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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.
Tricked into Enlightenment
We acknowledge sanity, and then sanity comes about by itself. Acknowledging sanity is a discipline or a pretense: you pretend to be the Buddha; you believe you are the Buddha. Again, we are not talking about buddha-nature as an embryonic state, but of the living situation of buddhahood having already happened. We adopt such a pretense at the beginning, or maybe we should call it belief. It is a belief in the sense that our buddhahood is seemingly not real but we take it as a reality. Some element of mind’s trickery is necessary. And then we find ourselves having been tricked into enlightenment.
4:15 am, Thimphu, Bhutan
May Peace Prevail over all the Earth for All Beings
The Star of Bethlehem
You begin to experience the dawn or glimmer of light, which in Western language is called the Star of Bethlehem
Traleg Rinpoche on Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Part One
https://youtu.be/Cun4xkvoSlo
Part Two
https://youtu.be/_vjfWT4QdRE
Part Three
https://youtu.be/3D30-ckIohI
For more information on Traleg Rinpoche, please visit tralegrinpoche.typepad.com
Be Our Guide – Shambhala Day Address, 1982
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Three months after the Sixteenth Karmapa's death on November 5, 1981, Trungpa Rinpoche led the community in a supplication. He said:
Repeat after me.
Your Holiness please return to us.
Your...
The Dawn of Enlightenment
The Star of Bethlehem
Shambhala Day Address, Year of the Water Dog, 1982
The Chronicles would like to wish everyone a very cheerful Shambhala Day/Losar and the very best of the Earth Dog year ahead. Tashi Delek to us all!