Background
Judith L. Lief was born on May 2, 1946, in Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States, to John Laraway and Bernice Laraway.
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(In Making Friends with Death, Buddhist teacher Judith Lie...)
In Making Friends with Death, Buddhist teacher Judith Lief, who's drawn her inspiration from the Tibetan Book of the Dead, shows us that through the powerful combination of contemplation of death and mindfulness practice, we can change how we relate to death, enhance our appreciation of everyday life, and use our developing acceptance of our own vulnerability as a basis for opening to others. She also offers a series of guidelines to help us reconnect with dying persons, whether they are friends or family, clients or patients. Lief highlights the value of relating to the immediacy of death as an ongoing aspect of everyday life by offering readers a variety of practical methods that they can apply to their lives and work. These methods include: Simple mindfulness exercises for deepening awareness of moment-by-moment change Practices for cultivating loving-kindness Helpful slogans and guidelines for caregivers to use Making Friends with Death will enlighten anyone interested in coming to terms with their own mortality. More specifically, the contemplative approach presented here offers health professionals, students of death and dying, and people who are helping a dying friend or relative useful guidance and inspiration. It will show them how to ground their actions in awareness and compassion, so that the steps they take in dealing with pain and suffering will be more effective.
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(Renowned meditation master Chögyam Trungpa retells the st...)
Renowned meditation master Chögyam Trungpa retells the stories and realization songs of Tibet's best-known and most-beloved religious figure--and reveals how they relate to our everyday lives. He went from being the worst kind of malevolent sorcerer to a devoted and ascetic Buddhist practitioner to a completely enlightened being all in a single lifetime. The story of Milarepa (1040–1123) is a tale of such extreme and powerful transformation that it might be thought not to have much direct application to our own less dramatic lives—but Chögyam Trungpa shows otherwise. This collection of his teachings on the life and songs of the great Tibetan Buddhist poet-saint reveals how Milarepa’s difficulties can be a source of guidance and inspiration for anyone. His struggles, his awakening, and the teachings from his remarkable songs provide precious wisdom for all us practitioners and show what devoted and diligent practice can achieve.
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The essential teachings on the bodhisattva path of wisdom and compassion, presented here in volume two of Chögyam Trungpa's magnum opus, which offers a systematic overview of the entire path of Tibetan Buddhism. The second volume presents the bodhisattva teachings of the mahayana. At this point, having trained and seen the benefits of looking within, the student begins to shift their focus outward to the broader world. Formal entry into the mahayana occurs with taking the bodhisattva vow. Mahayana practitioners dedicate themselves to the service of all sentient beings, aspiring to save them from sorrow and confusion, and vowing to bring them to perfect liberation. This stage of the path emphasizes the cultivation of wisdom through the view and experience of emptiness, or shunyata, in which all phenomena are seen to be unbounded, completely open, ungraspable, and profound. From the ground of shunyata, compassionate activity is said to arise naturally and spontaneously. In addition to mindfulness and awareness, the mahayanist practices lojong, or "mind training," based on the cultivation of the paramitas, or "transcendent virtues": generosity, discipline, patience, exertion, meditation, and prajna, or "knowledge." As a component of lojong, tonglen, or "sending and taking," is practiced in order to increase maitri, or loving-kindness. The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma represents meditation master Chögyam Trungpa's greatest contribution to Western Buddhism. This three-volume collection presents in lively, relevant language the comprehensive teachings of the Tibetan Buddhist path of the hinayana, mahayana, and vajrayana. This work will resonate with new students of Buddhism as well as the most senior students. Topics covered in detail in this volume include: Bodhichitta Loving-kindness, or maitri Compassion, or karuna Skillful means, or upaya Buddha nature and basic goodness The four limitless ones Bodhisattva vows Emptiness, or shunyata Madhyamaka Relative truth and ultimate truth Prajna The paramitas Lojong training Tonglen meditation The ten bhumis Dharmakaya, sambhogakaya, and nirmanakaya And more
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(Genuine art has the power to awaken and liberate. The ren...)
