According to the Buddha, no one can attain basic sanity or enlightenment without practicing meditation. The teachings given here on the outlook and technique of meditation provide the foundation that every practitioner needs to awaken as the Buddha did. Trungpa teaches us to let go of the urge to make meditation serve our ambitions; thus we can relax into openness. We are shown how the deliberate practice of mindfulness develops into uncontrived awareness, and we discover the world of insight that awareness reveals. We learn of a subtle psychological stage set that we carry with us everywhere and unwittingly use to structure all our experience -- and we find that meditation gradually carries us beyond this and beyond ego altogether to the experience of unconditional freedom.

Path is the Goal: A Basic Handbook of Buddhist Meditation, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Shambhala Publications, paperback, $18.95

Trungpa was born in Eastern Tibet and recognized as an incarnation of the Trungpa line at an early date. He studied with, among others, one of the reincarnations of the Jamgyon Kongtrul who wrote the most famous commentary on the Seven Points. In 1959 he fled to India in the wake of the Communist takeover in Tibet, courageously leading many of his people to safety (this period is described in his book Born in Tibet.) He came to England in the mid-sixties to study at Oxford, learned English, started to teach, and started one of the first Tibetan Buddhist centers in the West. He later dropped his monastic vows, married, and moved to America where he continued his teaching. He founded the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, a large and highly respected Buddhist university.

CONTENTS: Path is the Goal
Editor's Foreword		vii
PART ONE
1.	The Only Way	3
2.	Continuing Your Confusion	14
3.	The Star of Bethlehem	35
PART TWO
1.	Me-ness and the Emotions	55
2.	Recollecting the Present	66
3.	The Portable Stage Set	88
4.	Boredom--Full or Empty?	105
5.	From Raw Eggs to Stepping-Stones	116
6.	Loneliness	126
7.	Creating a Little Gap	145
Notes		155
Glossary		158
Transliterations of Tibetan Terms		163
About the Author		164
Meditation Center Information		171
Index		173