Podcasts about Dudjom Lingpa

Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2023 67:53

Khenpo Sherab Sangpo, a professor of Tibetan Buddhism in the Nyingma Lineage, offered teachings on "Advice for a Dying Practitioner" by Dodrupchen Jigmé Tenpé Nyima (1865-1926), whose father was Dudjom Lingpa, a great Dzogchen yōgin. Dodrupchen Jigmé Tenpé Nyima received teachings from Patrül Rinpoché, Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo, Mingyur Namkhé Dorjé, Dzogchen Khenpo Pema Vajra, Mipham Rinpoché, and Jamgön Kongtrul. He wrote a concise commentary on the general meaning of the "Guhyagarbha Tantra” called “Key to the Precious Treasury” which is a profound guide to the teachings and practices of Mahāyoga. The short text for this retreat consists of essential advice on how to prepare for death by cutting completely through attachment to this life, confessing all harmful actions, and joyfully dedicating one's virtue and merit toward completing the path of the Mahāyāna at the moment of death (dharmakāya phowa) or in one's next lifetime. The essence of this path is bodhicitta and the courageous bodhisattva vow to attain buddhahood to free all beings from temporary suffering (relative bodhicitta) and to establish them permanently in the ultimate joy of enlightenment (ultimate bodhicitta). Khenpo Sherab Sangpo taught "Advice for a Dying Practitioner” line-by-line during the four sessions of this retreat, along with guided meditation sessions, to help his students reflect upon the meaning of their life and to prepare for their death. Visit our website to find the text and additional information about the text for "Advice for a Dying Practitioner". Our website also has information about Khenpo Sherab Sangpo, his teachings and practice texts. This episode can be seen on Youtube.

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Advice for a Dying Practitioner [4]

Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2023 57:54

Khenpo Sherab Sangpo, a professor of Tibetan Buddhism in the Nyingma Lineage, offered teachings on "Advice for a Dying Practitioner" by Dodrupchen Jigmé Tenpé Nyima (1865-1926), whose father was Dudjom Lingpa, a great Dzogchen yōgin. Dodrupchen Jigmé Tenpé Nyima received teachings from Patrül Rinpoché, Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo, Mingyur Namkhé Dorjé, Dzogchen Khenpo Pema Vajra, Mipham Rinpoché, and Jamgön Kongtrul. He wrote a concise commentary on the general meaning of the "Guhyagarbha Tantra” called “Key to the Precious Treasury” which is a profound guide to the teachings and practices of Mahāyoga. The short text for this retreat consists of essential advice on how to prepare for death by cutting completely through attachment to this life, confessing all harmful actions, and joyfully dedicating one's virtue and merit toward completing the path of the Mahāyāna at the moment of death (dharmakāya phowa) or in one's next lifetime. The essence of this path is bodhicitta and the courageous bodhisattva vow to attain buddhahood to free all beings from temporary suffering (relative bodhicitta) and to establish them permanently in the ultimate joy of enlightenment (ultimate bodhicitta). Khenpo Sherab Sangpo taught "Advice for a Dying Practitioner” line-by-line during the four sessions of this retreat, along with guided meditation sessions, to help his students reflect upon the meaning of their life and to prepare for their death. Visit our website to find the text and additional information about the text for "Advice for a Dying Practitioner". Our website also has information about Khenpo Sherab Sangpo, his teachings and practice texts. This episode can be seen on Youtube.

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Advice for a Dying Practitioner [1]

Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2023 68:35

Khenpo Sherab Sangpo, a professor of Tibetan Buddhism in the Nyingma Lineage, offered teachings on "Advice for a Dying Practitioner" by Dodrupchen Jigmé Tenpé Nyima (1865-1926), whose father was Dudjom Lingpa, a great Dzogchen yōgin. Dodrupchen Jigmé Tenpé Nyima received teachings from Patrül Rinpoché, Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo, Mingyur Namkhé Dorjé, Dzogchen Khenpo Pema Vajra, Mipham Rinpoché, and Jamgön Kongtrul. He wrote a concise commentary on the general meaning of the "Guhyagarbha Tantra” called “Key to the Precious Treasury” which is a profound guide to the teachings and practices of Mahāyoga. The short text for this retreat consists of essential advice on how to prepare for death by cutting completely through attachment to this life, confessing all harmful actions, and joyfully dedicating one's virtue and merit toward completing the path of the Mahāyāna at the moment of death (dharmakāya phowa) or in one's next lifetime. The essence of this path is bodhicitta and the courageous bodhisattva vow to attain buddhahood to free all beings from temporary suffering (relative bodhicitta) and to establish them permanently in the ultimate joy of enlightenment (ultimate bodhicitta). Khenpo Sherab Sangpo taught "Advice for a Dying Practitioner” line-by-line during the four sessions of this retreat, along with guided meditation sessions, to help his students reflect upon the meaning of their life and to prepare for their death. Visit our website to find the text and additional information about the text for "Advice for a Dying Practitioner". Our website also has information about Khenpo Sherab Sangpo, his teachings and practice texts. This episode can be seen on Youtube.

