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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.
The Purpose of Work
Work can be regarded as not having any purpose behind it at all. Instead, it is just work for the sake of working. The basic quality of neurotic mind is ignorance, not ignorance of something, but just ignorance. It doesn’t have an object. Likewise, work does not need an object. You just work because you work. You don’t have to have a particular aim, object, goal or moralistic situation or anything. You just purely relate with your physical being or your existence as part of the work process, which also means communication with the actual realistic living
Greg Smith
In addition to the central figure, the thangka shows Chakrasamvara, Vajradhara and Chemchog Heruka in the sky.
One Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa
This 13-talk seminar was held at Tail of the Tiger in August 1970, just one month after Chogyam Trungpa arrived in the United States.
A Recollection of Buddha, Dharma, Sangha
A Tribute to Suzuki Roshi from Trungpa Rinpoche
The Way of the Buddha in America
This is the talk played during the 2021 Parinirvana Day feast on Ocean
Training the Mind: The Four Foundations of Mindfulness
This six-talk series given at RMCD in 1974 examines the nature of mind training.
Basic Buddhism
This is a single talk given at Berkeley on May 18, 1971