I first heard Dzigar Kongtrül Rinpoche teach in the spring of 2000. I recall the talk vividly because it awakened in me something I hadn't experienced with quite the same impact since my first teacher, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, died in 1987. It was a feeling of reconnecting with a wide-open perspective on reality, as if I'd been muddling...
ORDINARY MAN
Posted by Paul DiSegna
on April 20, 2016
In 1972 I was teaching at an alternative school in New Mexico. I introduced my class of eight-to-twelve-year-olds to a book called Born in Tibet and we all fell in love with it. When we learned that the author, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, was living in Boulder, Colorado, the children wrote a letter asking if they could meet him. Rinpoche replied...
Though the lojong teachings have been around for a thousand years, they are very much teachings for this age. Lojong aims directly at the core of our confused mind and gives us a multitude of tips for working with our habits on the spot. Yet lojong doesn't dwell on our confusion. Its purpose is to uncover the basic wisdom and compassion that is our...
