Why Bother?
This life is very valuable. Human birth is very important. You have a chance to practice, a chance to learn the truth, and still the question of “Why bother?” keeps cropping up again and again. You see, the path actually consists of “Who am I? What am I? What is this? What isnt this?” all the time until enlightenment is actually achieved. The question “Why bother?” has never been answered. It becomes one of the mantras of the path. “Why bother?” goes on all the time.
A Review of Chögyam Trungpa's Latest Title
Fear and Courage in the Three Yanas with Judy Lief
Ocean is pleased to announce this new course based on Judy Lief's teachings at Profound Treasury Retreat
Book Launch: THE FUTURE IS OPEN
Join Carolyn Gimian and Barry Boyce in celebrating the launch of this important new book by Chögyam Trungpa
A Brief History of Tassajara
From Native American Sweat Lodges to Pioneering Zen Monastery
Tribute to Trungpa Rinpoche
Listen to Robin's audio tribute to the Vidyadhara.
Disappointment
An Early Talk to the Community
Dharma in the West: Part Two
You cannot be a good leader if you have an agenda of your own
Foreword to The Rain of Wisdom
As for myself, the older I get, the more of a Kagyü person I become. -CTR
Dharma in the West: Part One
Having received Buddhism in the most authentic way, we must now continue that in a very changed world
On the Mamos, the Dharmapala Principle and Mahakali Vetali
... the feminine principle, functions as a force of creating harmony, friendship, and connectedness, in relationships and family, in community, between self and nature, and between mind and body.
The Dön Days
Mark Nowakowski talks about the dön days at the end of the lunar calendar and the annual practice of "Pacifying the Turmoil of the Mamos."
A Profound Book of Love and Warriorship
A Review of BURIED RIVERS by Ellen Korman Mains
A Glimpse of the 16th Karmapa
Through the eyes of Steve Roth
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.
A Conversation with Her Eminence Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche
In this interview Her Eminence discusses: Buddhism in the West
Creating a Drala Culture
During his lifetime, the Vidyadhara took an active role in design. I believe his personal involvement with design was due in part to the great joy he derived from...
How To Speak the English Language
Elocution lessons with Trungpa Rinpoche
Soon after arriving in India in 1960, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche began to study English with the help of Freda Bedi and later John Driver, both...
When Chögyam Trungpa met Jules Chender
Yuli Shenderoff was born in Russia in 1920 at a time of pogroms against the Jews. As a very small boy, he learned to lie when strangers came to...
Your Guess is as Good as Mine
I had the pleasure of seeing Mr. Trungpa give a lecture in Chicago in the 1970's. I don't remember the exact year. I was accompanied by a friend, Terry...
A Conversation with Trungpa Rinpoche About Three Spiritual Icons of the Early 20th Century
I was a student in the Gurdjieff* work in San Francisco and London in the early 1960's. During that time I also attended a number of Krishnamurti** talks in...
Called on the Carpet
As the maintenance man at Naropa Institute in the summer of 1980 I shared the job with work-study partner Harold Turner of setting up and taking down for the...
My First Buddhist Event
I was dating a girl in western Massachusetts. She was a practicing Buddhist. She invited me to go to Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche's funeral in Vermont. Being a person versed...
Touch and Go
Chögyam Trungpa's Epic Journey to the West
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,...
Rechungpa’s Repentance
While Rechungpa was gone, he became entranced by the beautiful wild asses in the region—and Milarepa took the opportunity to burn all the books Rechungpa had brought back with him from India. When Rechungpa realized what was happening ...
Beyond Comprehension
Book Review: From Lion’s Jaws, Chögyam Trungpa’s Epic Journey to the West
by Grant MacLean
by Grant MacLean
On Becoming a Teacher
An Interview with Jakusho Kwong-roshi