1975 Seminary Transcripts Of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

1975 Seminary Hinayana Mahayana ChOgyam Trungpa, Rinpoche 1975 Seminary Hina yana-Mahayana 1975 Seminary Hinayana--~ahayana Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche This is a transcript of talks given by Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche at the third Vajradhatu Seminary, a twelve-week period of intensive meditation and study, held at Snowmass Village, Colorado, September-November 1975. G) 1976 Vajradhatu All rights reserved. No part of this manuscript may be reprinted without the written permission of the author. Table of Contents Talk One: Introduction Page 1 Sitting practice as no man's land. Breathing and thoughts. Walking meditation. Developing sense of watchfulness. Physical pain. Discipline. Talk Two: Dharma 10 Attraction to dharma due to preconceptions and wishful thinking and due to genuine insight or two elements that occur whenever dharma is presented. Dharma good in beginning, middle, and end. Ten traditional definitions of dharma. Talk Three: Y ana 20 Notion of path as life experience, vehicle as the teachings and journeyer as the student. Speed of vehicle dependent on person riding in it. Theistic vs. nontheistic approach. Taking refuge. Irony ofjourney which does not lead anywhere. Talk Four: Transcending the Lower Realms 32 Hinayana as the absence of frivolity. Discipline as morality, meditation, and knowledge. Four marks of view: impermanence, egolessness, suffering and nirvana. Natural religion. Talk Five: Sravakayana 44 Sravakayana as hearing and propagating the teachings. Soso tharpa, the ethics of individual freedom. Renunciation and loneliness. Arrogance and indulgence. Four noble truths as view of sravakayanists. Eight types of suffering: birth, sickness,.old age, death; not getting what you want, getting what you don't want, not knowing what you want; basic underlying suffering. Talk Six: The Origin of Suffering 56 Origins of suffering from point of view of (1) emotions, (2) karma. Escalation of little shifts of thought into full blown emotions. Fundamental ignorance vs. ignorance as one of the six emotions. Psychological and physical karma. Search to avoid pain and seek pleasure both product and producer of suffering. Talk Seven: Cessation 64 The third noble truth: gogpa or the cessation of suffering. Twelve definitions of gogpa. Basic notion of gogpa as transcending neurosis and turmoil of life, including the notion of cessation itself. Seeing thoughts as transparent leading to cessation of thoughts. Question of what.happens to pain, or first noble truth, at this point. Talk Eight: The Path 74 Path more like an expedition than prebuilt road. Four marks of existence-impermanence, suffering, emptiness, egolessness-as basis of path. Four qualities of path: search for real meaning of dharma or isness, insight, practice, fruition. Sravakayana as overcoming ego of individuality but not ego of dharmas (Asanga) vs. overcoming two-fold ego (Nagarjuna). Talk Nine: Pratyekabuddhayana Sravakayana and pratyekabuddhayana distinguished by personality types rather than being a progression or journey. Parrots and rhinoceroses. Arrogance, individualism, absence of compassion. One-and-a-half-fold egolessness. Compassion not just helping people out but inviting them into your territory. Three realms. 87 Talk Ten: Sitting or Nonsitting 100 Twelve nidanas as wisdom of pratyekabuddhayana. Four types of discipline: joy, vision, discipline, practice. Sitting as essential foundation of buddhism. You are either sitting or not sitting, practicing or missing the point completely. Conception of bu