Podcast appearances and mentions of lama tsomo

Original air date: October 3, 2022 This is an UNLOCKED episode. For access to premium episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, live call-in specials, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, become a subscriber at patreon.com/subliminaljihad. In the final chapter of CONTRA VII, Dimitri and Khalid explore how Creedence Clearwater Revival went from the #1 chooglin' rock band in the world in 1970 to having their entire fortune stolen by Burt Kanter's notoriously shady, mafia and CIA-infested Castle Bank and Trust. SIDE A: THE ASSASSINATION OF CCR BY THE COWARD BURTON KANTER How CCR's Woodstock headlining set got sabotaged by the Grateful Dead, the silk topper inspiration for “Fortunate Son”, not getting respect from the “cool” rock media, providing material support to the American Indian occupation of Alcatraz, renegotiating their contract with Fantasy Records bigwig Saul Zaentz, Saul convincing CCR to put all their earnings offshore in Castle Bank and a grapevine of shell entities, Tom Fogerty's painful departure in '71, John's revenge on Negative Stu and No-Shuffle Doug with “Mardi Gras” in '72, the end of CCR, Tom's underrated solo career/chooglin' with suslord Jerry Garcia, Tom subtweeting John on “Sign of the Devil”, John's stint with David Geffen and the scrapped lo-fi “Hoodoo” album, realizing that ALL of Creedence's money has vanished into a “Bahamian abyss”, years of seclusion and lawsuits, getting even with Burt Kanter, Zaentz's new role as serrrious Hollywood producer of “One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest” and “Amadeus”, John realizing he's Zaentz's Pinocchio puppet, his 1985 return with “Zanz Kant Danz” and “Mr. Greed”, Tom's new “best friend” Saul Zaentz, more lawsuits and fighting, Tom's tragic death from AIDS in 1990, his dying wish that the other three Creedence guys choogle together one last time, and John's NOT-on-haqq refusal to play with Stu, Doug, and Tom's son Jeff at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction in 1993. SIDE B: EFFIGY Donald Trump's purchase of Resorts International in 1987, cocaine trafficking in 1980s Bahamas, Medellin Cocaine Nazi Carlos “Joe” Lehder making Norman's Cay his castle and garden, US Ambassador to the Bahamas/Slava Ukraini Banderite/WACL suslord Lev Dobriansky telling the CIA station chief to “find another job”, Kanter's relationships with international oil man Bruce Rappaport and Bill Casey, Indonesian oil schemes in the 1960s, the Bank of New York, the ill-fated Aqaba oil pipeline project in Iraq, looting the Soviet economy, Antigua as training ground for Contras, IDF machine guns for Colombian drug cartels, BCCI/Rappaport overlaps, “left-leaning wealth advisor” Josh Kanter's Alliance for a Better Utah and Kanter Family Foundation, Linda Pritzker aka Lama Tsomo's Namchak Foundation in Montana, Nick Pritzker bankrolling Gavin Newsom's career, Tom Pritzker running the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Nick and Tom Pritzker's multiple phone numbers in Epstein's black book, Virginia Roberts Giuffre's allegations against Tom Pritzker, the Kanter law firm of Neal, Gerber, & Eisenberg's continuing services to the Pritzker family, and last but not least, some thoughts on how it doesn't whip ass when left-leaning media influencers try to meme Big Boy JB Pritzker into the White House, especially when one's uncle happens to have been a Burt Kanter protegé/Pritzker family attorney for the last 50 years.

