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

Why Bother?

This life is very valuable. Human birth is very important. You have a chance to practice, a chance to learn the truth, and still the question of “Why bother?” keeps cropping up again and again. You see, the path actually consists of “Who am I? What am I? What is this? What isnt this?” all the time until enlightenment is actually achieved. The question “Why bother?” has never been answered. It becomes one of the mantras of the path. “Why bother?” goes on all the time.

— From “The Star of Bethlehem” in The Path is the Goal: A Basic Handbook of Buddhist Meditation, page 46.