Basic Goodness and Harmony -Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche -Shambhala

[@Namdaq]

To all who complains that he was drunk and a smoker etc. listen here, He renounced his monastery vows after that he was a layman and he was free to do whatever he wanted and he decided to teach and change the life of many people. He was the father of Tibetan Buddhism in the West. Trungpa Rinpoche's guru/friend (third Jamgön Kongtrül) said, "You should not judge or imitate your teacher's behavior unless you can imitate his mind".

[@GraftedSeed]

hear hear

[@tortugas-]

The truth is that he was alcoholic. And from experience, with my own addictions, I need help. Humility is always very important.

[@saraswati999]

So Dharma Teachers if realized then have the green light to ......... ok we get it. Osho got it too.

[@seanmanoukian4860]

Thank you for speaking up, he transcended alcoholism via gentleness and kindness, he was the only mind that unified intoxicants with awareness, and he did it on the spot, again, and again, it's the way he rolled, with all knowing compassion and courage that was without borders or precognition. It was like a lotus blooming in the now, for all to view and see that they were the same flower, that's how an enlightened mind dwells, always as an offering to what's in front of it.

[@zamplify]

He "transcended" alcoholism with huge piles of cocaine and died of liver failure at 48.

[@bukudattadatta955]

Can hear him again and again all through my life.wonderful vajra master guru rinpoche.

[@deadlyfreckle]

so he speaks like a spontaneous flower arrangement, even drunk, one of the most learned men that lived. He changed my life like no other

[@BeyondSideshow]

@@jazzsecrets seriously?

[@Theopengrove]

Well cocaine does tend to help drinkers in talking well

[@davidmadero6597]

@@playafromthehimalaya8755 he died of sirrosis

[@bartbannister394]

@@BeyondSideshow Yes, seriously. Ever read his books?

[@penguin0101]

He drunk? Haha thats against the 5 buddhist precepts. Samaya samaya

[@gkukel]

We should be grateful to all those past and present masters as they brought Buddhism in the whole world in general and in the western and European world in particular where Buddhism wasn't flourished before. I say grateful in the sense that I can see clearly that in this present world the only weapon that could tackle violence is inner peace, compassion and altruism which are the basis of Buddhism. May our precious life be meaningful and may there be no violence. Everybody live in harmony.

[@tashi2400]

Great master . bow to you from my deep heart🙏🙏🙏 we keep your blissful teachings in our mind even we can't see you anymore 😭

[@wynsomekierman1163]

Wonderful teaching for artists. Confidence, harmony, joy! Thank you

[@Adrian_El_Amin]

“If there is no trust, there will be no harmony” … mind blowing

[@steevo211]

Chogyam still getting us in trouble. Love You Brother, Brother.

[@brandont5933]

Still alive & well

[@rr7firefly]

Very recently I realized that Joni Mitchell was singing about Trungpa in her song "Refuge of the Roads" -- late but not too late. When I see lectures like this with gentle wisdom it makes me sad to see how far the United States has fallen. Some people acting abominably. The rest challenged not to react to that.

[@noonespecial4171]

USA is fallen already, like Rome did, all empires do - Anatta.

[@johngibbs799]

Read his books. It doesn't get any better. And his son has inherited the same ability to teach the true Dharma. We are so blessed to live in a time when we can receive the true Dharma teachings unpolluted, unaltered. Incredible!!

[@hellsravenkane]

Hi John. Do you have a book of his that would be worth starting with for someone new to his works? I’ve read some Pema Chodron and she mentions him often, but that’s all I know.

[@SfromWisconsin]

​@@hellsravenkaneI recommend starting with Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior. It covers all of these concepts in more detail.

[@JM-vp8zc]

@@hellsravenkane*Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism*

[@YokoshimaSTAR]

Thanks heaps for all your work on uploading yet subtitling. You need a reward.

[@nealamesbury1480]

He was human- and when he spoke as a guru- he was good.I like the shambhala book.- he was human.not any more complicated than that. Mr.mukpo, was a good teacher. !