Lama Tsomo is a spiritual teacher, author, and co-founder of Namchak Foundation and Namchak Retreat Ranch, which preserves and shares Tibetan Buddhist practice in accessible, contemporary ways. Under the tutelage of Tulku Sangak Rinpoche, international holder of the Namchak lineage, Lama Tsomo has done extensive spiritual retreats in the U.S. and abroad and is fluent in Tibetan. Today, she is dedicated to sharing the teachings of the Namchak lineage with Western students, bringing greater happiness and meaning to life through meditation practice, community, and retreat. She is passionate about reaching young people and supporting those working for positive social change. Lama Tsomo holds an M.A. in Counseling Psychology and is the author of Ancient Wisdom for Our Times: Tibetan Buddhist Practice Series and coauthor of The Lotus & the Rose: A Conversation Between Tibetan Buddhism & Mystical Christianity and the Taking a Breath meditation journal. Links: Namchak Website Saving Each Other Together Project Four Immeasurables Retreat Namchak's Instagram Deepening Our Feeling for “Us”: Lama Tsomo from SAND19 Music from Today's episode: Chenrezig Sadhana – Tibetan Vajrayana Mantra Meditation Now I Walk In Beauty Libana- Fire Within Now I Walk in Beauty (sheet music) Topics: 0:00 – Introduction 2:58 – Lama Intro Story and Path to Buddhism 8:13 – Major Schools of Buddhism in the U.S. 10:35 – Balancing Mindfulness & Compassion 16:45 – The Predictions of Guru Rinpoche 24:45 – The Importance of Mantra 25:53 – The One Ocean 32:13 – Sharing in Sangha in Mantra 37:49 – Chenrezig / Avalokiteśvara chanting practice 50:53 – Working Skillfully With Equanimity 54:19 – The Importance of Sangha 58:57 – Aspirational and Engaged Boddhicitta

In this short bonus episode, Tibetan Buddhist teacher, author, and co-founder of the Namchak Foundation, Lama Tsomo shares a Tonglen Meditation practice. In Tibetan, Tonglen means “sending and receiving.” Lama Tsomo guides us through a compassion practice focused on the pain of being misunderstood. She invites us to first send compassion to ourselves, then to someone we know, and finally to all of humanity. In this 10-minute meditation, the empathetic part of our brain is activated, dissolving the barrier between “us” and “them" and inspiring connection to ourselves, our loved ones, and the world. ✨ Registration is open for Thomas' all-new, live online course: The Spiritual Healing Journey Learn more and sign up here:

Thomas is joined by Tibetan Buddhist teacher, author, and co-founder of the Namchak Foundation, Lama Tsomo. They discuss Tibetan Buddhist teachings and practices that illuminate our fundamental interconnectedness and enable us to approach our relationships and our reality with greater compassion and empathy. Lama Tsomo explains how Compassion Meditation can help loosen the grip of the ego, and make us less reactive in conflict. They also explore the different levels of depth in meditation practice, the deep, healing value of group practices, and how we can experience spiritual one-ness and unification without bypassing the hardships of our physical reality. As Lama Tsomo puts it, “The antidote to violence is empathy.” ✨ Registration is open for Thomas' all-new, live online course: The Spiritual Healing Journey Learn more and sign up here:

This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, features Lama Tsomo. Lama Tsomo is a spiritual teacher, author, and co-founder of Namchak Foundation, which preserves and shares Tibetan Buddhist practice in accessible, contemporary ways. She dedicates the majority of her time and resources to sharing the teachings and practices of the Namchak tradition, a branch of Tibetan […] The post Lama Tsomo: Ancient Wisdom for Our Times (#167) appeared first on The Wisdom Experience.

Guiding us through The Four Immeasurables, author and teacher Lama Tsomo lectures about developing deep connections.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowIn this episode, Lama Tsomo teaches us about:Technology as a window to the worldHow to have deep, satisfying connectionThe four immeasurablesLoving-kindness, compassion, and equanimity Near and Far Enemies About Lama Tsomo:Born Linda Pritzker, Lama Tsomo followed a path of spiritual inquiry and study that ultimately led to her ordination as one of the few American lamas in the Tibetan Buddhism. Today she works to share the teachings of the Namchak tradition, making its time-tested meditation practices accessible to westerners. “Each of the four boundless qualities gets us past our ego fixations and joins us with another in a way that brings right relationship. We can feel that rightness and joining when it happens. As we know from neuroscience, that feeling registers in that ever-popular left middle pre-frontal lobe — a main locust of positive emotions.” – Lama TsomoSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Buddhist teacher Lama Tsomo talks about her new book, Deepening Wisdom, Deepening Connection, shamatha meditation, the four prized emotions referred to as the “Divine Abodes,” and how to find your own Buddhist teacher, including a “calm abiding” meditation.

