in the early days of the spread of Buddhism in the west. He was able to connect with many people and many became his...
First Teaching
It was around 1975 or 1976 and I was a student at the University of California at Santa Barbara. I had been very interested in Buddhism since my early...
Jump Out the Window
Before I became a Buddhist, I was a mountain climber and nature lover. The Sierra Nevada Mountains of California were my spiritual home. Living in Berkeley in the late...
Four Moments of Truth
Four Moments of Truth
The Day I Shook Hands with my Guru
Note: This story takes place in Boston in March of 1982. The talk mentioned is the same one that was videotaped and titled "Creating Enlightened Society."
It was a beautiful...
Meeting Rinpoche
In the autumn of 1969, I was living in Berkeley, California. I had been introduced to Zen meditation by a friend and began practicing meditation either at the Zen...
At the Redneck Bar
Out in the parking lot ... a man approached from out of the gloom with a rifle in his hand that he trained on Rinpoche
Tsoknyi Rinpoche’s Visit to Halifax, June 2012
The shrine room was packed for the long awaited visit of Tsoknyi Rinpoche to Halifax in June 2012.
Story Of The Buddha’s Life
A BBC Documentary
When Gerald Red Elk Met Chögyam Trungpa
After I made the introductions, Gerald Red Elk presented some gifts to Chögyam Trungpa, who was seated. He unfolded some gems: a turquoise stone, which he said represented the nature of the universe; a red stone, which he said represented the nature of the gods; a green stone, representing earth; and a purple stone, representing medicine.
GLIMPSES OF ALAYA
A Discussion with Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and the NTC
The Nalanda Translation Committee,
Kalapa Court in Boulder, Colorado,
Circa 1980.
Left to right: Nelson Dudley, Scott Wellenbach, Lodro Dorje, Chögyam Trungpa, Larry Mermelstein,...
Historical Comments on The Sadhana of Mahamudra
There was tremendous corruption, confusion, lack of faith, and lack of practice in Tibet.