The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa: Volume Five (64 page)

ego-clinging and

American karma

Analogies:

birth of Padmasambhava from lotus:

as sudden glimpse of enlightenment

compassion: as pull of gravity

as ultimate communication

confidence: as body of sword of prajna

crazy wisdom: as wisdom gone beyond

dharmakaya: as ocean with waves (sambhogakaya) and ship (nirmanakaya)

ego: as ideal fuel for wisdom

egolessness (experience): as scent of empty perfume bottle

mahamudra (experience): as young child visiting colorful temple

fearlessness: as licking honey from razor blade;

as speedometer of our sanity

HUM (syllable): as sonorous sound of silence

mantra: as living environment of energy

meditation: as primordial gesture

need for reassurance: as one-eyed effigy

nirmanakaya: as cutting the umbilical cord

Padmasambhava’s terma/legacy: as spiritual atomic bomb

pain: as unnameable private parts

prana/nadi/bindu: as horse, roads, and rider

reality: as pain of getting warm tongue stuck to frozen rock as pure gold

reversing trikaya principle: as “breaking the vase”

samsaric situations: as stepping stones

sanity: as cosmic onomatopoeia

satori: as sudden glimpse of aloneness

unconditional continuity: as the great umbrella above the little umbrellas of reference points

vajra songs: as staircase of liberation

vajrayana guru: as kill-or-cure pill in one’s stomach

Ananda

Anata

See also
Egolessness

Ancient lineage.
See
Nyingma lineage

Anger

intelligence of

physical tension as

Anuttara yoga.
See
Anuyogatantra

Anuyogatantra

Appreciation, vs. mindlessness

Arhats

egolessness of

Arthure, Richard

Artistic self-expression

“The Art of Milarepa”

Asceticism

Ati.
See
Maha ati

Atisha Dipankara

Atman

Attitude(s)

of all-encompassing space

dharmic

of enlightenment

toward pain

positive

problem of pop art

of sacredness and well-being

of taking a leap

Awakened state

absorption vs.

childlike quality of

divinities as aspects of

fearlessness of

sanity as

sudden glimpse of

transmission of

beyond word or thought

See also
Enlightenment

Awareness

aggression and

all-pervasive

choiceless

as expression of compassion

irritation and

mindfulness and

penetrating, of guru

prajna and

as reference point

skillful means and

wakefulness vs.

Bardo/sleep yoga

Basic beingness

Basic sanity

anthropocentricism vs.

as attitude of enlightenment

lineage of Buddha as

totality as

vajra pride and

vajrayana path and

Basic split

Bewilderment

Bhakti (devotion)

Bhutan National Highway

Big dealism

of body

“Black air”

student’s timidity and

Blind faith

Bliss

irritation and

as reference point

Bodhichitta

vajra songs of

Bodhisattva(s)

ideal of service

as princes

Bodhisattva path

crazy wisdom vs.

ideal of service on

prajna and

six paramitas

stripping away as

ten bhumis and

Body

dharmakaya as, of dharma

disowning

ego and

of guru as sangha

illusory

mind and

panic and

relating with

Bön tradition (Tibet)

wisdom of

Born in Tibet

Bryant, Baird

Buddha(s)

American

becoming

birth of Shakyamuni

committing to discomforts as

Gautama

as kings

life of Padmasambhava as manual for

Padmasambhava and

in palm of one’s hand

vs. superscholar

three types of

as tulkus

vajra-like samadhi of

Buddha activity

Buddhadharma, preservation of

See also
Buddhism

Buddha families. See Five buddha

family principles

Buddhahood

vs. buddha nature

as path vs. goal

Buddha nature

buddhahood vs.

contagious quality of

eternity of

hopelessness and

innocence as embryonic state of

as mirror of mind

psychological aspect of

sense of separateness and

tantra and

vajra-like samadhi and

Buddhism

in America

and Islamic tradition

vs. national religions

as nonaggression

as nontheistic

secret practices of

theistic mentality in

three yanas of

See also
Tibetan Buddhism; Western practitioners of Buddhism

Chaos

cosmic

crazy wisdom and

orderly

shunyata and

Charnel ground(s)

dharmakaya as

making a home in

Padmasambhava in

reality of

Christianity

appreciating

theism and

Clarity

mahamudra levels of

Coemergent wisdom

of mahamudra

vajra songs and

Coincidence, auspicious

“Colophon” (to
Rain of Wisdom
)

Command lineage.
See
Kagyü lineage

Commitment

to guru