Podcasts about Sogyal Rinpoche

In this teaching Shunyamurti is reading from The Vajra Essence, Düdjom Lingpa's Visions of The Great Perfection, Volume 3, Foreword by Sogyal Rinpoche, Translated by B. Alan Wallace, Edited by Dion Blundell Description: The final period of every cycle of time is one of spiritual exhaustion, the soul's exile from the Light of God, the ego's nihilistic cynicism combined with narcissistic hubris, and the ominous approach of world destruction. We have arrived at that time. Fortunately, every spiritual tradition declares that such a hell realm is actually the most auspicious moment of all, for that is when the Inner Light returns—first only for a few—but then more and more souls become illumined. This is the true Festival of Lights. It is happening.

In this episode of The DocArena Podcast, Ross Whitaker talks to Maurice O'Brien about his film Chasing the Light. Chasing the Light tells the story of charismatic hippie Peter Cornish who founded Dzogchen Beara, a world-leading Tibetan Buddhist centre on the cliffs of West Cork. For five decades, this former clifftop farm has transformed the lives of thousands who receive solace from the Buddhist teachings. But as the devoted community attempts to build Ireland's first Tibetan Buddhist temple, their revered teacher, Sogyal Rinpoche, is accused of serious misconduct. In cinemas from 13th December 2024. https://filmireland.net/

TODAY: Barbarians Of The West (1 of 1) For over 30 years, Horst R Brumm, born 1954, headed the non-profit German Buddhist Institute Karma Tengyal Ling. Her Eminence Khandro Rinpoche asked him to teach in 2010. In 2016 she officially declared him a yogi. In 2023 he was named Dharma teacher for Germany. Yogi Horst R Brumm may receive donations  BANK DETAILS: Weberbank Account holder: Horst Brumm IBAN: DE90 1012 0100 1000 0824 66 BIC: WELADED1WBB Purpose of use: 'Donation' (non-deductible) Thank you kindly! --------------------- Karma Tengyal Ling bank details: Bank für Sozialwirtschaft Account holder: Karma Tengyal Ling e.V. new IBAN: DE32 3702 0500 0003 0698 00  new BIC: BFS WDE 33 XXX  Thank you kindly! -------------------- Already published episodes with alternating languages: Dharma für Anfänger 3 Missverständnis Buddhismus (1 through 3) 'weisheit spezial' episodes (Lama teachings) Christmas greeting for Christians and Buddhists by Yogi Horst R  Brumm (no sound, read only) Sogyal Rinpoche and Fatal Errors of Western Buddhists (dubbed). ----------------------------------------------------------- Our presentation to view and download (12MB pdf) :   https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J3W9B377b7CE3lJWJ8D0QXuVpr8FR55COHxyRy7Ilwk/edit?usp=sharing   Our Youtube channel:  https://youtube.com/@KarmaTengyalLing 

Trump's Town Hall DJ love-in stumped a lot of folks. From the conspirituality angle, however, there's something familiar about this improvised ritual. Because the world we cover is strewn with the wreckage of charismatic patriarchs who bleed their followers dry in the closed-loop system of cultic dynamics.  When leaders like Trump get to the end of the line, all that's left is pure affect. They have exhausted themselves in the efforts of self-aggrandizement. They have nothing left to say because they've said it a 1000 times. They're all out of stories. They might even be bored of their own bullshit. Underslept or dysregulated by chaotic schedules, they may not be sure where they are. They're beset by enemies, ill and in cognitive decline, but can't admit it. And when they start to feel overwhelmed by their followers' pathetic—in their view—neediness, they will reach for any help they can get in maintaining their emotional dominance.  What October 14 showed us is that in these moments, Trump's go-to resource is canned music, and, without his own iPad at the ready, a DJ handler who can spin the tracks and support his reverie of relief and control.  Show Notes Trump holds town hall in Pennsylvania suburbs with focus on economy  How Media Outlets Covered Trump's Musical Town Hall Donald Trump is DJing weekly at Mar-a-Lago, plays Broadway songs and Celine Dion from his iPad, report says DJ T: How Trump controls the music at Mar-a-Lago   Twitter thread  152: Tulsi Gabbard's Krishna Consciousness (w/Nitai Joseph) PLAYING FOR OSHO 1989 Introduction – Chinmaya Dunster  Patted Down by India's Hugging Saint  The Soft Nationalism of Amma, India's Hugging Saint 37: Guru Jagat Cultjacks Kundalini Yoga (w/Philip Deslippe & Stacie Stukin) Letter to Sogyal Rinpoche from current and ex-Rigpa members details abuse allegations  Trump's bizarre music session reignites questions about his mental acuity  Brief: Trump's Impending Ego Implosion (w/ Daniel Shaw) Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation Sex abuse allegations surround L.A. Buddhist teacher Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

TODAY: Make Happiness Permanent (1 of 1) For over 30 years, Horst R Brumm, born 1954, headed the non-profit German Buddhist Institute Karma Tengyal Ling. Her Eminence Khandro Rinpoche asked him to teach in 2010. In 2016 she officially declared him a yogi. In 2023 he was named Dharma teacher for Germany. Yogi Horst R Brumm may receive donations  BANK DETAILS: Weberbank Account holder: Horst Brumm IBAN: DE90 1012 0100 1000 0824 66 BIC: WELADED1WBB Purpose of use: 'Donation' (non-deductible) Thank you kindly! --------------------- Karma Tengyal Ling bank details: Bank für Sozialwirtschaft Account holder: Karma Tengyal Ling e.V. new IBAN: DE32 3702 0500 0003 0698 00  new BIC: BFS WDE 33 XXX  Thank you kindly! -------------------- Already published episodes with alternating languages: Dharma für Anfänger 3 Missverständnis Buddhismus (1 through 3) 'weisheit spezial' episodes (Lama teachings) Christmas greeting for Christians and Buddhists by Yogi Horst R  Brumm (no sound, read only) Sogyal Rinpoche and Fatal Errors of Western Buddhists (dubbed). ----------------------------------------------------------- Our presentation to view and download (12MB pdf) :   https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J3W9B377b7CE3lJWJ8D0QXuVpr8FR55COHxyRy7Ilwk/edit?usp=sharing   Our Youtube channel:  https://youtube.com/@KarmaTengyalLing 

TODAY: Buddhist Anger Management #aggression #anger #rage For over 30 years, Horst R Brumm, born 1954, headed the non-profit German Buddhist Institute Karma Tengyal Ling. Her Eminence Khandro Rinpoche asked him to teach in 2010. In 2016 she officially declared him a yogi. In 2023 he was named Dharma teacher for Germany. Yogi Horst R Brumm may receive donations  BANK DETAILS: Weberbank Account holder: Horst Brumm IBAN: DE90 1012 0100 1000 0824 66 BIC: WELADED1WBB Purpose of use: 'Donation' (non-deductible) Thank you kindly! --------------------- Karma Tengyal Ling bank details: Bank für Sozialwirtschaft Account holder: Karma Tengyal Ling e.V. new IBAN: DE32 3702 0500 0003 0698 00  new BIC: BFS WDE 33 XXX  Thank you kindly! -------------------- Already published episodes with alternating languages: Dharma für Anfänger 3 Missverständnis Buddhismus (1 through 3) 'weisheit spezial' episodes (Lama teachings) Christmas greeting for Christians and Buddhists by Yogi Horst R  Brumm (no sound, read only) Sogyal Rinpoche and Fatal Errors of Western Buddhists (dubbed). ----------------------------------------------------------- Our presentation to view and download (12MB pdf) :   https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J3W9B377b7CE3lJWJ8D0QXuVpr8FR55COHxyRy7Ilwk/edit?usp=sharing   Our Youtube channel:  https://youtube.com/@KarmaTengyalLing 

7PMT of Atisha with commentary by the 1st Jamgon Kontrul PART 4 For over 30 years, Horst R Brumm, born 1954, headed the non-profit German Buddhist Institute Karma Tengyal Ling. Her Eminence Khandro Rinpoche asked him to teach in 2010. In 2016 she officially declared him a yogi. In 2023 he was named Dharma teacher for Germany. Yogi Horst R Brumm may receive donations PAYPAL: spende-an-horst@t-online.de  Purpose of use: 'Donation' Or BANK DETAILS: Weberbank Account holder: Horst Brumm IBAN: DE90 1012 0100 1000 0824 66 BIC: WELADED1WBB Purpose of use: 'Donation' (non-deductible) Thank you kindly! --------------------- Karma Tengyal Ling bank details: Bank für Sozialwirtschaft Account holder: Karma Tengyal Ling e.V. new IBAN: DE32 3702 0500 0003 0698 00  new BIC: BFS WDE 33 XXX  Thank you kindly! -------------------- Already published episodes with alternating languages: Dharma für Anfänger 3 Missverständnis Buddhismus (1 through 3) 'weisheit spezial' episodes (Lama teachings) Christmas greeting for Christians and Buddhists by Yogi Horst R  Brumm (no sound, read only) Sogyal Rinpoche and Fatal Errors of Western Buddhists (dubbed). ----------------------------------------------------------- Our presentation to view and download (12MB pdf) :   https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J3W9B377b7CE3lJWJ8D0QXuVpr8FR55COHxyRy7Ilwk/edit?usp=sharing   Our Youtube channel:  https://youtube.com/@KarmaTengyalLing 

7PMT of Atisha with commentary by the 1st Jamgon Kontrul #aggression #anger #rage PART 5 For over 30 years, Horst R Brumm, born 1954, headed the non-profit German Buddhist Institute Karma Tengyal Ling. Her Eminence Khandro Rinpoche asked him to teach in 2010. In 2016 she officially declared him a yogi. In 2023 he was named Dharma teacher for Germany. Yogi Horst R Brumm may receive donations BANK DETAILS: Weberbank Account holder: Horst Brumm IBAN: DE90 1012 0100 1000 0824 66 BIC: WELADED1WBB Purpose of use: 'Donation' (non-deductible) Thank you kindly! --------------------- Karma Tengyal Ling bank details: Bank für Sozialwirtschaft Account holder: Karma Tengyal Ling e.V. new IBAN: DE32 3702 0500 0003 0698 00  new BIC: BFS WDE 33 XXX  Thank you kindly! -------------------- Already published episodes with alternating languages: Dharma für Anfänger 3 Missverständnis Buddhismus (1 through 3) 'weisheit spezial' episodes (Lama teachings) Christmas greeting for Christians and Buddhists by Yogi Horst R  Brumm (no sound, read only) Sogyal Rinpoche and Fatal Errors of Western Buddhists (dubbed). ----------------------------------------------------------- Our presentation to view and download (12MB pdf) :   https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J3W9B377b7CE3lJWJ8D0QXuVpr8FR55COHxyRy7Ilwk/edit?usp=sharing   Our Youtube channel:  https://youtube.com/@KarmaTengyalLing 

What personal experiences shaped Sriram Kalyanaraman's approach to transformation? How can someone new to personal transformation begin their journey? What are some great resources, tips, and practises to transform oneself to become their best self? Awareness of our own mortality can sharpen our thoughts and desires, aligning us with our true selves. This concept, relevant from ancient Greek and Buddhist philosophies to modern thinkers like Steve Jobs, highlights the timeless nature of this insight. In this episode, discover Sriram Kalyanaraman's groundbreaking methods for inner peace and personal growth, and unlock your true potential through his insights and wisdom. Resource List - Amaidhi Website - https://www.amaidhi.com/ Dynamic Mind Practise - https://www.amaidhi.com/dynamic-mind-practice Application for Dynamic Mind Practise - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dynamicmindpractice.app&hl=en Quiet Leadership, Book by David Rock - https://amzn.in/d/01pk33gO The Inner Game of Tennis, Book by W. Timothy Gallwey - https://amzn.in/d/07C3WWEd The Inner Game of Work, Book by W. Timothy Gallwey - https://amzn.in/d/0h2urQM2 You Can Heal Your Life, Book by Louise Hay - https://amzn.in/d/00mi62CA The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, Book by Sogyal Rinpoche - https://amzn.in/d/08pg43Q3 The Top 5 Regrets of Dying, Book by Bronnie Ware - https://amzn.in/d/0eywdFM6 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Book by Stephen R Covey - https://amzn.in/d/034HHZHb The Boy, The Mole. The Fox and The Horse, Book by Charlie Mackesy - https://amzn.in/d/0bZrwDpm Collective Intelligence Study by MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, and Union College Researchers - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100930143339.htm#:~:text=A%20new%20study%20co%2Dauthored,and%20that%20the%20tendency%20to Buddhist Practise of Maranasati - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mara%E1%B9%87asati The GROW Model - https://lattice.com/library/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-grow-coaching-model#:~:text=The%20name%20is%20an%20acronym,plans%20alongside%20their%20direct%20reports. What was Google's Project Oxygen? - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/project-oxygen-what-can-we-learn-from-way-google-train-managers?utm_source=share&utm_medium=guest_desktop&utm_campaign=copy About Gita Bellin - https://gitabellin.com/gita-bellin/ About SparX by Mukesh Bansal SparX is a podcast where we delve into cutting-edge scientific research, stories from impact-makers and tools for unlocking the secrets to human potential and growth. We believe that entrepreneurship, fitness and the science of productivity is at the forefront of the India Story; the country is at the cusp of greatness and at SparX, we wish to make these tools accessible for every generation of Indians to be able to make the most of the opportunities around us. In a new episode every Sunday, our host Mukesh Bansal (Founder Myntra and Cult.fit) will talk to guests from all walks of life and also break down everything he's learnt about the science of impact over the course of his 20-year long career. This is the India Century, and we're enthusiastic to start this journey with you. Follow us on our Instagram: / sparxbymukeshbansal Also check out our website: https://www.sparxbymukeshbansal.com You can also listen to SparX on all audio platforms! Fasion | Outbreak | Courtesy EpidemicSound.com Built to Last: Book by Jim Collins: https://amzn.in/d/06UJQDXy The HP Way, Book by David Packard: https://amzn.in/d/09M92m6N

7PMT of Atisha with commentary by the 1st Jamgon Kontrul PART 3 For over 30 years, Horst R Brumm, born 1954, headed the non-profit German Buddhist Institute Karma Tengyal Ling. Her Eminence Khandro Rinpoche asked him to teach in 2010. In 2016 she officially declared him a yogi. In 2023 he was named Dharma teacher for Germany. Yogi Horst R Brumm may receive donations PAYPAL: spende-an-horst@t-online.de  Purpose of use: 'Donation' Or BANK DETAILS: Weberbank Account holder: Horst Brumm IBAN: DE90 1012 0100 1000 0824 66 BIC: WELADED1WBB Purpose of use: 'Donation' (non-deductible) Thank you kindly! --------------------- Karma Tengyal Ling bank details: Bank für Sozialwirtschaft Account holder: Karma Tengyal Ling e.V. new IBAN: DE32 3702 0500 0003 0698 00  new BIC: BFS WDE 33 XXX  Thank you kindly! -------------------- Already published episodes with alternating languages: Dharma für Anfänger 3 Missverständnis Buddhismus (1 through 3) 'weisheit spezial' episodes (Lama teachings) Christmas greeting for Christians and Buddhists by Yogi Horst R  Brumm (no sound, read only) Sogyal Rinpoche and Fatal Errors of Western Buddhists (dubbed). ----------------------------------------------------------- Our presentation to view and download (12MB pdf) :   https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J3W9B377b7CE3lJWJ8D0QXuVpr8FR55COHxyRy7Ilwk/edit?usp=sharing   Our Youtube channel:  https://youtube.com/@KarmaTengyalLing 

7PMT of Atisha with commentary by the 1st Jamgon Kontrul PART 2 For over 30 years, Horst R Brumm, born 1954, headed the non-profit German Buddhist Institute Karma Tengyal Ling. Her Eminence Khandro Rinpoche asked him to teach in 2010. In 2016 she officially declared him a yogi. In 2023 he was named Dharma teacher for Germany. Yogi Horst R Brumm may receive donations PAYPAL: spende-an-horst@t-online.de  Purpose of use: 'Donation' Or BANK DETAILS: Weberbank Account holder: Horst Brumm IBAN: DE90 1012 0100 1000 0824 66 BIC: WELADED1WBB Purpose of use: 'Donation' (non-deductible) Thank you kindly! --------------------- Karma Tengyal Ling bank details: Bank für Sozialwirtschaft Account holder: Karma Tengyal Ling e.V. new IBAN: DE32 3702 0500 0003 0698 00  new BIC: BFS WDE 33 XXX  Thank you kindly! -------------------- Already published episodes with alternating languages: Dharma für Anfänger 3 Missverständnis Buddhismus (1 through 3) 'weisheit spezial' episodes (Lama teachings) Christmas greeting for Christians and Buddhists by Yogi Horst R  Brumm (no sound, read only) Sogyal Rinpoche and Fatal Errors of Western Buddhists (dubbed). ----------------------------------------------------------- Our presentation to view and download (12MB pdf) :   https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J3W9B377b7CE3lJWJ8D0QXuVpr8FR55COHxyRy7Ilwk/edit?usp=sharing   Our Youtube channel:  https://youtube.com/@KarmaTengyalLing   

7PMT of Atisha with Commentary by the 1st Jamgon Kontrul PART 1 For over 30 years, Horst R Brumm, born 1954, headed the non-profit German Buddhist Institute Karma Tengyal Ling. Her Eminence Khandro Rinpoche asked him to teach in 2010. In 2016 she officially declared him a yogi. In 2023 he was named Dharma teacher for Germany. Yogi Horst R Brumm may receive donations PAYPAL: spende-an-horst@t-online.de  Purpose of use: 'Donation' Or BANK DETAILS: Weberbank Account holder: Horst Brumm IBAN: DE90 1012 0100 1000 0824 66 BIC: WELADED1WBB Purpose of use: 'Donation' (non-deductible) Thank you kindly! --------------------- Karma Tengyal Ling bank details: Bank für Sozialwirtschaft Account holder: Karma Tengyal Ling e.V. new IBAN: DE32 3702 0500 0003 0698 00  new BIC: BFS WDE 33 XXX  Thank you kindly! -------------------- Already published episodes with alternating languages: Dharma für Anfänger 3 Missverständnis Buddhismus (1 through 3) 'weisheit spezial' episodes (Lama teachings) Christmas greeting for Christians and Buddhists by Yogi Horst R  Brumm (no sound, read only) Sogyal Rinpoche and Fatal Errors of Western Buddhists (dubbed). ----------------------------------------------------------- Our presentation to view and download (12MB pdf) :   https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J3W9B377b7CE3lJWJ8D0QXuVpr8FR55COHxyRy7Ilwk/edit?usp=sharing   Our Youtube channel:  https://youtube.com/@KarmaTengyalLing   

TODAY: Attached to happiness For over 30 years, Horst R Brumm, born 1954, headed the non-profit German Buddhist Institute Karma Tengyal Ling. Her Eminence Khandro Rinpoche asked him to teach in 2010. In 2016 she officially declared him a yogi. In 2023 he was named Dharma teacher for Germany. Yogi Horst R Brumm may receive donations Bank details: Weberbank Account holder: Horst Brumm IBAN: DE90 1012 0100 1000 0824 66 BIC: WELADED1WBB Purpose of use: 'Donation' (non-deductible) Thank you kindly! --------------------- Karma Tengyal Ling bank details: Bank für Sozialwirtschaft Account holder: Karma Tengyal Ling e.V. new IBAN: DE32 3702 0500 0003 0698 00  new BIC: BFS WDE 33 XXX  Thank you kindly! -------------------- Already published episodes with alternating languages: Dharma für Anfänger 3 Missverständnis Buddhismus (1 through 3) 'weisheit spezial' episodes (Lama teachings) Christmas greeting for Christians and Buddhists by Yogi Horst R  Brumm (no sound, read only) Sogyal Rinpoche and Fatal Errors of Western Buddhists (dubbed). ----------------------------------------------------------- Our presentation to view and download (12MB pdf) :   https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J3W9B377b7CE3lJWJ8D0QXuVpr8FR55COHxyRy7Ilwk/edit?usp=sharing   Our Youtube channel:  https://youtube.com/@KarmaTengyalLing   

TODAY: You will lose everything For over 30 years, Horst R Brumm, born 1954, headed the non-profit German Buddhist Institute Karma Tengyal Ling. Her Eminence Khandro Rinpoche asked him to teach in 2010. In 2016 she officially declared him a yogi. In 2023 he was named Dharma teacher for Germany. Yogi Horst R Brumm may receive donations Bank details: Weberbank Account holder: Horst Brumm IBAN: DE90 1012 0100 1000 0824 66 BIC: WELADED1WBB Purpose of use: 'Donation' (non-deductible) Thank you kindly! --------------------- Karma Tengyal Ling bank details: Bank für Sozialwirtschaft Account holder: Karma Tengyal Ling e.V. new IBAN: DE32 3702 0500 0003 0698 00  new BIC: BFS WDE 33 XXX  Thank you kindly! -------------------- Already published episodes with alternating languages: Dharma für Anfänger 3 Missverständnis Buddhismus (1 through 3) 'weisheit spezial' episodes (Lama teachings) Christmas greeting for Christians and Buddhists by Yogi Horst R  Brumm (no sound, read only) Sogyal Rinpoche and Fatal Errors of Western Buddhists (dubbed). ----------------------------------------------------------- Our presentation to view and download (12MB pdf) :   https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J3W9B377b7CE3lJWJ8D0QXuVpr8FR55COHxyRy7Ilwk/edit?usp=sharing   Our Youtube channel:  https://youtube.com/@KarmaTengyalLing   

TODAY: A Buddhist on New Year (Parts 1+2) For over 30 years, Horst R Brumm, born 1954, headed the non-profit German Buddhist Institute Karma Tengyal Ling. Her Eminence Khandro Rinpoche asked him to teach in 2010. In 2016 she officially declared him a yogi. In 2023 he was named Dharma teacher for Germany. Yogi Horst R Brumm may receive donations Bank details: Weberbank Account holder: Horst Brumm IBAN: DE90 1012 0100 1000 0824 66 BIC: WELADED1WBB Purpose of use: 'Donation' (non-deductible) --------------------- Already published with alternating languages are: Dharma für Anfänger 3 Missverständnis Buddhismus (1 through 3) 'weisheit spezial' episodes (Lama teachings) Christmas greeting for Christians and Buddhists by Yogi Horst R  Brumm (no sound, read only) Sogyal Rinpoche and Fatal Errors of Western Buddhists (dubbed).

