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In particular, the author discusses meditation as a practical way to uncover one's own innate wisdom. Nov 12, Heathen rated it really liked it. But that's an interpretation. Now it is November, nine months from my second reading, and this has easily been the best book of the year, with the aspects of Padmasambava haunted me nearly daily. This would not be a great book for those just new to Buddhism but those who have studied at least the Mahayana teachings and have an idea of what's to come, this is a great read. The Wisdom of Shambhala. Read more Read less.

That was until Trungpa, the ultimate bull in your beautiful China shop, came thrashing through. He kicked in the windows, broke your tea set, and turned around with this crazy smile on a nostrils-flaring face, and you knew things would never be the same. If it were not for him I think I would likely stagnate all the time in my quest to be a good Buddhist.

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There is a kind of raw energy, openness, directness and contemporariness that I simply don't see elsewhere. He is not trying to be polite or proper, nor to make life easier or "less stressful". In the course of the path one discovers deeper and deeper levels of one's own non-existence, and inseparable from that in the experience of meditation is the arising of energy.

Human beings are characterized by our physical embodiment and a sense of self and other. In this human context, there are two places where you can work with form and emptiness. There is the 'outer mandala' or outer practice: You do a lot of that first - perhaps for 10 or 20 years. But at a certain point people start to discover that the issue of form and emptiness is represented in the most subtle levels of their bodies.

So the chakras are birth-places of form and emptiness. There are different birth-places in one's system and, as you meditate and relate to the chakras in different ways, you are working with different domains of energy. The practices are a gateway and then you're on your own.

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Visualising a Buddha also involves imagining a 'seed syllable' in one's heart that symbolises the Buddha's wisdom. How is this connected with chakras?

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The seed syllable in the heart represents the primordial energy that gives birth to everything. The practitioner discovers a level of form and emptiness that is at the root of our entire life.

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In Tibetan Buddhism the most common seed syllable is hum , which is a resonance at the foundation of our being. When you touch that you are the Buddha you are visualising. We visualise the Buddha externally because we need a different form from the person we conceive ourselves to be. The figure connects us with whatever qualities are needed in the world. As long as we are identified with the Buddha as embodied in the seed syllable, whatever we do in the world is flawless and helpful. That implies being with others in a completely naked fearless and accurate way.

You can talk about them in general, but Tibetan tradition maintains it is better not to expose untrained people to the actual techniques, because they can mess you up when attempted without the proper training. They are ways of contacting the energy domains the chakras represent in a much more naked way than humans normally experience.

As human beings we never really understand directly the energy of love or expression, or whatever. Our experience of them is filtered through a highly developed process of ego: Sexuality is the one energy that can break through, which is why people are so obsessed with it. It is the one aspect of their life where they have to let go. In working with the chakras we remove the coverings of our energy system and meet our energy much more directly. When ego templates are stripped away we are left, for example, with the spontaneous outpouring of love for other people.

The reason we work with chakras in Tibetan Buddhism is to actualise the Bodhisattva Vow of saving all beings.

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We have to realise the great compassion of the Buddha, where there is no impediment between the natural compassion of the energetic body and other people. When we have an idea of how to help someone it usually has as much to do with ourselves as to do with them. But a realised person's energy arises spontaneously from emptiness in a way that is absolutely accurate in terms of what the other person needs. However, that expression of compassion pays no attention to social conventions, and it often comes out in ways that seem unconventional or outrageous.

That is called Crazy Wisdom. Trungpa Rinpoche, who was in that tradition, was so naked and direct that it could be truly terrifying to be around him.

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Chögyam Trungpa (–)—meditation master, teacher, and artist— founded Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, the first Buddhist-inspired university. Editorial Reviews. About the Author. Chögyam Trungpa (–)— meditation master, Crazy Wisdom (Dharma Ocean) - Kindle edition by Chogyam Trungpa. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets.

The more you work with inner yoga in retreat, the more you are unconstrained by what people expect. One meets many people who have done these practices, and after a while they say, 'I don't think I am going to do this any more. I respect that - we live in a very structured conventional society, and what happens to people who achieve that level of realisation? It's not as if you can do the practices and then go out and have a normal life.

So I don't encourage all my students to do them, and just a handful are practising them now. Do these issues affect every practitioner or is there something particularly confronting about the tantric approach?

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They affect every practitioner.