[@gkukel]

Although I heard about Trungpa Rinpoche, I never have had the opportunity to see or get his blessings, but I can say next to His Holiness The Dalai lama the only person that inspired me most in the whole world is Chogyam Trungpa after watching His videos in KZbin and my other video collections. I'm fortunate that I was born in His era, but am not fortunate enough as I couldn't get the opportunity to see Him personally. I hope I can see His Yangsi some day.

[@dancingoneness8348]

Miss you, master

[@samekstrom7681]

At 1:04 you can see Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky bottom right.

[@enriquenicolaas]

Muchas gracias por compartir este material tan extraordinario. estoy profundamente agradecido. un cálido saludo y mucha paz y prosperidad para ustedes. (Thank you very much for sharing this extraordinary material. I am deeply grateful. a warm greeting and much peace and prosperity to you.)

[@ཀལའུདིཨབྱམསཔ]

Like Master Dzongsar said “He is the Sun “ …. He is! Great Master! Great great Master 🙏🙏🙏🌸🌸🌸🌸

[@newyorknewyork818]

Thanks for sharing.🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@paxnorthwilliamson2689]

"By their fruits you shall know them"

[@vhawk1951kl]

Which is one way of saying: apply the two and two test

[@nealamesbury1480]

Indeed.his fruit,one of many,was the shambhala book.good stuff .

[@charlesrae3793]

Like father, like son. Mipham is a sex pest, just like dad.

[@jackvogel9777]

Yep.

[@amadeovalls8121]

estimados herman@s en el Dharma...., sois las preciosas joyas que voy encontrando... en el camino del abandono del sufrimiento de Samsara... , podam@s tod@s por el beneficio de tod@ l@s seres del ciclo de esxistencias...., alcanzar la Iluminacion...., Gampopa 1073-1153

[@BuddhaLove77]

As a Rissho Kosei Kai Dharma Teacher and as I listen to him, I see him as a Great Bodhisattva warning by his behavior and demeanor not to be trapped by anything or anyone and that we are going to have a truly radical Dharma to face the realities that are coming forth. And he is really asking; can you release all of the Known? Can You? Make Yourself the Light, Make the Dharma your Light….. The Buddha Yes there is another way…. NewCultureofPeace&Love…Now!🙏

[@Hilarious_Harbor]

Absolutely amazing!

[@samscudamore590]

I agree, his english is pretty legit

[@heatherross928]

I can exclude his drinking and womanizing etc…But I still find what he says and written to be so deep so wise …I try to take the whole man.

[@lymphomasurvive]

The crazy wisdom is an accepted part of Tibetan Buddhism.

[@ZEDROLAND]

*zooms in on tree* hahah justing chilling there all basic and good and shit haha!

[@treybarefoot7040]

@daniellecduffy

[@robertboiarski3585]

Thank you!

[@OkaCenterIbogaCostaRica]

thank you for this video

[@karolyneubauer9152]

Köszi a feltöltést

[@filsdejeannoir1776]

6:53 EXACTLY! "If there is no trust, there will be no harmony." This is the very problem which we are experiencing with the Aghanistan situation at the moment. No one is willing to make that leap of faith to give the thing a chance. Better to trust and get burnt then to never invest the trust at all really. The backlash from the latter is worse than the former.

[@vhawk1951kl]

There*can*be no harmony so long as men (human beings) are the abject slaves of their functions. First of all discover what is possible, And recognise what is impossible.

[@Buddhammaful]

so Zen Thank you May the Great Eastern Sun pervade your World! :) Our World! The World!

[@peacefulpisces5336]

A fellow Pisces Buddhist

[@charliewilson300]

Maybe, at this distance in time, it is possible to pay attention to Trungpa's teachings, and not be distracted by the controversy he generated in his life time. The words, not the drunken antics.

[@gost4995]

I find it difficult to comprehend his teachings. His use of many words is overshadowed by their meaningless.

[@universalwildling3566]

It is helpful to read his teachings and books which gives meaning and context to many of his words. Such as “setting sun” which is fully described in “Shambala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior”, for example.

[@lentilofhope]

lol @ people who think allen ginsberg is terence mckenna

[@JigmeGurung]

yeah.. they were good friends..

[@JM-vp8zc]

I love him wearing a suit in a room full of hippies.