TODAY: How to achieve lasting happiness  Horst R Brumm, born 1954, has been learning and working for over 30 years in the registered and approved non-profit institution Karma Tengyal Ling in Germany. Her Eminence Khandro Rinpoche asked him to teach in 2010. In 2016 she officially declared him a Yogi. Already published with alternating languages are: Dharma für Anfänger 3 Missverständnis Buddhismus (1 through 3) 'weisheit spezial' episodes (Lama teachings) Christmas greeting for Christians and Buddhists by Yogi Horst R  Brumm (no sound, read only) Sogyal Rinpoche and Fatal Errors of Western Buddhists (dubbed).

“Perhaps the deepest reason why we are afraid of death is because we do not know who we are. We believe in a personal, unique, and separate identity — but if we dare to examine it, we find that this identity depends entirely on an endless collection of things to prop it up: our name, our "biography," our partners, family, home, job, friends, credit cards… It is on their fragile and transient support that we rely for our security. So when they are all taken away, will we have any idea of who we really are?" Welcome back to another episode of Made You Think! In this episode, we're diving into The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche. We'll navigate the realms of meditation, telepathy, and the essence of a peaceful death. Come join us in this mind-opening episode that transcends the ordinary and challenges our perceptions of life, death, and everything in between! We cover a wide range of topics including: How to find more meaning from your meditation Telepathy, shared hallucinations, and the uncharted territories of the brain and body The role our egos play in spiritual practices Reincarnation and the continuous nature of consciousness The sacredness of birth and dying And much more. Please enjoy, and make sure to follow Nat, Neil, and Adil on Twitter and share your thoughts on the episode. Links from the Episode: Mentioned in the Show: Headspace (4:22) Waking Up (4:23) Zazen (5:00) The Marathon Monks (19:10) Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab (23:06) Spiritual awakening meme (41:37)  Life is Short (1:00:12) C-section rates by country (1:17:04) Books Mentioned: The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying The Comfort Crisis (1:26) (Book Episode)  The Way of Zen (4:54) (Book Episode) (Nat's Book Notes) The Denial of Death (16:44) (Book Episode) (Nat's Book Notes) Happy Accidents (27:28) (Book Episode) (Nat's Book Notes) A Monk's Guide to A Clean House & Mind (38:34) The Myth of Sisyphus (39:09) (Book Episode) (Nat's Book Notes) The Beginning of Infinity (53:17) (Book Episode) (Nat's Book Notes) People Mentioned: Arthur Flowerdew (20:54) Wim Hof (33:17) Show Topics: (1:02) In today's episode, we're talking about The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying in which Rinpoche explores the concepts of life, death, and rebirth. We open up the show talking about meditation, microdosing, and how to incorporate meditation into your day. (6:07) Finding meaning from meditation, the role it plays in rehearsing death, and finding profound meaning in the experience. (7:59) Is death just a middle step in our journey as opposed to the end? We talk about the author's beliefs regarding reincarnation and the idea that while our energy never dies, it has the capability of taking another form.  (11:41) Attachments, the terror of losing your identity when you die, and why believing in reincarnation offers a valuable perspective. (16:51) The author's definition of “attachments” would most likely be broader than you'd expect. It not only encompasses your material possessions, but anything that contributes to what you see as your identity.  (20:09) We talk about different phenomenons that happen in your body once you pass, plus some interesting stories in the book, such as remembering information from a past life. (24:57) Telepathy: Is it realistic? Everything can seem magical or nonsensical until you can gather some sort of argument or case or explanation for it. Hundreds of years ago we may have thought the idea of electricity was a hoax, but today, it exists. (28:15) There are so many things about our brain and body that we have yet to understand. Plus, we discuss the potential effects of electromagnetic pollution on our bodies. (33:02) The first step in working your way up to telepathy or cross-mind communication is knowing your own mind and body first.  (34:23) How mindfulness can help you pull yourself back into the present moment. We often worry about the future or something not going to plan. When you remember that all things are impermanent, it makes it easier to accept things as they are right now.  (40:09) Ego and its role in spiritual practices. (42:55) Shared hallucinations in sleep paralysis and altered states of consciousness induced by psychedelics. (47:53) Nat shares a story of when he took psilocybin, and how that posed questions of whether we are connected to consciousness, especially for those who we are directly related to. (52:21) Where are we in the journey of knowing everything? There's no good way to measure this, as it can often feel that the more we learn, the less we actually know. (56:09) In today's age, we have the capability to broadcast our thoughts and opinions on social media to a large audience. Once you say it, it can't be taken back. How will we see social media shaping the relationship between parents and their children? (1:00:36) “Peaceful death is really an essential human right, more essential perhaps even than the right to vote or the right to justice; it is a right on which, all religious traditions tell us, a great deal depends for the well-being and spiritual future of the dying person.” What someone needs for a peaceful death, and how they may be more aware than you think.  (1:04:05) Neil shares his experience of how he felt reading the book in relation to his dad's passing. We have a discussion on the key differences between a home-environment and the hospital, and when you might opt for one over the other. (1:10:51) When you're in the process of dying, it's not uncommon to change the way you view the world. Knowing your time is limited, you may find yourself to be more vulnerable with your loved ones and more deeply appreciating the moments you spend. (1:14:21) Comparing birth and death as unique, sacred experiences, and the potential impact of hospital settings on these significant life events. (1:20:56) We examine the theme of the mind outlasting the body, contrasting it with neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's. (1:25:39) When it comes to death and rebirth, many traditions talk about a similar experience of viewing your entire life in detail. Where did these ideas originate from? (1:29:10) That concludes this episode! Make sure to pick up a copy of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying to learn more about Tibetan Buddhist wisdom. Stay tuned for our next episode in which we will be reading Israel: A History! If you enjoyed this episode, let us know by leaving a review on iTunes and tell a friend. As always, let us know if you have any book recommendations! You can say hi to us on Twitter @TheRealNeilS, @adilmajid, @nateliason and share your thoughts on this episode. 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“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift.” Welcome back to another episode of Made You Think! In this episode, we're diving into Novacene by James Lovelock, a book which challenges the very essence of human intelligence. Get ready for a thought-provoking conversation that delves into the realms of evolution, deep oceans, and the enigmatic dance between humanity and artificial intelligence. We cover a wide range of topics including: Gaia hypothesis and its connections to the book Intelligence beyond the human-centric view How the evolution of organisms has affected global temperatures The uncovered mysteries of the deep ocean Will AI be a friend or foe to humans? And much more. Please enjoy, and make sure to follow Nat, Neil, and Adil on Twitter and share your thoughts on the episode. Links from the Episode: Mentioned in the Show: Gaia hypothesis (1:53) Tesla Bot (23:52) Stealth (25:05) Cruise (27:26) Waymo (27:26) Arrival (35:54) Bees playing soccer (39:32) Brilliant Earth (49:01) They Did The Math (49:42) Dark Forest theory (55:16) Rooted Local (1:02:16) Books Mentioned: The Three-Body Problem (0:03) (Book Episode) (Nat's Book Notes) Homo Deus (0:46) (Book Episode) (Nat's Book Notes) Breath (13:35) (Nat's Book Notes) Deep (13:37) The Hidden Life of Trees (19:14) Permutation City (21:12) (Book Episode) Where Is My Flying Car? (22:35) (Book Episode)  Antifragile (36:24) (Book Episode) (Nat's Book Notes) The Fighter's Mind (37:41) (Nat's Book Notes) People Mentioned: James Lovelock (1:54) James Nestor (13:36) Nassim Taleb (36:24) Show Topics: (1:46) Buckle up for this episode as we discuss Novacene, authored by the originator of the Gaia Theory, James Lovelock. The book probes into humanity's role in the world and speculates on a future where machines might supersede us. (4:34) Lovelock wrote this book with the help of his assistant when he was 99 years old. We talk about what exactly the Gaia Theory is and the end of the age of Anthropocene. (9:50) We go deeper into sharing our thoughts on the Gaia Theory and how the evolution of organisms have affected the regulation of the global temperature.  (13:10) How much do we actually know about the deepest parts of the ocean? Plus, learn about the author's involvement with designing instruments for NASA. (16:40) Nat, Neil, and Adil make connections from Novacene to The Three-Body Problem. Historically, we've looked for life on other planets the way we would measure life on earth, but are extraterrestrial species carbon-based like we are? (19:04) Our idea of time here on Earth is based on our life and our own orbit around the sun, but another civilization could view time in a completely different way. (24:21) Addressing AI predictions, military applications, and the challenges of AI intervention, including experiences with self-driving cars. (32:08) Is our technology watching us?  (35:28) The limitations of language as an information interface and the intuitive nature of processing multiple inputs. Speaking, for example, is completely linear. However, when you have multiple inputs, you're able to be more intuitive. (39:18) We talk about exploring intelligence beyond the human-centric view, considering the collective intelligence of species like bees. (42:05) It's powerful the progress that has been made with ChatGPT, but there still remains the question of whether or not it will be a linear process to AGI (artificial general intelligence).  (46:02) The intersection of crypto mining, Bitcoin, and futuristic energy societies, along with the possibility of harnessing CO2 for creation. (52:24) Earth is a rare, one-of-a-kind planet. How the universe had to align for habitability on earth, and the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe. (58:29) Would AI have the potential for parallel processing capabilities? (1:00:35) Nat and Neil share their final thoughts on Novacene and Lovelock's charming writing style. If you were intrigued by our discussions in this episode, make sure you pick up a copy! (1:01:59) That concludes this episode! Stay tuned for our next episode on the The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche.  If you enjoyed this episode, let us know by leaving a review on iTunes and tell a friend. 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TODAY: How to escape the hamster wheel Horst R Brumm, born 1954, has been learning and working for over 30 years in the registered and approved non-profit institution Karma Tengyal Ling in Germany. Her Eminence Khandro Rinpoche asked him to teach in 2010. In 2016 she officially declared him a Yogi. Already published with alternating languages are: Dharma für Anfänger 3 Missverständnis Buddhismus (1 through 3) 'weisheit spezial' episodes (Lama teachings) Christmas greeting for Christians and Buddhists by Yogi Horst R  Brumm (no sound, read only) Sogyal Rinpoche and Fatal Errors of Western Buddhists (dubbed).

This week, we will explore the wisdom of Marcus Aurelius - a Ceasar and a Philosopher. Engaging with his writings collected in 'Meditations', we will explore the importance of one's mind and attitude, as well as consider the inevitability of death and what it can teach us about the quality of our lives. I will include some stories from experience and remind you of the truths and ideas we have already discussed in the episodes before. I hope this episode and this book will be of help to you in your struggle for a healthier, more calm, and balanced life. As per usual, I will give you a few concepts worth pondering and trying out in real-life situations in the days to come. There will also be a challenge to take up if you are brave enough to do so!  I hope this season will open your eyes to the power of books and encourage your next great read!  All the love, all the power, all of the time! If you'd like to support my work, please follow this link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=RSXTAGFY2QPSG  Links:  Meditations - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Body-Code-Unlocking-Ability-Itself/dp/1250773822 Letting Go - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Letting-Surrender-M-D-David-Hawkins/dp/1401945015 12 Rules for Life - 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos: Amazon.co.uk: Peterson, Jordan B.: 9780241351635: Books The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (Episode) - https://podcasters.spotify.com/unusualstories/episodes/The-Tibetan-Book-of-Living-and-Dying-by-Sogyal-Rinpoche-ep--102-e1rcfhm

TODAY: What Buddhism is not for Horst R Brumm, born 1954, has been learning and working for over 30 years in the registered and approved non-profit institution Karma Tengyal Ling in Germany. Her Eminence Khandro Rinpoche asked him to teach in 2010. In 2016 she officially declared him a Yogi. Already published with alternating languages are: Dharma für Anfänger 3 Missverständnis Buddhismus (1 through 3) Christmas greeting for Christians and Buddhists by Yogi Horst R  Brumm (no sound, read only) Sogyal Rinpoche and Fatal Errors of Western Buddhists (dubbed).

TODAY: Vispassana Warning (former title: 'Four Noble Truths, Eightfold Path') Horst R Brumm, born 1954, has been learning and working for over 30 years in the registered and approved non-profit institution Karma Tengyal Ling in Germany. Her Eminence Khandro Rinpoche asked him to teach in 2010. In 2016 she officially declared him a Yogi. Already published with alternating languages are: Dharma für Anfänger 3 Missverständnis Buddhismus (1 through 3) Christmas greeting for Christians and Buddhists by Yogi Horst R. Brumm (no sound, read only) Sogyal Rinpoche and Fatal Errors of Western Buddhists (dubbed).

TODAY: Between life and death  Horst R. Brumm, born 1954, has been learning and working for over 30 years in the registered and approved non-profit institution Karma Tengyal Ling in Germany. Her Eminence Khandro Rinpoche asked him to teach in 2010. In 2016 she officially declared him a Yogi. Already published with alternating languages are: Dharma für Anfänger 3 Missverständnis Buddhismus (1 through 3) Christmas greeting for Christians and Buddhists by Yogi Horst R. Brumm (no sound, read only) Sogyal Rinpoche and Fatal Errors of Western Buddhists (dubbed).

Citações e trechos do livro “A Marvelous Garland of Rare Gems”, de Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche. Nascido no leste do Tibete (Derge), Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche, ou Jamyang Dorje (1931 - 1999) foi um grande mestre de meditação da escola Nyingma do Budismo Vajrayana tibetano. Aos cinco anos, Khenpo foi levado a conhecer um mosteiro Sakya local. Aos oito anos, se matriculou no mosteiro e aprendeu a ler e escrever, mas foi encarregado de cuidar das ovelhas. Desejando ter uma melhor instrução religiosa, aos doze anos, Khenpo foi para Nyoshul receber ensinamentos em Dzogchen e Mahāmudrā. Em Nyoshul, ele estudou e passou por um treinamento tradicional de doze anos, até a idade de vinte e quatro. Mais tarde, mudou-se para Katok, onde continuou seus estudos com outros lamas. Sempre combinando seus estudos com retiros de meditação e prática intensiva, Khenpo contou com vinte e cinco grandes mestres como seus principais professores, dos quais o mais central em sua vida foi Shedrup Tenpé Nyima. Após a conclusão de seus estudos formais, Khenpo foi nomeado abade e ensinou filosofia aos jovens monges do mosteiro por vários anos. Em 1959, Nyoshul fugiu da ocupação comunista do Tibete e passou a viver exilado na Índia e no Butão. No início dos anos 1970, enquanto permanecia em Kalimpong, Jamyang Dorje adoeceu e seu sistema nervoso ficou gravemente prejudicado por vários anos. Embora tenha sobrevivido, ele frequentemente tinha problemas com a voz e não conseguia falar acima de um sussurro. Quando ele dava instruções, muitas vezes era sussurrado aos ouvidos dos alunos ou por escrito em um pedaço de papel. Nyoshul foi professor de muitos da geração atual de mestres em Dzogchen, incluindo Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, Mingyur Rinpoche, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Sogyal Rinpoche e outros. Na verdade, é dito que existem poucos lamas contemporâneos que não receberam ensinamentos Dzogchen de Nyoshul Khenpo. Saiba mais em: https://rodadodarma.com.br/conheca-ny...

