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Chögyam Trungpa

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Chögyam Trungpa (1939–1987) was a Tibetan Buddhist scholar, author, and meditation master teacher and is recognized as a leading influence in the spread of Buddhist teachings in the West. He established Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, the first Buddhist university in North America, as well as Shambhala International, an organization of more than two hundred meditation centers worldwide. He authored many bestselling books on meditation and spiritual practice, including Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior and Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism.

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Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

The Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa calls attention to the commonest pitfall to which everyone on the spiritual path falls prey—what he calls spiritual materialism. “The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use,” he says, “even spirituality.

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Chögyam Trungpa
2002
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The Tender Heart of the Warrior

The ground of fearlessness, says Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, is renouncing hard-heartedness and allowing ourselves to be tender, sad, and fully present.

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Chogyam Trungpa
2018
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Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche: Shamatha Meditation/Mindfulness—Abiding in Peace

An in-depth look at shamatha meditation practice, aka mindfulness. Topics include the meaning of peace, and the understanding of meditation as a natural act that involves simplicity, precision and directness.

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Chögyam Trungpa
2014
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True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art

Genuine art has the power to awaken and liberate. The renowned meditation master and artist Chögyam Trungpa called this type of art “dharma art”—any creative work that springs from an awakened state of mind, characterized by directness, unselfconsciousness, and nonaggression.

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Chögyam Trungpa
2008
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Conquering Fear

This article is based on a seminar Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche conducted in 1979 for teachers in Shambhala Training on meditation and the view of warriorship. That seminar was about fearlessness, and as well, about how to recognize and conquer real enemies in the world outside.

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Chögyam Trungpa
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Great Eastern Sun: The Wisdom of Shambhala

In Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior Chögyam Trungpa offers an inspiring and practical guide to enlightened living based on the Shambhala journey of warriorship, a secular path taught internationally through the Shambhala Training program.

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Chögyam Trungpa
2001
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Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche: Meditation 101

By meditation we mean something very basic and simple that is not tied to any one culture.

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Elephant Journal
2010
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The Truth of Suffering and the Path of Liberation

Chögyam Trungpa’s in-depth exploration of the Four Noble Truths—the foundational Buddhist teaching about the origin of suffering and its cessation—emphasizes their profound relevance not just as an inspiration when we set out on the path, but at every other moment of our lives as well, showing how...

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Chögyam Trungpa
2010
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Chögyam Trungpa: Poetry, Crazy Wisdom, and Radical Shambhala

To many Buddhists, Chögyam Trungpa is known as a profound and enlightened Buddhist master. A prolific writer and Buddhist meditation master, Chögyam Trungpa (March 5, 1939 – April 4, 1987) is among the first masters who brought Buddhist teachings to the west and made them accessible.

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Paul Wagner
2020
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Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness

The fifty-nine provocative slogans presented here—each with a commentary by the Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa—have been used by Tibetan Buddhists for eight centuries to help meditation students remember and focus on important principles and practices of mind training.

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Chögyam Trungpa, Pema Chödrön (foreword)
2003
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