[@jhhjyjkkkjgfjjk]

Now Showing: Chogyam Trungpa - The Guru Who Shagged Many

[@1weaverman]

for twenty years I have sat on the fence on one side Buddhism other christianity the latter two sides either for or against if one crosses the former one is in it is done yet I cannot sit on that side I am not in harmony but with Buddhism I can be in harmony ** I cannot be a Buddhist christian but I can see using Buddhism ** a text and tradition which can help me and us *** not as a christian as in the second example crossing as 'for' but a 'christian' as between Jew and Muslim where the Buddhist and others assist all of us in becoming one. this is the way I want to be a christian.

[@TheArtofGuitar]

Why do you need to choose a system?

[@1weaverman]

+PitchfeverAcademy choices: 1 live in a system 2 live wout a system (perhaps simplify: rigpa, looking, see Buddha nature, open) 3 study system to end (joy, 😴 love all) 4 study multiple systems in order to understand others. 5 the point is: systems exist, to understand world, understand systems. if one is blessed or strains hard enough strives endures striving wout striving integrative potentialities emerge

[@1weaverman]

+PitchfeverAcademy deeper suffering deeper endurance wider experience walks with others wider realization (see Buddha) not my system my identification but others ways and beliefs to realization : see oxherder, Jesus between two, peace individual yes often mental disposition answer in threes must I choose a system was your question. feel loyalty to what was given one works out of that. nonviolence..😕

[@paxnorthwilliamson2689]

Check out Brother David Stendl Rast. Catholic monk who also spent 17 years in a zen monastery. "This is the Way".

[@bertoflores5046]

I have no good comment. The simple are very easily fascinated. No one can teach you anything that you can’t learn on your own by self reflection.

[@karmalodro1593]

The Vajrayana...... Pay attention.....1 Life time.,... enlightenment, rainbow 🌈 body..... Pay attention...

[@vata17a]

whoa man, get it together , that sounds completely insane.

[@BeyondSideshow]

You mean drunk. He’s making sense if you can follow him.

[@vhawk1951kl]

Everything sounds insane to dreamers

[@TheReshmanth]

Like a flowing river.

[@grothhaupt]

Thank you for that. And what a pitty that you threaten people with "serious penalties". I am not trusting that the society according to shambala will be built on penalties. Maybe you want to join to creative commons thinking and practice?

[@danielczimler9034]

Sose bízz meg egy egyénben se! Egyetlen amiben megbízhatsz az az a hang ami szíved közepén érinti tudatodat. Ez persze jöhet az egyén szájából is.🙏☺️

[@serhiipovisenko]

midnight gospel?

[@pylgrym]

Puts the SHAM in Shambhala!

[@baddog52]

definitely

[@glovearm]

Mckenna wasn't bald.

[@AnhTuPhucDerrickHoangCanada]

He still taught at the YMCA for what it's worth.

[@Shambhalian]

yes

[@jigmenamgyal7175]

🙏🙏🙏

[@leecartercook8417]

Duncan sent me here

[@noonespecial4171]

Trungpa was Pisces Sun = alcoholic or addict.

[@roman14032]

he had a degree in comparitive reigions from oxford so if you cant learn english there you'd be kinda hopeless

[@jiyujizai]

🌱💚🌸😀

[@filsdejeannoir1776]

0:55 "It's quite marvelous that we have a passion, that we are not purely made out of aggression." MEANS WHAT? A passion for what? 1:16 What does he mean by 'passion'? Does he mean 'desire'? 1:39 Isn't that the U. S. attitude? "We are the ONLY 'right' people"? 4:17 Is that the British people? The 'constipation'?

[@vhawk1951kl]

Do you see that you are the abbject slave of yoour emotionnal function? Is it possible for you nnot to be thee slave oof your emotional function?Fashion is merely another worrd for identification or saying "I" to your functions. Those that follow the teaching of Shakyamuni call identification attachment, and the reason that men become attached is that they like becoming attached - they have no choice. Passion doesn't have to bee passion "for", It is merely identification or attachment or slavery to the emotional function which is no more than likes and dislikes wants and not_wants. The functions are necessary but is not necessary to be the slave of the functions or to identify with the functions - say "I" to them. Our of the drunkard was merely saying that two and two make four and you and I might wonder why some treat that as if it were some mysterious revelation. If a man says that two and two make four when he is drunk is that any reason to suppose that he is wrong or mistaken? So he died dead drunk; so what? - Does that mean that the sum of two and two are not somehow four?