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Advice for a Dying Practitioner [2]

Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2023 71:33

Khenpo Sherab Sangpo, a professor of Tibetan Buddhism in the Nyingma Lineage, offered teachings on "Advice for a Dying Practitioner" by Dodrupchen Jigmé Tenpé Nyima (1865-1926), whose father was Dudjom Lingpa, a great Dzogchen yōgin. Dodrupchen Jigmé Tenpé Nyima received teachings from Patrül Rinpoché, Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo, Mingyur Namkhé Dorjé, Dzogchen Khenpo Pema Vajra, Mipham Rinpoché, and Jamgön Kongtrul. He wrote a concise commentary on the general meaning of the "Guhyagarbha Tantra” called “Key to the Precious Treasury” which is a profound guide to the teachings and practices of Mahāyoga. The short text for this retreat consists of essential advice on how to prepare for death by cutting completely through attachment to this life, confessing all harmful actions, and joyfully dedicating one's virtue and merit toward completing the path of the Mahāyāna at the moment of death (dharmakāya phowa) or in one's next lifetime. The essence of this path is bodhicitta and the courageous bodhisattva vow to attain buddhahood to free all beings from temporary suffering (relative bodhicitta) and to establish them permanently in the ultimate joy of enlightenment (ultimate bodhicitta). Khenpo Sherab Sangpo taught "Advice for a Dying Practitioner” line-by-line during the four sessions of this retreat, along with guided meditation sessions, to help his students reflect upon the meaning of their life and to prepare for their death. Visit our website to find the text and additional information about the text for "Advice for a Dying Practitioner". Our website also has information about Khenpo Sherab Sangpo, his teachings and practice texts. This episode can be seen on Youtube.

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Naga Offerings (Part 1)

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2022 68:42

Lama Dawa Rinpoche gives instruction on how to make offerings to the nagas from a text by Dudjom Lingpa. Part 1.

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How To Make Buddhist Shrine Offerings

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2022 165:53

Lama Dawa Rinpoche gives an essential teaching on how to make the outer and inner shrine offerings, according to the lineage of Dudjom Lingpa.

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Naga Offerings (Part 2)

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2022 79:55

Lama Dawa Rinpoche gives instruction on how to make offerings to the nagas from a text by Dudjom Lingpa. Part 2.

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612. Eva Natanya

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2021 122:38

Eva Natanya is Executive Director and Resident Teacher at the Center for Contemplative Research at Miyo Samten Ling. A scholar of Indian and Tibetan Buddhism, Christian theology, and comparative religion, Dr. Natanya has served in many capacities as a spiritual teacher, academic lecturer, translator, and editor of Tibetan texts, writer, and retreat leader. Following a nine-year career as a professional ballet dancer with both the New York City Ballet and the Royal Ballet of England, she earned an MA in Christian Systematic Theology at the Graduate Theological Union and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Virginia. Her dissertation examined the complex interactions of Madhyamaka, Yogācāra, and Abhidharma teachings as they underlie the Vajrayāna philosophy of Je Tsongkhapa. She has worked closely with Dr. B. Alan Wallace on his translations for several books, including Open Mind: View and Meditation in the Lineage of Lerab Lingpa and Fathoming the Mind: Inquiry and Insight in Dudjom Lingpa's Vajra Essence, and has co-taught meditation retreats with Dr. Wallace around the world. In a Christian context, she co-authored Living Resurrected Lives: What It Means and Why It Matters with Veronica Mary Rolf. She has spent more than three years in solitary meditation retreat, and remains in residence at Miyo Samten Ling in Crestone, Colorado, guiding fellow retreatants in the details of contemplative training. Her website is: evanatanya.com. Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group. Interview recorded August 21, 2021 Video and audio below. Audio also available as a Podcast.

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Ngöndro Meditation Retreat [1]

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2020 64:03

Khenpo Sherab Sangpo offered instructions on the Preliminary Practices (Ngöndro) from The Profound and Secret Heart Essence of the Dakinis: The Chariot of Liberation, a treasure teaching revealed by Traktung (Heruka) Dudjom Dorje, also known as Dudjom Lingpa. Refuge and bodhicitta with prostrations, Vajrasattva, mandala offering and guru yoga are essential practices on the profound path of Vajrayana Buddhism and lay the foundation for Creation and Completion Stage and Great Perfection (Dzogchen) practices. Many great masters maintain a daily Ngöndro practice during their entire lives recognizing it as the heart essence of wisdom and compassion in Buddhism. Please visit our website to learn more about Khenpo Sherab Sangpo, his teachings and for practice texts. This episode can be seen on Youtube.

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Creating Sacred Space [4]

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2020 20:23

In this "Creating Sacred Space" video series, Khenpo Sherab Sangpo teaches students how to set up a Buddhist shrine, how to make the seven water bowl and butter lamp offerings, and how to perform Buddhist rituals with the altruistic motivation of bodhicitta so that our ritual meditation practices benefit all living beings. Podcast series includes instruction on "From the Pure Vision: The Verse for Offering Water: An Ocean of Accomplishment" by Dudjom Lingpa, verses for offering water together with prayers of aspiration to benefit sentient beings. Please visit our website to learn more about Khenpo Sherab Sangpo, his teachings and for practice texts. This episode can be seen on Youtube.

