SLOGAN 55 • Liberate yourself by examining and analyzing.
This slogan focuses on two major obstacles to realization: ego-clinging and disturbing emotions. The idea is that it is important to really look into those two patterns. In fact, it is so important that you may need to actually conjure them up so that you can examine them in detail. [Read more…] about 55: Liberate Yourself by Examining and Analyzing
54: Train Wholeheartedly
SLOGAN 54 • Train wholeheartedly.
Train…
It is probably clear by now that lojong is all about training. And since the nature of mind training goes directly against our entrenched and deep-rooted habit of self-fixation, it is easy to come up with all sorts of excuses for not keeping it up. [Read more…] about 54: Train Wholeheartedly
What Happened to Wisdom?
February 2021
Words, words, words. We think a lot. In the modern world, we are deluged by data, by information, by knowledge. What we are not deluged with is wisdom.
We are really good at thinking. In school, we are taught to value the verbal, the quick, the clever. That emphasis on conceptuality has paid off in the form of greater knowledge and greater well-being for many people. But it may be that we are so good at thinking, and we are so used to using that one tool to solve everything we encounter, that other ways of knowing have atrophied.
When we sit down to meditate, what do we see? Thoughts, lots of them. Who knew there were so many of them? Not only that, but we see how solid our thoughts are, and how harmful some thoughts can be. But we can shift our relationship to our thoughts.
Thoughts have a way of taking hold of us, but we don’t have to believe everything we think. A thought is just a thought. What really changes things is when we begin to tune in to the movements of mind, to thinking itself. When we hold steady as thoughts come and go, arise and dissolve, we begin to access a different kind of knowing.
What happens then is amazing. The very thoughts and concepts that held such sway over us begin to point us to the nonconceptual and vast open space from which they appeared and to which they return. As thoughts dissolve like clouds, we are left with the clear blue sky.
The Healing Encounter
CHÖGYAM TRUNGPA RINPOCHE BOOKS EDITED BY J. LIEF
The Heart of the Buddha (1991)
Transcending Madness (1992)
Glimpses of Shunyata (1993)
Training the Mind and Cultiogating Loving Kindness (1993)
The Art of Calligraphy (1994)
Dharma Art (1996; republished and expanded as True Perception, 2008)
Glimpses of Space (1999)
Glimpses of Mahayana (2001)
Glimpses of Realization ((2003)
The Teacup and the Skullcup (2007; with David Schneider)
The Truth of Suffering and the Path to Liberation (2009)
The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma Volume I: The Path of Individual Liberationm (2013)
The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma Volume II: The Bodhisattva Path of Wisdom and Compassion (2013)
The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma Volume III: The Tantric Path of Indestructible Wakefulness (2013)
Milarepa: Lessons from the Life and Songs of Tibet’s Great Yogi (2017)