Illusion's Game: The Life and Teaching of Naropa [NOOK Book]

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In what he calls a "200 percent potent" teaching, Chögyam Trungpa
reveals how the spiritual path is a raw and rugged "unlearning"
process that draws us away from the comfort of conventional expectations and
conceptual attitudes toward a naked encounter with reality. The...
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Illusion's Game: The Life and Teaching of Naropa

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Overview

In what he calls a "200 percent potent" teaching, Chögyam Trungpa
reveals how the spiritual path is a raw and rugged "unlearning"
process that draws us away from the comfort of conventional expectations and
conceptual attitudes toward a naked encounter with reality. The tantric
paradigm for this process is the story of the Indian master Naropa
(1016–1100), who is among the enlightened teachers of the Kagyu lineage of
the Tibetan Buddhism. Naropa was the leading scholar at Nalanda, the Buddhist
monastic university, when he embarked upon the lonely and arduous path to
enlightenment. After a series of daunting trials, he was prepared to receive
the direct transmission of the awakened state of mind from his guru, Tilopa.
Teachings that he received, including those known as the six doctrines of
Naropa, have been passed down in the lineages of Tibetan Buddhism for a
millennium.

Trungpa's
commentary shows the relevance of Naropa's extraordinary journey for today's
practitioners who seek to follow the spiritual path. Naropa's story makes it
possible to delineate in very concrete terms the various levels of spiritual
development that lead to the student's readiness to meet the teacher's mind.
Trungpa thus opens to Western students of Buddhism the path of devotion and
surrender to the guru as the embodiment and representative of reality.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780834821361
  • Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Inc.
  • Publication date: 1/14/2011
  • Series: Shambhala Publications
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 646,868
  • File size: 1,024 KB

Meet the Author

Chögyam Trungpa (1940–1987) was a meditation master, teacher, and artist who founded Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, and an international association of meditation centers known as Shambhala International. He is the author of numerous books.

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Table of Contents

Editor's Foreword
Pt. 1 "Life of Naropa" Seminar I: New York, 1972
1 Naropa and Us 3
2 Genuine Madness and Pop Art 8
3 An Operation without Anesthetics 32
4 Something Very Tickling 50
Pt. 2 "Life of Naropa" Seminar II: Karme-Choling, 1973
1 Pain and Hopelessness 55
2 Giving Birth to Intellect 69
3 Choiceless Awareness 87
4 Beyond Shunyata 100
5 Mahamudra 116
6 The Levels of Mahamudra 131
Notes 151
Glossary 153
Transliteration of Tibetan Terms 162
About the Author 163
Meditation Center Information 168
Index 171
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