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Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche is the quintessential spiritual guide. His teachings—steeped in ancient tradition and presented with relaxed fluency in western language and culture—are profound, accessible, and fresh. In addition to the buddhadharma, he offered the secular path of Shambhala, cultivating an appreciation of inherent bravery, dignity and goodness beyond cultural and religious bounds. Through his many books, Trungpa Rinpoche continues to be an incomparable source of wisdom and courage in the world. The Chronicles is an ongoing celebration of his profound teachings and life example.
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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.
Solidifying the Present Aspect of the Past
Solidifying processes can develop because we tend to develop a sense of time. The past is memories of achievement, memories of establishment, so to speak; the future is the possibility of continuing that achievement; and the present situation is taking a chance on that, solidifying the whole thing. We have developed too much reference to time as a record of successive processes, achievements, accomplishments that we have managed to collect. We have made something like a file out of it, a case history out of it. So our achievements have been recorded and recorded and recorded–constantly. In other words, the corpse of the present is being preserved as a record. And as we go along, we go on achieving, so that the whole process becomes more past oriented. We have recourse to our records as a way of proving ourselves and also as a way of digging up new information. If emergency situations come up, we could reuse our old records, we could repeat them. And that recording situation goes on all the time. It is solidifying the present aspect of the past.
For Generations to Come
Human life is both precious and rare, and the Buddhist teachings admonish us not to waste it. The Vidyadhara, the Venerable Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche,...
The Teacher
In relating with the teacher, your critical input and your surrendering work together at the same time.
Auspicious Coincidence
These three talks were given at Karme Choling in 1980 during the tenth anniversary celebration of Trungpa Rinpoche's arrival in North America
Natural Dharma
This talk was given during a thunderstorm at the Naropa University Christian Buddhist Conference in 1982
The Question of Reality
In The Question of Reality, Trungpa Rinpoche examines the parallels between the path portrayed in Carlos Castaneda’s books on Don Juan and the path of Buddhist Tantra.
Foreword to The Rain of Wisdom
...the older I get, the more of a Kagyü person I become. -CTR