Barbara Bash calligraphs these words from the Vidyadhara's will

Meditation and the Fourth Moment

The experience of egoless insight and nowness, or the fourth moment

Foreword to The Rain of Wisdom

...the older I get, the more of a Kagyü person I become. -CTR

Remembrance

My first perception of Khyentse Rinpoche was that of a wonderfully loving grandfather.

The Question of Magic

As far as tantra is concerned, magic is working with the real world on a completely ordinary level. Magic is completely relevant to our world, our life and our path.

Touch and Go

Chögyam Trungpa's Epic Journey to the West

Sound and Noise

Roshi's Teachings on the Sandōkai

The Samadhi of the Guru

This is a 2007 recording of Susan Edwards reading her piece, The Samadhi of the Guru, on KGNU Radio in Boulder with music by Thomas Lenk.

Journey to Taktsang 57 Years Ago

The Sadhana of Mahamudra was completed at Taktsang in Bhutan on September 6, 1968. Here, in his own words, is the story of traveling to Taktsang and receiving the sadhana.

20 Years of Tributes from the Mahasangha

Contribute your poems, stories and tributes to this ongoing collection

Expert in Deception

Most of the problems in life do not come so much because you are an aggressive or lustful person. The greatest problem is that you want to bottle those things up and put them aside, and you have become an expert in deception. That is one of the biggest problems. Meditation practice is supposed to uncover any attempts to develop a subtle, sophisticated, deceptive approach. It is to uncover those patches.

— From an unpublished “Dathun Letter” composed circa 1973.