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Glimpses of Abhidharma
The Abhidharma is a collection of Buddhist scriptures that investigate the workings of the mind and the states of human consciousness. In this book, Chögyam Trungpa shows how an examination of the formation of the ego provides us with an opportunity to develop real intelligence. Trungpa also presents the practice of meditation as the means that enables us to see our psycho...more
Paperback, 128 pages
Published
February 6th 2001
by Shambhala Publications Inc.,U.S.
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A book on perception by Trugpa, a Tibetan lama and excellent writer. An ancient dharmic teaching on the five shandhas. Perception broken down into five stages: form/matter; sensation/feeling (simple positive/negative/neutral); perception/discrimination (names); karmic formations (baggage, associations); consciousness (the totality). A wonderful way to begin to look at things differently, literally, more subtly, more slowly. "The whole approach of Buddhism is oriented towards dealing wit...more
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The Abhidharma is one of three of the original text written down from memory 100 years after the Buddha died. It is the psychology part of Buddhism. Although I thought my path was backwards, the intro says you should practice meditation alot before reading this.
85 pages of dense buddhist psychology. dense like, "shit i just read that page 4 times and am still confused". but beautiful and insightful.
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Chögyam Trungpa (February, 28 1939 – April 4, 1987) was a Buddhist meditation master, scholar, teacher, poet, artist, and a Trungpa tülku. Widely recognized both by Tibetan Buddhists and by other spiritual practitioners and scholars[1] as a preeminent teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, he was a major figure in the dissemination of Tibetan Buddhism to the West, founding Vajradhatu and Naropa University a...more
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