Osho: The Insurpassable Protection of Emptiness is to see the Manifestations of Bewilderment as the Four Kayas Chogyam Trungpa: Seeing Confusion as the Four Kayas is Unsurpassable Shunyata Protection Pema Chodron: Seeing Confusion as the Four Kayas is Unsurpassable Shunyata Protection Jamgon Kongtrul: To see Confusion as the Four Kayas, the Protection of Emptiness is Insurpassable Alan Wallace: Meditation on the Deceptive Appearances of the Four Bodies is Unsurpassed in Guarding Emptiness Dilgo Khyentse: Voidness is the Unsurpassed Protection; Therefore Illusory Appearance is Seen as the Four Kayas BE GRATEFUL TO EVERYONE WHATEVER YOU MEET UNEXPECTEDLY, JOIN WITH MEDITATION  Using Adversity   Chogyam Trungpa

Seeing Confusion as the Four kayas is Unsurpassable shunyata Protection
1 user commentary Read

 
The reason that the four kayas become a great protection is that we begin to realize the way our mind functions, our state of being. We realize that whatever comes up in our mind is always subject to that flow, that particular case history, that nature. Sudden pain, sudden anger, sudden aggression, sudden passion - whatever might arise always follows the same procedure, so to speak, the same process

[This] is the best protection because it cuts through the solidity of your beliefs... All of those schemes and thoughts and ideas are empty! If you look behind their backs it is like looking at a mask... if you look behind it, it doesn't look like a face anymore, it is just junk with holes in it. You realize that you are ... not any of your big ideas. That is the best protection for cutting confusion.

From Training the Mind & Cultivating Loving-Kindness by Chogyam Trungpa , copyright 1993 by Diana Mukpo.
(Official Chogyam Trungpa Website)
Published by arrangement with Shambhala Publications, Inc., Boston.

Website design in ASP.NET (VB), Javascript, and SQL Server. Copyright Martin Mellish, 2003

You are visitor number 218,007 Page View: 2,231,184

This site provides an on-line database of commentaries on the Tibetan Buddhist meditation practices of lojong (Mind Training) and tonglen.
You can support this site by using it for your Amazon.com purchases.
Search:
Keywords:

A contemporary reinterpretation of the proverbs, building on Jamgon Kongtrul's 19th century commentary, by the first man to teach Mind Training extensively in the West.
Fascinating autobiographical account of Trungpa's early life and training in Tibet, his daring escape to India, and his teaching in the West.
Instructions for the Bardo (intermediate state between lives) from the Tibetan tradition. Also applicable to all periods of uncertainty and life transitions.
Extracts from Trungpa's key teachings.
'The problem is that the ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality'. His incisive, compassionate teachings serve to wake us up from this trick that we all play on ourselves, and to offer us a far brighter reality: the true and joyous liberation that inevitably involves letting go of the self rather than working to improve it.
Incisive teachings by one of the most influential Tibetan Buddhist teachers in the West. A central theme: giving up our hopes that meditation will bring us bliss or tranquility or make us better or wiser people or otherwise serve our ego's purposes, and realizing the liberation that is right here within our pain and confusion and neurosis.