Genuine art has the power to awaken and liberate. The renowned meditation master and artist Chögyam Trungpa called this type of art “dharma art”—any creative work that springs from an awakened state of mind, characterized by directness, unselfconsciousness, and nonaggression. Dharma art provides a vehicle to appreciate the nature of things as they are and express it without any struggle or desire to achieve. A work of dharma art brings out the goodness and dignity of the situation it reflects—dignity that comes from the artist’s interest in the details of life and sense of appreciation for experience. Trungpa shows how the principles of dharma art extend to everyday life: any activity can provide an opportunity to relax and open our senses to the phenomenal world. An expanded edition of Trungpa's Dharma Art (1996), this book includes a new introduction and essay.
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(The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma represents m...)
The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma represents meditation master Chögyam Trungpa’s greatest contribution to Western Buddhism. This three-volume collection presents in lively, relevant language the comprehensive teachings of the Tibetan Buddhist path of the hinayana, mahayana, and vajrayana. This work will resonate with new students of Buddhism as well as the most senior students. The first volume, The Path of Individual Liberation, presents the teachings of the hinayana. The hinayana introduces core Buddhist teachings on the nature of mind, the practice of meditation, the reality of suffering, and the possibility of liberation. It examines the nature of suffering, impermanence, and egolessness, with an emphasis on personal development through meditative discipline and study. The formal entry into the hinayana and the Buddhist path altogether is the refuge vow, in which a student goes for refuge to the Buddha, or the teacher; the dharma, or the teachings; and the sangha, or the community. The hinayana path is based on training in mindfulness and awareness, cultivating virtue, and cutting grasping. Topics covered in detail in this volume include the four noble truths, karma, the four foundations of mindfulness, meditation practice, the refuge vows, the three jewels, the five skandhas, the five precepts, twofold egolessness, and more.
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The third volume of this landmark series presents the vajrayana teachings of the tantric path. The vajrayana, or “diamond vehicle,” also referred to as tantra, draws upon and extends the teachings of the hinayana and mahayana. As with the hinayana and the mahayana, the formal acceptance into the vajrayana is marked by a vow, in this case the samaya vow. There is an emphasis at this stage on the student-teacher relationship and on the quality of devotion. Generally, students must complete preliminary practices, called ngöndro, to prepare themselves for initiation into the vajrayana path before going further. Having done so, they then receive the appropriate empowerments to begin tantric practices. There are empowerment ceremonies of many kinds, called abhishekas. The vajrayana includes both form practices, such as visualizations and sadhanas (ritual liturgies), and formless practices based on allowing the mind to rest naturally in its inherent clarity and emptiness. Although on the surface, there is much greater complexity in tantric practices, the principles of mindfulness and awareness and the cultivation of compassion and skillful action continue to be of central importance. The tantric path requires complete engagement and fierce dedication. It is said to be a more rapid path, but it is also more dangerous. There is a quality of directness, abruptness, and wholeheartedness. Tantrikas, or vajrayana practitioners, recognize that the most challenging aspects of life, the energies and play of confused emotions and frightening obstacles, can be worked with as gateways to freedom and realization. Other topics covered in detail in this volume include the four reminders, the mandala principle, mahamudra, atiyoga, and more. The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma represents meditation master Chögyam Trungpa’s greatest contribution to Western Buddhism. This three-volume collection presents in lively, relevant language the comprehensive teachings of the Tibetan Buddhist path of the hinayana, mahayana, and vajrayana. This work will resonate with new students of Buddhism as well as the most senior students.
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Chögyam Trungpa’s in-depth exploration of the Four Noble Truths—the foundational Buddhist teaching about the origin of suffering and its cessation—emphasizes their profound relevance not just as an inspiration when we set out on the path, but at every other moment of our lives as well, showing how we can join view (intellectual understanding) of the teaching with practical application in order to interrupt suffering before it arises.
