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

Travel with Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche from Scotland to Taktsang in 1968, and hear him talk about receiving the Sadhana

20 Years of Tributes from the Mahasangha

Contribute your poems, stories and tributes to this ongoing collection

Enlightenment Is Further Luminosity

Enlightenment is referred to as en-lighten-ment, rather than as a big gain of freedom. It is further luminosity: it illuminates life. Up to this point, we had a very bad lighting system; but now we are getting a better lighting system, so we begin to see every curve of skin, every inch of our world, properly. We might get very irritated by such sharpness and precision, but that seems to be part of the perspective.

— From “Buddha Is Everywhere,” in Glimpses of Realization: The Three Bodies of Enlightenment, page 73.