Table Of ContentTHE COLLECTED WORKS OF CHÖGYAM TRUNGPA
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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CONTENTS
Introduction to Volume Two
THE PATH IS THE GOAL: A BASIC HANDBOOK OF BUDDHIST
MEDITATION
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 SteppingStones
6. Loneliness
7. Creating a Little Gap
Notes
TRAINING THE MIND AND CULTIVATING LOVING-KINDNESS
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
GLIMPSES OF ABHIDHARMA
Introduction
Form
Feeling
Perception
Intellect
Meditation
Consciousness
Auspicious Coincidence
Practice and Intellect
GLIMPSES OF SHUNYATA
Talk 1. Open Space of Shunyata
Talk 2. Ground
Talk 3. Path
Talk 4. Fruition
GLIMPSES OF MAHAYANA
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
SELECTED WRITINGS
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