Die Kontrolle abzugeben und zu empfangen, was auch immer der nächste Moment für uns bereit hält, ist so schwer wie leicht. Und irgendwie doch der einzige Weg, denn dass wir das Leben unter Kontrolle haben, ist eine Illusion. Oder nicht? Wie siehst du das? Ich habe mit Autorin, Unternehmensberaterin & Yoga-Lehrerin Sarah Al-Bashtali über dieses wahnsinnig wichtige, uns befreien (könnende) Thema gesprochen und bin so dankbar, Sarahs Weisheit in diesem Video Interview mit dir teilen zu dürfen. ======================== Links aus der Folge (Werbung - du unterstützt mich, wenn du auf die Amazon-Links klickst) Meine Schreibratgeber als eBooks, Hardcover und Hörbücher: https://adwbuecher.de/collections/fur-autoren Die Kunst des Empfangens von Sarah Al-Bashtali // https://amzn.to/3DyKp3w Der Newsletter vom Malia Verlag // https://malia-verlag.us8.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=65df3dda2b7fe288aaebf9e3d&id=54741f6d33 Jetzt! von Eckhart Tolle // https://amzn.to/3QgaT1l Joe Dispenzas Bücher // https://amzn.to/3Yd49TY Das tibetische Buch vom Leben und vom Sterben von Sogyal Rinpoche // https://amzn.to/3rUzLBA Mein Aufnahme-Setup (auch das sind Affiliate-Links): Kamera: Sony ZV-1 // https://amzn.to/3WynoFo Mikrofon: Røde VideoMic Pro // https://amzn.to/3G6lBSy Kopfhörer: AirPods 2 // https://amzn.to/3hGgoHW Computer: Mac studio M1 Max, 64 GB // https://tidd.ly/3RFXf6y Apple iPad Pro (2021) 12,9” bei Cyberport // https://tidd.ly/3HGtoHv ======================== Hashtags zur Folge: #annehmen #kontrollverlust #selfpublishing ======================== Hier findest du uns: SAB Website // [https://www.sarahgrete.com](https://www.sarahgrete.com/) SAB Instagram // https://www.instagram.com/sarahgrete/ ADW Website // [www.adwilk.de](http://www.adwilk.de/) ADW Instagram // [www.instagram.com/adwilk_autorin](http://www.instagram.com/adwilk_autorin) ADW Facebook // [www.facebook.com/adwilkautorin](http://www.facebook.com/adwilkautorin) Hast du Fragen zu meinem Podcast? Wünschst du dir spezielle Inhalte? Dann schreib mir unter [andrea@adwilk.de](mailto:andrea@adwilk.de) oder auf Instagram unter @adwilk_autorin. Klick jetzt auf Abonnieren und verpasse keine neue Folge. Meine Bücher findest du hier: https://www.adwilk.de/shop/ Danke, dass du uns hörst und siehst! ======================== Eigenwerbung und unbeauftragte Werbung

Rolfing Rolfing heeft al vele jaren een warm plekje in mijn hart. Tientallen jaren geleden reed ik al naar Amstelveen om een Rolfingsessie te ervaren. Toen waren er nog maar 1 of 2 Rolfers in Nederland. Het werk van Ida Rolf kende ik via Anatomy Trains waar ik diverse cursussen volgde. Een prachtige methode om mensen meer in hun lijf te krijgen en in balans met de altijd aanwezige zwaartekracht. Structural Alignment heet dat. Bert Schmitz ken ik van de European Rolfing Association die sinds vorig jaar ook in Nederland een prachtig cursusprogramma aanbiedt. Met diverse introcursussen op het gebied van anatomie, aanraking en beweging leer je de basics van Rolfing. Bert heeft al vele jaren ervaring en heeft Rolfing geleerd in/ op Esalen. Hét lichaamswerkinstituut in de jaren '70 en nog ver daarna. Over Bert Schmitz Mijn psychologische werkwijze In mijn psychologische werkwijze maak ik gebruik van de verfijnde en subtiele netwerken die lichaam en geest verbinden. Naast mijn opleiding tot psycholoog, psychotherapeut en Rolfing®, heb ik me meditatie en westerse psychotherapeutische methoden eigen gemaakt via Tibetaans boeddhistische retraites en opleidingen in het buitenland. Italië- Nederland Als psycholoog, psychotherapeut, mindfulness trainer en lichaamsgericht therapeut Rolfing® woon/werkte ik de laatste 30 jaar in Florence, Italië en Zürich, Zwitserland en werkte ook met expats in die landen. Sinds 2016 woon/werk ik in het Leudal, Haelen nabij Roermond. Met mijn vrouw Bernadette ontwikkelde ik de methode Bodymindfulness, waarbij we via individuele trajecten , workshops en trainingen voor een open publiek en internationaal (Europa en USA) het mindfulness erfgoed openlegde. Mijn werkzaamheden psychotherapeutische praktijk in Haelen, ik ben staflid in de opleiding voor structurele integratie volgens de methode van Dr Ida Rolf, bij “The European Guild of Structural Integration, EGSI” en verantwoordelijk voor de klinische en neuropsychologische scholing binnen de opleiding. Ik geef onderwijs in Connexxion, en verzorg daar de PSBK, (psycho sociale basis kennis) en de psychosociale na-en bij-scholing volgens de plato eindtermen verplicht voor zorgverleners. Ik organiseer 8 weekse mindfulness trainingen. mijn persoonlijke en professionele ontwikkeling Mijn doctoraal studie in Psychologische persoonlijkheidsleer aan de universiteit van Amsterdam. Mijn verblijf en studies in Esalen, Big Sur California. Mijn twintig jarig contact met Bob Moore, een healer en spiritueel leraar, waar ik mijn inzicht verdiepte in de synthese van energie psychologie, mindfulness, chakra psychologie en meditatie binnen een lifespan perspectief. Dankbaar voor ontmoetingen met Bob Moore, Sogyal Rinpoche, Jack Kornfield, Stan Grof, Joan Hallifax, Charlotte Selver, Trungpa Rinpoche, Krishnamurti, Dick Price, Ida Rolf, Frank Ostaseski, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Joseph Campbell. In 2014 gaf ik een TED talk in Roermond over Identity free space en de Griekse concepten over tijd Chronos en Kairos

TODAY: First overcome your own suffering Horst R. Brumm, born 1954, has been learning and working for over 30 years in the registered and approved non-profit institution Karma Tengyal Ling in Germany. Her Eminence Khandro Rinpoche asked him to teach in 2010. In 2016 she officially declared him a Yogi. Already published with alternating languages are: Dharma für Anfänger 3 Missverständnis Buddhismus (1 through 3) Christmas greeting for Christians and Buddhists by Yogi Horst R. Brumm (no sound, read only) Sogyal Rinpoche and Fatal Errors of Western Buddhists (dubbed).

In this monologue, I would like to invite you to consider your prejudice and expectations regarding some of the sources and ideas you may encounter on your lively adventure of existence. Inspired by my interaction with Hania (my dear sister), I will explain my perspective on faith and invite you to reconsider your perceptions.  If you'd like to explore any of the books I've mentioned, follow these links:  Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior (Audio Download): Dr. David R. Hawkins, Dr. David R. Hawkins, Veritas Publishing: Amazon.co.uk: Books  Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief: Amazon.co.uk: Peterson, Jordan B.: 9780415922227: Books The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (Audio Download): Sogyal Rinpoche, John Cleese, Susan Skipper, Peri Eagleton, Sogyal Rinpoche, Random House AudioBooks: Amazon.co.uk: Books The Seven Spiritual Laws Of Success: seven simple guiding principles to help you achieve your dreams from world-renowned author, doctor and self-help guru Deepak Chopra: Amazon.co.uk: Chopra, Dr Deepak: 9780593040836: Books Also, as I have mentioned, if you'd like to support my work, please follow this link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=RSXTAGFY2QPSG 

TODAY: Holy Night in degenerate times  Horst R. Brumm, born 1954, has been learning and working for over 30 years in the registered and approved non-profit institution Karma Tengyal Ling in Germany. Her Eminence Khandro Rinpoche asked him to teach in 2010. In 2016 she officially declared him a Yogi. Already published with alternating languages are: Dharma für Anfänger 3 Missverständnis Buddhismus (1 through 3) Christmas greeting for Christians and Buddhists by Yogi Horst R. Brumm (no sound, read only) Sogyal Rinpoche and Fatal Errors of Western Buddhists (dubbed).

Hear the German original on our podcast 'Manjushris Weisheit'. This title has also been published as video in Deutsch und English on our Youtube channel https://youtube.com/@KarmaTengyalLing  We have now had what one might call a worst-case scenario in Buddhism. And I have to say that the situation that has arisen in this way is not held against the Dalai Lama  directly, but rather against the people around the Dalai Lama. There has just been this scandal between the Dalai Lama and a little Indian boy because it appears  to be an Indian boy and not a Tibetan boy because the Dalai Lama speaks English to that boy. So he didn't speak Tibetan, but English.  That means the press was there, there were people who recorded it on video and you can see that  on the internet. And now the really big scandal, where it comes down to it, did the action between the Dalai Lama  and the boy imply sexuality, so to speak, was it sexual abuse. The Dalai Lama has also publicly apologized for the situation that happened.  And the people who are very close to the Dalai Lama then said, well, you know that the Dalai  Lama always does something very casual and stuff like that. And that's outside of the narrow Buddhist scene.  Right now in the camp of people who are in the Tibetan Buddhist community, especially in the  West, it's incredibly difficult for practising Buddhists to sort that out. There are those who defend what the Dalai Lama does and say yes, whatever the Dalai Lama does  is right and everything is okay. And then, on the other hand, those who have lost a great deal of trust in the Buddha's teachings  as a result.  There were also people who are very critical of our social conditions in today's society. And then a situation like the one that happened between the Dalai Lama and this little boy in  public. That's what happened, and I'm just saying that now, because of course I can't prove it, but I know  myself that we often have situations where lamas and rinpoches are surrounded by very bad  advisors. A Dalai Lama is not omniscient, because all the Rinpoches are not as realized as Buddha  Shakyamuni, it is said that he was omniscient, but the Rinpoches don't have that kind of  omniscience and lineage holders don't usually have that either. And so, if you are somehow aware of this now, then we should understand that these problems  arise because we live in a degenerate age where the Dharma teacher himself, surrounded by the  students, can drag down the Dharma teacher. Especially when someone has a lot of students.  Then you also have to understand that the Dalai Lama lives the way he does, also from a political  point of view, where you sometimes overhear statements from the Dalai Lama that may not  necessarily be logical, but where the point is that his main aim is that he has to take care of the  Tibetan people, all the Tibetans who are in exile. They depend on him.  He holds together the Tibetans living in exile.  And then you have to see that there are a lot of powerful beings around him who also use the  Dalai Lama and influence how he behaves. So I think that this happened partly because the people around him don't inform him enough. He  gets a lot of information, but not necessarily the information he needs socially. The scandal that we had three or four years ago when it came to Sogyal Rinpoche is an example  of the fact that trust in Buddhism has now of course been greatly weakened as a result. From this situation, as it is now publicly presented to the Dalai Lama, I can understand every  outsider's loss of trust in the Buddhist teachings as a result. Trust has been lost from saying how Sogyal Rinpoche behaved. All these accusations at Sogyal  Rinpoche were being made, I listened carefully and built the constellation of how these different  things were presented. Namely, what was the difference between what Sogyal Rinpoche did and what was here. Here  with the Dalai Lama dispute, it was a child and it was in public and what was portrayed there. Anyone can google it themselves, what was there in detail, I don't want to describe it now, but  you can see it for yourself.  And I can understand why people don't get along with it. With Sogyal Rinpoche, the situation was different. Those were adults. They were grown people.  And I've been dealing with this topic of Buddhism for almost 40 years. In that time I met more than 60 teachers, and experienced the behavior of the students around  me, of all of us western students, all of whom I met, Germans, French, Americans, English,  Australians. Everyone always wanted the highest teachings. So what we're doing here now is kindergarten for  them. What we did here this morning is preschool. They understood that a long time ago. They're  not interested in that. It bores them, it's boring to talk about the four thoughts that turn the  mind. They wanted only the highest teachings. The very best, the most beautiful, the greatest. What's  the biggest? That's not even tantra anymore. There is a Kriya tantra, that is outer purity. No, they  want the non-dualistic. Yes, then let's do father and mother tantra. No, we want to do the non- dual tantra. No, that's actually way too complicated. We then do Mahamudra and Dzogchen. Actually, that's too much. We only do Maha Ati now. We  are Maha Ati.  And people think they have the skills. In order to be able to realize this at all, you need a Vajra  master. A Dzogchen master. In order to realize Dzogchen, you don't have to listen and ponder  intellectually in your mind, but you have to experience the non-existent of the Self in your mind. The non-self-experience. Only then can you realize Dzogchen. Only then can you realize non- duality. So a Dzogchen master has only one task. He has to keep kicking your ass. Constantly. He must get your ego boiling. And I remember one teacher, I really appreciate him so much, it's Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche.  He has done and is still doing such fantastic things. I'm always touched by him whenever he says anything. And he also does it very cleverly and he  noticed that with Sogyal Rinpoche and then also what's going on in America with Mipham  Rinpoche and Shambala and stuff like that. And Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche said he is not as courageous as Trungpa Rinpoche and Sogyal  Rinpoche. These Rinpoches offered their disciples their own flesh, their own bodies. Not sexually, but they  sacrificed their body, sacrificed it to the students. They gave everything to them. The students wanted Dzogchen Mahamudra and the Rinpoches  did everything to make that happen. They have every means that was right, that was at all  possible, to crack the ego to give them a chance to experience non-duality. Trungpa Rinpoche had a situation with them where they said, somehow he just called the closer  people at night, to say he wanted to eat this and that now. And then they thought, that wanting to eat something, was his greed. But he only did what he had to do. What does he have to do? Imagine yourselves, Wolf and Dorothy, are lying comfortably in bed, the phone rings, and you  pick it up. "Get up! I want pancakes now!", I say to you as if I were your Vajra master, which I'm not. (I'm a  slob.) Imagine you are hanging up on me and Dorothy saying: "Has Horst lost his mind?" "Well, you know, Dorothy," Wolf  would note, "we said we wanted Dzogchen Mahamudra from  him. So is this the price for that? Having to get up at night and then get him pancakes because he  wants to eat pancakes now? I can't believe it. Does he have a quirk?" And so, if I were a Vajra master now, you then begin to fight my effort to boil your ego. And then I would say to Ramon: "You know Ramon, every time you come I want a tenth of your  net income from you. Give me that." And when you bring me ten percent, I would say, why don't you give me fourteen  percent? I would like to have ten percent, be a little generous, give me fourteen percent. And then you'd think, he's suddenly become so greedy. Be glad you didn't do that and I wouldn't do that to you, either. But of course I am not your vajra master. I have no intention of letting the vajra master hang out  around here. However, if people mean they really want to experience non-duality, then they have to pay the  price. They can't have it for free. Not because Sogyal Rinpoche, a vajra master, needs it. But we in the West, we're so arrogant, we're so lofty that we think we're great students like  Naropa, like Marpa, like Milarepa, like Gampopa, like the first Karmapa. We would be such eligible students for a Vajra master. But when the Vajra master makes BOOH, we go BAAAAH. And because of that, I examined the various things that were assumed of Sogyal Rinpoche, I  examined them analytically and looked what causes his behavior, what he does then. He cuts across Westerners' concepts of anything. And Trungpa Rinpoche did something similar in the 1980s when he was in Marburg. Oh, Trungpa Rinpoche comes to Marburg! There is only one public event! And at that time, I think, they were supposed to pay something around 300 or 350 Deutschmarks  for the evening. That's more expensive than a concert with the Beatles or the Rolling Stones back then. I think that's triple or quadruple if you sat in the front row. Not everyone is sitting in the front row in that hall in Marburg. The event was announced to start at half past seven. Now that we've paid 300 Deutschmarks, we want something for it, don't we? However, Trungpa Rinpoche keeps people waiting. Seven forty-five. Eight. Half past eight. Eight forty-five. People just wait. We have now paid so much, now we want something for it. This is our attitude. And he comes in swaying, held by his students. Completely drunk. He looks that way. He staggers in. Sits down on the chair. Says a few sentences. I think the whole thing lasted a maximum of fifteen minutes from what I've been told. Then he gets up and goes outside. And the whole thing was still like that, I think until ten o'clock. We just sat in there and said, will he be right back? Does this go any further? But he's out. Did he just want to pee outside? No, he's gone then, he didn't come back. And we paid 300 Deutschmarks for that? It's mean, isn't it? Isn't that mean? Fifteen minutes. Everyone who participates actually knows that this is the 11th Trungpa Rinpoche. They know he presents crazy wisdom. Everyone who took part knows that. They knew there was something said to show the nature of mind. For this, one has to be prepared. And he did. He showed people the nature of mind. And they didn't look. Maybe some, but very few. I then heard later that was the scandal that was going around at the time. He took so much money for it and they complained that they got so little. That was half a year later, in Albertstrasse in Berlin. A photographer who also took beautiful black and white photos of Tai Sitoo Rinpoche, told me  he had been there. People were really pissed off. And I said, shit, if I had only gone there. I didn't have enough money and neither did I have the time and I didn't have a car. I didn't have a friend with whom to stay overnight in Marburg, I would have needed a hotel or  whatever, so I didn't manage to get there. And I said, man, I'm sorry I wasn't there. Because that would have been the chance. A mind-to-mind transmission, that's what Trungpa Rinpoche did there. Because I knew the stories of what such yogis, who have crazy wisdom from earlier times, do. And I regretted that I wasn't there. And then all of a sudden it was like being struck by lightning. My joy and my regret that I was not there resulted in me getting the blessing of it even though I  wasn't there. It went through my whole body like lightning. And suddenly a lot of things that I never understood, made sense to me.  The ones I didn't get along with. Oh, that's how it is. Oh, that's what it means. Oh, I see. That went for days. A lot of things I didn't understand, I then understood them afterwards. Not that I can now say I have any yogic abilities, which are now theoretically here. None of that. But if you as Westerners hang in there like that, and don't know the culture, don't understand a  lot, and suddenly it becomes so clear to you.  You are told what it is exactly, and here is what I commend to you. Be careful when people judge any teacher. Now, with Sogyal Rinpoche, I still defend Sogyal Rinpoche and I don't let dirt and dust fall on  him. And if people should picture me on the internet as a somehow narcissistic ego teacher or  whatever, totally gaga - well, I can live with their cursing, I have no problem with that. And I will continue to defend him. I will defend Trungpa Rinpoche and also Mipham Rinpoche in America. All the allegations are going on there and we don't just have what's going on with the Dalai  Lama.  We still have that people keep claiming and just repeating the claims because someone else said,  repeat that and they say there must be something to it if anyone says so, and so on. For example that the Karmapa had illegitimate children somewhere, well, our Karmapa, Ogyen  Trinley Dorje, he's under supervision all the time, he's never alone, and the close monks around  him, they wouldn't understand if he took a woman in there with him, and then he's practically  next to the door, and they kind of pop around in there and stuff. And people then say, Karmapa should just give a DNA sample, and then one can check whether  it's true. Just this idea of ??doing this, going into it, now Karmapa has to prove if he is the father or non- father, or else it is just claimed that he had done it.  And then in 'Buddhismus heute', a magazine by the DBU, a woman wrote, that there was a  scandal about the Karmapa in Canada, the proceedings were discontinued, an out-of-court  agreement was then reached - without mentioning that this is speculation, but continuing that  dropping the case would be an admission that something had happened. That's how westerners write about it. Why? Because they just want to make themselves important like the monk Tenzin here in  Germany, who only cares because he picks on Sogyal Rinpoche. I don't know how he's dealing with this story now, with the Dalai Lama, the way he's doing it now,  because Tenzin said that the Dalai Lama praised him, that he does a lot of great things, how  Tenzin is behaving now. I am not criticizing the Dalai Lama for what he did, it's not my job to criticize that. All I'm saying is it's a very awkward situation for all Buddhists in the west, people are losing faith,  and that's because of the atmosphere created around the Dalai Lama, the advisors that he has. And I know that when a situation is very unfavorable to a great teacher, weak students who think  they have more power than the teacher, can drag the teacher into difficult situations. Karmically it doesn't have a direct effect now, so that the Dalai Lama would have to suffer  because of this, but it simply means that his work becomes more difficult, his activities become  more difficult. Likewise the activities of Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje, of the Buddha who, somewhere in Europe,  how do you say, works incognito all the time and gives teachings via Zoom, if such talk is used,  his activities will of course be restricted. And so remember, if you hear any criticism of teachers, it's interesting that in all the scandals, the  real abusers will not be in the spotlight, like the one Zen teacher in Bavaria or Baden- Wuerttemberg, the one sentenced to eight years in prison for real sexual abuse of refugee  children. You hear next to nothing about it in the Buddhist scene. Then there is this film by Arte, where at the beginning they mention a French teacher, a Buddhist  teacher who opens up there as if he was a super lama and started a community there. You don't  hear anything about his sentence from a French court to seven or eight years on probation  because he was found guilty in many, many cases where he treated children very, very badly -  psychological, physical violence or whatever, I haven't read the charges. The children had to do prostrations, they had to practice Buddhism, which of course doesn't work  at all in our western society. In Tibet the children like to do this on their own and voluntarily, but not here. And when the western parents will become Buddhists, children will be forced into such an  institution. And if they will not participate and will not obey, then there's a kind of food deprivation or they  get bad food or something like that. He was found guilty. That will not be discussed. But what you then accuse the great teachers of, that's a big deal. There you have it.  There are several more cases, for example in America, of former students of Trungpa Rinpoche,  Westerners who then thought, well, I'm also a Dharma teacher now and when Trungpa Rinpoche  has sex with women, well, then I can move my student to having sex with me, too, because I'm so  great, as well. Do you understand? These scandals won't happen, I can see from that how partisan and how paradoxical Westerners'  criticism is of the various people where something like this happens. And the reason why I mention this now is so that it is very clear: I stand for the Buddhist  teachings, I stand behind the teachers, I also talk about it when there are problems but I want to  make it clear that we need to think why anything can happen in the first place.  That it has a lot to do with the sensitivity of the people who are around a teacher, where you then  say, well, here it would be cheaper, we now live here in public.  There are so many problems, let's think how in America, for example, right now since Biden is in  office, about 100,000 children, unaccompanied children, come across the border and disappear  somewhere in America. Nobody knows where they are. For child trafficking where abuse of children is supported by the Biden administration, by the fact  that down there everyone can get in unchecked. And we also had that here in Germany, in 2015, where many children who were not registered  simply disappeared. In the beginning there were so and so many children and then the kids were gone. One would say, well, they just disappeared somewhere among their family relatives. But they're just gone, because, if they had showen up at the families, then the families would  suddenly have more children, right? But it doesn't happen. So also in Europe, all over the world children are abused, they are helpless, helpless objects of  sexual desires, with delusions that they have. And then, of course, when something happens like that with the Dalai Lama, people think in the  back of their minds: the Dalai Lama kind of gives the blessing that children can be used and  treated like shit. No!  Because here in this case it was the boy asking the Dalai Lama, if he can hug the Dalai Lama. And then the Dalai Lama said yes. And that's exactly where you see it, this situation, a limit, where one does not know from the  outside what is it that the child felt, what is what the Dalai Lama felt - but what emerges on the  outside. Hug, then kiss, and then tongue touch, with your own tongue. Then it's a chain reaction where you say you don't know if the child wanted it of his own accord,  or whether it did so because the Dalai Lama said so. So when do we in the West really call it sexual abuse? If I ask if a child will you hug me, then it's something of me, when the child comes up to me and  says, will you hug me, or just comes and hugs me, then I can allow it because it would not be  sexual abuse. It would come from me if I asked the child to give me something. And that's the difficult thing, when a lot of people who are now trying to protect children, just  have this sequence. Then all the others arrive that have thrown dirt on the Dalai Lama before, like  some Goldner or so, an Austrian, who has spent an hour and a half on the internet, in a university  or somewhere, ranting about what nonsense the Dalai Lama is telling. I also listened to what he said, it just became clear to me he didn't understand at all what the  Dalai Lama was talking about, because he lacks the basics. So if we're missing the basics as I say it here, that all appearances that we have around us here are  of a purely illusory nature, they are dreamlike, nothing of what is around us is a reality. If you don't have a Buddhist basis there, then you might say that, if it's actually just an illusion, a  dreamlike appearance, not real, then you may commit any abuse. You may as well do any damage you want, right? That's your consequence, because you lack the foundation. This is why one often speaks of the secret teachings, meaning they are not secret because they are  hidden, but because they are not understood. Also, the appreciation for the words is not there because the structure is missing. So therefore always try to think for yourselves, when you do something with Buddhism, the first  priority is: you turn to the Buddha's teaching because you want to overcome your suffering. That should be your only motivation. Your motivation should not be, you want to save the world now. For the benefit of all sentient beings. No, be honest - you're only doing it because you want to overcome the suffering in your mind. The second is, keep in your mind, keep in your mind all the time that you have a direct  relationship with the teachings of the Buddha. And not about others and what others think - instead, it is always a personal, intimate connection  that we have with the Buddha's teachings. + + +  A Commentary by Yogi Horst R Brumm, Spiritual Director, German Buddhist Institute Karma Tengyal Ling. Horst R. Brumm, born 1954, has been learning and working for over 30 years in the registered and approved non-profit institution Karma Tengyal Ling in Germany. Her Eminence Khandro Rinpoche asked him to teach in 2010. In 2016 she officially declared him a Yogi.

