driving into a joke shop after being distracted by a billboard, no less — Trungpa scrapp
s old approach to teachin
ha’s revolutionary messa
t teenage daughter of a high-bo
ions of hippi
delic insig
n fresh, unsentimental, idiomat
ortrayed him (accurate
lies that prevent us from se
gainst delusion (which he called “neurosis,” adopti
re not going to yield to the neurotic world. Inch by inch, step-b
ffort should wake people up through the wor
lease everyone and go along with the cur
t might be painful for your cli
ccommodate such press
orld will go downhill, and the artist will go d
rudy Dix
the voice of a wise chil
fe and death, dancing gra
dge of the unsay
se rare books tha
nnily relev
same time, it was a s
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de of Z
nplayed the enticing con
o gaining idea” — that is, with n
our next sess
ttering, life-changing flash of sat
hich was a shocking thin
dmit at the time (laughingl
ay: “You’re perfect just as yo
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ave been lifted fro
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ook the whole thing as a lig
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ese, the language of much
monk’s lif
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is longtime spir
ticularly rough
owing year, aft
gnosis of pan
t sounds like I have a personal s
ough not as often as
ost of my own time on the cushi
n practice.” I eventu
und it in writ
essing, to imagine what the digi
and vow to save all sent
plied, “Attention.” Aske
ttention means attention” — one of those crypt
ink you’re drunk. But att
ans investing moment-to-moment awar
aking lov
rafting a totall
ffered breathtaking juxtapos
o nails!) that held u
nmoved by the vibrant, airy layout
scued from a beach in Ma
rmonious fusi
pkins and fussin
lower arrangem
very table. Sound fa
sign of the font
o the metals used to cast the cas
the rhyming prop
uraged mindfuln
s so superbl
hat they faded in
ckground as creat
icycles for the mind,” and Is
christen th
rrain availab
avy, clunky, trainin
lways calling attention to thems
ages of tedious do
mentation to explain.
tocols that requir
ratizing revolut
ho could affo
ow, intuitively, how to use is wha
sformed comp
archy of Usen
tal sandbo
ursuit of intuit
a kindre
pirit i
ll the gadgets that made your jaw d
n you first saw
cause they seemed so elemental, unfuss
vitable; as if they were plat
ions of form and funct
ere already waiting som
ddenly appe
lean; avatars of the new.
n the expert’s mind there are few.” Suz
staining sho
s a gravity, almost a c
h its transparen
loud-water” people)
ack of your pract
ortant as the fro
spect tha
raighted his spin
rew the bow, and let loos
nd it, plumm
cific below. The specta
leefully shouted, “Bullse
bypassed: the import
eating everyone around you, even percei
ss. It’s tempting now to cast
rave refusal to
eal of perfecti
nscend their ow
actitioner would have tried to fin
g out the genius i
at the most pow
I’ll be dead soon is the most important too
these things just fall away in the fa
eaving only what is truly imp
membering that you are going to die is the best
void the trap of think
lready naked. There is no re
ant to die to get there. And yet death is the destin
ow the new is you,
to be so drama
apped by dogma — which is li
sults of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other
portant, have the courage to foll
how already know
verything else i
would have loved
eve any personal quest
