The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa: Volume 4
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Authors: Chögyam Trungpa
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 FOUR
Journey without Goal
The Lion’s Roar
The Dawn of Tantra
An Interview with Chögyam Trungpa
EDITED BY
Carolyn Rose Gimian
S
HAMBHALA
• B
OSTON
& L
ONDON
• 2010
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© 2003 by Diana J. Mukpo
Introduction to Volume Four © 2003 by Carolyn R. Gimian
Frontispiece: Chögyam Trungpa at Naropa Institute, 1974. Photograph by Robert Del Tredici. From the collection of the Shambhala Archives.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Trungpa, 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 978-0-8348-2153-8
ISBN 1-59030-025-4 (v.1)
ISBN 1-59030-026-2 (v.2)
ISBN 1-59030-027-0 (v.3)
ISBN 1-59030-028-9 (v.4)
ISBN 1-59030-029-7 (v.5)
ISBN 1-59030-030-0 (v.6)
ISBN 1-59030-031-9 (v.7)
ISBN 1-59030-032-7 (v.8)
1. Spiritual life—Buddhism. 2. Buddhism—Doctrines. I. Gimian, Carolyn Rose. II. Title.
BQ4302.T7823 2003
294.3′420423—dc22 2003058963
CONTENTS
J
OURNEY WITHOUT
G
OAL
: T
HE
T
ANTRIC
W
ISDOM OF THE
B
UDDHA
Acknowledgments
Introduction
“Intensifying Devotion in One’s Heart”
BY
J
AMGÖN
K
ONGTRÜL
L
ODRÖ
T
HAYE
“Lord Marpa’s Praise to the Gurus”
T
HE
L
ION
’
S
R
OAR
: A
N
I
NTRODUCTION TO
T
ANTRA
Editor’s Foreword
Nine Yanas Seminar / Boulder, December 1973
5. The Crazy-Wisdom Holder and the Student
Nine Yanas Seminar / San Francisco, May 1973
1. Suffering, Impermanence, Egolessness
2. Competing with Our Projections
4. The Juncture between Sutra and Tantra
7. The Five Buddha Families and Mahamudra
Notes
By Herbert V. Guenther and Chögyam Trungpa
Introduction
1. Tantra: Its Origin and Presentation
3. Yogachara and the Primacy of Experience
4. The Mandala Principle and the Meditative Process
5. The Indivisibility of Openness and Compassion
6. The Development of Shunyata
7. The Guru-Disciple Relationship
9. Empowerment and Initiations
10. Questions and Answers: Guenther
11. Questions and Answers: Rinpoche
A
N
I
NTERVIEW WITH
C
HÖGYAM
T
RUNGPA
Things Get Very Clear When You’re Cornered
A Biography of Chögyam Trungpa
INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME FOUR
V
OLUME
F
OUR OF
The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa
is the first of three volumes that present the tantric, or vajrayana, teachings of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Volume Four is path-oriented, Volume Five is organized around the themes of lineage and devotion, and Volume Six deals with what one might call tantric states of mind or tantric experience. Not every item included in each volume conforms exactly to this structure, but I have attempted to group material with some affinity together.
From some point of view, Trungpa Rinpoche’s approach was altogether tantric, or grounded in vajrayana, especially in the teachings that he gave after coming to North America. However, for the purposes of
The Collected Works
, the published material that was particularly focused on vajrayana teachings has been gathered together in Volumes Four to Six. Interestingly, the majority of these books have been published posthumously.
Even when presenting the most overtly tantric material, Trungpa Rinpoche guarded the integrity of the vajrayana teachings, being very careful not to introduce material prematurely to his students and not to cater to public fascination with tantra. There was certainly plenty of such fascination when he came to America in the early 1970s, which made him even more conservative in his approach. In many of his early talks, he focused on what tantra was
not
, dispelling preconceptions of wild behavior, indulgence in “tantric sex,” and bizarre surges of energy. His teachings on the dangers of spiritual materialism were, in part, designed to cut through naive misinterpretations of tantra, which he saw as potentially very harmful to young American spiritual seekers.