Blogs about: Chogyam Trungpa
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Never Surrender Your Independence To Your Guru
This isn’t Japhy’s first dance. He remembers well his lesson learned as a young man, courtesy of Chogyam Trungpa, to never do anything a Rinpoche tells him to do. If a Rinpoche tells you t… more →
Tinfoil Ushnisha
Is Lineage Better than or Different from the Sangha?
wrote 2 days ago: Today, I wish to discuss the concept of sangha. Buddhism has developed its own path in many cultures … more →
Decency is Free from Trickery
wrote 4 days ago: When we’re having trouble maintaining our ground or ourselves, we play all kinds of tricks. Th … more →
Trungpa's Crazy Wisdom
wrote 5 days ago: What makes a great teacher? I asked my English Composition I students that question, and they brains … more →
Decency on the Spot
wrote 6 days ago: Decency means never being tired or made haggard by others. There’s always some enjoyment in de … more →
Pick Your Spokesperson Carefully
wrote 1 week ago: Born In Tibet by Chogyam Trungpa The Tibetan issue is clouded by lies, propaganda and poor spokesmen … more →
The Shambhala Principle: Discovering Humanity's Hidden Treasure {Book Review}
wrote 1 week ago: I was about halfway through Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior, by Chogyam Trungpa when The S … more →
Working with Others
wrote 1 week ago: Trust begins with trusting in yourself. When we talk about working with others, we are talking about … more →
Appreciating Everyday Life
wrote 1 week ago: I hope that people can appreciate their surroundings. Appreciate the autumn, appreciate winter, appr … more →
Awake in the World 2013
wrote 2 weeks ago: Snow Lion Media is proud to have created this video for a rather unique festival, to be held in Sept … more →
Compassion and Egolessness Go Hand in Hand
wrote 2 weeks ago: The connection between compassion and egolessness goes both ways. When we let go of the self, we are … more →
Simple and Precise
wrote 2 weeks ago: We have long forgotten that activities can be simple and precise. Every act of our lives can contain … more →
Passionlessness
wrote 2 weeks ago: Passionlessness is what enables you to practice the dharma and to quiet your body, speech, and mind. … more →
New on DVD: Silver Linings Playbook, Star Trek and more
wrote 2 weeks ago: Silver Linings Playbook: Three and a half stars out of five — A sports wager hanging on the big game … more →
The Sacredness of Meditation
wrote 3 weeks ago: When a person sits and meditates, it is a special situation, a sacred act. In meditation, even the m … more →
Johanna Demetrakas explores Crazy Wisdom of Tibetan mystic
wrote 3 weeks ago: He sits in a small haze of smoke and gives the camera a wily smile and a wink. He could be a Thai se … more →
The Transmission to Overcome Anxiety
wrote 3 weeks ago: The Buddha’s teachings have been handed down from generation to generation, so that right now, … more →
A war on want
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wrote 4 weeks ago: “Compassion is the ultimate attitude of wealth: an anti-poverty attitude, a war on want. It co … more →
Beyond Facing Ourselves
wrote 1 month ago: If we face ourselves properly, fully, then we find that something exists in us that is basically awa … more →
Sickness and Dance
wrote 1 month ago: A man and a woman performing a modern dance. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) So I have been reading Shambh … more →
