An interview with Henry Schaeffer, by Bill Scheffel
Henry Schaeffer studied with Suzuki Roshi before meeting Chögyam Trungpa and becoming the latter teacher’s student in 1970. In this video, Henry describes the first and second time he encountered Chögyam Trungpa.
Trungpa Rinpoche did not limit his teachings to Tibetan Buddhism or any spiritual idiom – even to “spirituality” itself. In a given talk, Trungpa Rinpoche might speak of farming, T.S. Eliot or the understanding of Christian monastics he conversed with in Great Britain. In this video, Henry describes how one of his own passions, the poetry of Wallace Stevens, coincidentally became a link to Chögyam Trungpa.