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Creating Sacred Space [3]

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2020 73:34

In this "Creating Sacred Space" video series, Khenpo Sherab Sangpo teaches students how to set up a Buddhist shrine, how to make the seven water bowl and butter lamp offerings, and how to perform Buddhist rituals with the altruistic motivation of bodhicitta so that our ritual meditation practices benefit all living beings. Podcast series includes instruction on "From the Pure Vision: The Verse for Offering Water: An Ocean of Accomplishment" by Dudjom Lingpa, verses for offering water together with prayers of aspiration to benefit sentient beings. Please visit our website to learn more about Khenpo Sherab Sangpo, his teachings and for practice texts. This episode can be seen on Youtube.

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Creating Sacred Space [2] (Eight Offerings)

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2020 25:14

In this "Creating Sacred Space" video series, Khenpo Sherab Sangpo teaches students how to set up a Buddhist shrine, how to make the seven water bowl and butter lamp offerings, and how to perform Buddhist rituals with the altruistic motivation of bodhicitta so that our ritual meditation practices benefit all living beings. Podcast series includes instruction on "From the Pure Vision: The Verse for Offering Water: An Ocean of Accomplishment" by Dudjom Lingpa, verses for offering water together with prayers of aspiration to benefit sentient beings. Please visit our website to learn more about Khenpo Sherab Sangpo, his teachings and for practice texts. This episode can be seen on Youtube.

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Creating Sacred Space [1]

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2020 53:14

In this "Creating Sacred Space" video series, Khenpo Sherab Sangpo teaches students how to set up a Buddhist shrine, how to make the seven water bowl and butter lamp offerings, and how to perform Buddhist rituals with the altruistic motivation of bodhicitta so that our ritual meditation practices benefit all living beings. Podcast series includes instruction on "From the Pure Vision: The Verse for Offering Water: An Ocean of Accomplishment" by Dudjom Lingpa, verses for offering water together with prayers of aspiration to benefit sentient beings. Please visit our website to learn more about Khenpo Sherab Sangpo, his teachings and for practice texts. This episode can be seen on Youtube.

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How to Practice Mandala Offering

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2020 41:15

Khenpo Sherab Sangpo offered instructions on the Preliminary Practices (Ngöndro) from The Profound and Secret Heart Essence of the Dakinis: The Chariot of Liberation, a treasure teaching revealed by Traktung (Heruka) Dudjom Dorje, also known as Dudjom Lingpa. Refuge and bodhicitta with prostrations, Vajrasattva, mandala offering and guru yoga are essential practices on the profound path of Vajrayana Buddhism and lay the foundation for Creation and Completion Stage and Great Perfection (Dzogchen) practices. Many great masters maintain a daily Ngöndro practice during their entire lives recognizing it as the heart essence of wisdom and compassion in Buddhism. Please visit our website to learn more about Khenpo Sherab Sangpo, his teachings and for practice texts. This episode can be seen on Youtube.

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Ngöndro Meditation Retreat [4]

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2020 63:00

Khenpo Sherab Sangpo offered instructions on the Preliminary Practices (Ngöndro) from The Profound and Secret Heart Essence of the Dakinis: The Chariot of Liberation, a treasure teaching revealed by Traktung (Heruka) Dudjom Dorje, also known as Dudjom Lingpa. Refuge and bodhicitta with prostrations, Vajrasattva, mandala offering and guru yoga are essential practices on the profound path of Vajrayana Buddhism and lay the foundation for Creation and Completion Stage and Great Perfection (Dzogchen) practices. Many great masters maintain a daily Ngöndro practice during their entire lives recognizing it as the heart essence of wisdom and compassion in Buddhism. Please visit our website to learn more about Khenpo Sherab Sangpo, his teachings and for practice texts. This episode can be seen on Youtube.

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Ngöndro Meditation Retreat [3]

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2020 62:02

Khenpo Sherab Sangpo offered instructions on the Preliminary Practices (Ngöndro) from The Profound and Secret Heart Essence of the Dakinis: The Chariot of Liberation, a treasure teaching revealed by Traktung (Heruka) Dudjom Dorje, also known as Dudjom Lingpa. Refuge and bodhicitta with prostrations, Vajrasattva, mandala offering and guru yoga are essential practices on the profound path of Vajrayana Buddhism and lay the foundation for Creation and Completion Stage and Great Perfection (Dzogchen) practices. Many great masters maintain a daily Ngöndro practice during their entire lives recognizing it as the heart essence of wisdom and compassion in Buddhism. Please visit our website to learn more about Khenpo Sherab Sangpo, his teachings and for practice texts. This episode can be seen on Youtube.