TODAY: Buddha and the path of liberation Horst R. Brumm, born 1954, has been learning and working for over 30 years in the registered and approved non-profit institution Karma Tengyal Ling in Germany. Her Eminence Khandro Rinpoche asked him to teach in 2010. In 2016 she officially declared him a Yogi. Already published with alternating languages are: Dharma für Anfänger 3 Missverständnis Buddhismus (1 through 3) Christmas greeting for Christians and Buddhists by Yogi Horst R. Brumm (no sound, read only) Sogyal Rinpoche and Fatal Errors of Western Buddhists (dubbed).

TODAY: About me, Yogi Horst R Brumm Horst R. Brumm, born 1954, has been learning and working for over 30 years in the registered and approved non-profit institution Karma Tengyal Ling in Germany. Her Eminence Khandro Rinpoche asked him to teach in 2010. In 2016 she officially declared him a Yogi. Already published with alternating languages are: Dharma für Anfänger 3 Missverständnis Buddhismus (1 through 3) Christmas greeting for Christians and Buddhists by Yogi Horst R. Brumm (no sound, read only) Sogyal Rinpoche and Fatal Errors of Western Buddhists (dubbed).

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TODAY: Impermanence as suffering and joy Horst R. Brumm, born 1954, has been learning and working for over 30 years in the registered and approved non-profit institution Karma Tengyal Ling in Germany. Her Eminence Khandro Rinpoche asked him to teach in 2010. In 2016 she officially declared him a Yogi. Already published with alternating languages are: Dharma für Anfänger 3 Missverständnis Buddhismus (1 through 3) Christmas greeting for Christians and Buddhists by Yogi Horst R. Brumm (no sound, read only) Sogyal Rinpoche and Fatal Errors of Western Buddhists (dubbed).

Radical Regeneration: Sacred Activism and the Renewal of the World https://www.andrewharvey.net/ https://www.andrewharvey.net/library Andrew Harvey is Founder & Director of the Institute for Sacred Activism, an international organization focused on inviting concerned people to take up the challenge of our contemporary global crises by becoming inspired, effective, and practical agents of institutional and systemic change, in order to create peace and sustainability. Sacred Activism is a transforming force of compassion-in-action that is born of a fusion of deep spiritual knowledge, courage, love, and passion, with wise radical action in the world. The large-scale practice of Sacred Activism can become an essential force for preserving and healing the planet and its inhabitants. Early Years Andrew was born in south India in 1952, where he lived until he was nine years old. It is this early period that he credits with shaping his sense of the inner unity of all religions and providing him with a permanent and inspiring vision of a world infused with the sacred. He left India to attend private school in England and entered Oxford University in 1970 with a scholarship to study history. At the age of 21, he became the youngest person ever to be awarded a fellowship to All Soul's College, England's highest academic honor. Coming Home By 1977, Harvey had become disillusioned with life at Oxford and returned to his native India, where a series of mystical experiences initiated his spiritual journey. Over the next thirty years he plunged into different mystical traditions to learn their secrets and practices. In 1978, he met a succession of Indian saints and sages and began his long study and practice of Hinduism. In 1983, in Ladakh, he met the great Tibetan adept, Thuksey Rinpoche, and undertook with him the Mahayana Buddhist Bodhisattva vows. Andrew's book about that experience, Journey in Ladakh, won the Christmas Humphreys Award. Enter Rumi In 1984, Andrew Harvey began a life-long exploration and explication of Rumi and Sufi mysticism in Paris with a group of French Sufis and under the guidance of Eva De Vitray-Meyerovitch, the magnificent translator of Rumi into French. With Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, he founded the Sufi Conferences, which have played a prominent role in uniting Sufis of all persuasions during the past six years. He has close connections with great Sufi teachers in America, Africa, India and Pakistan, and a very clear, comprehensive grasp of the state of modern Sufism in both the west and the east. Andrew has written three books on that subject: The Way of Passion: The Celebration of Rumi and Perfume of the Desert, an anthology of Sufi mysticism. The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying In 1990, Andrew collaborated with Sogyal Rinpoche and Patrick Gaffney in the writing of the international bestselling book, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. In 1992, he met Father Bede Griffiths in his ashram in south India near where Andrew was born. It was this meeting that helped him synthesize the whole of his mystical explorations and reconcile eastern with western mysticism. All Around the World Andrew has since lived in London, Paris, New York, and San Francisco, and has continued to study a variety of religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity. He has written and edited over 30 books. Other honors he has received include the Benjamin Franklin Award and the Mind Body Spirit Award (both for Mary's Vineyard: Daily Readings, Meditations, and Revelations). Among Harvey's other well-known titles are: Dialogues with a Modern Mystic, Hidden Journey, The Essential Mystics, Son of Man, The Return of the Mother and The Direct Path.

TODAY: Buddhism in the West Horst R. Brumm, born 1954, has been learning and working for over 30 years in the registered and approved non-profit institution Karma Tengyal Ling in Germany. Her Eminence Khandro Rinpoche asked him to teach in 2010. In 2016 she officially declared him a Yogi. Already published with alternating languages are: Dharma für Anfänger 3 Missverständnis Buddhismus (1 through 3) Christmas greeting for Christians and Buddhists by Yogi Horst R. Brumm (no sound, read only) Sogyal Rinpoche and Fatal Errors of Western Buddhists (dubbed).

TODAY: The Meaning of Community in Buddhism What do you think of this series? We're happy to read your emails! Regards: fire rain of wisdom comment Horst R. Brumm, born 1954, has been learning and working for over 30 years in the registered and approved non-profit institution Karma Tengyal Ling in Germany. Her Eminence Khandro Rinpoche asked him to teach in 2010. In 2016 she officially declared him a Yogi. Already published with alternating languages are: Dharma für Anfänger 3 Missverständnis Buddhismus (1 through 3) Christmas greeting for Christians and Buddhists by Yogi Horst R. Brumm (no sound, read only) plus Sogyal Rinpoche and Fatal Errors of Western Buddhists (dubbed). Although our website is currently under construction, there is our  Facebook link and our YouTube Channel.

Join me as I interview prolific writer and healer, Robert Sachs, who encourages us to awaken our hearts in these troubled times -- not by sticking our heads in the proverbial sand, but by cultivating and practicing being awake in our own lives.  Today we explore the concepts raised in his book - PERFECT ENDINGS:  A CONSCIOUS APPROACH TO DYING AND DEATH.  Born in the U.S., Robert moved to England while a teenager and embarked on the study of Eastern Philosophy.  There, he received a degree in Comparative Religion and Sociology and began his study with Tibetan Buddhist Masters and renowned teachers of the healing arts, Macrobiotics Master Michio Kushi and Shiatsu Master Rex Lassalle.  Desirous of furthering his studies in mental health and bodywork, he attended the Central Ohio School of Massage and earned a Master's degree in Social Work from the University of Kentucky.  Deeply affected by his daughter's death during this time, Robert began to study the conscious dying practices of Tibetan Buddhism.  He is a member of Sogyal Rinpoche's Spiritual Dying Network and the National Hospice Organization.  Along with his wife, Melanie, Robert has pursued studies in both Indian and Tibetan Ayurveda.  Recognized by renown teacher Dr. Deepak Chopra and other physicians of both Eastern and Western orientation, their writings are considered to be some of the clearest and most usable texts available.   With an educational background and training that is as conventional as it is alternative, Robert has worked with physicians, clinics, hospitals, private individuals and organizations, teaching them how to integrate contemporary scientific approaches with the ancient wisdom traditions in the areas of stress management, preventive health care, end-of-life care, and relationship and group dynamics.  He has served as an instructor for the Chopra Center for Well Being in San Diego and the Tibetan Medicine for the Sino-American Rehabilitation Association College in Los Angeles.  He is a prolific writer.  His books include:Nine-Star Ki: Your Astrological Companion to Feng Shui , Tibetan Ayurveda: Health Secrets from The Roof of The World  Rebirth Into Pure Land Perfect Endings: A Conscious Approach to Dying and Death The Passionate Buddha: Wisdom on Intimacy and Enduring Love  Becoming Buddha: Awakening The Wisdom and Compassion to Change Your World Wisdom of The Buddhist Masters: Common and Uncommon Sense The Ecology of Oneness: Awakening in a Free World,Ayurvedic Spa.  The Buddha at War:  Peaceful Heart Courageous Action in Troubled TimesHis most recent book, The Path of Civility:  Perfecting the Lessons of a President by Applying the Wisdom of a Buddha, is a merging of the lessons and teachings of two great individuals:  George Washington and the Buddha.  This book is indicative of the focus of his recent work:  encouraging individuals to engage in these troubled times by applying principles of effective and hence, civil discourse.  Find Robert:   https://thepathofcivility.com/https://www.diamondwayayurveda.com/

Welcome back to another episode of Made You Think! In this episode we discuss The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter, and how our modern lifestyle and pursuit of ease might be making us miserable, stressed, and anxious.  We cover a wide range of topics including: The connection between boredom and creativity Misogis and how to discover what you're truly capable of Why you don't necessarily want "less phone" How rucking could be a massive exercise hack The proper "dose" of outdoor, tech-free time And much more. Please enjoy, and make sure to follow Nat, Neil, and Adil on Twitter and share your thoughts on the episode. Links from the Episode: Mentioned in the Show: GORUCK (0:40)  Raising Your Ceiling (8:28) Peter Attia's Podcast episode with Michael Easter (9:01) Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (11:22) Eight Mattress (48:36) Tim Ferriss Podcast episode with Josh Waitzkin (54:14) Books Mentioned: The Comfort Crisis Emergency (12:52) (Book Episode) Antifragile (13:47) (Book Episode) The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (1:11:49) Moonwalking with Einstein (1:15:01) (Book Episode) Analects of Confucius (1:33:32) People Mentioned: Michael Easter Nassim Taleb (14:13) Josh Waitzkin (54:08) Sogyal Rinpoche (1:11:48) Show Topics: (0:00) Rucking as a way to make you fit overall and where on your body you should be carrying the weight when you walk. (4:32) How your eyes and body adjust to virtual reality. In general, your eyes dilate differently when you're using a screen vs. not using a screen.  (8:25) In today's episode, we're diving into The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter. The book is centered around the author's caribou hunt in Alaska to challenge the idea of what comfort means to him. (12:51) Good writing is more about helping explain a concept you're beginning to think about in a way that you haven't been able to conceptualize on your own yet rather than teaching you something brand new. (15:19) Boredom is another theme talked about in the book. We tend to favor a highly comfortable life full of entertainment, and we get uncomfortable when we're bored. However, making your life more comfortable isn't necessarily going to improve it in the long term. (17:59) We live in a world where there is always something you can do so you never have to sit in boredom when you're waiting. Because of this constant need to entertain ourselves, we're losing time that we could be spending processing and crafting new ideas. The more that we can train ourselves to be comfortable in boredom, the more we regain our ability to not be so hyper-anxious and reactive all the time.  (20:56) The connection between boredom and creativity is similar to the idea of rest recovery for working out. You wouldn't work out the same muscle every day without a rest day. We're essentially contracting the attention muscle all day long when we're on our phones all the time and not giving it the recovery time it desperately needs. (23:00) So what's the solution? Let yourself get bored. Rather than thinking “less phone” think “more boredom”. Making space for your thoughts and resetting the baseline. (30:58) What's a sustainable way to get your brain rested regularly and how much outdoors time is recommended each month? (33:13) Misogis are challenges that allow you to reframe your perception of what you're capable of achieving. Each year, it's encouraged that you take on a challenge, one that's really hard and one that is unique where you can't compare yourself to others.  (39:42) From Spartan Races, to pushup challenges, to training in the heat of a Texas summer, Nat, Neil, and Adil reflect on some of the harder things that they've experienced. As a species, we're very capable of doing hard things that we often don't push ourselves hard enough for. (49:00) The author's struggle with alcoholism. Everyone self-medicates differently, whether it's alcohol, conflict, or something more positive. It's a matter of what you choose to fill the space with. (54:01) The language we use to approach things is critical. You can always find a way to enjoy a situation that most people would label as “bad”. (1:02:08) How do you reset from a bad mood or from feeling anxiety? Nat, Neil, and Adil talk about the ways they stay active.  (1:04:54) How much exercise should you do and what's the right amount? The more you can do, the better (of course, without injury and overtraining yourself). (1:09:24) Training yourself for long runs and building up your endurance. (1:11:34) “Western laziness is quite different. It consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so there is no time at all to confront the real issues. This form of laziness lies in our failure to choose worthwhile applications for our energy.”  Filling up our time with things that may or may not be meaningful, but we often don't realize that we're doing it. (1:14:36) When you look back over a long period of time, the days where you're outside of your normal routine is what tends to stick out to you.   (1:19:47) Finding the right amount of novelty to live a happy life. Is it possible to go too far into routine or too far into novelty? (1:23:36) Nat, Neil, and Adil share some of their key takeaways and lessons learned from the book. This includes finding more ways to be uncomfortable, embracing that discomfort, and prioritizing physical activity. (1:31:24) That concludes this episode! We hope you enjoyed it. Stay tuned for our first episode of 2023 as we cover the Analects of Confucious. If you enjoyed this episode, let us know by leaving a review on iTunes and tell a friend. As always, let us know if you have any book recommendations! You can say hi to us on Twitter @TheRealNeilS, @adilmajid, @nateliason and share your thoughts on this episode. You can now support Made You Think using the Value-for-Value feature of Podcasting 2.0. This means you can directly tip the co-hosts in BTC with minimal transaction fees. To get started, simply download a podcast app (like Fountain or Breez) that supports Value-for-Value and send some BTC to your in-app wallet. You can then use that to support shows who have opted-in, including Made You Think! We'll be going with this direct support model moving forward, rather than ads. 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Horst R. Brumm, born 1954, has been learning and working for over 30 years in the registered and approved non-profit institution Karma Tengyal Ling in Germany. Her Eminence Khandro Rinpoche asked him to teach in 2010. In 2016 she officially declared him a Yogi. Already published with alternating languages are: Dharma für Anfänger 3 Missverständnis Buddhismus (1 through 3) Christmas greeting for Christians and Buddhists by Yogi Horst R. Brumm (no sound, read only) plus Sogyal Rinpoche and Fatal Errors of Western Buddhists (dubbed). Although our website is currently under construction, there is our  Facebook link and our YouTube Channel. 

