Meditation in action

Yeah, well, when I went into hospital to have the amputation, I took two books with me.

And one was called Meditation in Action by one of the Tibetan lamas that had sort of come out sort of following the Chinese invasion of Tibet, Chogyam Trungpa.

And I read that, and to be blunt, I struggled to make a head or tail of it, even though I'd been reading in that sort of domain.

I found it really obscure and very rudimentary.

I didn't know him.

The other thing we had in common is his, he tells me when he got the first printing, uh, the book Meditation in Action, it said, "Trungpa, Meditation in Action, Shambhala." And he said he thought he had to put it down because he thought he was hallucinating.

Oh.

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