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Ngöndro Meditation Retreat [2]

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2020 77:22

Khenpo Sherab Sangpo offered instructions on the Preliminary Practices (Ngöndro) from The Profound and Secret Heart Essence of the Dakinis: The Chariot of Liberation, a treasure teaching revealed by Traktung (Heruka) Dudjom Dorje, also known as Dudjom Lingpa. Refuge and bodhicitta with prostrations, Vajrasattva, mandala offering and guru yoga are essential practices on the profound path of Vajrayana Buddhism and lay the foundation for Creation and Completion Stage and Great Perfection (Dzogchen) practices. Many great masters maintain a daily Ngöndro practice during their entire lives recognizing it as the heart essence of wisdom and compassion in Buddhism. Please visit our website to learn more about Khenpo Sherab Sangpo, his teachings and for practice texts. This episode can be seen on Youtube.

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Naga Teachings part 1

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2018 68:43

Lama Dawa gives instructions on how to make offerings to the Nagas according to a text by Dudjom Lingpa.

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Naga Teachings part 2

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2018 79:56

Lama Dawa Rinpoche gives instruction on how to make offerings to the nagas from a text by Dudjom Lingpa. Part 2.

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Ep10 Robert Beer - Guru Viking Interviews

Guru Viking Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2018 73:28

In this interview I talk with Robert Beer, an internationally renowned artist who has dedicated his life to both the study of Indo-Tibetan sacred art and to experiential contact with the afterlife. Robert is the author and illustrator of the The Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and Motif, and The Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Symbol, as well as having his work featured in countless publications and websites. In our discussion we delve into Robert's childhood mystical experiences, his psychedelically induced psychosis and kundalini crisis, the runaway Carmelite nun, years spent in India studying with Tibet’s greatest living master artist, astral encounters with long-dead Indian gurus, and Robert’s extensive research into parapsychology and the spirit world. - The afterlife experience at 14 years old that catalysed Robert’s spiritual search - The death of Robert’s sister and an afterlife dream - How Robert became homeless at 16, sleeping rough in the blood bank where he worked - Being rejected from art school and meeting the eccentric artist John F.B. Miles - The story of John’s mother the runaway Carmelite nun - John’s prodigious ability to reproduce any script instantly - Robert’s psychedelic explorations in his early twenties - How an attempt to practice Tibetan phowa on LSD triggered a devastating psychosis and kundalini crisis - The severe and debilitating effects of Robert’s kundalini crisis - Travelling to India and Robert’s 7 year journey to reintegrate his nervous system - Sacred art and music as therapy and medicine - The practice of stillness and concentration in art - Learning Tibetan thangka painting with Tibet’s master artist Jampa Tseten - Understanding mystic traditions through sacred art - Robert’s aboriginal encounter with Buddhist Dharma - Robert’s unpublished manual of the deities of the Karma Kagyu tradition - The challenges of obtaining funding and support in Robert’s career - The physical and psychological demands of creating extremely intricately detailed images - Robert’s incompatibility with traditional Buddhist practice - Encountering the physical emanation of the long deceased Shirdi Sai Baba - Ongoing psychic contact and teaching from Shirdi Sai Baba - How the tragic death of Robert’s daughter radically changed his life trajectory - Encounters with channellers and mediums - Robert’s profound experience with Dr. Michael Newton’s ‘Life Between Life’ hypnosis method - Research into Near Death Experiences and deathbed visions - The limitations of the Tibetan bardo and after-death teachings - The ineffectiveness of religious practice compared to near death experiences - Ani Tenzin Palmo’s near death experience - The karmic implications of past life regression - Robert’s opinion on the tulku system - Dudjom Lingpa’s anomalous reincarnation process - The blindly dogmatic approach to reincarnation of most Western Buddhist teachers - Robert’s approach to counselling the bereaved To find our more about Robert, visit: http://www.tibetanart.com/ For more interviews, videos, and more visit: www.guruviking.com Music 'Deva Dasi' by Steve James

How to Make Buddhist Shrine Offerings

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2018 165:54

Lama Dawa Rinpoche gives an essential teaching on how to make the outer and inner shrine offerings, according to the lineage of Dudjom Lingpa.

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EP 029 B Alan Wallace on the Great Perfection of Dudjom Lingpa

Startup Geometry Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2017 58:59

B. Alan Wallace Today, I talk with B. Alan Wallace about his multiple careers as Buddhist contemplative and teacher, physicist and cognitive scientist, writer and translator. We discuss his road to becoming a monk and returning to laity, the meditative practices of Dzogchen, how to tell a good teacher (by the quality of their students), the remarkable career of Dudjom Lingpa, and how Buddhist contemplatives and neuroscientists can collaborate to effect a revolution in our understanding of the mind. Bio Dynamic lecturer, progressive scholar, and one of the most prolific writers and translators of Tibetan Buddhism in the West, B. Alan Wallace, Ph.D., continually seeks innovative ways to integrate Buddhist contemplative practices with Western science to advance the study of the mind. Dr. Wallace, a scholar and practitioner of Buddhism since 1970, has taught Buddhist theory and meditation worldwide since 1976. Having devoted fourteen years to training as a Tibetan Buddhist monk, ordained by H. H. the Dalai Lama, he went on to earn an undergraduate degree in physics and the philosophy of science at Amherst College and a doctorate in religious studies at Stanford. With his unique background, Alan brings deep experience and applied skills to the challenge of integrating traditional Indo-Tibetan Buddhism with the modern world. Show Notes Alan Wallace's website Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Dudjom Rinpoche Gyatrul Rinpoche Dudjom Lingpa A Clear Mirror: The Visionary Biography of Dudjom Lingpa Neurophilosophy The "hard problem of consciousness"

