In Meditation, you're working with yourself, with your own mind. Breathe in. Breathe out. You are just sitting there, yet your mind is restless, moving from here to there. Meditation is the process of learning how mind works and how to be. It is the way of the Buddha. In this seminar, Chogyam Trungpa gives meditation instruction and four talks for beginning -- and seasoned -- meditators.


Meditation: The Way of the Buddha, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Vajradhatu Publications, 3 DVDs + CD-ROM Studyguide (PDF), $95.00

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