Immediately following Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s loss of life, Jack affords views on the life and dharma of one in all spirituality’s most impactful and controversial figures.
This Dharma Speak on 4/01/1987 at Spirit Rock Meditation Heart was initially printed on DharmaSeed.org
“Lama Govinda mentioned that of all of the younger tulkus, of all of the younger incarnate lamas to go away Tibet, there was none as brilliant as Trungpa Rinpoche—brilliant within the sense of his area of his being and his power. Lama Govinda, even at a degree when he wasn’t very proud of the way in which Trungpa Rinpoche was behaving, mentioned that he nonetheless needed to admit there was nobody who walked throughout the Himalayas and got here out who had that mild greater than Trungpa.” – Jack Kornfield
On this episode, Jack dives into:
- A celebration of the life, teachings, and affect of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
- The Vimalakīrti Sutra, and the way sure Bodhisattvas train as house owners in order that their message may be greatest understood by the world
- How Jack being invited to show alongside Ram Dass, Sharon Salzberg, and Joseph Goldstein on the college of Trungpa’s Naropa College in Boulder, CO sparked their educating careers within the West
- Lama Govinda’s view on Trungpa’s innate radiant brightness and his “lion’s roar”
- The traditions, trainings, and spirit of Shambala by way of the metaphor of the rising solar
- Assembly our life and apply with an openness and fearlessness
- Buddhist character varieties and their distinctive seeds of awakening
- Trungpa’s self-discipline for apply, and his deep devotion for his lecturers and dharma lineage
- Ping-ponging between Ram Dass’s and Trungpa Rinpoche’s dueling Bhakti and Buddhism periods the opening summer season at Naropa
“Trungpa Rinpoche gave himself as totally to the West as any Buddhist instructor that I do know that has come. And in a extra outstanding manner, he absorbed our tradition, our language, our customs, who we’re, into himself and mentioned, ‘Alright, let’s play! Let’s take the seed of the Dharma and actually make it sparkle and alive within the West.’” – Jack Kornfield
Ram Dass joins Trungpa Rinpoche at Naropa in 1974 to debate the notion of ego, on Right here and Now Ep. 112
About Jack Kornfield:
Jack Kornfield skilled as a Buddhist monk within the monasteries of Thailand, India, and Burma, finding out as. a monk below the Buddhist grasp Ven. Ajahn Chah, in addition to the Ven. Mahasi Sayadaw. He has taught meditation internationally since 1974 and is likely one of the key lecturers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness apply to the West. Jack co-founded the Perception Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, with fellow meditation lecturers Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein and the Spirit Rock Heart in Woodacre, California. His books have been translated into 20 languages and offered greater than 1,000,000 copies.
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