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Sabedoria Transcendental da Ação no Mundo 2015 #4 - dia 2 manha

Lama Padma Samten

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2017 106:36

Estudo do "Sutra do Diamante" na inauguração do templo do CEBB Mendjila, em Canelinha/SC, de 31 de Outubro a 2 de Novembro. Ver índice abaixo. ÍNDICE 00:00 | Textos da classe do Prajnaparamita. Vacuidade, Aparência e Originação Dependente. "A pessoa que está vendo esse video ta vendo uma fraude. Não tem ninguém ali -- ainda que eu esteja dizendo que não tem ninguém: ninguém está dizendo que não tem ninguém. A pessoa constrói um aspecto luminoso, dependente do som que ela está ouvindo." "A vacuidade é uma característica das coisas, todas as coisas tem a propriedade da vacuidade, porque surgiram da originação dependente." "Dudjom Lingpa dizia que precisamos fazer ruir a caverna das aparências. (...) Tem uma outra visão: não precisa ruir a caverna das aparências: só precisamos sorrir." 20:10 | Comentário linha-a-linha do texto-raiz dos 21 itens, de Dudjom Rinpoche Dorje Drolö e o aspecto irado de Guru Rinpoche (24:10) "Nós temos muitos futuros que viraram passado sem nunca terem virado presente." 30:50 | Continuação do Sutra do Diamante, seção Perfeição da Sabedoria (Prajna Paramita) "Remédio não é saúde. A pessoa nao toma pílulas de saúde, ela toma um remédio para ajudar seu próprio corpo a reestabelecer a saúde. Assim é com os ensinamentos. O remédio é guru ioga." 49:20 | Pergunta: Como tomar a fruição como caminho? 51:50 | Pergunta: Dá para entender a originação dependente como uma parte gradual do caminho? 56:18 | Pergunta: Para atingirmos a mente última, precisamos usar os condicionamentos e treinamentos do samsara? "Não precisamos trocar de lugar. Serve os problemas que a gente já tem." "Por isso que o Buda deu 84 mil ensinamentos, para 84 mil tipos de problemas." 1:03:48 | Transmissão da mente de buda do quinto para o sexto patriarca no budismo chinês 1:12:00 | Conclusão do Sutra 1:27:15 | Pergunta: Desse silêncio, desse espaço, como brota a mente? O que é a mente? 1:30:50 | Pergunta: Como funciona a astrologia dentro dessa perspectiva de vacuidade? Por que pessoas nascem com capacidade de produzir coisas? Isso é para ser incentivado ou deixado de lado? 1:36:00 | Pergunta: O que significa 'gerar méritos'? 1:45:00 | Pergunta: Qual a diferença entre shamata com foco em um objeto e com foco na energia?

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33 Stop it! and how to translate that into Tibetan

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2014

This morning we were listening to Bob Newhart’s “Stop It” skit that Alan had talked about a while ago. So everybody out there with wandering minds, low self-esteem and all the like, take this advice to heart. As for today’s practice, Alan was front loading the session again with Padmasambhava’s pointing-out instructions, giving us the seeds for the silent, non-discursive meditation. Your own distinct awareness is pristine awareness, don’t look outside of yourself, but give up all attachment to and identification with your own body and mind. After the meditation Alan discussed the two strategies to deal with distractive thoughts, emotions etc. in shamatha practice. In Taking the Mind As the Path, you just let them self-release. The other strategy is that, when these distractions come up, to just cut them right off. You can do the same in lucid dreaming when something unpleasant happens. Finally Alan compared the images used by Dudjom Lingpa in his Vajra Essence when describing how sentient beings emerge from the ignorance of the ground with the way Roger Penrose describes light rays. Silent meditation cut out at 26:00 min

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33 Stop it! and how to translate that into Tibetan

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2014

This morning we were listening to Bob Newhart’s “Stop It” skit that Alan had talked about a while ago. So everybody out there with wandering minds, low self-esteem and all the like, take this advice to heart. As for today’s practice, Alan was front loading the session again with Padmasambhava’s pointing-out instructions, giving us the seeds for the silent, non-discursive meditation. Your own distinct awareness is pristine awareness, don’t look outside of yourself, but give up all attachment to and identification with your own body and mind. After the meditation Alan discussed the two strategies to deal with distractive thoughts, emotions etc. in shamatha practice. In Taking the Mind As the Path, you just let them self-release. The other strategy is that, when these distractions come up, to just cut them right off. You can do the same in lucid dreaming when something unpleasant happens. Finally Alan compared the images used by Dudjom Lingpa in his Vajra Essence when describing how sentient beings emerge from the ignorance of the ground with the way Roger Penrose describes light rays. Silent meditation cut out at 26:00 min

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24 Tiptoing Into Identifying Awareness

