From Chandler, Enthralled, page 104 105
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"Trungpa gave us this formless meditation (mindfulness/shamatha)first, he said, instead of last, as was traditional in Tibet, because we were so intelligent as westerners, and we could handle it. ...Trungpa made sure his very first Shambhala weekends were always taught by the most completely indoctrinated of his inner circle of Westerners, like his Regent, Thomas Rich, and the Regent's wife, Lady Rich. I was later to learn that Trungpa had given these earliest of his students made up British titles in his made up royal court starting with ennobling his adolescent wife Lady Diana as his "Queen of Shambhala.'
"We later learned about the dangers of meditation in Tibetan Buddhist literature; about how this mindfulness meditation that the lamas called 'stupid shamatha' if done incorrectly or too much, could make people passive, even put them in a stupor or coma, as though dead.