The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa Collected Works: Volume Two

T
HE
C
OLLECTED
W
ORKS OF
C
HÖGYAM
T
RUNGPA

VOLUME ONE

Born in Tibet • Meditation in Action • Mudra
• Selected Writings

VOLUME TWO

Glimpses of Abhidharma • Glimpses of Mahayana • Glimpses of Shunyata • The Path Is the Goal • Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness
• Selected Writings

VOLUME THREE

Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism • The Heart of the Buddha • The Myth of Freedom
• Selected Writings

VOLUME FOUR

The Dawn of Tantra • Journey without Goal • The Lion’s Roar
• An Interview with Chögyam Trungpa

VOLUME FIVE

Crazy Wisdom • Illusion’s Game • The Life of Marpa the Translator
(Excerpts) •
The Rain of Wisdom
(Excerpts) •
The Sadhana of Mahamudra
(Excerpts) • Selected Writings

VOLUME SIX

Glimpses of Space • Orderly Chaos • Secret Beyond Thought • The Tibetan Book of the Dead:
Commentary •
Transcending Madness
• Selected Writings

VOLUME SEVEN

The Art of Calligraphy
(Excerpts) •
Dharma Art
•
Visual Dharma
(Excerpts) • Selected Poems • Selected Writings

VOLUME EIGHT

Great Eastern Sun: The Wisdom of Shambhala • Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior
• Selected Writings

THE COLLECTED WORKS OF

CHÖGYAM TRUNGPA

VOLUME TWO

Glimpses of Abhidharma

Glimpses of Mahayana

Glimpses of Shunyata

The Path Is the Goal

Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness

Selected Writings

EDITED BY

Carolyn Rose Gimian

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© 2003 by Diana J. Mukpo

Introduction to Volume Two © 2003 by Carolyn R. Gimian

Frontispiece: Chögyam Trungpa giving meditation instruction, 1971. Photographer unknown. From the collection of the Shambhala Archives.

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Trungpa, Chögyam, 1939–

[Works. 2003]

The collected works of Chögyam Trungpa / edited by Carolyn Rose Gimian; forewords by Diana J. Mukpo and Samuel Bercholz.—1st ed.

p.   cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

eISBN 978-0-8348-2151-4

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1. Spiritual life—Buddhism.    2. Buddhism—Doctrines.    I. Gimian, Carolyn Rose.    II. Title.

BQ4302.T7823    2003

294.3′420423—dc22         2003058963

CONTENTS

Introduction to Volume Two

T
HE
P
ATH
I
S THE
G
OAL
: A B
ASIC
H
ANDBOOK OF
B
UDDHIST
M
EDITATION

Editor’s Foreword

Part One:

New York, March 1974

1. The Only Way

2. Continuing Your Confusion

3. The Star of Bethlehem

Part Two:

Barnet, Vermont, September 1974

1. Me-ness and the Emotions

2. Recollecting the Present

3. The Portable Stage Set

4. Boredom—Full or Empty?

5. From Raw Eggs to Stepping-Stones

6. Loneliness

7. Creating a Little Gap

Notes

T
RAINING THE
M
IND AND
C
ULTIVATING
L
OVING
-K
INDNESS

Acknowledgments

Editor’s Foreword

Introduction

Point 1. The Preliminaries, Which Are a Basis for Dharma Practice

Point 2. The Main Practice, Which Is Training in Bodhichitta

Point 3. Transformation of Bad Circumstances into the Path of Enlightenment

Point 4. Showing the Utilization of Practice in One’s Whole Life

Point 5. Evaluation of Mind Training

Point 6. Disciplines of Mind Training

Point 7. Guidelines of Mind Training

Concluding Verses

Appendix: Forty-six Ways in Which a Bodhisattva Fails

Notes

Bibliography

G
LIMPSES OF
A
BHIDHARMA

Introduction

Form

Feeling

Perception

Intellect

Meditation

Consciousness

Auspicious Coincidence

Practice and Intellect

G
LIMPSES OF
S
HUNYATA

Talk 1. Open Space of Shunyata

Talk 2. Ground

Talk 3. Path

Talk 4. Fruition

G
LIMPSES OF
M
AHAYANA

1. Bad News and Good News

2. A Golden Buddha

3. Awakening Buddha Nature

4. Sudden Glimpse

5. Leap of Confidence

6. Identifying with the Teachings

Appendix: The Bodhisattva Vow

Acknowledgments

S
ELECTED
W
RITINGS

An Approach to Meditation: A Talk to Psychologists

Taming the Horse, Riding the Mind

Meditation: A Talk for Young People

The Spiritual Battlefield

The Birth of Ego

The Wheel of Life: Illusion’s Game

Seven Characteristics of a Dharmic Person

Dharmas without Blame

Buddhadharma without Credentials

Compassion

The Lion’s Roar

Aggression

Is Meditation Therapy?

Becoming a Full Human Being

The Meeting of Buddhist and Western Psychology

Creating an Environment of Sanity

Intrinsic Health

From a Workshop on Psychotherapy

Space Therapy and the Maitri Community

Relating with Death

Theism and Nontheism

Natural Dharma

Noble Heart

Obedience

Comparing the Heart

Farming

Work: Seeing Ordinary Things with Extraordinary Insight

Sex

Hearty Discipline

Transpersonal Cooperation at Naropa

Sparks

Education for an Enlightened Society

Appendix: Space Therapy and the Maitri Project by Marvin Casper

Glossary

Sources

Acknowledgments

A Biography of Chögyam Trungpa

Books by Chögyam Trungpa

Resources

Index

INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME TWO

V
OLUME
T
WO OF
The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa
comprises five books and thirty-four articles that, loosely speaking, concern themselves with the themes of meditation, mind, and mahayana, the “great vehicle” for the development of compassion and the means to help others. The books and the first thirteen articles provide the formal or doctrinal presentation of these topics. Then follow articles that show how these concepts can be applied in specific disciplines or situations of working with others, in dialogue with other spiritual communities, and in the juicy and varied situations that life presents. There are eight articles on psychology and working with others as a psychotherapist or health professional; six articles based on a dialogue with Christian contemplatives at the Christian-Buddhist Meditation Conferences held between 1981 and 1985 in Boulder, Colorado; an article on spiritual farming; another on work; one on sex; and four on the educational philosophy of Naropa Institute (now Naropa University), a liberal arts college founded by Trungpa Rinpoche.