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2014

In the teachings Alan elaborated once more on the topic of seeing ones teacher as the Buddha, sharing some stories about his early times in India which relate to that topic. It is easy to see the really great lamas, like the Karmapa or H.H. the Dalai Lama as totally unlike ourselves, we can imagine them as being Buddhas. But if we see our ordinary lama, who is giving us the everyday teachings, in a different way, because after all they seem to be almost like us, we have just missed the point. Then we practice simple idolatry. We have to see them of being of one nature, all from the same source. Then we had a clarification regarding how to deal with upheavals that come up as a result of the practice, and the comment from Dudjom Lingpa in his Sharp Vajra of Conscious Awareness Tantra is not to reify them, otherwise you will get stuck. The grasping onto them as inherently existing is the problem, not the upheavals themselves. Regarding todays practice, what we have to do here is to release the notion of practicing this from the perspective of a sentient being. There is no effort involved, no modification or fabrication, and it involves not doing anything. There is a dimension here that is always rigpa, and it never falls into marigpa (unknowing), it never wandered in samsara. From that perspective there is nothing to be done, but from the perspective of a sentient being we have a lot of work to do. Questions: Q1: Regarding the long quotation from Karma Chagme Rinpoche in A Spacious Path to Freedom (“What do you mean you can’t…”), and that will be included on the webpage for download very soon. Q2: In regards to the translation of the Compendium of Practices chapter 13, which is translated by Alan right now so it will still take a bit of time, we will receive it later. Q3: Regarding the intensification in the oscillation of Awareness of Awareness. Q4: In intense practice of Mindfulness of Breathing the mind isn’t very sharp anymore. Am I getting old? Q5: During meditation it feels like sounds are passing through my body. Well, that could be The Who again… Meditation starts at 01:02 min

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24 Tiptoing Into Identifying Awareness

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2014

In the teachings Alan elaborated once more on the topic of seeing ones teacher as the Buddha, sharing some stories about his early times in India which relate to that topic. It is easy to see the really great lamas, like the Karmapa or H.H. the Dalai Lama as totally unlike ourselves, we can imagine them as being Buddhas. But if we see our ordinary lama, who is giving us the everyday teachings, in a different way, because after all they seem to be almost like us, we have just missed the point. Then we practice simple idolatry. We have to see them of being of one nature, all from the same source. Then we had a clarification regarding how to deal with upheavals that come up as a result of the practice, and the comment from Dudjom Lingpa in his Sharp Vajra of Conscious Awareness Tantra is not to reify them, otherwise you will get stuck. The grasping onto them as inherently existing is the problem, not the upheavals themselves. Regarding todays practice, what we have to do here is to release the notion of practicing this from the perspective of a sentient being. There is no effort involved, no modification or fabrication, and it involves not doing anything. There is a dimension here that is always rigpa, and it never falls into marigpa (unknowing), it never wandered in samsara. From that perspective there is nothing to be done, but from the perspective of a sentient being we have a lot of work to do. Questions: Q1: Regarding the long quotation from Karma Chagme Rinpoche in A Spacious Path to Freedom (“What do you mean you can’t…”), and that will be included on the webpage for download very soon. Q2: In regards to the translation of the Compendium of Practices chapter 13, which is translated by Alan right now so it will still take a bit of time, we will receive it later. Q3: Regarding the intensification in the oscillation of Awareness of Awareness. Q4: In intense practice of Mindfulness of Breathing the mind isn’t very sharp anymore. Am I getting old? Q5: During meditation it feels like sounds are passing through my body. Well, that could be The Who again… Meditation starts at 01:02 min

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16 Culmination of Shamatha without a Sign. Releasing mind into space.

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2014

In this session we are finishing off the instructions of Padmasambhava. Alan goes right into meditation and the central theme is releasing the mind into space. After the meditation session Alan finishes reading and explaining the section on shamatha from Natural Liberation. He continues giving advice on how to practice in between sessions by way of maintaining awareness of space. Alan quotes Shantideva and illustrates how his thoughts resonate with dzogchen. In this practice we are giving up everything for the sake of nirvana. We are giving up everything we are attached to and everything that we identify with. We surrender all at once by releasing the mind into space! Alan goes back to the book Vajra Essence and explains the procedure to be followed by the three types of beings according to their capacities: great, middling and inferior with regards the practices of the Great Perfection. To conclude the session Alan comments on what Dudjom Lingpa said regarding people encountering these profound teachings. He said that these people had already a vast contact and engaging with Buddha-Dharma in past lives. These teachings only come with a lot of previous momentum. Therefore, do not let yourself be intimidated by these profound teachings. If inspiration arises while listening the teachings, that’s all you need to have in order to be ready for these practices. Meditation starts at 00:50

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16 Culmination of Shamatha without a Sign. Releasing mind into space.