In the ninth episode, I will talk about the mysterious and profound book "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying" written by Sogyal Rinpoche. A piece filled with wisdom and insight from the centuries-old tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Master Rinpoche attempted to translate the teachings from this holy book to be understood and considered by an average westerner like myself. I will talk about the power of mediation, the concept of reincarnation, the nature of death, and the appreciation I have for the many spiritual and philosophical paths there are. I will reflect on the recent encounter with a group of interesting people and our contemplation of faith, which came up during this year's Thanksgiving celebration. Finally, I will encourage you to listen to some interesting podcasts and explore meditation for yourself via the many apps offered to the world by the numerous creators out there. As always, I will also offer you a little invitation to exercise the might of your mind! If you do get to read it following my invitation, make sure to let me know your thoughts! Maybe, it will be the book to change your life as well... All the love, all the power, all of the time... Resources worth exploring: Podcast: The Way Out Is In | Plum Village Secular Buddhism Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/secular-buddhism/id1071578260 Headspace App - https://www.headspace.com/headspace-meditation-app Calm App - https://www.calm.com/ Balance App - https://balanceapp.com/ Many Lives, Many Masters by Dr. Brian Weiss - https://amzn.eu/d/0RQUiBQ

I am on the other side of a health scare and my being feels different. Sogyal Rinpoche, "Don't mistake understanding for realization, don't mistake realization for liberation."  What others, including myself, knew what would transpire, I still did not stop the experience as I have received valuable lessons about myself and about others.  This was first session after I was cleared at the 11th hour at a double biopsy. I recorded a lot of thoughts I witnessed after the session. I witnessed a disconnect to myself and a disconnect to him, it was just a part of me with cock, a part of him. The dynamic is intact as I prefer to allow situations to unfold and not force a beginning or an ending. He appeared in my life indirectly of my doing, not directly and prefer if he is to fade from my life than it not be from my direct doing. My heart is very open to others and experience, and more so because of this connection, it's raw here. Experiencing a portion of a person for 2.5 years and the only downfall is not permitted to experience their wholeness when I sense their expansiveness. Perhaps, projecting that in this dynamic, my expansiveness isn't permitted to breathe.  I love this recording because of the asmr quality, the rawness and vulnerability as my thoughts come and go. Also, relatable because humans are similarly complicated, and the disappointment for a situation not working out as desired is an old story; I am not the only one to have this experience yet I'm working to release this story from my collection. Even thought I had an understanding from the start how this would likely play out, I needed this experience to realize this understanding and perhaps liberation of sorts will follow.  Thank you for being here- I enjoy receiving postcards and letters :) PO BOX 1407 Lake Stevens, Wa 98258 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bcomingundone/support

Estou rouca, mas não queria deixar de ter esta conversa que me trouxe autores que deixam imensa vontade de ler, espero que vos aconteça o mesmo. A Mariana é uma empresária original e de força, apelidada de "empreendedora underground" e que vem de uma família onde todos são leitores acérrimos. Os livros que trouxe: O livro tibetano da vida e da morte, Sogyal Rinpoche; As doenças do Brasil, Valter Hugo Mãe; Memórias de Adriano, Marguerite Yourcenar; O restaurante da saudade, Anne Tyler; Stoner, John Williams; O quarto do Giovani, James Baldwin; Little life, Hanya Yanagihara (não havia tradução mas vem em Novembro!) A morte do pai, Karl Ove; Julian Barnes, Elisabeth Finch; A vida mentirosa dos adultos, Elena Ferrante; Elena Ferrante com a Marina Abramovich no Finantial Times que publicou a correspondência entre elas; Elisabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge; O que ofereci: 10 anos depois, Liane Moriarty; A Mariana ofereceu-me: Os pés não têm céu, livro de poemas de Pedro Pires, que criou a editora Poets and Painters.

Bản chất của Tâm - Sogyal Rinpoche

My guest today is Cynthia Bardwell, a dear friend I met over 30 years ago. Cynthia had a successful career as a buyer in the fashion industry and, after her 3 sons were all school age, switched careers and became an elementary school teacher and later a principal. And although we drifted apart for 20 years, I am delighted to have her back in my life. Cynthia has invited me into her current journey of accepting and facing the insidious spread of cancer throughout her body. Cynthia sees she has a choice everyday on how to view her circumstances. Her honesty, vulnerability, gratitude, laughter, and humility are refreshing. It is a joy to be in Cynthia's presence; I am moved and deeply appreciative for all that Cynthia is teaching me about living with intention and integrity, while gracing the dying process with gratitude and dignity. Check out the links below for the books we discussed. Enjoy the podcast! Links: “Beginners Guide to the End” by BJ Miller & Shoshana Berger “To Bless the Space Between Us” by John O'Donohoe “The Threshold Between Loss and Revelation” by Frances Weller “The Beauty That Still Remains” by Steve Leder “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying” by Sogyal Rinpoche

Alex is the founder and Head Instructor of Aromansse and the Aromansse Riverton Retreat Centre, as well as the Director for all of Aromansse's meditation programs. He has over thirty years of experience in the fields of soul and bodywork. Alex is a Master Aromatherapist, Bach Flower Therapist and Healing Arts Practitioner in the areas of Spiritual Guidance, Feng Shui, Healing Sounds, Tantra and Egyptian Bodywork.Alex has studied with Buddhist teacher Sogyal Rinpoche, the Aromatherapy Fundamental Research Laboratory,  the Academy of Para-Psychology in Montpellier, France and is a professional member and researcher with the Monroe Institute. A lifelong goal of Alex's is the development of a Hemi-Sync Pre-Palliative care facility.

Dieser Beitrag ist auch als Video erschienen bei  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuL_efhD0vE   Horst R. Brumm, Jahrgang 1954, lernt und arbeitet seit über 30 Jahren in der gemeinnützigen, nichtgewerblichen Institution Karma Tengyal Ling. Ihre Eminenz Khandro Rinpoche beauftragte ihn 2010, zu lehren. 2016 erklärte sie ihn offiziell zum Jogi.

This title has also been published as video on  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3O4v-gmoP8   Horst R. Brumm, Jahrgang 1954, lernt und arbeitet seit über 30 Jahren in der gemeinnützigen, nichtgewerblichen Institution Karma Tengyal Ling. Ihre Eminenz Khandro Rinpoche beauftragte ihn 2010, zu lehren. 2016 erklärte sie ihn offiziell zum Jogi.

On this week's episode I explain the phowa meditation, typically done at the bedside of a dying person. In these past 15 years, I have said the phowa for loved ones as they were dying, I've  said it for myself everyday as part of my spiritual practice and I have said the phowa meditation numerous times from a distance, for my mom, for friends, for friends' family members, for people in the dying process, for people soon after they have died, to help their peaceful transition. For some reason, in the past 2 weeks, the phowa meditation was in high demand. In addition to saying it for people in Ukraine who are witnessing and experiencing horrific deaths, people close to me are requesting the meditation for loved ones who are dying or struggling to let go, or who have recently died. So I felt drawn to share it with you, my listeners. Say it for yourself, say it for your loved ones, say it for your loved ones that have already died, say it for the refugees, the marginalized, the oppressed and most vulnerable. May the phowa meditation wrap you in compassion, facilitate forgiveness and deepen a true peace within you. Enjoy the podcast! Links: “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying” by Sogyal Rinpoche

Our guest Evangeline Pesca is a speaker, humanitarian, entrepreneur and the founder and chief miracle-maker of withher.org. Most importantly, she is a beloved mother to three amazing young women. Evangeline's Reading List:  1. The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle   2. The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz    3. You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay   4. The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche   5. Conversations With God I, II and III by Neale Donald Walsh   6. The Bible  CancerTalks is an interdependent community project with a production team of three and we count on your contributions. We'd like to thank Babara Young for her generous contribution. If you've learned from or been inspired by these conversations please consider joining Barbara and becoming a donor. To support us starting at $5 a month, or to make a larger tax-deductible contribution, visit Patreon.com/cancertalks.  If you enjoyed this conversation please leave a review in your podcast app. CancerTalks is a platform for anyone who has been touched by cancer. If you'd like to be in community with other cancer thrivers seeking personal transformation join us for free workshops on Zoom. Visit cancertalks.com/zoom to register. 

Mary Finnigan and Rob Hogendoorn have co-authored an amazing book exposing the corruption and abuse perpetrated by Sogyal Rinpoche and his multinational Tibetan Buddhist organisation Rigpa. Sogyal was probably the 2nd most famous Tibetan Buddhist in the world, after the Dalai Lama. The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying is a hugely successful book, selling millions of copies and being translated into many languages and in fact started my own spiritual journey in the 1990's. Mary and Rob show that Sogyal didn't even write most of the book, and that it was mainly written by a couple of his students, although he claimed authorship. Incredibly, despite numerous serious scandals revolving around sex, power and money, Sogyal managed to “teach” and lead the Rigpa organisation for about 45 years. This demonstrates a failure of the Tibetan Buddhist community at large to rein in such rogue actors and charlatans. In this conversation we explore the nature of Sogyal's abuse of his students and what the warning signs are that people should look out for when joining spiritual communities and teachers. We also make suggestions of actions individuals and communities can take to make wholesome and healthy environments for spiritual practice and learning.  Mary and Rob's book (Sex and violence in Tibetan Buddhism: the rise and fall of Sogyal Rinpoche) can be found here www.amazon.co.uk/Sex-Violence-Tibetan-Buddhism-Rinpoche/dp/0986377090 For more information about Rob's work please visit www.openbuddhism.org/ For more information about my work please visit www.bodyheartmindspirit.co.uk To hear more of my music please visit my soundcloud page https://soundcloud.com/ralphcree My YouTube channel is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUfQp5jM16pPB7QX2zmMYbQ My Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/bodyheartmindspirituk/ My Evolving Spiritual Practice Podcast can be found on all major podcast platforms P and C owned by Ralph Cree 2022

Neste episódio, eu converso sobre o Budismo com o meu querido amigo Lama Rinchen Khyenrab, que é monge budista tibetano. Refletindo a partir de sua própria linhagem budista, o Lama Rinchen explora com beleza e sabedoria temas importantes como a impermanência, interdependência, compaixão, gratidão, adoecimento, sofrimento e a aspiração humana pela felicidade. Uma conversa muito rica e gostosa ao som da música "This too shall pass", de Reveille. Sugestão de Leitura:  'Viver e Morrer no Budismo Tibetano', de Sogyal Rinpoche. 

Texto publicado em 2020 por Portia Nelson no site Saindo da Matrix chamado Autobiografia em 5 capítulos. Esse poema é encontrado no O Livro Tibetano do Viver e do Morrer, do lama Sogyal Rinpoche e nos faz refletir sobre o quanto podemos evoluir com nossos erros. Participação especial de Ira com a música: O amor também faz errar, que se encontra em nossa Playlist no Spotify chamada “Trilha Barulhinho Bom” – ouça, siga, delicie-se e compartilhe sem moderação para aquecer mais e mais corações ouvintes: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0ECjtl1bjx8mnWiDAKChnt?si=bK2ttO8KQPeZPsBNBT6xJg Que tal esse Barulhinho Bom? Obrigada por permitir tocar seu coração! Se sentir que esse conteúdo pode contribuir para a vida de alguém, por favor, compartilhe sem moderação! Contamos com você nessa missão! Assine o Podcast Barulhinho Bom em seu agregador de áudio preferido e receba os novos episódios tão logo sejam publicados (Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Deezer, SoundCloud, Amazon Music, Audible entre outros). ........................................................................................ Ficou com vontade de entrar em contato com a gente? E-mail: podcastbarulhinhobom@gmail.com Todos os contatos e conteúdos de Lidia Picinin (Lidinha): https://linktr.ee/lidia.picinin Instagram Lidia Picinin (Lidinha): https://instagram.com/lidia.picinin Podcast Barulhinho Bom: https://soundcloud.com/barulhinhobom WhatsApp / Telegram: +55 (48) 99984.1014 Lista de transmissão VIP via WhatsApp: basta solicitar sua inclusão enviando uma mensagem para o número anterior e adicioná-lo em sua agenda de contatos. Grupo público no Telegram para interagir com outros ouvintes: https://t.me/barulhinhobom Canal no YouTube com mais conteúdos de Lidia Picinin (Lidinha): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkB1TvYNjuXwilqUkmFPccg Playlist musical do Podcast no Spotify chamada “Trilha Barulhinho Bom” – segue o link, siga, compartilhe e delicie-se sem moderação: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0ECjtl1bjx8mnWiDAKChnt?si=bK2ttO8KQPeZPsBNBT6xJg Produção e edição do Podcast: Lidia Picinin (https://instagram.com/lidia.picinin) Produção e edição das inspiradoras capinhas: Pat Malinski (https://instagram.com/pat_malinski) .......................................................................................... Conheça também o trabalho incrível dos artistas de nossa música tema “Barulhinho”: Canal YouTube dos músicos Renato Motha e Patricia Lobato: https://www.youtube.com/user/mcom20 Instagram: https://instagram.com/renatomothaepatriciobato Royalty free music by http://www.epidemicsound.com/ ......................................................................................... Um Podcast criado para deixar um Barulhinho Bom reverberando em seu coração em seus momentos de pausa! .........................................................................................

Staying gritty and reaching high performance requires adopting the mindset of constant and never-ending improvement. Showing self-compassion is key to adapting and bouncing back quickly after setbacks, adversity, and mistakes. Self-compassion is also a powerful antidote to stress, anxiety, and perfectionistic thinking, which can lead to poor performance. When we practice self-compassion, we are able to live and let go.  Power Phrase this Week: “I see failure and mistakes as opportunities to learn and grow. I am kind to myself.”  Quote of the Week: “Learning to Live is Learning to Let Go.” Sogyal Rinpoche, Bestselling Author  

Everything's off kilter this week, as Nick and Austin discuss "Airbag," "Subterranean Homesick Alien," and "Exit Music." Both gush over Baz Luhrmann's "Romeo and Juliet," while failing to even mention Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues." Austin tries to get into some Miles Davis, while Nick repeatedly gets the title of Sogyal Rinpoche's The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying wrong. (He's very sorry.) But first, Austin sees if Nick remembers how to play some songs we've already discussed. If you enjoy what you're hearing, please rate and review us. Like us on https://www.facebook.com/anyonecanplayguitarpodcast (Facebook) Follow us on https://twitter.com/anyonecanplayr1 (Twitter) Songs Discussed: 5:00 - "Airbag" 20:00 - "Subterranean Homesick Alien" 29:15 - "Exit Music"

Elena Brand is an avid second hand shopper and on one trip she discovered a book … a book that triggered a life change, relationship changes and ultimately a career change. The book was “The Tibetan book of Living and Dying” by Sogyal Rinpoche. All of Elena's life changes occurred after reading just 25 % of the book and engaging in a 10 minute exercise about dying … so, with some experience in living but no experience in dying, she had the realisation there was more to life.

Elizabeth Munro was born in London in 1939 and currently lives near Porthmadog, in North Wales. She is a painter and art/life practitioner. She was influenced early on by Harry Thubron, her inspirational mentor at Leeds College of Art- and  later by the groundbreaking Judson Dance Theatre where she participated in various performances. Arlene Rothlein, Malcolm Goldstein, and Philip Corner became good friends. Yvonne Rainer was a powerful influence. Her paintings have been exhibited in various galleries in the U.K. and New York. In the Eighties in Upstate New York she met and collaborated with Linda “Rosita” Montano, performance artist,  as well as becoming a friend of hers for life. Elizabeth Munro calls her work “Survival Art” and now sees it as a healing response to her childhood sexual abuse.  She attributes her freedom of movement in painting- and the painting itself- inspired by the influence of Sam Francis, Jackson Pollock and the Abstract expressionists-in helping to create a Lifeline for her: for escape, survival, and healing from early child sexual abuse. At the moment she has her studio in Wales and plans to do whatever she wants to next. Currently reading: The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche, Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel, Look At Me  by Anita Brookner and Self- Help by Lorrie Moore. Scroll painting by Elizabeth Munro - ‘Millstream’, early spring, pink rushing water, Woodstock N.Y. Photo from my dear friend Sky’s natural burial in Boduan Wood, Eternal Forest Trust, near Pwllheli in Wales. Birds were singing as I scattered flowers and rosemary on the wicker casket.

Are there spells you can explore from home in your kitchen to improve your love life? Can we break down barriers to prosperity through mantra, candle magick and crystal work?  In this week's conversation with New Orleans based Spiritual Life & Business Coach, Tarot Reader, and Cultural Sociologist Keon (AKA Keyoncé) Dillon - the founder of Millennial Soul Food - we have the best time discussing a variety of topics. We get into love and money spells, basic kitchen witchery, spiritual ways to heal after a break-up, and even psychedelic awakenings - we go deep fast!  Millennial Soul Food was created to facilitate healing, as Keon's mission is to help usher humanity into a higher vibratory state of consciousness. In their coaching and tarot consultations, clients work through emotional and spiritual blocks to facilitate personal and professional growth. Keon is from a lineage of intuitives, and a number of spiritual and occult philosophies including Christianity, Hermetic Kabbalah, Mississippi & New Orleans Hoodoo, and Buddhism inform their practices and offerings.  You can find out more about Keon and their programs, podcast, and services at www.millennialsoulfood.biz. Follow along on instagram at @millennialsoulfood.  Find more to love and join our community at ouiwegirl.com. Where to find me: ouiwegirl.com @ouiwegirl Follow the show instagram page: @yourwoowoobff This show is produced, mixed, recorded and additional music by T'Ben Alleman Opening and closing music: Pet Fangs Resources: Dr. Kate Thomas, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche

Vi ser närmre på vad vi enligt författaren Sogyal Rinpoche kan göra i våra liv för att övervinna vår fruktan inför den fysiska döden så som vi känner till den innan den kommer och överraskar oss. Genom paralleller till andra läromästare ser vi den gemensamma nämnaren klart och vi följer dess pekare hem till vår sanna natur som är ett med det absoluta. 

In this episode, Allyson and Julietta discuss with their guest, Karen Rowe, her profession in Eastern Medicine and positive personal development. Karen has been serving South Florida since 2003, specializing in Pain Management, Allergy Elimination, Addiction Cessation and infertility.  Karen Rowe's Websitehttps://www.fortlauderdaleacupuncture.com/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/karen.roweInstagram https://www.instagram.com/drkaren1489/?hl=enKaren's most influential book: The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche#flowwork #positivity #resilience  #motivation  #mindset #inspiration #mindfulness #selflove #personaldevelopment #selfcare  #personalgrowth  #loveyourself #healing #selfdevelopmentThe Voices of The Goddess:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Voices-of-the-Goddess-356165865475415Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/voicesofthegoddess/Allyson grew up a Michigander, moving to South Florida in 1993 with her then fiancé, Nick. Married 27 years with two adult children, Nicholas, 24 and Lexi, 21.  A SAHM for 24 years,  Allyson discovered her true passion is to help other busy moms “put their oxygen mask on first” in regard to their wellness.  Dealing with personal health issues and those of her family, she discovered tools to help her achieve wellness for herself and her family.  Allyson continues to educate herself and dig through the myriad of information out there to help her clients find what will work for them! https://www.facebook.com/groups/healthylifestyleinandouthttps://www.facebook.com/AllysonKMancinihttps://www.instagram.com/allysonkmancini/?hl=enJulietta is committed to creating a world that is Loving, Kind, Compassionate, Connected and Empowered.  She grew up in Wisconsin and graduated with a degree in Physical Therapy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.   Her goal is to inspire other therapists to bring holistic treatment options to their practice teaching Voila Method both in the US and internationally. When she is not busy treating patients or teaching, she is making healing crystal art and jewelry known as SoulCandy, creating spiritual/healing paintings, or planning underground dining experiences for her group called Foodie Freaks. She is a contributing author in the best-selling book UNSTOPPABLE: Leverage Life Setbacks To Rebuild Resilience For Success. She currently serves as President of the Wilton Manors Business Association and President of BNI Premier in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.  https://bodyandsoul-pt.com/http://julietta.love/https://soulcandycrystals.com/https://www.facebook.com/TheMagicalPThttps://www.facebook.com/soulcandybyjuliettahttps://www.facebook.com/Juliettalove-108449684234840https://www.instagram.com/themagicalpt/https://www.instagram.com/soul_candy_/https://www.instagram.com/juliettadotlove/

The Value of Every Human Life. Tibetan Buddhism. Sogyal Rinpoche's The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. Mystery, Wonder, Awe, Respect. Wisdom in Folktales, Sacred Storytelling. Perspective, The View. The Buddha & Jesus Christ. How We See Each Other. (Music: Courtesy of Adrian Von Ziegler, “Your Dying Heart.” )

