Chogyam Trungpa
Chogyam Trungpa
Chögyam Trungpawas a Buddhist meditation master and holder of both the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages, the eleventh Trungpa tülku, a tertön, supreme abbot of the Surmang monasteries, scholar, teacher, poet, artist, and originator of a radical re-presentation of Shambhala vision...
NationalityTibetan
ProfessionPhilosopher
meditation-practice world way
Meditation practice is regarded as a good and in fact excellent way to overcome warfare in the world; our own warfare as well as greater warfare.
meditation fundamentals patterns
That is the basic pattern of this kind of meditation, which is based on three fundamental factors: first, not centralizing inward; second, not having any longing to become higher; and third, becoming completely identified with here and now.
dream travel airplane
If we go somewhere on foot, we know the way perfectly, whereas if we go by car or airplane, we are hardly there at all. It becomes merely a dream.
ideas suits-of-armor flesh
You don't know how to take off your suit of armor. You have no idea how to conduct yourself without the reference point of your own security... You can expose your wounds and flesh, your sore points. You can be completely raw and exposed...
light house shining
When you have a brilliant sun, which is a source of vision, the light from the sun shines through every window of the house, and the brightness of its light inspires you to open all the curtains. In the vision of the Great Eastern Sun, no human being is a lost cause.
enlightenment sanity ifs
If we really prefer basic sanity or enlightenment, it's irritatingly possible to get into it.
attitude friendly
Take a friendly attitude toward your thoughts.
objectivity jam traffic
We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.
mean meditation simplicity
The simplicity of meditation means just experiencing the ape instinct of ego.
world opening oneself
Opening to oneself fully is opening to the world.
mind world whole
This whole world is mind's world, the product of the mind.
real mean heart
The experience of a sad and tender heart is what gives birth to fearlessness. Conventionally, being fearless means that you are not afraid or that, if someone hits you, you will hit him back. But we aren't talking about that street-fighter level of fearlessness. Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world.
silence building crescendo
As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
spiritual war teaching
Are the great spiritual teachings really advocating that we fight evil because we are on the side of light, the side of peace? Are they telling us to fight against that other 'undesirable' side, the bad and the black. That is a big question. If there is wisdom in the sacred teachings, there should not be any war. As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.