Wakefulness
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Wakefulness is used by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche as a way of talking about enlightenment in Buddhism. During the 1980 seminary he divided this into two forms: absolute wakefulness and relative wakefulness.
In 1980, he also described the path to wakefulness as abandoning aggression to oneself and others, so it's a kind of wakefulness that arises naturally from gentleness. And by being gentle, we become capable. And the more capable we are, the more we can have the power to influence others. But that influence is without the aggression of pushing one's own agenda. So he connects closely the notion of "awake" and "gentle." He further draws that connection in the 1981 and 1983 seminaries, the basic logic that gentleness brings wakefulness and out of that wakefulness we can start to extend out to others in the mahayana path.
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Further reading
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Trungpa, Chögyam (1976) 1976 Hinayana Mahayana Seminary Transcripts
- pages 33, 103, 156
Trungpa, Chögyam (1978) 1978 Seminary Transcripts
- pages 13-14, 25, 65, 72, 88, 89, 92-93, 98, 104, 105, 106, 108, 112, 156, 168
Trungpa, Chögyam (1979) 1979 Seminary Transcripts
- pages 4, 15, 22-23, 30, 34, 78, 104-105, 108, 116, 126, 127
Trungpa, Chögyam (1980) 1980 Seminary Transcripts
- page 99
- Rinpoche equates wakefulness with the Sanskrit term Bodhi and connects it to the very notion of enlightenment. He described the path to wakefulness as abandoning aggression to oneself and others, so it's a kind of wakefulness from gentleness. And by being gentle, we become capable. And the more capable we are, the more we can have the power to influence others. But that's influence is without the aggression of pushing one's own agenda. So he connects closely the notion of "awake" and "gentle".
Trungpa, Chögyam (1981) 1981 Seminary Transcripts
- pages 60-61
- He equates Bodhi with wakefulness, and also equates it with the "loss of ego". Out of the loss of "me" ness we automatically develop awareness of others and sympathy and compassion naturally for them. So he weaves the notion of wakefulness from gentleness into the logic of how the mahayana motivation arises.
- page 65
- compassion comes from a sense of joy which comes from wakefulness.
- page 103
- this section is a discussion on discipline but i'm not sure why the index points there, perhaps in error.
Trungpa, Chögyam (1983) 1983 Seminary Transcripts
- page 7
- Rinpoche uses the term to describe the Buddha just after enlightenment, along side an experience of joy
- page 33
- To develop wakefulness, we must be tamed. We need humbleness. Being humble and tamed allows us to relax and then realize our basic buddhanature
- page 38
- The three root poisons are situations that keep us from being in the state of wakefulness
- page 66/67
- wakefulness and prajna (paramita): (transcendent) prajna is the wakefulness that occurs in the gap.
Trungpa, Chögyam (1985) 1985 Seminary Transcripts
- pages 1, 4-5, 68, 76
Trungpa, Chögyam (1988) Shambhala: Sacred Path of the Warrior
- pages 27, 31, 54, 55, 58, 84, 114, 127
- page 161
- invoking,
- page 177
- unconditional, . See also nowness wangtang
