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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.
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.
Disappointment
We might think that in the spiritual search we are simply concerned with fulfillment, happiness, accomplishment and Enlightenment. But at the same time the spiritual path requires some sacrifice, some act of generosity, some kind of training before we reach happiness and goodness. Therefore, the idea of disappointment plays an important role. In this case “disappointment” means we cannot fulfill every expectation of ego, nor can we achieve everything that we want to achieve without any giving or any openness. In other words, disappointment means that we cannot become self-made buddhas…We have to experience the reality of life as such before we can decide to proclaim ourselves to be enlightened.
The President of Naropa on the 20th Parinirvana
It gives me great pleasure that, on the evening of April 4, the communities of the Boulder Shambhala Center and Naropa University will be...
Year of the Earth Sheep: Shambahala Day 1979
In this address, Rinpoche talks very movingly about our individual responsibility to benefit everyone and anyone with whom we are connected.
Disappointment
An Early Talk to the Community
Work Sex Money: Seminar One
Work, sex and money: these are the main things in our lives that we look to instinctively for satisfaction, and yet, they almost never supply it
The Dawn of Enlightenment
The Star of Bethlehem
Jamgon Kongtrul Seminar
This seminar is offered at this time to mark the re-publication of The Sun of Wisdom, a guru sadhana composed by Chögyam Trungpa to his root guru, Jamgon Kongtrul of Shechen.