This classic teaching by a Tibetan master continues to inspire both beginners and long-time practitioners of Buddhist meditation. Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche shows that meditation extends beyond the formal practice of sitting to build the foundation for compassion , awareness, and creativity in all aspects of life.
He explores the six acivities associated with meditation in action-generosity, discipline,patience,energy,clarity, and wisdom-revealing that through simple, direct experience,one can attain real wisdom: the ability to see clearly into situations and deal with them skilfully, without the self-consciousness connected with ego.
Meditation in Action, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Shambhala Publications, Pocket, 154 pp., $6.95
Trungpa was born in Eastern Tibet and recognized as an incarnation of the Trungpa line at an early date. He studied with, among others, one of the reincarnations of the Jamgyon Kongtrul who wrote the most famous commentary on the Seven Points. In 1959 he fled to India in the wake of the Communist takeover in Tibet, courageously leading many of his people to safety (this period is described in his book Born in Tibet.) He came to England in the mid-sixties to study at Oxford, learned English, started to teach, and started one of the first Tibetan Buddhist centers in the West. He later dropped his monastic vows, married, and moved to America where he continued his teaching. He founded the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, a large and highly respected Buddhist universit
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