That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible conclusions.
—Chögyam Trungpa in Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
—Chögyam Trungpa in Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
Chögyam Trungpa (Wylie: Chos rgyam Drung pa; March 5, 1939 – April 4, 1987) was a Tibetan Buddhist meditation master and holder of both the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism, the 11th of the Trungpa tülkus, a tertön, supreme abbot of the Surmang monasteries, scholar, teacher, poet, artist,...
—Chögyam Trungpa in The Path is the Goal: A Basic Handbook of Buddhist Meditation