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2014

In this session we are finishing off the instructions of Padmasambhava. Alan goes right into meditation and the central theme is releasing the mind into space. After the meditation session Alan finishes reading and explaining the section on shamatha from Natural Liberation. He continues giving advice on how to practice in between sessions by way of maintaining awareness of space. Alan quotes Shantideva and illustrates how his thoughts resonate with dzogchen. In this practice we are giving up everything for the sake of nirvana. We are giving up everything we are attached to and everything that we identify with. We surrender all at once by releasing the mind into space! Alan goes back to the book Vajra Essence and explains the procedure to be followed by the three types of beings according to their capacities: great, middling and inferior with regards the practices of the Great Perfection. To conclude the session Alan comments on what Dudjom Lingpa said regarding people encountering these profound teachings. He said that these people had already a vast contact and engaging with Buddha-Dharma in past lives. These teachings only come with a lot of previous momentum. Therefore, do not let yourself be intimidated by these profound teachings. If inspiration arises while listening the teachings, that’s all you need to have in order to be ready for these practices. Meditation starts at 00:50

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08 Nyam, nyam, nyam

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 26, 2014

The Tibeten term ‘nyam’ has no similar term in English. It is a class of experience that is part of the journey. Alan described a nyam as “an anomalous, transient, psychosomatic experience that is catalyzed by authentic meditative experience” and went on to describe various nyam that have arisen or may arise. You cannot tell what kind of nyam may arise, no one has plain sailing. The point is to be with it and not reify it, and the analogy to a lucid dream was given (when you are non lucid in a dream you reify it as being real). Recognize it for what it is. In the second part of the session, Alan continued the reading from Dudjom Lingpa’s “The Vajra Essence” on the bardo of living, and providing a commentary that ranged from Milarepa, to lucid dreaming, shopping ’til you drop to the great transference rainbow body and everything in between. One question was asked - on moving from the desire to form realm on the breath This session began with a silent meditation that is not included in this podcast

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08 Nyam, nyam, nyam

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2014

The Tibeten term ‘nyam’ has no similar term in English. It is a class of experience that is part of the journey. Alan described a nyam as “an anomalous, transient, psychosomatic experience that is catalyzed by authentic meditative experience” and went on to describe various nyam that have arisen or may arise. You cannot tell what kind of nyam may arise, no one has plain sailing. The point is to be with it and not reify it, and the analogy to a lucid dream was given (when you are non lucid in a dream you reify it as being real). Recognize it for what it is. In the second part of the session, Alan continued the reading from Dudjom Lingpa’s “The Vajra Essence” on the bardo of living, and providing a commentary that ranged from Milarepa, to lucid dreaming, shopping ’til you drop to the great transference rainbow body and everything in between. One question was asked - on moving from the desire to form realm on the breath This session began with a silent meditation that is not included in this podcast

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02 Mindfulness of Breathing

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2014

The meditation was Mindfulness of Breathing with a literal interpretation on the theme from the Pali canon “When breathing in long one knows that one breathes in long”. Alan starts by reading from Dudjom Lingpa’s Vajra Essence, the beginning passage of the first three bardos or transitional phases. Alan stresses that in order to get the most benefit out of these teachings, we should recognize who is presenting the teachings to us. It is important that we don’t reify the teachers, but see through the lineage of teachers that passed this down to us right to Samantabhadra, who stands for our own pristine awareness. According to the Vajra Essence, we are in the transitional phases as long as we are not liberated. The essential nature of the transitional phases is pristine awareness. But since we don’t realize this, pristine awareness cristalyzes into the ethically neutral state of substrate consciousness, which itself doesn’t wander in samsara, but becomes the ground from which a sentient being within the six realms arises. Dudjom Lingpa then lays out the sequence in which the coarse mind of a sentient being manifests out of substrate consciousness. The substrate itself is of the nature of unknowing, and therefore as long as the substrate consciousness is dissolved in the substrate, like a sword being hidden in its sheath, it is in a state of only implicit awareness. Then due to the germination of karmic seeds, the substrate consciousness gets catalyzed and it becomes explicit. Then from the substrate consciousness afflicted mentation (klishta manas) arises, which is the primary root of self-grasping, the raw sense of “me” being over here and “not me” being over there. Then out of this, subtle and coarse mentation (manas) arises, with the subtle mentation being still non-conceptual, a simple differentiation of this versus that, and the coarse mentation being fully conceptual, enabling us to make sense of the world. Finally, the coarse mind (citta) arises in response to appearances. Questions: Q1: In the metaphor of the sword and the sheath, what is the sheath referring to again? Q2: Why does the Vajra Essence state that the substrate consciousness is being free throughout the three times? Meditation starts at 08:02 min

