Chögyam Trungpa

Born 1939 · Died 1987

From Kham, Tibet · Nationality: United States, United Kingdom, Tibet · Writes nonfiction

Quotes

“Meditation practice ... has nothing to do with achieving perfection, achieving some absolute state or other. It is purely getting into what we are, really examining our actual psychological process without being ashamed of it.”
Glimpses of Abhidharma, p. 65
“Unless we are able to make friends with outselves, there is no hope at all. If we abandon ourselves as hopeless, as villains, then there is no steppingstone.”
Glimpses of Abhidharma, p. 66
“Our vast collections of knowledge and experience are just part of ego’s display, part of the grandiose quality of ego. We display them to the world and, in so doing, reassure ourselves that we exist, safe and secure, as “spiritual” people.”
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
“The idea is not to regard the spiritual path as something very luxurious and pleasurable but to see it as just facing the facts of life.”
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

Books by Chögyam Trungpa in the order they were published, from Born in Tibet (1966) to Work, Sex, Money (2011).