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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.
Discipline
Discipline is not a one-shot deal or a two-shot deal, but a one-hundred-thousand shot deal. It happens again and again and again. Discipline is not somebody with a long face and a stick. Discipline is somebody without a face, without a stick–but cool, cold, fifty degrees below zero. Discipline is not a school master or a master with a stick in zazen practice or a disciplinarian or an angry, hot-tempered tutor. Discipline is not a person at all. That makes it hard to relate with, because you can’t rebel against it. You can’t take the stick away from the disciplinarian and hit him back. It’s constant discipline. Cool mountain stream. It’s very boring. So let’s call it cool boredom. The boredom which such discipline consists of is cool boredom, refreshing boredom.
Tulku Thondup Rinpoche
The successive Trungpa incarnations of Surmang Monastery of Eastern Tibet were important lineage holders of the Kagyud Order of Tibetan Buddhism. Vidyadhara Chökyi Gyatsho...
Tibetan Buddhist Path
This fourteen-lecture series from the first session of Naropa (summer 1974) is commentary on the entire Buddhist path.
Spookiness
A Halloween Message from Trungpa Rinpoche [Audio: 1 minute, 47 seconds]
Journey Without Goal
This seminar on tantra was given by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche at Naropa Institute (now Naropa University) in the summer of 1974, the first year of Naropa. Chogyam Trungpa took an approach to Vajrayana Buddhism that is unique in its experiential flavor.
Tibetan Buddhism and American Karma
This talk was given during a "Dharma Festival" in Boston. Read Boston Dharmadhatu, the Early Days by Anna Taylor for a first hand account of this Festival and a flavor of early...
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