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

It Was the Memory of His Kindness

I read something recently that recalled the evening I heard Chögyam Trungpa speak in Toronto in the autumn of 1971. My memories of that evening come back to me...

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

The Karme Choling Rock Garden

“The Japanese would be very proud of this!” -CTR

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

Three Spiritual Icons of the Early 20th Century

I was a student in the Gurdjieff* work in San Francisco and London in the early 1960's. During that time I also attended a number of Krishnamurti** talks in...

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The Heart of the Buddha

Fundamentally speaking, ladies and gentlemen, here is the really good news, if we may call it that: We are intrinsically buddha and we are intrinsically good. Without exception, and without the need for analytical studies, we can say that we automatically have buddha within us. That is known as buddha-nature or bodhichitta, the heart of the buddha.

— From “What Is the Heart of the Buddha?” in The Heart of the Buddha, page 6.