Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche - Path is the Goal

Taken from two seminars delivered in 1974, these talks focus on shamatha or calm abiding meditation and vipassana or insight meditation. Trungpa's incisive and clear teaching style opens up the secrets and possibilities of these powerful forms of Buddhist meditation. "You might be fat, thin, big, small, intelligent, stupid - whatever you are, there is only one way, unconditionally, and that is to begin with the practice of meditation. The practice of meditation is THE ONLY way. Without that, there is no way out and no way in. The practice of meditation is a way of unmasking ourselves, our deceptions of all kinds, and also the practice of meditation is a way of bringing out the subtleties of intelligence that exist within us... Meditation is a way of realizing the fundamental truth, the basic truth, that we can discover ourselves, we can work on ourselves. The goal is the path and the path is the goal. there is no other way of attaining basic sanity than the practice of meditation. Absolutely none."Chogyam Trungpa