Master of meditation, social visionary, artist, poet--Chogyam Trungpa was all these and more. Yet "Who was Chogyam Trungpa?" is a slippery question, for who can nail down the personality of a man who by all accounts seemed to be a different person to different people at different times and on differ[...]
A classic of twentieth-century spiritual literature by a Tibetan meditation master looks at the concept of the ideal sacred warrior and the warrior's path in search of practical wisdom that can be used in everyday life. Reprint.[...]
Each day we deal with the challenges of ordinary life: a series of mundane experiences that could be summarized by the title of this book, "Work, Sex, Money." We all hope that these aspects of our life will be a source of fulfillment and pleasure, and they often are. Yet they are also always sources[...]
The first volume of this landmark series presents the teachings of the hinayana. The hinayana introduces core Buddhist teachings on the nature of mind, the practice of meditation, the reality of suffering, and the possibility of liberation. It examines the nature of suffering, impermanence, and egol[...]
The second volume in this landmark series presents the bodhisattva teachings of the mahayana. At this point, having trained and seen the benefits of looking within, the student begins to shift their focus outward to the broader world. Formal entry into the mahayana occurs with taking the bodhisattva[...]
The third volume of this landmark series presents the vajrayana teachings of the tantric path. The vajrayana, or "diamond vehicle," also referred to as tantra, draws upon and extends the teachings of the hinayana and mahayana. As with the hinayana and the mahayana, the formal acceptance into the vaj[...]
The teachings given here on basic meditation--"shamatha" and "vipashyana," mindfulness and awareness--provide the foundation that every practitioner needs to awaken as the Buddha did. According to the Buddha, no one can attain basic sanity or enlightenment without practicing meditation. It is the on[...]
The classic guide to enlightened living that first presented the Buddhist path of the warrior to Western readers--with a new foreword and cover presentation.
There is a basic human wisdom that can help solve the world's problems. It doesn't belong to any one culture or region or religious tradi[...]
Volume nine includes five books published between 2003 and 2009, a set of cards that present the Shambhala warrior slogans, and eighteen articles and interviews, all from 1983 or earlier.
The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa brings together in ten volumes the writings of one of the first and [...]
Based on the concepts of Buddhist psychology, this guide helps readers connect with the fundamental idea of innate health, which includes the mental, physical, and spiritual characteristics that everyone possesses. Common issues in psychotherapy and other mental health professions are covered as wel[...]
»Det er en stor glæde at kunne præsentere denne bog. Den er en værdifuld vejviser i den spirituelle udviklingsproces, formidlet af en mester, der har en gennemtrængende indsigt i de vildfarelser, vi vesterlændinge kan løbe ind i, når vi involverer os i en tradition, der har udviklet sig uden[...]
According to the mandala principle, a prominent feature of tantric Buddhism, all phenomena are part of one reality. Whether good or bad, happy or sad, clear or obscure, everything is interrelated and reflects a single totality. As Chogyam Trungpa explains in this work, from the perspective of the ma[...]