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02 Mindfulness of Breathing

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2014

The meditation was Mindfulness of Breathing with a literal interpretation on the theme from the Pali canon “When breathing in long one knows that one breathes in long”. Alan starts by reading from Dudjom Lingpa’s Vajra Essence, the beginning passage of the first three bardos or transitional phases. Alan stresses that in order to get the most benefit out of these teachings, we should recognize who is presenting the teachings to us. It is important that we don’t reify the teachers, but see through the lineage of teachers that passed this down to us right to Samantabhadra, who stands for our own pristine awareness. According to the Vajra Essence, we are in the transitional phases as long as we are not liberated. The essential nature of the transitional phases is pristine awareness. But since we don’t realize this, pristine awareness cristalyzes into the ethically neutral state of substrate consciousness, which itself doesn’t wander in samsara, but becomes the ground from which a sentient being within the six realms arises. Dudjom Lingpa then lays out the sequence in which the coarse mind of a sentient being manifests out of substrate consciousness. The substrate itself is of the nature of unknowing, and therefore as long as the substrate consciousness is dissolved in the substrate, like a sword being hidden in its sheath, it is in a state of only implicit awareness. Then due to the germination of karmic seeds, the substrate consciousness gets catalyzed and it becomes explicit. Then from the substrate consciousness afflicted mentation (klishta manas) arises, which is the primary root of self-grasping, the raw sense of “me” being over here and “not me” being over there. Then out of this, subtle and coarse mentation (manas) arises, with the subtle mentation being still non-conceptual, a simple differentiation of this versus that, and the coarse mentation being fully conceptual, enabling us to make sense of the world. Finally, the coarse mind (citta) arises in response to appearances. Questions: Q1: In the metaphor of the sword and the sheath, what is the sheath referring to again? Q2: Why does the Vajra Essence state that the substrate consciousness is being free throughout the three times? Meditation starts at 08:02 min

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00 Welcome and Introduction to the retreat

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2014

Welcome to Thanyapura Fall 2014 retreat. This session outlined what will be covered in the retreat. The teachings are based on two texts: Padmasambhavas Natural Liberation, and excerpts from Dudjom Lingpa’s Vajra Essence. The teachings focus on three of the six bardos (living, meditation and dreaming). Alan describes himself as a dharma chef, serving up a juicy offering. Shamatha is the starting point. There are 36 people on individual retreats at Thanyapura, but all crew members together - so be considerate to others. Now give up all attachment to this life and devote it to Dharma.

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00 Welcome and Introduction to the retreat

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2014

Welcome to Thanyapura Fall 2014 retreat. This session outlined what will be covered in the retreat. The teachings are based on two texts: Padmasambhavas Natural Liberation, and excerpts from Dudjom Lingpa’s Vajra Essence. The teachings focus on three of the six bardos (living, meditation and dreaming). Alan describes himself as a dharma chef, serving up a juicy offering. Shamatha is the starting point. There are 36 people on individual retreats at Thanyapura, but all crew members together - so be considerate to others. Now give up all attachment to this life and devote it to Dharma.

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56 Continuation of commentary of "Scientific View" from 17th Century (Thomas Sprat) to nowadays

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2013

After el short introduction, we go into a silent meditation session on the three spaces. Right after the meditation, we go back to the theme of the "spirits". Alan talks about how scientific studies, from halfway through the 17th century up until now, have "dealt" with both internal and external spirits. He points out that a contemplative inquiry has been more and more ignored over this period, which ultimately yields a disenchanted Universe. At the end of the session, we go into the subject of spirits again, this time from Dzogchen perspective, quoting the Vajra Essence from Dudjom Lingpa. Finally, a story about spirits and nuns near the cave of Tilopa. Meditation starts at: Not recorded (silent meditation on the three spaces)

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41 Merging Mind with Space

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2013

Two points about this practice. Like riding a bicycle, once we are in the flow we don't need to remember to push with our left left leg, then our right leg and so on. Similarly once we are in a steady state with this practice, release all recollection, in other words, release mindfulness (as it is understood in Buddhism). The second point is to see if we can be free of mental engagement as in 'now I am observing awareness, I got it, I got it" - just keep it simple. Ordinarily mindfulness and mental engagement is how we know anything but for Shamatha practices, particularly Shamatha without a sign and merging mind with space, we are seeking to slip into a mode of knowing that is still alert but free of mindfulness and mental engagement. After the meditation Alan quotes from several sources including the third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje and Dudjom Lingpa which relate Shamatha with the Four Yogas of Mahamudra and the five Mahayana paths. From these authentic sources Shamatha is also clearly defined so that we can "build and drive a VW bug and not call it anything that it is not, it's a very good vehicle". Meditation starts at: 6:52

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28 Shamatha Without a Sign and text, up to the end of Ultimate Bodhicitta

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2013

Alan goes straight into the meditation practice. Alan states that 'settling the mind in its natural state' and 'Shamatha without a sign' are notorious for catalysing karma. Alan defines 'nyam' and obstacles. Alan states Dudjom Lingpa's two approaches to nyam arising - to reify or to not grasp, and to use whatever understanding you have of emptiness. Alan then gives commentary to the line in Atisha's text 'Between sessions act as illusory being'. Alan talks on the impure and the pure illusory bodies. He then goes on to discuss Vajrayana practices of stage of generation and completion - the developmental approach, and the Dzogchen approach. One says you have Buddha nature, the other you are Buddha nature. Alan describes what to rely on in your practice (what to take refuge in). In between sessions act as if you are in a lucid dream. Dzogchen approach 'all things appear, but are non-existent'. This is a dream. A radical shift in perspective. Meditation starts at: 00:31

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20 Settling the Mind in Its Natural State and Unborn Awareness