Kwong-roshi on Chogyam Trunga Rinpoche and Shunryu Suzuki-Roshi

This 10-minute documentary features 2009 interviews with Jakusho Kwong-roshi, dharma heir of Shunryu Suzuki-roshi and founder of Sonoma Mountain Zen Center. In this film, Roshi talks primarily about his close relationship with Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. This film includes a tour of the stupa Kwong-roshi erected in memory of Chogyam Trungpa.

[@katnip198]

Thank you for this heartfelt tribute to Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. He blessed all who knew him or heard his teachings.

[@maccyd53]

What an absolutely beautiful monk. This is what's so wonderful about the internet and TH-cam in particular. Out of nowhere you receive a crystal clear moment. Thanks for taking a body in this tricky time, Roshi...

[@MarsAttacksMemoirs108]

🙏

[@mairepalme2423]

Deeply touched by your compassionate presence, my dear Roshi. An inspiring video!

[@scratchallday]

Very humble, very clear. In gassho roshi...thank you.

[@MarsAttacksMemoirs108]

Most beautiful guide, a friend to all beings, Jakusho Kwong roshi 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you for the clip. Important for me to take me on a journey where i ended up a resident student for some years and would love to be there while roshi body is still with us
Love the pure practice/life

[@marlexpez880]

Trungpa gave the world the true message of the Buddhist teachings and the process of enlightenment - the transformation of ego into panoramic awareness

[@baptm727]

I have no idea what I just watched but it was beautiful.

[@lizwolfspada]

Hello, my old friend. So good to see you again.🙏

[@Greggorious123]

This guy seems so cool

[@djoniebie]

gentleness, kindness, humbleness, truth

[@nicholas70paul]

Oh soft and gentle.

[@joachimb2]

Thank you Roshi for your kindness und truthfullness!

[@brianaspden7962]

Trunga was human.

[@mwmingram]

Great. Such a lovely man.

[@xidhayphep9611]

Fantastic Master

[@Lageeric]

Nice carpentry Paul Discoe. Best to you from your old Tasajara friend, Lage

[@patriciawalsh8153]

In simple gratitude

[@jupitermadcat]

Wonderful soul.

[@anonymousprivate116]

Shoryu Bradley of Gyobutsuji Zen Monastery is also an excellent teacher :)

[@JustForfun-ok4ed]

People who can understand the real diamond know it's worth, but who think it's fake, for them it's just a crystal.

[@MarsAttacksMemoirs108]

🙏

[@ama6103]

🙏🏽🌾🙏🏽🌾🙏🏽🌾

[@bayreuth79]

I find it distasteful that some Buddhists still revere a man who was an alcoholic, a drug user, a womaniser and a thoroughly reckless person. He crashed his sport car into a cafe because he was high on drugs! He gave dharma talks while drunk. I cannot see how such a person could be considered “enlightened”.

[@krissyramsey3934]

Kalifornia Kool! Gassho, Roshi

[@Saren100]

Hi Bill, thank you so much for this video. I would like to add Polish subtitles to it, if you do not mind for the Polish public. Are you ok with opening it to community contribution for a while?

[@WMCScheffel]

Hello Saren - I'd be very happy for you to do this! Let me know if there is any way I can help. Not quite sure what you mean by "community contribution."

[@Saren100]

Thank you, Bill. It seems to me that the option of adding subtitles is locked for this video. You can simply unlock it in video manager. It should enable me to add the Polish version. I think it will be better if I send you a tutorial rather then try to explain it :-). th-cam.com/video/EjCU0gr18g8/w-d-xo.html

[@WMCScheffel]

Thanks, Saren. I'll be able to look at the video in the next day or so, and then I'll get back to you.

[@Saren100]

Hi Bill, if a file in .srt can help, it's ready, I can send you the file so that you can embed it to the video :-)

[@WMCScheffel]

Saren, thanks for writing again. All kinds of work came up. Will look into tomorrow. Back to you soon. - Bill

[@diligentlight151]

Sound too white to me, like your trying to be that fully. Bohdichitta first?

[@sabipen5764]

😊🌼❤️🙏

[@ve2mam]

The legacy of Trungpa and his son Miphan is one of sexual abuse. There behavior diminishes the Dharma !!!

[@sarahfrasher3513]

I think this would be true of so many of our teachers and gurus wouldn't you say? They are still human and subject to all aspects of samsara. And in that way are living examples of the Dharma not diminishing it.

[@Dpiiiius]

@@sarahfrasher3513 On the level of relative truth, there’s a difference between being an unenlightened, mistake-prone Dharma practitioner and being a sexual abuser. Karmically, the actions of both produce very different results and lead to very different rebirths. So gurus being unenlightened in samsara isn’t an excuse for abuse

[@sarahfrasher3513]

@@Dpiiiius oh yes, in no way am I making an excuse for sexual abuse. The harm it causes is self evident. I am speaking in terms of absolute truth in the Dharma.

[@nettinetti8465]

@@sarahfrasher3513 not my Teacher, the Tathagata Buddha Siddhartha Gautama. He never did such things, not in his time, not even if he is still alive today. That's the real teacher. That's a really enlightened being.

[@watermusic4381]

None of us are realised enough, (if at all) to comment on the behavior of Trungpa. If you think you are, or that you are right to do, so then you are being deceived yet again by the small mind that cannot comprehend the actions of such realised beings.

[@pawechwaleba3627]

Roshi Kwong empty mind no Begin no end

[@ASmith-bp8tm]

🙏🏼

[@arturotorres1922]

Om

[@frooshante]

so Suzuki and Trungpa were drinking together? i would have loved to be chillin there with them.

[@klightlightmusic]

In Gassho

[@babbarr77]

Bill Scheffel died for our sins.

[@chrishutchinson999]

Boring hero worship. Zero insight. Zero enlightenment.

[@augustsmith9553]

Say hi to Devin for me

[@yesyesyay8452]

Serene, grounded, compassionate.