We often try to figure out solutions to our problems intellectually. But modern neuroscience tells us that, if you removed the emotional centers of your brain, you would be unable to make even the simplest decision regardless of how much intellect you had. What if there were emotional practices you could do to clarify every decision? What if emotions were the key to finding whole new kinds of solutions?"The reason that somebody gets angry at somebody else is because they haven't gotten angry by themselves. It takes a while to build that kind of anger, so go release your anger and then talk to the person. Go get really, really scared and then talk to your boss about the raise that you want. You have the emotional experience and then go and take the action."Brett: Joe, many of us are taught to manage our feelings and to be logical, especially when it comes to important or complex matters. What makes feelings so important?Joe: That is a great question. I think it was a 2012 book called Descartes' Error, a neuroscientists talks about what happens to people if they lose the emotional center of their brain. It's a little more complex than this, but just to simplify it, if I took the emotional center of your brain out, you would cease to make decisions. It would take you half an hour to decide what color pen to use. It would take you four hours to decide where to have lunch. Your IQ would maintain the same. In fact, in the book, there's somebody whose IQ remains the same, very high level IQ, so incredibly intelligent, but their business falls apart. Their marriage falls apart. Everything falls apart because they can't make decisions. What it indicates to us is that we are thinking we're making rational decisions, but there's really no such thing. There's only emotional decisions. You can think about this in terms of your own life. Really simply, just think about how many decisions of your life were made because you didn't want to feel like a failure or how many decisions were made so that you could feel loved. How many decisions were made so that you could feel like you were seen by your friends and how many decisions were made so that you wouldn't be rejected?It's like tremendous amounts, huge swaths of our decision making, you can immediately see, are very emotional. The intellect is really good at trying to figure out how to get to an end, but the end that you're trying to get to is always an emotional end. Clarity doesn't come from being logical, because it doesn't work. You can't do it in your decision making. It comes from being okay with whatever emotional state arises.If you all of a sudden are completely excited to deal with sadness and you're completely excited to deal with joy and you're completely excited to deal with anger. It's not even deal with it, it's like you get to live that, then all of a sudden, you have incredibly clear decision making. That's why it's important. If you're in those thoughts that are recursive and they're just coming in over and over and over and over again, guaranteed there's an emotional reality, that if you felt it, it would clear up.Brett: Can you give me an example of what you're talking about?Joe: Yes, absolutely. For instance, I work with a lot of married couples and what happens in a lot of marriages is that people stop being true to themselves because they're scared of some result that'll happen if they do and eventually the marriage becomes not palatable because they're not themselves in the marriage. What I tell people in that situation is, hey, go mourn the heck out of your marriage. Your marriage is over. Just assume it and go more in the heck out of it, like feel all the grief of being left, feel all the grief of 20 years down the tubes, feel all the grief that your kids are going to not have two parents, like go through all of that stuff. At the end of that, then let's find out what you need to do. What they do is they're basically living through the result that they don't want to feel so that they can act with clarity. It's that feeling of loss that they don't want to deal with and since they don't want to deal with it, they're not speaking their truth and therefore, they're not in a marriage that accepts their truth. Eighty percent of the time, they then speak their truth and the other person is like, great. Or they're like, what the hell and then three months later, they're like, great. Twenty percent of the time their partners, like, no, that's not what I want.They leave and they break up, but it's definitely a much higher chance of success, if somebody has already felt the thing they're trying to avoid because then their actions don't come from trying to avoid the feeling, their actions come from what they want. This is something that you learn in even like The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, the samurai did this, I think it was the Sufis who did this-- many traditions have done this thing, where they basically visualize their own death to get over the fear of death. They've lived that fear so many times that they no longer fear death. It's confronting the emotional reality that you don't want to handle, that you don't want to feel and then immediately your decision making can clear up.Brett: Recognizing that there is life on the other side of that emotion.Joe: Yes, exactly, or that emotion is a deep friend. There's no emotion I've run into that hasn't been a benefit to me.Brett: What do you mean by feeling these emotions? If something hasn't happened yet, for example, how do you actually feel the emotion associated with it to mourn the loss?Joe: The first thing you need to do is just recognize that there's always an emotional movement in your body, it is constant. There's no moment of consciousness where there isn't an emotional reality happening. We might not want to admit it. We might've been taught at a young age not to feel it, but it's constantly occurring and it's very muscular in nature. You can really feel it through constriction of muscles.If somebody has been told never to get angry, their body contorts. I can literally look at somebody and recognize if there's repressed anger. You can recognize and I'm not the only one there's tons of people who can. You can recognize who had the critical parent, who was beaten, who's holding back their authenticity all based on muscular structure. The muscles and the emotions are tightly, tightly correlated. That's the most important thing to know that it's constantly happening and that there's a muscular component to it. How do you feel these emotions? You're feeling them. The question isn't how do you, the question is how do you bring your awareness into it? Oftentimes what happens is we're feeling the emotion, but we're spending a lot of energy compressing that emotion. It's making it a different version of itself.The way I think about this is like, there's this emotionless called the emotion of anger and it's flowing like a garden hose. If you kink it one way, the anger looks like this, “No, I'm not angry.” If you kink another way, it looks like this, “That's fine”. If you're going to be a prick and if you kink another way, it sounds like this, “You son of blah, blah, blah, you goddamn blah, blah, blah.”All of those are kinks in the garden hose. When there's no kinks in that garden house, when it's fully allowed, there's no reason to resist the anger. It sounds like the anger of a Gandhi or Martin Luther King. It's clear. It's determined. We will not put up with this. We will be equal. That's also anger, but that's anger unresisted. The trick isn't to feel it in the way that it's like, you have to go and conjure it because it's there. It's really to stop restricting it. It's really to stop holding it down.Brett: It sounds like one of the things you were saying is that the first thing that people might feel is actually the resistance to the anger. This body tension, for example, might be the first thing you notice and be like, oh, I'm feeling a lot of tension in my body right now. Then maybe the secondary thing you might feel is like, I'm holding back this emotion.Joe: Right. It's the resistance that's actually painful. When people are like, “I don't want to feel sadness.” There's this way in which people talk about each of the emotions and there's this common fear of each of them to let them fully ride. If I allow my anger, I will destroy people. I will hurt myself. I will hurt others. If I allow my sadness, it will go on forever and I will be enveloped in sadness for the rest of my life. If I allow fear, I will be frozen and I won't be able to act. These are the traditional thought processes that people have about why these emotions aren't safe. The reason that they feel that way is because that's how the resistance is, when you're resisting anger, you do destroy shit. When you are resisting sadness, it does last forever. It looks like depression. When you're resisting fear, then you're anxious all the time and you are frozen. You're not doing stuff. People have confused the resistance with the emotion.Brett: Or with the feeling of being overtaken by the feelings.Joe: Exactly. You never are overtaken by the feelings, you're overtaken by the resistance to the feelings. If you're scared of an emotion, you are currently being overtaken by the resistance of the feeling.Brett: Right. Because the resistance is itself a feeling. It's like a secondary feeling that loops back and then fights the first feeling, which is just a massive waste of energy.Joe: Correct. It's really important to recognize that it is a waste of energy. It's also really important to recognize that in itself, it also isn't bad and it is there to be loved. I have a saying that says, “If you can't love the emotion, love the resistance to the emotion.” If you make the resistance the next evil thing that you have to overcome, that's another form of resistance. You are just adding a triple layer of resistance on it.Brett: Well, what about the danger of, if you have, for example, you have anger and it's deeply resisted and you remove the first layer of resistance and you start to let the anger through, but there's still enough resistance around it, that it comes out as an attack. It can be dangerous to be overtaken by-- to let ourselves be partially overtaken by a feeling and still have it constricted in that way, right?Joe: Yes, it absolutely can. You're playing a short game and a long game here. The short game is how do I start getting in touch with these emotions in a way that isn't destructive. Then there's a long game, which is, “If I don't do it now, then what am I going to do? Continue to constrict it for the rest of my life?” Like there's a risk involved. You have to risk a little destruction now to get to a place where the anger is clear and moves easily and is fluid and enjoyable.There's some tricks to it. The first trick is don't believe the emotion. Don't not believe it either. It's like when you're having the emotion, the important thing is to see yourself as an actor playing the part of you having an emotional experience. An actor always knows it's not their emotion. Even if they get caught up in it for a while, they know there's some part of their consciousness that knows that the story is a story. It's not true.It's about keeping that aspect of your awareness awake, so that you just know like, oh, this emotion is just moving through me. It's not personal. But it's also allowing that emotional experience in and that requires letting the emotion be garbly. Intellect speaks like this. It's like A plus B equals C and B equals D, therefore, A plus D equals C. That's how logic talks. The way anger talks is “ [makes sounds]...Oh, right. That's it. I got it.” That's how anger speaks.If you believe all the garbly gobbly glue of anger, like, “That person's an asshole and that person did this to me, blah, blah, blah, blah”, then you're never going to get to that clarity. If you don't allow all that garbly glue, you also won't get to the clarity. It's this interesting thing of listening to emotions in a different way than you listen to logic. If you start repressing it and say, “Well, I know it's really not them. It's really me. I know that they're trying their best”, or blah, blah, blah, all that kind of stuff doesn't allow the full  expression of the emotion so you don't get to the clarity.The trick is, not to listen to the story, to see it as non-personal, to see yourself as an actor, just having it move through. It's like going to the bathroom. It's not a personal thing. It's just happening. Then the last part is to just not do it at anybody. This is the most critical thing is, don't do it at people. Most people think of anger like, don't get angry at the person. I'm speaking to that, but I'm also speaking to sadness. People get sad at people all the time, to try to create manipulation or guilt or whatever it is. I'm going to get sad at you, to make it so that you change your thing. You're never using your emotions to try to get someone else to change.Brett: Or afraid at people.Joe: Yes, exactly.Brett: This isn't safe.Joe: That's exactly it.Brett: You were speaking to feeling these emotions coming up within us and then viewing it as we are an actor, acting out the emotion that's coming up within us. It sounded like that could apply also interpersonally. Or if our partner is coming at us with a lot of anger, recognizing like, oh, they are playing the part of their anger right now and I don't need to take everything they say personally. I could actually hold space for this to occur so that they can find their clarity behind it.Joe: Absolutely. That's a lot easier if you are good with your anger. If you're like, “I love my anger. I can't wait for my anger to arise because every time it does, I find out some boundary that I haven't been drawing. I find out some way I haven't been being clear. I love my anger.” Then you see somebody else get angry. You're like, “Oh, I love that too.”When somebody sees you love their anger, man, that anger changes, they're like-- it happens with me and people are like, “Goddamnit,  Joe, you da, da, da”, I'm like, “Oh yes, you're angry, come on. Tell me about it.” I want to hear this. I see that you feel alone and I see that you feel rejected and I don't want that. Let me hear what's going on with you. That changes their anger. It just changes it.Brett: You were speaking to the short and the long game that's being played. I think a lot of fear of letting our emotions fly is that we'll become worthless or unproductive or just the last straw will happen if we're deep in a relationship. We're just like, “Oh, man, one more outburst, then they're just done with me. I've got to suppress this.” What happens if we just let our emotions fly all the time?Joe: Again, just not at people, to put your emotion at somebody, to try to get them to change with your emotions subconsciously or consciously, it's emotional abuse. It's not healthy for them. If it's happening to you, draw a boundary and say, “I don't want that. I'm happy to listen to your emotions if I give you permission, but otherwise, I don't want the emotion at me.”I just say, don't do that without permission. If you are getting your emotions out by yourself or with a close friend and you're doing it, then they're not going to leak. The reason that somebody gets angry at somebody else's because they haven't gotten angry by themselves. It takes them a while to build that anger. There's lots of time before that, so you can release it. Go release your anger and then talk to the person. Go mourn and then talk to your wife about what you need from the relationship. Go get really, really scared and then talk to your boss about the raise that you want. Do the thing that you have the emotional experience and then go take the action.Brett: Just feel it. How do you recognize, in the moment, when you're in this like a spin cycle and you're like, “Oh God, this da, da, da,...This person did this or whatever? What should I do here? I don't know what to do!” How do you recognize that? What's the hook to get you out of that loop to remember this and to get into the emotions.Joe: Exactly what you said. If you are doing one of three things, you mentioned two of them. If you notice that you keep on looping on the same thought, it means there's an emotion that you're not feeling. If you are not clear about a decision you need to make, then there's emotion you're not feeling. If you are judgmental towards another person, there's an emotion you're not feeling.Brett: Can you dig into that one a little bit more?Joe: If I judge you for being angry, I don't want to feel out of control. Or if I judge you for being angry, it's because I don't want to feel the potential that I have to lose you, so loss. If I judge you for being uptight, it's because I don't want to feel controlled, or I don't want to feel rigid. Every time we have a judgement, it's just a way to suppress an emotion, which is what makes our decision making really screwed up because if you're judging, very different than discernment. Discernment is just a knowing of distinction. If it's judgment, then you're not clear. You're not looking at the data clearly. You have preconceived notions of the data and then you can't make great decisions.Brett: Or preconceived notions of intent on behalf of the other.Joe: Correct. That's right. Then the last one, another cool trick is, whenever you see your mind in binary thinking, "I either have to buy the car or not buy the car." Instead of, "I could buy that car. I could buy that car from 10 different people. I could buy that car with different packages. I can buy that car in different colors. I could buy that car in six months." Whenever you're in that binary black or white thinking, then you know that there's some fear there that's not being felt.Brett: Let's get into a little bit deeper. We've been talking a lot about the feeling side of this, what do you mean by figuring it out? What are some other ways that that can happen and that we can get caught in that loop?Joe: Figuring it out at its most essential is just your intellect. It's to strategize. It's to try to solve the puzzle. It's like, "This is the outcome that I want, how do I get there?" That is the intellect and it is really good at that. That's what it means when you're figuring, when you're intellectualizing. Some people say it's in your head. Some people call it being tactical and there's some really great uses for that. It's not a bad thing. It's just a lot better when you're not avoiding an emotion using it.Brett: It sounds like the purpose of the intellect here is to take a very narrowly framed context of assumptions and goals and then figure out the path from A to B, but then the emotions are what is creating those assumptions to begin with and the goals.Joe: Correct and the risk profile.Brett: Elaborate on that.Joe: If you really, really, really don't want to lose your girlfriend, then your risk tolerance is really low. If you're like, "I could do it under certain circumstances." Then you're more likely to be yourself, right? How madly you don't want to feel the emotion really affects your risk profile.Brett: Yes, that makes sense. We should figure some things out. Wouldn't it be silly to just shut that part of us off and never use that part of our intelligence?Joe: Absolutely. I wouldn't want to build a bridge without the intellect. I wouldn't want to have this conversation without the intellect. I would assume that would be horrible to listen to. Intellect is a beautiful, amazing thing. It's just recognizing its incompleteness. There's Girdle's theory of mathematical incompleteness, which is basically a logical proof that all sets of logic are either incomplete or they are based on a postulate. Basically it proves logic can't be logical. Brett: My favorite part of that is that he proved it with logic. He actually used logic to prove the incompleteness of logic and it couldn't have been done without logic.Joe: Right. Aristotle did it earlier in a different thing, but he didn't do it with the same logic without the math. It's a beautiful thing and our postulates are emotions. That's what our postulates are in our logical way of thinking. That's why people can logically justify absolute opposite things. It's not because their rationale is good or bad. It's because they have different postulates behind the rationale.Figuring stuff out is great and the intellect is beautiful. Even in the spiritual journey or the transformative journey, the intellect is beautiful. It's great for deconstructing itself, very good at hanging out in a way that allows you to describe what's happened. Usually after you've gone through it, right? What I notice is that it's not like, "Here's the description of it and now I go through it."It's more like "Here's a description of it that can give me some framework that I can rest on that I don't completely understand." Then I go through it. Then maybe like a month later, I can describe it. The intellect is really good for that as well. I love the intellect. I love watching great minds at work.Brett: At the same time, it can become the trap again too. You can have this major emotional movement or transformative experience or whatnot and then your intellect will step in and be like, "Okay, so what actually happened? Let me make sense of that." Like, "This was the childhood thing that happened to me and then that was what I felt in this meeting and then all that interacts and then this way." Then like, "Cool, now I have a model for understanding myself." Then once again, you've created this limited system that may be more useful than the previous one but then eventually will reach its limits of understanding and prediction.Joe: That's right. My words for that are every epiphany is the innocent beginning of a rut. Every epiphany-- it's so important to have these epiphanies, but what's really important about them is that it blows everything up. Then we reconstruct it and then a new constraint is found and we need to have that new epiphany to deconstruct or to destroy the old epiphany and the old rut. That's how transformation works. That's how evolution works. It's a beautiful thing and yes, there comes a point in this development where you can see that every single thought that you have is both true and not true. There comes a point in development where you can't believe any one of your thoughts.If you have emotional clarity when that development point hits, you become incredibly clear. If you don't have emotional clarity, you can use that same beauty of seeing both sides of every coin as a way to become indecisive, as a way to beat yourself up, as a way to limit yourself, as a way to continue to constrict emotions. Logic is a beautiful thing. It's just really important to know what it's good at and what it's not good at.Brett: Right. Now, what we've been talking about has been very much about the personal development journey, but I think we could actually apply this very easily to business, for example, product iterations. Every epiphany from your product research or your market research to come up with a new direction could easily become the new rut that you find yourself spending six months in $1 million investing in.Joe: Right. Or a government that had a great epiphany about a police force and then now that police force epiphany is a rut, that needs to be recreated and a new epiphany for is an example, right? There's a thousand examples of how the solution of yesterday is the rut of today. We villainize it and we make it bad, instead of just being like, "We need a new iteration. That's it."Brett: Okay, maybe we don't need one president with a lot of power.Joe: Right. Or maybe we need a financial democracy instead of a voting democracy. Thousands of new epiphanies.Brett: Somebody argued we already have that and it's a bad thing.Joe: Right, exactly. That's another one, right? It's like every one of our epiphanies, everything that locks us down was an epiphany at one point, was somebody's realization at one point.The CEO of Netflix, in his first business, he claims that he made everything idiot proof and then only idiots would come and work for him. In Netflix, he keeps a certain amount of chaos, a certain amount of creativity, a certain amount of risk involved, so that people who want smart challenges, people who want to be cutting edge, who want to have more freedom, show up and work for him. That's more important than having things idiot proof for him. It's that same thought process of, what's more important is, that we're constantly iterating that we are seeing through the logic that we used and relied on.Brett: That's a great example of how a leader's personal journey can then show up in their company, because for a CEO to get to the point where they can just say, “Hey, you know what? Let's just let some chaos happen.” They have to learn to feel that loss of control and welcome it.Joe: This is everything, right? Let me give a really sharp example. Almost every high powered CEO I know has an issue of, A, feeling alone and B, having this deep feeling of self-reliance that they need to rely on themselves. At the bottom of that emotional slide is this deep sense of helplessness that they didn't want to feel. You don't learn to be self-reliant unless there was a point when you had this deep sense of helplessness that you didn't want to feel.Maybe it was an alcoholic dad or maybe it was getting really poor, or whatever it was. That sense of helplessness and saying, I am not going to feel that again is what propels them into this incredible place in their life. It's also the thing that needs to be destroyed if they're going to be great leaders. They need to feel that helplessness, they need to go into that complete helplessness. I don't think it's any mistake that the CEO of Netflix had to go through the helplessness of losing a company to get to the place of allowing that feeling of helplessness all the time, because somewhere in that journey, he found out that that helplessness was just a feeling and it had an incredible intelligence behind it. It was trying to tell him something and it no longer needed to be avoided. It needed to be looked for and to be excited when it shows up.Brett: What's an example of that happening in your life?Joe: [laughs] I have children. Having children is like getting a deep tissue massage. If you resist, you are screwed, right? You have to constantly feel your own helplessness in your children. As an example of that, you have to feel that helplessness. For me, I think the first journey of it was abandonment. It was feeling emotionally abandoned. I was recreating that experience over and over again until I felt it, which is a really important part of this emotional journey. I'll use that as an example, I felt, for whatever reason in my childhood, emotionally abandoned and I didn't want to feel it. I created a whole world to not feel that, but in the way I created that whole world, like everybody, I reintroduced it over and over and over again. This is why we all have that friend who's been dating the same person six times in a row. It's not the same person as in-- it's like the same person in a different body with a different background, but wow. You just picked seven different men who all cheated on you. How did you ever do that? Right? I recreated people who would emotionally abandon me over and over again until I fell in love with the abandonment.Once I fell in love with it, my system didn't need to recreate it. I had found homeostasis. If there's an emotion that I wasn't allowed to feel, I recreate that feeling over and over again, until I fully allow that feeling and then I don't need to recreate it. The other way to say this is the things that we are most scared of are the things that we're subtly inviting into our life. If we're most scared of feeling helpless, we will invite helplessness unconsciously into our life so that we have that opportunity too.Brett: I've got a great example for that, growing up, I always felt I was being tightly controlled by school and society. That control made me feel helpless and I just didn't want to feel helpless anymore. I developed exactly what you described, that self-reliance complex and that self-reliance complex then made me feel like I had to be in control of everything that I was doing and made it difficult sometimes to cooperate or collaborate on something that I wasn't going to have the full reins over, which wouldn't often lead me to feel alone and helpless.Joe: That's right. That's exactly, beautiful. That's exactly how it works. Then once we're cool helplessness, then all of a sudden, we don't recreate the conditions, because our body has just found that homeostasis. It's like, okay, I'm back to balance.Brett: I think addiction has a lot to do with that as well, that feeling of avoiding helplessness, feeling like you can control something. For example, a gambling addiction, a lot of what I've heard about slot machine addiction is, it's not necessarily that those addicted think that they're going to be winning any money. They know they're not.  They know the math. They're not stupid, but the feeling of just hitting the buttons and experiencing the spin occur, they're just in a very tight loop system, where the rules are almost like they're designed to look like they're almost figure outable, but they're not.Joe: I think there's definitely a lot of emotional avoidance in addiction. Oftentimes it's shame. I've heard a saying that says shame is the locks of the chains of bad habits. Shame seems to be a big part of an addiction cycle and there's others as well, but definitely, there's a big emotional component to addiction cycles. There's also some physical and neurological components as well, but emotional avoidance is a huge part of it. If you could just lift the shame out of people, then most of the addictions would fall away.Brett: As we move through our lives and start feeling more and more of these emotions that we've been repressing, what does that development look like?Joe: Emotional development looks pretty clearly the same way for different people, but the starting points are different. The earliest starting point that you can get to is just recognizing the emotions you have. It's just knowing that you are constantly in an emotional state as long as you're conscious. People think, some of them, especially if there's been more emotional abuse or emotional repression in the home, will have a very specific experience of not being able to feel their emotions.This is similar to somebody who's been physically abused. If you have been physically abused and I put a quarter in your hand or a key in your hand, you won't actually know which one you're holding, because you've learned to cut off your sensations of your body. Emotionally, you might also have learned how to cut off this sensation. The first thing is to feel that sensation and that is just to identify that the emotional experience is happening at every given moment, because the way that we feel right now is slightly different than the way we feel right now, which is slightly different than the way we feel right now.Identifying those emotions is a really good thing and it's a great epiphany. It will also become a rut later on, but it's a really great first stage. Then the second stage is an expression of that emotion. To really allow those emotions to be expressed through the body, through words, in a way that is not at anybody. It's just having that full expression of emotion.Then that moves into an emotional inquiry, which is how does it feel in your body? What color is it and where is it in my body and how dense is it? It's a literal-- what is the physicality of my emotions? Having a deep inquiry into that and then also having a deep inquiry of when I relate to my emotions differently, how do they work? When I'm angry at my emotions, what does that do? When I'm in love with my emotions, what does that do? When I am trying to get rid of my emotions, what does that do? When I am tickling my emotions, what does that do?You're literally playing with different relationships you can have with your emotions. Then there comes this place where you're just deeply in love with your emotions and then emotions become very fluid. It becomes just like this beautiful flow of life. It's so exciting and so pleasurable to feel your emotional fluidity. It allows for just very crisp decision-making and it allows for very decisive action to have that emotional flow.To give you a great example of this epiphany rut thing, I did not have a lot of emotional awareness when I started this work at all in my 20's and I got into this point where I realized, “Oh, I'm having emotions.” One day, I don't know, a decade later, or something I was saying to somebody, I'm like, “I'm feeling angry right now”. They said, “No, you're not.” I said, “Excuse me?” The person replied, “You're naming an emotion, so you don't have to feel it.” They were so right. I was like, son of a gun. Shit, I've named it so I don't have to feel it. The thing that was once freeing, to be able to see it and name it, had become the new constraint. Then I realized, oh, the feeling of it is a completely different thing. When you feel the emotion, it's all about letting the body just move. It's like dancing without being self-conscious. It's just your emotions know how to move your body. Your emotions know what to do. If they don't fake it and they'll figure it out. Don't judge them. Don't tell them how they're supposed to look. That's not crying. That's not fear. So many people who aren't good at crying when I see them cry for the first time, they think they're like that can't be real tears because it doesn't feel like that one time I cried, but there's 20 different ways of crying. You can cry of joy, you can cry of sadness, you can cry of grief, you can cry in a way like when you're yawning. There's so many different ways that sadness expresses and it's not your job to judge them. It's your job to just watch it like you would watch the Grand Canyon.Brett: Right. It seems each stage here is a meta awareness, a new level of meta awareness around our emotions. The first level being, just recognizing that there is emotions here and that we are not just a logical machine figuring things out and that there is always an emotional context that exists for us. Then we get deeper into that and we start to be in the emotional context, not just recognizing that one's there, but we flow in it and with it.Then another level seems to be the meta awareness around the emotion being wow, okay, as I'm letting this anger move through me, I'm actually clarifying my boundary. Or as I'm letting the sadness move through me, I'm grieving the loss of something tangible, or even just an idea. That this whole process of letting these emotions move through us is actually changing the assumptions, goals and the context and the risk profile of all of our future logical thoughts.Joe: Exactly. We are limited. Everybody talks about limited thoughts but in reality, the limited thoughts have a deep correlation with the way we limit our emotional reality.Brett: It's almost as though the thoughts are just the tip of the emotional iceberg. They are actually a part of the emotions. They are emotions that are most finally, the part of the emotion that is working in the finest detail.Joe: It depends on the perspective, which is the tip of the iceberg and which is the underside of the iceberg. What I do know is that they are in an intricate dance and when one side isn't working, the other side definitely helps.Brett: It sounds like what you've been saying all along is that the intellect is very useful and we do want to use it to figure stuff out, but first we want to get our emotional context right and allow our emotions to shift us into the place that is most aligned with our reality in our moment. Then in that space, figure stuff out.Joe: I wouldn't use the word right, but generally, directionally, that feels very right. [laughs] I would say it's when your emotions are blocked or when you're trying to deeply avoid an emotion, then your decision making can't be clear. It's just as simple as that. Feel the emotion whenever you can. That allows for clarity and it doesn't need to be any more complicated than that and see it as a process that maybe at the beginning, when you realize that you're not clear on something and there's emotion involved, it's going to take a while to get through it.Pretty soon as you get older in the journey, then the emotions flow so quickly. The recognition of it can just make the whole thing really, really clear, really quick. It's common for me on a daily basis to have a cry or shake or get angry. It's relieving of stress. It changes my neurochemistry. It clarifies my decision. It doesn't take but five minutes and it's just moves.Brett: It's almost like you could do a daily, emotional yoga.Joe: Indeed. I did for years. Indeed. I don't think I ever did it daily, but maybe like five times a week, I would take 20 to 30 minutes to do literally emotional yoga, where I would feel everything that I was not feeling and teach my body how to feel it and how to accept it and how to unlock. Because as the emotions start to be felt, then the musculature unlocks and then you can feel it deeper.Brett: Your cortisol levels will shift and your metabolism will update and start releasing an amount of energy into your body that is appropriate for the moment.Joe: That's right. The other thing to know is that each of these emotional streams that I talked about, like anger-- so there's anger that's constricted is constricted in a lot of ways and the unrestricted anger is that clarity and determination. The unrestricted sadness is a deep joy and the unconstricted fear is excitement, right? There's a saying that says, excitement is fear with the breath, or fear is excitement without the breath. It's from an acting school. Each of these things, when they're not resisted, become something very, very different.Brett: Right. Grief is a celebration of what you've had.Joe: Absolutely. Grief is this anger, sadness, fear altogether wrapped up in one. The feelings of these things coming through you when they're unresisted change deeply. You don't even-- can't even recognize them and they start blending all into one emotional state. It's like one stream that's happening. Brett: This all seems to really tie into something that we were working on a lot in your courses, which is this phenomenon where we can understand something intellectually, something about our story or about our traumas, or somebody could be listening to this podcast and understand it intellectually. We can still not get it all the way until we've had the emotional movement to consolidate it.Joe: This is really something that happens in coaching all the time. You get somebody who intellectually understands that, yes, okay. My boss is managing me and I'm angry, but I intellectually really, really understand that they're trying to get me to do my best work, but I'm feeling it as criticism. Intellectually, they understand that their boss wants the best for them, but emotionally it's just criticism. It's just what dad was doing, when the person I'm coaching was 13 or whatever it is. Then once they get it emotionally, when they grok it in their whole body, then all of a sudden it's like, thanks so much for the feedback. I appreciate it. I really appreciate you wanting me to do my best work here. It's on so many levels. It's even grokking complex ideas in your body completely, which has an emotional component to it.If somebody sees, here's this really complex marketing thought process and they don't fully understand it. They can intellectually get it, but it's not second nature. It's not just what they do. It means that there's some emotional component of that marketing. Some thing like, “Oh my God, I'm going to be asking people for stuff.” Or, “Oh my God, marketing is bad and dirty.” There's some emotional component of it that when that emotional component is fully felt, then it's understood. It might not be used. It might be used, but it can't even be fully understood until that emotional component has been felt.Brett: Until your emotions align with it. It reminds me of Einstein where for him, the theory of relativity was a spiritual experience to be working in. Many scientists, prominent scientists have said similar things. Simon, for example.Joe: Absolutely. You cannot have certain ideas without certain emotional clarity. You cannot have certain ideas or certain epiphanies without an experiential understanding of what's going on. You can't do the theory of relativity until you see through your own limited perception of time that society has taught you.Brett: Right. Or even your senses, your physical body has taught you.Joe: That's right.Brett: Right. How do we then stop resisting these emotions? What are some takeaways from all of this, that are some concrete practices? Joe: First of all, if you are resisting emotions and you try to stop, that's more resistance as we've already talked about. Love the resistance, that's the most important thing. Fake it till you make it. My personal story was I looked in a photo album when I was, I don't know what I was, like 20 something years old. I saw a picture of me crying and I realized that my parents were uncomfortable with the emotions I was having, because they were taught to be uncomfortable with their own emotions.One of the ways to make sure that I didn't make everybody uncomfortable was to tease me around my emotions. At one point, they took a picture of me and then they put it in the photo album. I found this picture. It was a picture of me crying. This picture you could see me crying and you could see me dumbfounded that I was having a picture taken of me. I was like, it's probably why I haven't cried in 14 years. I put a picture of it on my desk and I was okay, I'm going to learn how to cry but a year later, I hadn't cried. Then I was okay, I'm determined. I need to go and really give this thing a go and cry. I went out into the woods. I went to a faraway trail. Then I went off trail for three miles so that nobody could see me cry. I had that much shame around it. Then I would just fake crying. I did that for three months. I would just fake it. Then all of a sudden, it just happened. It started happening for real.When it happened, it was such a relief that I'd let it happen for four days. I could have stopped it, but I was crying when I was brushing my teeth. It's like my body was just like years of tension just evaporating in days. Then all of a sudden, I had a deeper access to my tears and then that led to deeper and deeper access to my tears. Then that led to, oh, every single heartbreak of mine increases my capacity to love. I cannot wait for more heartbreak. Even just saying that, just that in itself makes me want to cry, how blessed I am for loving heartbreak and for seeing how much freedom to love that gives me. Brett: That's beautiful. This has been a great episode. Thank you very much, Joe. We'll catch you again next week.Joe: Yes, man. What a pleasure to be with you.Thanks for listening to The Art of Accomplishment podcast.  If you enjoyed what you heard today, please subscribe. We would love your feedback, so feel free to send us questions and comments. To reach us, join our newsletter, learn more about VIEW, or to take a course, visit: artofaccomplishment.comResources: Antonio Damasio, Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain, https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/297609/descartes-error-by-antonio-damasio/Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, https://sogyalrinpoche.org/about-sogyal-rinpoche/tibetan-book-of-living-and-dying

