The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: 3
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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 THREE
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
The Myth of Freedom
The Heart of the Buddha
Selected Writings
EDITED BY
Carolyn Rose Gimian
SHAMBHALA • BOSTON & LONDON • 2010
Shambhala Publications, Inc.
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Boston, Massachusetts 02115
© 2003 by Diana J. Mukpo
Introduction to Volume Three © 2003 by Carolyn R. Gimian
Frontispiece: Chögyam Trungpa teaching “The Battle of Ego” at the Wesley Foundation, Boulder, Colorado, 1971. Photographer unknown. From the collection of the Shambhala Archives.
See the Sources section at the back of this book for a continuation of the copyright page.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Trunpga, 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 978-0-8348-2152-1
ISBN 978-1-59030-025-1 (v.1)
ISBN 978-1-59030-026-8 (v.2)
ISBN 978-1-59030-027-5 (v.3)
ISBN 978-1-59030-028-2 (v.4)
ISBN 978-1-59030-029-9 (v.5)
ISBN 978-1-59030-030-5 (v.6)
ISBN 978-1-59030-031-2 (v.7)
ISBN 978-1-59030-032-9 (v.8)
1. Spiritual life—Buddhism. 2. Buddhism—Doctrines. I. Gimian, Carolyn Rose. II. Title.
BQ4302.T7823 2003
294.3′420423—dc22 2003058963
CONTENTS
C
UTTING
T
HROUGH
S
PIRITUAL
M
ATERIALISM
Foreword
Introduction
T
HE
M
YTH OF
F
REEDOM AND THE
W
AY OF
M
EDITATION
Foreword
Editors’ Preface
Enthronement
Mahāmudrā Upadesa
Appendix
Acknowledgments
Editor’s Foreword
1. What Is the Heart of the Buddha?
3. The Four Foundations of Mindfulness
7. Sacred Outlook: The Practice of Vajrayogini
Part Three: Working with Others
10. Alcohol as Medicine or Poison
11. Practice and Basic Goodness: A Talk for Children
Appendixes
The Bön Way of Life
The Vajrayogini Shrine
List of Sources
The Wisdom of Tibetan Teachings
The Tibetan Buddhist Teachings and Their Application
The Three-Yana Principle in Tibetan Buddhism
Tower House Discussions I and II
Report from Outside the Closet
Freedom Is a Kind of Gyp: An Interview with Chögyam Trungpa
The Myth of Don Juan: An Interview with Chögyam Trungpa
Foreword to
The Jewel Ornament of Liberation
Foreword to
The History of the Sixteen Karmapas of Tibet
Foreword to
Buddha in the Palm of Your Hand
A Biography of Chögyam Trungpa
INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME THREE
W
ITH
V
OLUME
T
HREE OF
The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa,
we come to a collection of writings that are quintessentially American. The volume opens with the two books that put Chögyam Trungpa on the map of the American spiritual scene:
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
and
The Myth of Freedom.
The third book included in this volume,
The Heart of the Buddha,
was published posthumously. However, a number of the core writings that make up that book were originally published in the early 1970s. Many of them appeared in the
Garuda
magazines put together as in-house publications by Trungpa Rinpoche’s senior students. Following
The Heart of the Buddha
are a number of articles and interviews. Several of these are also based on or taken directly from
Garudas I
and
II
, while others are from early talks given by Trungpa Rinpoche about the path of Tibetan Buddhism, the problems of spiritual materialism, and the means for overcoming these problems through meditation. There are also three excerpts from
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche at Lama Foundation,
discussions published after a visit the author made in 1973 to a New Age spiritual community in northern New Mexico. These capture the eclectic spiritual flavor of the early seventies. Other preoccupations of the era are addressed in two interviews with Chögyam Trungpa conducted in the 1970s: “Freedom Is a Kind of Gyp,” an interview in
East West Journal,
includes Rinpoche’s thoughts on natural foods, ecology, and EST (Erhard Sensitivity Training); and “The Myth of Don Juan,” an interview in the
Shambhala Codex,
deals with the fascination with Carlos Castaneda’s books on the Yaqui Indian shaman Don Juan. Finally, seven forewords to works by other authors complete this volume.