Chögyam Trungpa - Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

—Concept, ※ ※

—Consciousness, ※ ※ ※ ※ ※

—Feeling, ※ ※ ※

—Ignorance-Form, ※ ※

—Perception-Impulse, ※ ※ ※

skillful means, ※ ※

soul, ※

space, dwelling upon, ※; fear of, ※ ※; solidification of, ※ ※ ※ ※; for communication, ※ ※ ※; in mahavipashyana meditation, ※; relative to form, ※

Speech, Lord of, ※. See also Materialism, Three Lords of

spiritual friend, necessity of, ※ ※; stages of meeting, ※; distinct from “guru”, ※. See also guru

spiritual materialism, consequences of, ※; definition of, ※; escaping, ※; seduction of, ※

spiritual path. See dharma and meditatlon

spirituality, Buddhist overview of, ※

spontaneity of awakened state, ※; of bodhisattva action, ※ ※ ※; in communication, ※; and meditation, ※ ※

stupidity, impulse of, ※ ※; realm of, ※; distinct from ignorance, ※

struggle, absence of, ※ ※ ※; futility of, ※ ※ ※ ※; ironic character of, ※; maintaining ego by, ※ ※; as origin of suffering, ※

surrender, ※; necessity of spiritual friend for, ※; pain of, ※; and Bodhisattva Path, ※ ※; to guru, ※ ※ ※; of preconceptions, ※

suffering, origin of, ※ ※; realization of, ※ ※ ※ ※; truth of, ※ ※; truth of origin of, ※ ※. See also duhkha; pain; and Truths, Four Noble

symbolism. See iconography and perception

Tantra, ※ ※; categories of energy in, ※; iconography of, ※ ※; Lower, ※; practices of, ※; principle of transmutation in, ※ ※; transition from Mahayana to, ※ ※. See also Buddhism and Vajrayana

tathagata , ※

tathagata-garbha , ※. See also Buddha-nature and intelligence, basic

tathata , ※ ※ ※. See also “as it is”

teacher. See guru and spiritual friend

techniques, spiritual, ※ ※ ※; falling away of, ※; insufficiency of, ※; strengthening ego by, ※ ※. See also : asceticism; disciplines, spiritual; gymnastics, mental

thamal-gyi-shepa , ※ ※. See also wisdom, ordinary

theism, ※ ※

thoughts, discursive: communication and, ※; meditation and, ※ ※ ※ ※ ※; as defense mechanism of ego, ※ ※ ※; origination of, ※ ※

thoughts, subconscious, ※

Tibet, Marpa and, ※; meditation of, ※; Trungpa Tulku and, ※ ※

Tibetan language, ※ ※ ※ ※ ※; lore, ※ ※ ※ ※ ※ ※; people, ※

Tilopa, ※ ※ ※ ※

transcendence, ※ ※. See also ego, transcendence of

transcendental discipline. See Paramitas, Six and shila

transcendental energy. See Paramitas, Six and virya

transcendental generosity. See dana and Paramitas, Six

transcendental knowledge. See Paramitas, Six and prajna

transcendental meditation. See dhyana and Paramitas, Six

transcendental patience. See kshanti and Paramitas, Six

transmutation, principle of, ※. See also Tantra

trishula , ※

Trungpa Tulku, ※

Truths, Four Noble, ※ ※

—First Noble Truth. See duhkha and suffering

—Second Noble Truth. See suffering, origin of

—Third Noble Truth. See goal, truth of and non-striving

—Fourth Noble Truth. See dharma and path, truth of

upaya , ※. See also skillful means

Vajra, ※. See also Buddha Families, Five

vajra, anger, ※

Vajrayana, ※ ※. See also Buddhism and Tantra

Vedantism, ※

vidya , ※. See also Skandhas, Five

Vidyadhara , ※

vipashyana meditation. See meditations

vipassana meditation. See meditations, vipashyana

virya , ※ ※. See also Paramitas, Six

“what is”. See “as it is” and tathata

wisdom, crazy, ※ ※ ※ ※. See also jnana

wisdom, ordinary, ※. See also thamal-gyi-shepa

Wisdoms, Five, ※ ※; Mirror-like, ※; of All-Accomplishing Action, ※; of All-Encompassing Space, ※; of Discriminating Awareness, ※; of Equanimity, ※ ※. See also Buddha Families, Five

“working on oneself”, excesses of, ※ ※; limits of, ※; necessity of individual, ※ ※

world. See reality

yana , ※; Three Yanas , ※

yeshe , ※. See also intelligence, primordial

yidams , ※

yoga , ※ ※ ※ ※

Yogachara school. See Buddhism

Zen, ※ ※ ※ ※ ※

1Garma C. C. Chang, The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa, (New York, 1962), p. 306.

2Ibid., p. 307.

3Ibid., p. 308.