Humor as a Defining Feature of Humanity. On Not Taking Ourselves Too Seriously. Meditation as Spaciousness; The Tibetan Buddhist teacher Sogyal Rinpoche says Genuine Humor Creates A Space where there is None. Family Stories & Storytelling. Playfulness & Facing Death. Valuing Humor; A Ministry of Lightness. (Music: Courtesy of Adrian Von Ziegler, “Your Dying Heart.” )

A SUA JORNADA de EUpreendedorismo terá RUAS LISINHAS, bem pavimentadas, e também RUAS COM BURACOS. Esses buracos, muito valiosos para os seus aprendizados são o tema do “Café com Edu” desta semana. Minha inspiração é o lindo poema “O Buraco”, publicado em O LIVRO TIBETANO DO VIVER E DO MORRER, de autoria do monge Sogyal Rinpoche, e que reproduzo no vídeo. Os buracos que você encontrará nas ruas da sua vida são padrões e hábitos presentes no seu dia a dia. Você poderá CAMINHAR NO PILOTO AUTOMÁTICO e continuar caindo... Ou TOMAR CONSCIÊNCIA E BUSCAR NOVAS POSSIBILIDADES. Assim, conseguirá desviar, pular, pedir ajudar e até mesmo trocar de rua... Lembrando, sempre, porém, que haverá outros buracos – e ruas lisinhas - mais adiante! E, nesses caminhos, NOVOS FUTUROS PODERÃO EMERGIR, como comentei no Café com Edu da semana passada. Se ainda não o assistiu, confira também! Ubuntu. Eu sou porque você é. Você é porque nós somos. #EduardoSeidenthal #EduSeidenthal #Coaching #EUpreendedorismo #Ubuntu #Propósito #RedeUbuntu #CaféComEdu #EquipesEmContínuaAprendizagem #RaízesDoEUpreendendorismo #LiderançaGenerativa #LiderançaUbuntu #UbuntuLeadership

This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Andy Purdy, chief security officer of Huawei USA, and Paul Triolo, practice head of geotechnology at the Eurasia Group. They explore the complexities of the 5G ecosystem, challenges to cybersecurity on 5G networks, the process of standards setting in advanced telecommunications, and how the Trump administration's animus toward Huawei might ultimately handicap the U.S. in this vital emerging technology.5:18: What 5G will enable us to do18:06: 5G standard setting bodies and their functions29:55: China’s involvement in the standard setting process37:05: 5G deployment around the world50:59: The collateral damage done by banning HuaweiRecommendations:Andy: A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn, and The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth, by M. Scott Peck.Paul: Superpower Showdown: How the Battle Between Trump and Xi Threatens a New Cold War by Bob Davis and Lingling Wei, and The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche. Kaiser: The YouTube channel of Joe Parrish, a content creator and guitarist.

Selbstfürsorge leben heißt, sich jeden Tag darum zu kümmern, das eigene Wohlbefinden zu steigern und die eigenen Bedürfnisse aktiv zu verwirklichen. Der einzige Mensch, der hier etwas für dich tun kann, bist tatsächlich du selbst. Von daher ist es wichtig, nicht darauf zu warten, dass andere für dich aktiv werden, sondern du musst es selbst in die Hand nehmen. Vor diesem Hintergrund bietet der zweite Teil zum Thema Selbstfürsorge auch Inspirationen dazu, welche Bedürfnisebenen wir eigentlich haben, die wir gezielt adressieren können. Vielleicht erkennst du beim Hören schon spontan, was DEINE Ecken sind, in denen du mehr für dich tun könntest. Im Stil eines Projektes bekommst du dann Tipps für die Umsetzung, wie du Selbstfürsorge zu einer festen Gewohnheit werden lassen kannst, die du in möglichst kleinen Schritten immer mehr in dein Leben bringen kannst. Shownotes: Im Podcast erwähnt wird ein Buch von Tatjana Reichhart – Das Prinzip Selbstfürsorge. Eine weitere gute Quelle zum Nachlesen ist aber auch das Buch von Juliane Freytag: Mein Moment ist jetzt! - Liebevoller Umgang mit uns selbst für mehr Lebensfreude und weniger Stress im Alltag. Dieses Buch ist auch deutlich kürzer und damit schneller gelesen, falls du nicht so viel Zeit investieren möchtest. Das erwähnte Gedicht von Sogyal Rinpoche heißt „Der Mann, der immer wieder ins Loch fiel“; du kannst es im Netz finden unter https://mymonk.de/der-mann-der-immer-wieder-ins-selbe-loch-fiel/ und wurde etwas freier von mir wiedergegeben. Die erste Folge zum Thema „Mehr Selbstfürsorge leben – Teil 1“ findest du hier: https://juliapeters.info/podcast-neuestarke-016-mehr-selbstfursorge-leben-teil-1/ Möchtest du auch eine Verhaltensänderung beim Thema Selbstfürsorge einleiten? Dann melde dich bei mir und wir schauen, was Coaching – gerne auch online – für dich tun kann. Alle weiteren Links für mehr Verbindung zu mir findest du hier: https://linktr.ee/JuliaPeters

Uma nova semana começa e, no céu, a Lua Cheia, super especial, em Escorpião. Conhecida como a Lua do Buda, o céu nos inspira importantes lições. A semana começa ainda tomada pela energia da Lua Crescente da semana passada, que aconteceu no signo de Leão. Ainda dá tempo de tomar as últimas providências para realização de nossas tarefas estipuladas para essa lunação, colocar os últimos temperos antes da receita estar pronta para ser saboreada, porque na quinta-feira, dia 7, a Lua atinge sua plenitude no signo de Escorpião, fazendo uma oposição ao Sol. A Lua Cheia em Escorpião, que acontece sempre durante a lunação de Touro, é conhecida como a Lua Cheia do Buda, ou de Wesak, uma data conhecida como o aniversário do nascimento, da iluminação e de morte de Siddartha Gautama, o Buda. Não à toa, os ensinamentos do Buda tem tudo a ver com o eixo Touro-Escorpião, que prega a preservação e manutenção daquilo que possuímos (Touro), com consciência da impermanência (Escorpião). A semana segue e, nos afetos, podemos encontrar algumas frustrações que podem elaboradas com uma boa conversa, já que Mercúrio, o deus da comunicação, está super favorável nos dias que se seguem. Aproveitem a semana com sabedoria e lembrem-se: "E só quando acreditamos que as coisas são permanentes, é que perdemos a oportunidade de aprender com a mudança." (O Livro Tibetano do Viver e do Morrer, Sogyal Rinpoche). Acompanhe tudo sobre Astrologia no meu site: https://bit.ly/2VHCBpP Siga e confira as novidades nas redes sociais: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EscolaClaudi... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/claudialisboa/ Um beijo grande!!