[@tcheudam]

@schindlerial yes!

[@Pacoamadeus]

mucha autoimportancia

[@28105wsking]

The Buddhist scriptures say, " Do not depend on the teacher, depend on the teaching." The point is what he says, and your own practice. If it helps, fine, if it doesn't, fine. Its up to you, not up to him. What effect is it to you whatever Trungpa did in his own life? Nothing! So stay focused on the point, and don't be deflected by all this other inflammatory talk. Apply the teaching to your own practice, your own life, or leave it alone. Some teachers are helpful and some, tho famous and renowned, do not. You decide. Be like the Tibetan Siberian goose which migrates south to India over the Himalayas thru Tibet every year. Tibetans put out bowls of milk mixed with water for them to drink. The goose takes the milk and somehow leaves the water! Nobody knows how they do it! So be like that. Take the milk and leave the water. Foolish people are hypnotized by shiny things, like crows. Look below the noise to what is hidden, secret, and precious. Many Buddhas appear encircled by flames and turmoil, but the secret teaching is hidden in the heart for those serious ones. Trungpa was like that.

[@wisemant11]

Terrence McKenna sighting at 1:05?

[@BeyondSideshow]

T.L. Wiseman - Ginsberg

[@MCGeddelti]

hes coked out of his mind 🤣 but thats good ol trumgpa

[@pape37]

@schindlerial Yes.

[@AlysiaWilkins-t9v]

🌹🕊️❤️🍇🐠🦋🪷✝️🕊️❤️

[@mongeantoine8949]

Lama tchenno

[@shadowheart52]

I just saw a documentary on this guy. Was cheating on his wife and the distress that caused her part of his basic goodness? Behavior normally considered decadent he got away with as "crazy wisdom". That's just plain crazy if you ask me.

[@zlancenyc]

Some people he did these things intentionally. The teacher and the teaching are not the same. Or it would be basic argumentum ad hominem.

[@ratnazafu]

You ought to read her autobiography. It shines a lot of light on the behaviors many have complained about. She is no pushover and seemed pretty happy to be married to him.

[@Ck-zk3we]

you missed the point

[@BeyondSideshow]

Forget the finger, look at the moon it’s pointing to.

[@MsFlamingFlamer]

Mel Thompson seems like rationalization. Ive been around a lot of Zennies and many are simply dysfunctional and could never fit in to regular society like hold down a regular job.

[@jackbassII]

The tree was waiting for me to harvest it? This isn't the sound of someone who is at one with the universe, it sounds more like grandiose entitlement.

[@Supoflife]

Yes I agree, its difficult to sit listening in to his wisdom after he says he went to the mountain and just took a tree, hacked it a little for transport, to put in the lecture room. I thought he was about to say how he went to the mountain to sit with the trees and air, the mountain filled with its life and feel the compassion and wisdom. Instead he raped it of a tree. Why would a tree want to leave the mountain to sit hacked of branches in a lecture room?

[@Localicu]

Supoflife a tree does´t want anything special ..we can learn from it...and some people are still appreciating the beauty of a flower, the beauty of it´s true nature although its "origin" has been taken away

[@Supoflife]

Localicu the point being made is that is is not compassionate to take a tree from its joy in the mountain and anyone who would do this just to take it to be inside a lecture theatre and away from nature, is not compassionate to the tree. There is no point following compassionate teachings if you will not look into the compassion of your actions and if you will not look into the right to free life of all beings. Also if you attempt to control another, such as taking a tree from the place it has chosen to grow, you cannot really learn of the tree, only a tree controlled by another. People think they will learn from cutting up rats and say that it is compassionate as this will help humans, but they cannot learn of the rat from cutting it up. You cannot really learn from the tree by tearing it from its home and putting it in a lecture theatre. As I say there is no point studying compassionate teachings if you will not look at this more deeply.

