Special Guest Speaker: Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
“Spiritual Materialism” via the Chogyam Trungpa Digital Library — Sunday, June 8th, 10 am ET — Online via Zoom
We hope you can join us on Zoom at our usual 10 AM Sunday time for a special appearance by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, for a talk on Spiritual Materialism, recorded on video in 1974. For those who appreciate Trungpa Rinpoche's teachings, but did not have the chance to attend his talks in-person, this is an opportunity to experience one of his more famous teachings as a group. Together we will watch and discuss this first talk of the Tibetan Buddhist Path seminar, which opened the inaugural summer session of Naropa Institute, now University.
The morning's program will begin with a brief introduction to the Chogyam Trungpa Institute's Digital Library, which offers open access to a remarkably diverse catalog of Trungpa Rinpoche's teachings as captioned audio and video. During our gathering, Warner Dick, one of the architects of the Library, will present a brief tour of this modern digital dharma resource.
Spiritual materialism is a term coined by VCTR to describe the tendency to seek spiritual wisdom with the (conscious or subconscious) desire to become a greater and more powerful person. He frames this as an essentially ego-oriented pursuit, and thus a contradiction and potential pitfall of the spiritual path — as relevant today as it was 50 years ago.
The Tibetan Buddhist Path seminar was recently published as the popular book: Cynicism and Magic: Intellect and Intuition on the Buddhist Path, available at booksellers everywhere and from the publisher.
Please register by RSVP only, or make an optional donation by selecting from the pull-down menu.
Mark your calendar — Zoom link here
“Spiritual Materialism” via the Chogyam Trungpa Digital Library — Sunday, June 8th, 10 am ET — Online via Zoom
We hope you can join us on Zoom at our usual 10 AM Sunday time for a special appearance by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, for a talk on Spiritual Materialism, recorded on video in 1974. For those who appreciate Trungpa Rinpoche's teachings, but did not have the chance to attend his talks in-person, this is an opportunity to experience one of his more famous teachings as a group. Together we will watch and discuss this first talk of the Tibetan Buddhist Path seminar, which opened the inaugural summer session of Naropa Institute, now University.
The morning's program will begin with a brief introduction to the Chogyam Trungpa Institute's Digital Library, which offers open access to a remarkably diverse catalog of Trungpa Rinpoche's teachings as captioned audio and video. During our gathering, Warner Dick, one of the architects of the Library, will present a brief tour of this modern digital dharma resource.
Spiritual materialism is a term coined by VCTR to describe the tendency to seek spiritual wisdom with the (conscious or subconscious) desire to become a greater and more powerful person. He frames this as an essentially ego-oriented pursuit, and thus a contradiction and potential pitfall of the spiritual path — as relevant today as it was 50 years ago.
The Tibetan Buddhist Path seminar was recently published as the popular book: Cynicism and Magic: Intellect and Intuition on the Buddhist Path, available at booksellers everywhere and from the publisher.
Please register by RSVP only, or make an optional donation by selecting from the pull-down menu.
Mark your calendar — Zoom link here
“Spiritual Materialism” via the Chogyam Trungpa Digital Library — Sunday, June 8th, 10 am ET — Online via Zoom
We hope you can join us on Zoom at our usual 10 AM Sunday time for a special appearance by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, for a talk on Spiritual Materialism, recorded on video in 1974. For those who appreciate Trungpa Rinpoche's teachings, but did not have the chance to attend his talks in-person, this is an opportunity to experience one of his more famous teachings as a group. Together we will watch and discuss this first talk of the Tibetan Buddhist Path seminar, which opened the inaugural summer session of Naropa Institute, now University.
The morning's program will begin with a brief introduction to the Chogyam Trungpa Institute's Digital Library, which offers open access to a remarkably diverse catalog of Trungpa Rinpoche's teachings as captioned audio and video. During our gathering, Warner Dick, one of the architects of the Library, will present a brief tour of this modern digital dharma resource.
Spiritual materialism is a term coined by VCTR to describe the tendency to seek spiritual wisdom with the (conscious or subconscious) desire to become a greater and more powerful person. He frames this as an essentially ego-oriented pursuit, and thus a contradiction and potential pitfall of the spiritual path — as relevant today as it was 50 years ago.
The Tibetan Buddhist Path seminar was recently published as the popular book: Cynicism and Magic: Intellect and Intuition on the Buddhist Path, available at booksellers everywhere and from the publisher.
Please register by RSVP only, or make an optional donation by selecting from the pull-down menu.
Mark your calendar — Zoom link here
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