The Path Is the Goal: A Basic Handbook of Buddhist Meditation PDF
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The Path Is the Goal BOOKS BY CHOGYAM TRUNGPA Born in Tibet The Collected Works of Chrigyam Trungpa Crazy Wisdom Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism The Essential Chbgyam Trungpa First Thought Best Thought: roB Poems Glimpses of Abhidharma Great Eastern Sun: The Wisdom of Shambhala The Heart of the Buddha journey without Goal: The Tantric Wisdom of the Buddha Meditation in Action The Mishap Lineage: Transforming Confusion into Wisdom Mudra The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation Ocean of Dharma: The Everyday Wisdom of Chbgyam Trunpa The Sanity We Are Born With Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior Smile at Fear: Awakening the True Heart of Bravery The Tibetan Book of the Dead Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness Transcending Madness: The Experience of the Six Bardos The Truth of Suffering and the Path of Liberation Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness The Path Is the Goal A BASIC HANDBOOK OF BUDDHIST MEDITATION -- Chiigyam Trungpa Edited by Sherab Chiidzin Shambhala Boston & London 2011 SHAMBHALA PUBLICATIONS, INC. 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Distributed in the United States by Random House, Inc., and in Canada by Random House of Canada Ltd The Library of Congress catalogues the previous edition as follows: Trungpa, Chogyam, 1939- The path is the goal: a basic handbook of Buddhist meditation I Chogyam Trungpa; edited by Sherab Chodzin. - 1st ed. p. em.- (Dharma ocean series) ISBN 978-1-59030-910-0 (pbk: alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-87773-970-8 (pbk: alk. paper) 1. Meditation-Buddhism. I. Chodzin, Sherab. II. Title. III. Series: Trungpa, Chogyam, 1939- Dharma ocean series. BQ5612.T78 1995 94-23497 294.3 '443--dc20 CIP Contents Editor's Foreword vu PART ONE 1. The Only Way 3 2. Continuing Your Confusion 14 3. The Star of Bethlehem 3 5 PART Two 1. Me-ness and the Emotions 55 2. Recollecting the Present 66 3. The Portable Stage Set 88 4. Boredom-Full or Empty? 105 5. From Raw Eggs to Stepping-Stones 116 6. Loneliness 126 7. Creating a Little Gap 145 Notes 155 Glossary 15 8 Transliterations ofTibetan Terms 163 About the Author 164 Meditation Center Information 171 Index 173 Editor's Fa reword This book comprises two seminars given by the great Tibetan guru, the Vidyadhara, Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, both dating from 1974. The first was given in March in New York, the second in September at Tail of the Tiger, a meditation center the Vidyadhara founded in Vermont, which was later renamed Karme Choling. These seminars contain hitherto unpublished teachings of his on the view and practice of Buddhist meditation. Traditional accounts tell us that at the time of the Buddha Shakyamuni's enlightenment, he saw a vast panorama of beings throughout the six realms of exis tence, suffering in their ignorance through an endless round of attachment and disappointment, birth and death. In the literature cif the Buddhist tradition we find other accounts of such visions of human suffering. A recent account concerns the Gyalwa Karmapa, Rikpe Dorje (1924-1982), who was the sixteenth incarnation in a line of enlightened hierarchs, heads of the Kagyi.i order of Buddhism in Tibet. It recounts an incident in his first journey, in the mid-seventies, out of the medie val Himalayan world he had known into the modern West. His first stop was Hong Kong, where his hosts took him to the top of a skyscraper. Standing on the vm Editor's Foreword observation platform, the Karmapa looked out with as tonishment and delight at the vast view of the city below. Then, after a moment or two, he began to cry. He had to be helped inside by his attendants with tears pouring from his eyes. Later he explained that at the sight of the huge city with its teeming masses being born and struggling and dying without a shred of dharma to help them-"without," as he said, "so much as an OM MANI PADME HUM"-he had been overcome by grief. From these visions, we do not have to come far to arrive at the job description confronting Trungpa Rin poche in America. The Vidyadhara was himself the eleventh incarnation in a line of enlightened spiritual and temporal rulers from Eastern Tibet. When he ar rived in North America as the sole representative of his lineage in 1970, he saw an exciting and vigorous cul ture, very full of itself, covering a vast continent. He saw at the same time myriads of individual people suf fering through ignorance, through entrenched views about life and lots of aggressive speed. As he himself later described the situation, "Even with . . . encour agement, from the present lineage fathers and my de voted students, I have been left out in the cold as full time garbageman, janitor, diaper service, and babysit ter. So finally I alone have ended up as captain of this great vessel. I alone have to liberate its millions of pas sengers in this dark age. I alone have to sail this de-
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