[@bradgarrison7256]

Supoflife thats your view, and your certainly entitled to it. But what about compassion for him, if you think he ignorantly took the tree from its rightful place?

[@Supoflife]

I have compassion for him Brad. He was a teacher of a universally compassionate belief system so I think its OK to question some things he says which may seem to be hypocritical and questioning what he says doesnt mean I lack compassion for him as a being. People who just take in the teachers words without personal enquiry will not come to the greatest of understandings will they? Trees are alive and where they grow is integral to all life, it all has immense meaning universally and to the individual tree. Just ripping them out of the ground, cutting them down for easier transport (as he said he needed to do) and putting them in a room for lectures is so far away from the teaching of universal respect , compassion and love that it needs be questioned. He possibly didnt put much question into it himself as it is customary and he felt the tree would help the class he was teaching. If he had decided to live more fully in the teachings likely he would need to be back in the bush and living more with the earth. I didnt question him for being alchoholic and for sleeping with his students male and female. It is sad he was an alchoholic and that he couldnt have been more compassionate to his body. I dont know if sleeping with students is innately hypocritical, I tend to think it isnt unless he was abusing his authority, power and charisma. I do know that ripping a beautiful tree out of the ground from its home in the mountains where it could have grown to be all it wished to be, given shelter to birds and plants below and taken its place intricately in its world for all its beauty and healing - doing that to such a tree is hypocritical. So I questioned it, as I would hope you will too.

[@karmalodro1593]

Crazy wisdom and junk..... Basic Goodness...... I manifested around the same time he did.... Hmmmm. 😊

[@justbeyourself2]

i love Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche but why do Jews claim Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche for themselves like their own and not want to share his teachings?

[@chewyguru]

I'm not quite getting what you mean here.

[@BuddhaLove77]

@@playafromthehimalaya8755 thank you so much for asking the basic question of what this person means. NewCultureofPeace&Love…..Now!🙏

[@Joao-pe8ur]

I look into his eyes and I can only see a psychopath cloaked behind the curtain of spirituality and a ready audience of broken people ready to obey.

[@Metabrotropic]

Why do you say that?

[@vhawk1951kl]

And you obtained your degree in medicine at which University?- Are you not merely saying that you don't like what he had too say?

[@Chooify]

This man ordered his men to strip people naked against their will in public and in the name of a Buddhism devotion honorship. Craziness and blind followings.

[@suraya4768]

Primitive Sponge

[@BeyondSideshow]

Primitive Sponge - Yes, let’s all bask in the light of our moral superiority over this wretched man. Free doses of dopamin for all.

[@MsFlamingFlamer]

Primitive Sponge his son isnt too dissimilar. The apple didnt fall very far from the tree

[@universalwildling3566]

@@tangokaleidos1926 who cares what he did? The people who were stripped, for one. That was beyond his own person and choices. People were physically accosted under his direction. Who cares what a politician does? Who cares what police do? Who cares what abusive parents do?

[@paxnorthwilliamson2689]

@@BeyondSideshow Thanks for the reminder. Dang that shit is pernicious.

[@dharmamati6370]

Why this foolish obsession with suits and ties?????????????

[@tangokaleidos1926]

who cares? How do you know he was obsessed? Maybe he liked it. Maybe he did it to provoke others... who knows? but why do you care? If you care about it too much then it would be your obsession and not his and it's your opinion that something is foolish. That does not make it so. Maybe it is foolish. Maybe it isn't. Maybe it is only clothes and quite decent clothes to speak to an audience in public. Who cares? Nobody needs to live up to anybody else's ideas or standards. There are no rules. Don't follow others. Do whatever you want. Period.

[@JM-vp8zc]

He did it to provoke an audience of hippies and fuck with their stereotypes about Eastern spiritual teachers. And also because he looked rather dapper.

[@tonisylviamallette1601]

You should remove this abusers videos

[@JM-vp8zc]

Instead of advocating for censorship, shitbird, why don’t you just not watch the video?

[@joanmarietsultrimparkin1821]

Very difficult yo be a flower arrsngement. ..I am.tsultrim.metok.😊