For access to full-length premium episodes and the SJ Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe to the Al-Wara' Frequency at patreon.com/subliminaljihad. In the final chapter of CONTRA VII, Dimitri and Khalid explore how Creedence Clearwater Revival went from the #1 chooglin' rock band in the world in 1970 to having their entire fortune stolen by Burt Kanter's notoriously shady, mafia and CIA-infested Castle Bank and Trust. SIDE A: THE ASSASSINATION OF CCR BY THE COWARD BURTON KANTER How CCR's Woodstock headlining set got sabotaged by the Grateful Dead, the silk topper inspiration for “Fortunate Son”, not getting respect from the “cool” rock media, providing material support to the American Indian occupation of Alcatraz, renegotiating their contract with Fantasy Records bigwig Saul Zaentz, Saul convincing CCR to put all their earnings offshore in Castle Bank and a grapevine of shell entities, Tom Fogerty's painful departure in '71, John's revenge on Negative Stu and No-Shuffle Doug with “Mardi Gras” in '72, the end of CCR, Tom's underrated solo career/chooglin' with suslord Jerry Garcia, Tom subtweeting John on “Sign of the Devil”, John's stint with David Geffen and the scrapped lo-fi “Hoodoo” album, realizing that ALL of Creedence's money has vanished into a “Bahamian abyss”, years of seclusion and lawsuits, getting even with Burt Kanter, Zaentz's new role as serrrious Hollywood producer of “One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest” and “Amadeus”, John realizing he's Zaentz's Pinocchio puppet, his 1985 return with “Zanz Kant Danz” and “Mr. Greed”, Tom's new “best friend” Saul Zaentz, more lawsuits and fighting, Tom's tragic death from AIDS in 1990, his dying wish that the other three Creedence guys choogle together one last time, and John's NOT-on-haqq refusal to play with Stu, Doug, and Tom's son Jeff at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction in 1993. SIDE B: EFFIGY Donald Trump's purchase of Resorts International in 1987, cocaine trafficking in 1980s Bahamas, Medellin Cocaine Nazi Carlos “Joe” Lehder making Norman's Cay his castle and garden, US Ambassador to the Bahamas/Slava Ukraini Banderite/WACL suslord Lev Dobriansky telling the CIA station chief to “find another job”, Kanter's relationships with international oil man Bruce Rappaport and Bill Casey, Indonesian oil schemes in the 1960s, the Bank of New York, the ill-fated Aqaba oil pipeline project in Iraq, looting the Soviet economy, Antigua as training ground for Contras, IDF machine guns for Colombian drug cartels, BCCI/Rappaport overlaps, “left-leaning wealth advisor” Josh Kanter's Alliance for a Better Utah and Kanter Family Foundation, Linda Pritzker aka Lama Tsomo's Namchak Foundation in Montana, Nick Pritzker bankrolling Gavin Newsom's career, Tom Pritzker running the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Nick and Tom Pritzker's multiple phone numbers in Epstein's black book, Virginia Roberts Giuffre's allegations against Tom Pritzker, the Kanter law firm of Neal, Gerber, & Eisenberg's continuing services to the Pritzker family, and last but not least, some thoughts on how it doesn't whip ass when left-leaning media influencers try to meme Big Boy JB Pritzker into the White House, especially when one's uncle happens to have been a Burt Kanter protegé/Pritzker family attorney for the last 50 years.

Lama Tsomo joins Raghu for a discussion on becoming happy, cultivating compassion, and seeing between the frames of the movie of me.Explore the intersection of Buddhism & Bhakti with Raghu and an eclectic group of dharma teachers and mindful artists at the inaugural Love Serve Remember Summer Mountain Retreat August 25th - 29th in Boone, NC!Lama Tsomo has followed a path of spiritual inquiry and study that ultimately led to her ordination as one of the few American lamas in Tibetan Buddhism. Lama learned Tibetan to study with her teacher Tulku Sangak Rinpoche, and now shares the teachings of the Namchak lineage in the US and abroad. Lama holds an M.A. in Counseling Psychology and is the author of books such as the award-winning Why Is the Dalai Lama Always Smiling?, and her upcoming Deepening Wisdom, Deepening Connection. For more info, please visit Namchak.org See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Lama Tsomo, spiritual teacher and a truly wonderful person, joins the DTFH! You can find all of Lama Tsomo's books, including her latest title Why Bother?: An Introduction, wherever you buy your literature! She's also a co-founder and master teacher at the Namchak Foundation. Original music by Aaron Michael Goldberg. This episode is brought to you by: Everything 420 - Use promo code DUNCAN at checkout for 15% Off nearly everything in stock! Athletic Greens - Visit AthleticGreens.com/Duncan for a FREE 1 year supply of vitamin D and 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase! Shudder - Use promo code DUNCAN for a FREE 30 Day Trial!

