Chogyam Trungpa, video from Buddhist lecture, Karme Choling, 1973.
“Dharma Drive-in?” Looks like Dr. Jeremy Hayward, to me, in the convertible.
Trungpa Rinpoche’s talks always had long moments like this, particularly in the beginning—he was perfectly comfortable, unlike most of all of us, with space. It would shake out and sift down the nervousness disguised as humor, the anxiety disguised as eagerness. Then, just when you relaxed in an “out of it” kind of way, he’s pounce.
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche at Karme Choling Message of Milarepa Program 1973
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Love this, Jeff! I thought it was similar-seeming to the video you emailed me the other day. Great work. Thanks for sharing with Karme Choling, and glad we're able to put it out there, get it some more well-deserved views.
there is some footage from that summer with Ram Das at Barnet Town Hall. The seminar was on the teachings of Don Juan and Tantric Buddhism. It got a bit riotous at one point with CTR using dear Ram Das' head as an ash tray_though you only hear the roar of laughter and see the chuckling CTR aftermath on the video because I was panning the camera at that moment. Nonetheless, among other highlights, CTR gave his interesting observations about the Native American Tradition and "Little Joe" and the way he smoked his cigarette with such authority (if I remember correctly)_
Absolutely brilliant. If you have the original, it would be nice to take the last thirty seconds and loop it for a half hour.
That thirty seconds reminds me of part of the time I was blessed to spend alone with Trungpa in the mountains above Boulder when he first arrived. The time in that meeting spent in silence. From that half minute one can expand into all time.
The topic of space (along with consciousness) opens up awareness of dependently-arisen origins. This wisdom seems to have been lost in much contemporary Buddhist discussion that try so hard to avoid the subject of "how did it all get here?"
The Boulder Buddhist/Shambhala community consumes huge amounts of alcohol(well, they did back in the 80s, and early 90s, haven's been back since) especially Ozeki Sake, Rinpoche's favorite. Ozeki sent reps to Boulder to try and figure out why this little college town was consuming more Sake than any other US market. Why did the VCTR drink himself to death? The debate still goes on.
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I produced and filmed this video. More here from the same series:
http://jcrows.com/ctrnyinthuntalk.html
Jeff Krouk
Love this, Jeff! I thought it was similar-seeming to the video you emailed me the other day. Great work. Thanks for sharing with Karme Choling, and glad we're able to put it out there, get it some more well-deserved views.
there is some footage from that summer with Ram Das at Barnet Town Hall. The seminar was on the teachings of Don Juan and Tantric Buddhism. It got a bit riotous at one point with CTR using dear Ram Das' head as an ash tray_though you only hear the roar of laughter and see the chuckling CTR aftermath on the video because I was panning the camera at that moment. Nonetheless, among other highlights, CTR gave his interesting observations about the Native American Tradition and "Little Joe" and the way he smoked his cigarette with such authority (if I remember correctly)_
Thanks, Jeff.
Absolutely brilliant. If you have the original, it would be nice to take the last thirty seconds and loop it for a half hour.
That thirty seconds reminds me of part of the time I was blessed to spend alone with Trungpa in the mountains above Boulder when he first arrived. The time in that meeting spent in silence. From that half minute one can expand into all time.
The topic of space (along with consciousness) opens up awareness of dependently-arisen origins. This wisdom seems to have been lost in much contemporary Buddhist discussion that try so hard to avoid the subject of "how did it all get here?"
The Boulder Buddhist/Shambhala community consumes huge amounts of alcohol(well, they did back in the 80s, and early 90s, haven's been back since) especially Ozeki Sake, Rinpoche's favorite. Ozeki sent reps to Boulder to try and figure out why this little college town was consuming more Sake than any other US market. Why did the VCTR drink himself to death? The debate still goes on.