In 1973 when Chogyam Thrungpa Rinpoche moved to Boulder, Colorado he taught his first formal teaching of a course in Eastern Religions at the University of Colorado in 1973. I and my wife were there at this teaching and after just a few classes, we both became Buddhist because of Trungpa's incredible teaching. Almost all of Trungpa's inner circle attended these teachings and became prominent in spreading the Buddhist teachings such as setting up Naropa University in Boulder.

This book was made into a book which unfortunately left out some of the diagrams that Trungpa had drawn on the chalkboard behind him. No, there were no cell phones at all at that time so these were lost to us.

As the cover says: He explored the six activities associated with meditation in action—generosity, discipline, patience, energy, clarity, and wisdom—revealing that through simple, direct experience, one can attain real wisdom: the ability to see clearly into situations and deal with them skillfully, without the self-consciousness connected with ego.