— Tranquil Abiding helps us calm the waters of the mind, allowing us to experience truth more clearly. We can learn a lot through studying the nature of the mind and reality, but we can't stop there. Tranquil Abiding helps us to see for ourselves, through stilling the mind and experiencing insight. Through connecting with others, as a compassionate act, Tonglen helps us feel how we're not separate from the rest of the ocean. This balance is important. The Tibetan scriptures speak of many pairs. In Why Bother? The definition of enlightenment is cleansing our obscurations and fully maturing our buddha qualities. Tranquil Abiding helps with the former; Tonglen with the latter. Another pair is wisdom (Tranquil Abiding) and compassion (Tonglen). Vajrayana (Tibetan Buddhism) meets us where we are, and supports us in our journey from there. So it is with Tonglen. The word Tonglen means “sending and receiving” in Tibetan.  Valeria Teles interviews Lama Tsomo — the author of “Wisdom & Compassion: Starting with Yourself — (Ancient Wisdom for Our Times Tibetan Buddhist Practice Series – Book 2).” Lama Tsomo is a spiritual teacher, author, and co-founder of Namchak Foundation, which preserves and shares Tibetan Buddhist practice in accessible, contemporary ways. She dedicates the majority of her time and resources to sharing the teachings and practices of the Namchak tradition, a branch of Tibetan Buddhism. Utilizing her psychology background, Lama Tsomo works to make it easier for Westerners to bridge contemplative practice and modern life. She is particularly passionate about reaching young people and supporting those working for positive social change. Fascinated by science from an early age, Lama Tsomo's teachings often reference the science behind meditation and the proven neurological impact. She holds an M.A. in Counseling Psychology and is the author of Why Is the Dalai Lama Always Smiling? An Introduction and Guide to Tibetan Buddhist Practice and coauthor of The Lotus & the Rose: A Conversation Between Tibetan Buddhism & Mystical Christianity  and the newly released Taking a Breath meditation journal. To learn more about Lama Tsomo and her work, please visit: namchak.org       — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well. 

Lama Tsomo shares a guided tonglen meditation to apply your personal practice to widening social circles, and to move from fear into love.

Please join us for a timely conversation exploring insights, tools and practices to support ourselves, our families, our work and our communities during this season of confinement and constant, confusing, uncertain change. For most of us, our worlds came to a screeching pause in March and many of us remain under constraints on our movement and interactions -- turning our homes into seeming prisons at times.  In addition to this once-in-a-century pandemic, many parts of the globe are currently plagued with fires, hurricanes and other outstanding circumstances that force people into even greater lockdown in homes that may no longer feel safe. In conversation with an expert in prison rehabilitation and a Buddhist lama, we’ll explore questions such as:  How do we remain sane through all of this?  How can we remain positive and lifted up when everything around us seems to push us down?  How does this season actually serve us?  How do we regain our freedom and liberation? Jacques Verduin is the Founding Director and Minister of Transformation of Insight-Out as well as the Founder of its GRIP (Guiding Rage into Power) Program, a best-practices, comprehensive offender accountability program.  He has a 22-year history as a subject matter expert on prison rehabilitation programming, a record of successful pioneering and sustaining programs, and has cultivated a sizable network in the field. Currently Director of Insight-Out, Mr. Verduin founded the Insight Prison Project, which under his leadership produced the Victim Offender Education program. His efforts helped birth the Prison Mindfulness Initiative, the Prison Yoga Project, the Insight Garden Project, Veterans Healing Veterans, among others. All of these organizations are actively replicating. In addition to California, he is a consultant to the US State Department, and he and his staff has traveled abroad to train professionals in Guatemala, El Salvador, Bosnia and the Netherlands. Lama Tsomo is an American lama, author, and co-founder of the Namchak Foundation and Namchak Retreat Ranch.  Born Linda Pritzker, Lama Tsomo followed a path of spiritual inquiry and study that ultimately led to her ordination as one of the few American lamas in Tibetan Buddhism. Under the tutelage of Tulku Sangak Rinpoche, international holder of the Namchak lineage, Lama Tsomo has done extensive spiritual retreats in the U.S. and abroad, and is fluent in Tibetan. Today, she is dedicated to sharing the teachings of the Namchak lineage with Western students, bringing greater happiness and meaning to life through meditation practice, community and retreat. She is especially passionate about reaching young people and supporting those working for positive social change. Her teaching has inspired American and international students, who appreciate her informal, and often humorous, style. Lama Tsomo holds an M.A. in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Jungian studies. She is the author of three books: Why Is The Dalai Lama Always Smiling? A Westerner’s Introduction and Guide to Tibetan Buddhist Practice, The Lotus & The Rose, and The Dharma of Dogs. This conversation will be moderated by Mariette Fourmeaux, Founder and Executive Director of Brilliance Inside, a nonprofit with the mission of healing society’s cycle of violence by transforming prison from being strictly a container of violence to a creator of peace. 