This is an audio track from one of Sogyal Rinpoche's best ever teachings....his words not mine.  The nature of the mind is extremely specific and practical help for most people listening to this podcast.  Contact richardwib@gmail.com

Find out more below...   This interview was conducted by Micheál O'Mathúna who is a Journalist, Author, Filmmaker, Media Relations Consultant and Radio Show presenter. He also conducts one-to-one coaching, group coaching and delivers transformative workshops in various areas of health and wellbeing. He is also the founder of The Health Zone, which an inspiring, motivational and educational platform to empower people to be healthier, happier, more authentic and realise their true potential in their lives. You can find out more about Micheál O'Mathúna and The Health Zone here. You listen to every episode of The Health Zone here ------> http://www.thehealthzones.com/ Follow us on Instagram here ---> https://www.instagram.com/dhealthzone/ Follow us on Facebook here ----> https://www.facebook.com/thehealthzoneshow/ Follow us on Twitter here ---> https://twitter.com/dhealthzone Subscribe to our YouTube channel here ---> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkbZXDYJF_ypdjEmQk-BEIg ---> Join our Facebook Group here ---> https://www.facebook.com/groups/thehealthzone/ Peter tells us: ----more----   How he cured his bad knee by doing several hundred if not thousands of prostrations. How he had a secret despair of where his future should be when he was younger. What do buddhists mean when they say it's all a dream and how our perceptions are so limited. how it is amazingly liberating to give up blaming people. What is our ordinary mind and how it is completely limiting us. And how real change can only happen within.   Peter McIntyre Cornish was born in England. He was educated at an English boarding school from the age of 7, where he discovered that he had inherited an eye  condition that severely impaired his vision. As a teenager, he hitch-hiked throughout  Europe, finally settling in London in the 60's. He moved to Samye Ling in Scotland,  the first Tibetan Centre in the West, where he studied under Chogyam Trungpa. In  1974, with his wife  Harriet, he moved to Ireland to establish Dzogchen Beara,  Ireland's first Buddhist retreat centre, on 150 acres of spectacular coastline on the  Beara Peninsula. He completed the first phase of building in 1986, formed a charity, and asked Sogyal Rinpoche to be its spiritual director.   His book, 'Dazzled by Daylight' tells the inspiring story. You can buy the book here on Amazon.  

“Misbruik in het boeddhisme is veel geraffineerder dan in de katholieke kerk. Omdat in het boeddhisme geweld als pad naar verlichting wordt verkocht” Rob Hogendoorn schreef een boek over de in augustus overleden Sogyal Rinpoche, de auteur van de bestseller The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.  Het boek is een aanklacht tegen Sogyal, die zich op grote schaal heeft misdragen. Veel van Hogendoorn s bronnen vertellen over geweld , sexueel misbruik, intimidatie en financieel wanbeheer. Pim van Galen volgde meerdere optredens van Sogyal en zag alleen de mooie buitekant. Rob Hoogendoorn haalt hem uit de droom.

Should you make a promise you can’t keep? We reflect on the ethical issues thrown up by the week’s events in Parliament. Pope Francis has embarked on a 3 nation African tour. He’s visiting Mozambique, Madagascar and Mauritius. Martin Bashir, the BBC’s Religion Editor, has been travelling with the Pope. The historian Dan Jones has just written a new account of the era through the multiple perspectives of characters whose stories have seldom been heard. Much of the coverage of Robert Mugabe’s death has pondered on how a liberator became a tyrant. The answer is complex, as is the relationship between Christians in Zimbabwe and their former leader. And we have an in-depth investigation into the allegations of sexual and physical abuse against Sogyal Rinpoche. Producer: Louise Clarke-Rowbotham Rosie Dawson Editor: Amanda Hancox

Who is protecting the rights of indigenous people in the Amazon? We hear from Kawá, an Amazonian tribesman living in the UK about how his tribe has been affected by the fires and Adriana Ramos from the The Instituto Socioambiental in Brazil. A group of Church of England bishops has issued an open letter on the prospect of a 'no-deal' Brexit and the need for national reconciliation. Rt Rev Paul Bayes, Bishop of Liverpool, tells us why the letter has been written. Quentin Letts, Church going member of the Church of England, and political sketch writer at The Times shares his concerns. Tim Farron, former leader of the Liberal Democrats, talks about his book, A Better Ambition. What’s it like to be a Muslim Policewoman in North Yorkshire? Uzma Amireddy is the Positive Action Co-ordinator for North Yorkshire Police. After the death of Sogyal Rinpoche, author of the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, we explore his legacy with author Mary Finnigan, who wrote ‘Sex and Violence in Tibetan Buddhism - The Rise and Fall of Sogyal Rinpoche'. And it’s the 50th Anniversary of the Churches Conservation Trust. The charity is holding a debate asking: who is going to look after these buildings in the future? We visit All Souls church in Bolton, under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust, and hear from Simon Jenkins, a Trustee of the Trust, about what he thinks should happen to historic buildings. Producer: Louise Clarke-Rowbotham Editor: Amanda Hancox

Dharmakirti, Kagyu, and Aura discuss the concept of having a teacher in Buddhism, with a special focus on a few teachers in particular: the disgraced Sogyal Rinpoche; the wild and influential Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche; and the austere-yet-mirthful Thai forest Masters, Ajaan Mun and Ajaan Lee. Also discussed: long summer days, taking refuge, "Lama-ism", past vs present karma, "The King and I", dirty feet, healing wounds, making amulets, Theosophy, and Silicon Valley "Buddhism". Note: Aura misspoke about Ajaan Mun. He did not study with Prince Mungkut. He studied with a Master of the school founded by the Prince, named Ajaan Sao.   The Buddha explains how there are two kinds of karma: past karma and present karma. "Karma" means "action" (NOT "retribution/reward"). In any given moment you have past karma and present karma. Thanissaro Bhikkhu https://www.dhammatalks.org/  Taking refuge https://www.samyeling.org/buddhism-and-meditation/teaching-archive-2/choje-akong-tulku-rinpoche/the-meaning-of-taking-refuge/ … Sogyal Rinpoche http://sogyalrinpoche.org/  The Dhammapada https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/dhp/dhp.intro.budd.html … List of qualities of a dharma teacher https://samyeinstitute.org/philosophy/qualities-dharma-teacher/ … Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche https://shambhala.org/teachers/chogyam-trungpa/ … Naropa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naropa  Milarepa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milarepa  "Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism" https://www.amazon.ca/Cutting-Through-Spiritual-Materialism-Chogyam/dp/1570629579 … Ajaan Mun and the founding of the Thai Forest Tradition https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/customs.html … King Rama IV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongkut  Ajaan Lee https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/thai/lee/index.html … Madame Blavatsky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Blavatsky …

Doing the Tibetan Buddhist phowa practice with Jesus Christ for HaHa (my Roman Catholic godmother, Aunt Mary). Sogyal Rinpoche’s The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. The Sacred Heart of Jesus painting. Dual or Double Belonging: On being a Buddhist Christian.

Show Notes   Are you ready for yet another conversation about things we are not supposed to talk about? We've done religion and politics, now I want to learn about dying and how we can best prepare for the inevitable. My guest today is an expert on the subject and, no, he is not a mortician. My special guest is Keith Page, a funeral celebrant who works closely with families in the midst of a death. Keith's focus is to prepare people of all ages of how to manage the entire process of dying. Let me read a piece Keith gave me before the show: “Death is a vast mystery but there are two things we can say about it: it is absolutely certain that we will die, but what is uncertain is when or how we will die. The only sure thing we have, then, is this uncertainty about the hour of our death - which we use as an excuse to postpone facing death directly.  Instead of dealing with it as a normal part of life, death is treated as an unexpected emergency; something that happens when the medical community fails. We always die of something - as though if it weren't for that disease or accident we could have lived on. Very often those who take time to plan arrangements with death also end up having made new arrangements with life. After they know they are going to die, people often live and die well. We've all heard stories of what happens when people find out they have a limited time to live. Many finally start living well. They simplify their lives, spend time with those they love, slow down and get around to doing many things they had put off.”  So that's our topic for the day. Taken from 'Tibetan Book of Living and Dying' by Sogyal Rinpoche and ‘From Beginning to End - the Rituals of Our Lives' by Robert Fulghum.  You can contact Keith Page at keith@keithpage.org Also check out www.deathcafe.com For more with Charlie Hedges please visit www.thenextchapter.life  

Der Weg zurück ins Leben-Podcast – von und mit Christina Bolte. Während des Interviews für die letzte Episode (Folge 78) mit Reinhold Weilhammer kam mir plötzlich ein Gedicht aus einem Buch in den Sinn, das in mehrfacher Hinsicht zu dem Interview mit Reinhold passt. Zum einen geht nämlich das Gedicht um das Thema "immer wieder aufrappeln" und zum anderen geht es in dem gesamten Buch um das Thema Balance. In dieser Episode bespreche ich das Buch - zu dem Du hier die weiteren Informationen findest: * Das innere Gleichgewicht finden - Achtsame Wege aus der Stressspirale von Matthias Hammer Das weitere im Podcast erwähnte Buch ist dieses: * Das tibetische Buch vom Leben und Sterben - Ein Schlüssel zum tieferen Verständnis von Leben und Tod von Sogyal Rinpoche

What is death and what happens at the moment of death - per The Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church. If you remember dying each day, death will lose its sting and will no longer be something to fear - sentiments from the Trappist Monks and Sogyal Rinpoche (from Ancient Wisdom for a Modern World).

What is stopping you from going after your business idea? Is it the people around you? Lack of knowledge? Or your own fear? The co-founders of UBooker, Claudia Wagner and Diana Gaertner, mulled over the idea of streamlining the model booking process for 7-8 years. Being models themselves, they had even been conducting unofficial market research over the span of their careers, which was about 20 years. They found that a lot of models were frustrated with the tedious process of booking jobs, as well as clients with finding models for their project. After seeing that the modeling industry wasn't going to adapt the process to the fast-paced, technological times, Diana and Claudia made the decision to finally go for it. With the help of their two other co-founders, Andrea Losso and Nicola Scagnolari, they took their idea and translated it to a well-thought out business plan, and created a website. With UBooker launching Februrary of 2017, Claudia and Diana were able to take a process that typically lasted a couple days and shorten it to around 10 minutes. Check out how UBooker achieved this great task, and how they maneuver the hectic, but exciting life as lady bosses! In this episode you will... Know how to streamline a tedious process with your business Learn to create a well-balanced leadership team with contrasting personalities Understand how to work with a team that is located around the world Gain the courage to go after your business idea Figure out how to attract audiences across different demographics Begin to encourage others who want to start their own business and not put them down INSIGHTS "To think about all the possibilities that could come up for the booking process...what could the client want, what could the model want, and how can we make things even better and more comfortable...more efficient...it was very complex, but also very exciting. It's a great thing for me to learn, it's wonderful." -Diana Gaertner "The first hurdle a lot of people have when [you] start a business is to gather the courage to do it; because we had this idea to do something for seven-eight years [and] we started to say there's something to be done here." -Claudia Wagner "There is a fear there. There is a fear of change...I believed so strongly that this [could] be done successfully...every time I hear this can't be done it [gives] me the motivation to work even harder." -Claudia Wagner "I still can't always see the dimension of our project, it's growing literally every day. It's getting more an more complex...but deep inside I knew this was going to be a project that was going to work and I believed in it 100% and it is working...no one needs to tell us anymore that it's not going to work because it actually is." -Diana Gaertner RESOURCES Toolsberry You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche

Andrew Harvey is Founder Director of the Institute of Sacred Activism, an international organization focused on inviting concerned people to take up the challenge of our contemporary global crises by becoming inspired, effective, and practical agents of institutional and systemic change, in order to create peace and sustainability. Sacred Activism is a transforming force of compassion-in-action that is born of a fusion of deep spiritual knowledge, courage, love, and passion, with wise radical action in the world. The large-scale practice of Sacred Activism can become an essential force for preserving and healing the planet and its inhabitants. Andrew was born in south India in 1952, where he lived until he was nine years old. It is this early period that he credits with shaping his sense of the inner unity of all religions and providing him with a permanent and inspiring vision of a world infused with the sacred. He left India to attend private school in England and entered Oxford University in 1970 with a scholarship to study history. At the age of 21, he became the youngest person ever to be awarded a fellowship to All Soul's College, England's highest academic honor. By 1977, Harvey had become disillusioned with life at Oxford and returned to his native India, where a series of mystical experiences initiated his spiritual journey. Over the next thirty years he plunged into different mystical traditions to learn their secrets and practices. In 1978 he met a succession of Indian saints and sages and began his long study and practice of Hinduism. In 1983, in Ladakh, he met the great Tibetan adept, Thuksey Rinpoche, and undertook with him the Mahayana Buddhist Bodhisattva vows. Andrew's book about that experience, Journey in Ladakh, won the Christmas Humphries Award. In 1984, Andrew Harvey began a life-long exploration and explication of Rumi and Sufi mysticism in Paris with a group of French Sufis and under the guidance of Eva De Vitray-Meyerovitch, the magnificent translator of Rumi into French. Andrew has written three books on that subject: The Way of Passion, The Celebration of Rumiand Perfume of the Desert, an anthology of Sufi mysticism. With Llewellyn Baughn Lee, he founded the Sufi Conferences, which have played a prominent role in uniting Sufis of all persuasions during the past six years. He has close connections with great Sufi teachers in America, Africa, India and Pakistan, and a very clear, comprehensive grasp of the state of modern Sufism in both the west and the east. In 1990, he collaborated with Sogyal Rinpoche and Patrick Gaffney in the writing of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. In 1992, he met Father Bede Griffiths in his ashram in south India near where Andrew had been born. It was this meeting that helped him synthesize the whole of his mystical explorations and reconcile eastern with western mysticism. Andrew has since lived in London, Paris, New York, and San Francisco, and has continued to study a variety of religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity. He has written and edited over 30 books. Other honors he has received include the Benjamin Franklin Award and the Mind Body Spirit Award (both for Mary's Vineyard: Daily Readings, Meditations, and Revelations). Among Harvey's other well-known titles are: Dialogues with a Modern Mystic, Hidden Journey, The Essential Mystics, Son of Man, The Return of the Mother and The Direct Path.

Sogyal Rinpoche is a great Tibetan master who shares some of his very best teachings from a video on the mind and how to master it.

Cory Allen is a composer, mastering engineer, podcast host, and meditation teacher from Austin, TX. Allen's music is deep, patient, highly-conceptual and has been called "elegant" by The Wire Magazine and an "artistic engineering achievement" by Was Ist Das. Cory has taught hundreds of people the practice of meditation through his guided workshops and delivers lectures on mindfulness and the expansion of human consciousness. Allen is the host of The Astral Hustle podcast where he talks to himself and his friends about the nature of being and the magic of the cosmos. This weeks book for the Book Giveaway is "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying" by Sogyal Rinpoche. Join the Synchronicity Community and you're entered in the book giveaway every week. Also, be sure to check out the Synchronicity Generosity Experiment. We're raising money to help someone out. We choose the person or persons at the end of August. Check it out here: gofundme.com/syncgenerosity1/

Becoming aware of our ego can be a painful and emberassing journey. It can also be one of the most rewarding. During this Podcast I will provide the reasons why it is so difficult to see your ego. The Role of Ego The 4 Primary area's of your mind that your Ego has direct access to. The 3 Secondary brain functions that Ego will access to influence your reality The 3 Primary Components that make up Ego How to set find your Ego Baseline What is an Ego conflict and how you can almost predict it. Why would your Ego want to change your perception of this world? Is there anything else that is similar to an ego in this world? If you practice martial arts, what is the possible ramifications for not dealing with ego? Get All The Details Sent to You These will provided to you in the upcoming newsletters. I will be posting a Recognizing the Ego Crossword Puzzle, from the details of this podcast. I will put the links in the shownotes first, and later it will be in the newsletter. Mentioned in the 'Recognizing Your Ego' Podcast: The Ego Unmasked: Meeting the Greatest Challenge of Your Life Dave Walters Ego and Desire  Sogyal Rinpoche, from Glimpse of the Day Vanity and Ego : Christian : Bible Teaching Ego and EEG's Stay Connected with Sifu TW. Smith Stay up to date, Get Learning Tools, Shownotes, Crossword Puzzles and WordSearches with Content to Help Learn Faster, Delivered to Your Email : Get our newsletter: www.tibetankungfu.net/newsletter I want to hear from you: www.tibetankungfu.net/contact Subscribe at iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/tibetan-kungfu-podcast-chinese/id891945016 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/sifu-tw-smith/tibetan-kungfu-podcast?refid=stpr Coming up at SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/tibetankungfu Facebook: www.facebook.com/Tibetankungfuraleigh Twitter: www.twitter.com/tibetankungfu Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCIa--UbRy4ZoMOnQD1Y6R4g Google+ : www.plus.google.com/u/0/107121261701020349619/posts/p/pub Sifu TW Smith: www.tibetankungfu.net/about Our White Bamboo Store: www.tibetankungfu.net/store

Baterista do Ramones conta como foi fazer parte de uma das maiores bandas de rock Ele nasceu no Brooklyn, em Nova Iorque, na década de 50, e desde 2002 seu nome figura no Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Começou a carreira musical aos 16 anos na banda Dust e tocaria ainda com os Wayne County and the Backstreet Boys e com os Richard Hell & the Voidoids. Mas o marco na sua carreira, e na sua vida, viria a ser como baterista os lendários Ramones, reconhecida como precursora do estilo punk rock. Membro da formação clássica que ainda incluía Joey, Johnny e Dee Dee Ramone, ele ficou 15 anos com o grupo e participou de nada menos do que mil e setecentos shows. Atualmente ele está preparando um documentário sobre sua vida, o The Job That Ate my Brain, está no quinto ano como apresentador do programa de rádio Punk Rock Blitzkrieg, na rádio Sirius XM, está lançando um molho para massas e mais um monte de outros projetos. Se você gosta um pouquinho de música, principalmente de rock, já deve ter percebido que estamos falando de Marky Ramone, que está no Brasil para um série de shows com sua nova banda, a Marky Ramone Blitzkrieg.Marky fala sobre problemas com a bebida nos anos 80, as brigas internas entre integrantes do Ramones, sobre carregar sozinho o legado da banda, sobre sua atuação no mundo gastronômico (isso mesmo!), sobre preparo físico, religiosidade, morte e muito mais. Se você se interessou pelas palestras do professor de budismo tibetano Sogyal Rinpoche, sobre as quais falamos no programa, é só acessar o site www.sogyal.chagdud.org para mais informações.

Kirsten DeLeo, M.A., is a longtime student of the Tibetan master Sogyal Rinpoche, author of classic bestseller The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, and a senior educator in Rigpa's Spiritual Care Program. Kirsten organizes and co-facilitates hospice and nursing home volunteer trainings, as well as workshops for medical professionals and the public on healing, aging, illness, bereavement, and death and dying. She has volunteered at the Zen hospice and Maitri in San Francisco for many years and is trained in the Hakomi method of psychotherapy. Support the show______________ To participate live and be notified of upcoming speakers in advance, please Like us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/gaybuddhistfellowship) or visit https://gaybuddhist.org/calendar/ To support our efforts to share these talks with LGBTQIA audiences worldwide, please visit www.GayBuddhist.org.There you can: Donate Learn how to participate live Find our schedule of upcoming speakers Join our mailing list or discussion forum Enjoy many hundreds of these recorded talks dating back to 1996 CREDITSAudio Engineer: George HubbardProducer: Tom BrueinMusic/Logo/Artwork: Derek Lassiter

Stars, Milky Way Galaxy, Father Edward Hays, Vastness of the Universe, Humility. Compassion, Dalai Lama, Buddhist monk. Jesus Christ, Luke's Gospel, Easter, Empty Tomb. Reading from Sogyal Rinpoche's book The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying; Tibetan Buddhism, Rainbow Body, Dzogchen. Youngstown & Struthers, Ohio Family Stories, Struthers High School Football memories. Resurrection, Continuations, Ancestors, Elders, Descendants, Interbeing. Children of the Buddha, Children of Jesus. Hymn: Jesus Christ is Risen Today. Happy Easter! Music: Courtesy of Adrian Von Ziegler, “My Black Rose.”