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An exposition of the similarities and differences between Vajrayana Buddhism and Zen, by one of the twentieth century's greatest meditation teachers. The Teacup and the Skullcup is made up of edited transcripts from two seminars that Chögyam Trungpa gave near the beginning of his North American teaching career in 1974--one in Barnet, Vermont, and one in Boston--called "Zen and Tantra." Although Trungpa Rinpoche belonged to the tantra tradition, he acknowledged the strength and discipline gained from Zen influence. Through these talks you can see his respect for the Zen tradition and how it led to his using certain Zen forms for his public meditation hall rituals. He discusses the differences in style, feeling, and emphasis that distinguish the two paths and shows what each one might learn from the other. Also included are Trungpa Rinpoche's commentary on the Ten Oxherding Pictures and an essay he composed in memory of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, a close friend with whom he continually exchanged ideas for furthering buddhadharma in America.
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A seminar on being human through meditation. Many of us are interested in meditation, Buddhism, Shambala. This seminar is about the practice and topic of meditation...
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Judith L. Lief was born on May 2, 1946, in Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States, to John Laraway and Bernice Laraway.
Lief received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the Luther College. She had graduate study at the Columbia University, from 1968 till 1972. In 1971, while she was a student there, she met Chogyam Trungpa, a Tibetan lama newly arrived in America. Inspired by his teachings and by his profound presence, she uprooted herself from New York City and moved to Boulder, Colorado, in order to study the path of Buddhism and to practice Buddhist meditation under his auspices. She continued to study with Chogyam Trungpa for sixteen years until 1987.
Lief worked with Chogyam Trungpa (also known as Trungpa Rinpoche) in the areas of publishing and education in Boulder and later in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Trungpa had expressed the wish that, after his death, his works would be published in a collection of 108 volumes. In response, the founder of Shambhala Publications inaugurated the ‘Dharma Ocean Series’ and asked Lief to be the series editor. Over time, the books in this series will reflect the enormous variety of Trungpa Rinpoche’s teachings. The series is based on Chogyam Trungpa's oral teachings during seventeen years in North America, and they draw upon the extensive audiotape collection housed in the Shambhala Archives. Lief is still one of the primary editors of the works of Chögyam Trungpa.
Lief has worked as a Buddhist teacher for more than 35 years, offering workshops to provide people with the contemplative tools that can change the way they face death and care for the dying. Additionally, in her teaching, Lief concentrates on how the insights and meditative techniques coming from the Buddhist tradition can be used in everyday life and in solving global problems. For many years, Lief has been offering workshops to provide people with the contemplative tools that can transform the way they face death and care for the dying.
For a year from 2000, Lief served as a pastoral counselor for the Maitri Day Health Center in Yonkers, New York. She also worked at the Madison-Deane Initiative, the organization based in Vermont. Lief served on the board of the faculty of the Clinical Pastoral Education program at the Fletcher Allen Hospital.
Lief is the author of Teachings of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Making Friends with Death: A Buddhist Guide to Encountering Mortality. Now she continues to write books and articles for periodicals. In addition, Lief is a lecturer on pilgrimages to Asian countries - Tibet, India and Bhutan.
(Chögyam Trungpa’s in-depth exploration of the Four Noble ...)
(In Making Friends with Death, Buddhist teacher Judith Lie...)
(The essential teachings on the bodhisattva path of wisdom...)
(Renowned meditation master Chögyam Trungpa retells the st...)
(An exposition of the similarities and differences between...)
(The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma represents m...)
(The third volume of this landmark series presents the vaj...)
(Genuine art has the power to awaken and liberate. The ren...)
(A seminar on being human through meditation. Many of us a...)
Lief is a member of the Global Peace Initiative of Women and the Contemplative Alliance.
Judith married Eric Holm, but they divorced later. She then married Charles G. Lief on March 22, 1975. That marriage produced 2 children - Jessica Bodhi and Deborah Suvama.