Lama Tsomo, born Linda Pritzker, is an American teacher in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, an author, and a philanthropist living in western Montana. Her path of spiritual inquiry and study led to her ordination as one of the few female American lamas in Tibetan Buddhism. Lama Tsomo is known for her warm, candid and humorous teaching style. Fascinated by science from an early age, she often weaves research findings into her teachings. Her studies and teaching over the years have focused on these two questions: How can a spiritual awakening improve the chances that our world will be healed? And where can we find the insights and capacities to help each of us navigate life and be authentically happy? She is particularly passionate about reaching young people and supporting those working for positive social change. Born into a Midwestern Jewish household, Lama Tsomo is an heiress to the Pritzker family fortune via Hyatt Hotels and other enterprises. She had no interest in joining any of the family businesses. As a teenager, she discovered a passion for saving the environment after a summer of exploring the wilderness areas of Glacier National Park and other regions of the American west. She came to believe that a civilization built on an ever-growing demand for material things (and the natural resources required to produce them) does not result in happiness and well-being, and is not sustainable.  She studied at Antioch University and earned a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology with a focus on Jungian analysis.  As a young woman, she left Chicago and began a life as a homesteader in Wisconsin, where she raised goats, grew the family's vegetables, and brought up three children. She practiced as a Jungian therapist, and wrote a book about the place of women and girls in western mythology. She later moved to a rural community in the mountains of western Montana. Tsomo meditated for a number of years without any particular instruction or guidance. After a period of five years where she gave up meditating, she felt a desire to return to the practice but this time with instruction and guidance. She met Gochen Tulku Sangak Rinpoche, who carries the teaching of the Nyingma path of Tibetan Buddhism, at a 10-day retreat in Santa Fe. After hearing him teach she knew she had found the teacher she was seeking. Under Rinpoche’s guidance, Tsomo completed more than three years of solitary retreats. She also learned the Tibetan language, allowing her to converse directly with her teacher, using concepts not readily expressed in English. Rinpoche spent countless hours painstakingly teaching Tsomo the methods of Tibetan Buddhism that give her experience of this life deeper meaning and joy. After she achieved proficiency in all the levels of the Nyingma path, Rinpoche ordained her a lama in his monastery in Nepal in February of 2005 and again in a ceremony in his temple in Montana the following summer. Just after he ordained her, he spoke of her responsibility to pass these teachings along. Lama Tsomo is bringing the Nyingma form of Tibetan Buddhism to interested westerners by dedicating herself to teaching. With oversight provided by Rinpoche, she is building a Buddhist retreat center in Montana called the Namchak Retreat Ranch, where people can practice in total immersion in a beautiful natural environment. She also teaches Tibetan Buddhist practice to students at beginning and intermediate levels via free e-courses and in-person retreats in California and New York. She is passionate about helping students form community around meditation in small learning and practice circles found in the U.S. and abroad.  Lama Tsomo often refers to having two inheritances. The first, her financial inheritance, she was given by her father. The second, her spiritual inheritance, she earned after years of study and retreats with Tulku Sangak Rinpoche. The two inheritances converge in the Namchak Retreat Ranch, which Rinpoche tasked her with creating. Tsomo was also a founding board member of the Ewam, a Tibetan Buddhist center located in Arlee, Montana. She is the author of the book Why Is the Dalai Lama Always Smiling?: A Westerner’s Introduction and Guide to Tibetan Buddhist Practice, which was a 2016 silver medal winner in the Independent Publishers’ Book Awards. In his foreword to the book, the Dalai Lama wrote that while Lama Tsomo outlines her personal journey into Buddhism, she continues to honor her traditional Jewish heritage.  She is co-author of The Lotus and The Rose: A Conversation Between Tibetan Buddhism and Mystical Christianity (2018) with Reverend Matthew Fox, which consists of the co-authors’ conversations exploring the essentials principles shared by their traditions and the differences that distinguish them. Lama Tsomo was also a contributor to The Dharma of Dogs: Our Best Friends as Spiritual Teachers (2017), edited by Tami Simon. Join us in conversation with this wise and generous teacher!

