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On Chögyam Trungpa

Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche is the quintessential spiritual guide. His teachingssteeped in ancient tradition and presented with relaxed fluency in western language and cultureare 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.

Copyright Diana J. Mukpo. Used here by arrangement with Diana J. Mukpo and Shambhala Publications, Inc.
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.

Be There in the Very Moment

Mindfulness does not mean pushing oneself toward something or hanging onto something. It means allowing oneself to be there in the very moment of what is happening in the living process–and then letting go.

— From “The Four Foundations of Mindfulness” in The Sanity We Are Born With: A Buddhist Approach to Mindfulness, page 31.

First Thought Best Thought

A slide show of selected photographs by Chögyam Trungpa

CASTLE OF EGO 

Once upon a time, there was a little boy who was a rainbow child. He lived in a vast desert and didn’t know where he came from and what his name was. He was all alone and had never met anybody else. He was totally happy and loved the sunrise, the sunset, the moon, and the stars.

Practice of Meditation Seminar, 1971

These five talks where given at Karme Choling in January 1971.

Vancouver Meditation Seminar: 1975

Three talks on meditation practice from February 1975

A Recollection of Buddha, Dharma, Sangha

A Tribute to Suzuki Roshi from Trungpa Rinpoche