Lama Tsomo is author of the book "Why Is the Dalai Lama Always Smiling?: A Westerner's Introduction and Guide to Tibetan Buddhist Practice" and one of the first American women to be ordained as a Tibetan buddhist Lama, or spiritual teacher. She was born Linda Pritzker, and is part of the family that built the Hyatt Hotel Chain. Her journey is one of two inheritances: The first financial--the second spiritual.

For Episode 84 of the Metta Hour Podcast, Sharon speaks with Lama Tsomo, an American lama, author, and co-founder of the Namchak Foundation.Find show notes and resources here: https://beherenownetwork.com/metta-hour-ep-84-lama-tsomo/Lama Tsomo has followed a path of spiritual inquiry and study that ultimately led to her ordination as one of the few American lamas in Tibetan Buddhism. Lama learned Tibetan to study with her teacher Tulku Sangak Rinpoche, and now shares the teachings of the Namchak lineage in the US and abroad. Lama holds an M.A. in Counseling Psychology and is the author of the award winning “Why Is the Dalai Lama Always Smiling?”In this conversation, Lama speaks with Sharon about her personal story of why she came to study Tibetan Buddhism, how her path has evolved through the course of her life, and how she has balanced family life, work life, and deep practice. The episode closes with Lama leading a guided meditation. For more information about Lama Tsomo, visit: namchak.org

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We all keep saying that we’re all in this together. How does that really work? How can we get past intellectually understanding that and get better at living in that reality? Then we’ll naturally dream up the next economy that will allow us all to thrive. The Tibetan tradition has 4 practices that are 4… The post Wanting to Care for Each Other: Our True Nature – Lama Tsomo appeared first on CoCap Revolution.

Lama Tsomo—born Linda Pritzker—is an author, teacher, and ordained holder of the Namchak Buddhist lineage of Tibet. She’s the cofounder of the Namchak Foundation and the author of two books: The Princess Who Wept Pearls: The Feminine Journey in Fairytales and Why Is the Dalai Lama Always Smiling?: A Westerner’s Introduction and Guide to Tibetan Buddhist Practice. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Lama Tsomo and Tami Simon speak about her teacher Gochen Tulku Sangak Rinpoche and what he has to say about karma, taking responsibility for our lives, and transforming resentment. They also discuss the science of visualization practice and how recent discoveries in quantum physics support key aspects of Buddhist philosophy. Finally, Tami and Lama Tsomo talk about motivation on the spiritual path and how clarifying that motivation can lead to lasting happiness. (67 minutes)

My guest today is Lama Tsomo who happens to be one of the most direct, down to earth, yet extremely wise and fun people I've had the pleasure of speaking with. She's also a bonafide Lama (ordained by Tulku Sangak Rinpoche) in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. She's also an author and co-founder of the Namchak Foundation and Namchak Retreat Ranch in Missoula, Montana. Her new book, "Why Is The Dalai Lama Always Smiling?" is absolutely incredible and I highly recommend picking up a copy. It's one of the best books on Buddhism for westerners that I've come across( and I've read a lot of books on Buddhism for westerners.) I'll be giving away a copy of her book this week (May 3rd, 2016). To enter join the Synchronicity Community here. Tashi Delek! Topics Discussed  Tibetan Buddhism The Three Kayas Carl Jung Intention Why is the Dalai Lama Always Smiling? The Importance of Lineage Picking a Path As always subscribe to Synchronicity which will be taken as a token of your undying and everlasting support. Thanks!

Lama Tsomo is one of the first American women to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist lama, or spiritual teacher. Born Linda Pritzker, she is part of the family that built the Hyatt hotel chain. But Lama Tsomo embarked on a very different path, diving deeply into Buddhism, spending months on retreat, learning Tibetan and teaching around the world. She sat down with Dan Harris to talk about her story and to detail some of these Tibetan practices.