Podcasts about tibetans

Kathryn began meditating over 30 years ago at the Armadale group (AMG) of BSWA and continues to join the now online group as a regular member. She has practised in Theravadan, Tibetan and Zen/Chan traditions. She is the founder of “Mind and Movement”, and is a certified teacher of Jon Kabat-Zinn's program, “Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction” (MBSR). Kathryn is recognised as a Senior Teacher by the Meditation Association of Australia. Kathryn has been slowly retiring from her meditation related work but continues to support a local secondary school implementing a whole school approach to Mindfulness-based Social and Emotional Learning. Every year, the monastic community (Monks and nuns) go on a three month retreat called the “Rains Retreat” from mid July to mid October. During this period, they do not visit our centres for teachings as it's a time for deepening their own practice. While the monks and nuns are away, we will have some interesting guest speakers coming in to give the Friday Night talk. Dust in Our Eyes 2025 (Rains Retreat Speakers' Series 2025) Hear stories of everyday dhamma as told by monastics and lay practitioners from various Buddhist traditions. Support us on https://ko-fi.com/thebuddhistsocietyofwa BSWA teachings are available: BSWA Teachings BSWA Podcast Channel BSWA DeeperDhamma Podbean Channel BSWA YouTube  

We're dropping in an episode of Dave DeSteno's podcast How God Works that explores the profound connection between craft and spirituality. Dave examines why making things with our hands can put us in a transformative state called "flow" - where time disappears, worries fade and we lose ourselves in he work. Through conversations with a Tibetan monk who creates intricate sand mandalas, a Native American glass artist and the former director of Maine's renowned Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, this episode reveals how the simple act of shaping materials can shape us in return. It's about finding meaning in the dialogue between maker and medium and discovering that sometimes the most sacred moments happen when our hands are busy and our minds are still. Enjoy! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this episode of Skin Anarchy, Dr. Ekta sits down with Julie Williams, founder of Leaf People, to explore the transformative power of plants, herbalism, and plant-based skincare. Julie takes listeners on a journey from her upbringing in rural Alaska—surrounded by wild forests and medicinal plants—to her global studies in botanical medicine, and ultimately to the creation of a skincare line that celebrates the intelligence of plants.Long before “clean beauty” became a buzzword, Julie envisioned formulations that go beyond the usual staples. Leaf People integrates powerful botanicals like reishi, rhodiola, ginkgo, burdock root, and horsetail, capturing the full spectrum of each plant's chemical and energetic properties. Her approach is holistic, emphasizing whole-plant synergy and honoring the subtle energetics of each ingredient through practices like meditation, Reiki, and blessings by Tibetan monks.Julie also shares her philosophy of ally pairing, inspired by how plants naturally grow together in communities, and how this principle shapes her formulations. Beyond skincare, Leaf People reflects a broader vision of connection—between people, plants, and the environment. From farmers markets to direct customer education, Julie builds a brand rooted in respect, sustainability, and shared ecosystem thinking.This episode is an invitation to discover herbalism, explore the untapped potential of botanicals, and understand how intentional, plant-based skincare can nourish not only your skin but also your connection to nature. Tune in to hear Julie Williams share her journey, the inspiration behind Leaf People, and her perspective on how plants can heal, guide, and transform.To learn more about Leaf People, visit their website and social media. CHAPTERS:(0:00) Julie's Early Life & Introduction to Herbalism(2:45) Global Exploration of Botanical Medicine(3:57) Formal Education in Herbalism(6:55) Complexity of Plant Energetics & Healing(7:34) Clean Beauty & Leaf People's Mission(11:05) Key Medicinal Plants & Their Benefits(14:18) Plant-to-Bottle Philosophy(18:30) Whole Plant vs Extracts: Synergy & Absorption(20:09) Preserving Therapeutic Intelligence(24:03) Energy Work, Meditation & Connection with Plants(28:39) Importance of Plants in Human Life & Well-beingPlease fill out this survey to give us feedback on the show!Don't forget to subscribe to Skin Anarchy on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your preferred platform.Reach out to us through email with any questions.Sign up for our newsletter!Shop all our episodes and products mentioned through our ShopMy Shelf! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

བོད་མིའི་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་ཀྱི་སྲིད་སྐྱོང་སྤེན་པ་ཚེ་རིང་མཆོག་རྡ་ས་ཁུལ་གྱི་གཞུང་འབྲེལ་ཕྱོགས་ཕེབས་ཐེངས་གཉིས་པའི་ཁྲོད། དེ་རིང་སྨན་རྩིས་ཁང་དུ་ཕྱོགས་བསྐྱོད་གྲུབ་མཚམས་འབྲེལ་ཡོད་རྣམས་ལ་གསུང་བཤད་གནང་བའི་ནང་། སྨན་རྩིས་ཁང་འདི་བཞིན་ཡར་རྒྱས་ཡག་པོ་ཕྱིན་ཡོད་པ་མ་ཟད། ད་དུང་ལས་དོན་ཁག་གཅིག་གྲུབ་རྒྱུ་ཡིན་ཞིང་། རྒྱ་གར་ནང་དུ་དེབ་སྐྱེལ་ཡོད་པའི་བཙན་བྱོལ་བོད་མི་ཚོགས་པ་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་ཁག་དང་ས་ཆ་བདག་འཛིན་ཡག་པོ་བྱས་ཐུབ་ཚེ་མ་འོངས་བོད་པའི་འཐབ་རྩོད་རྒྱུན་གནས་ལ་ཕན་ཐོགས་ཡོད་པ་དྲན་སྐུལ་གནང་འདུག དེ་ཡང་སྲིད་སྐྱོང་མཆོག་གིས་ཁ་སང་ཚེས་ ༢༦ ཉིན་བཞུགས་སྒར་རྡ་ས་ཁྱབ་ཁོངས་སུ་འཚམས་གཟིགས་ཐེངས་གཉིས་པ་འགོ་འཛུགས་གནང་ཡོད་པ་དང་། དེ་རིང་ཚེས་ ༢༧ ཉིན་གྱི་སྔ་དྲོ་འགྲོ་ཕན་བོད་ཀྱི་སྨན་རྩིས་ཁང་དུ་འཚམས་གཟིགས་དང་འབྲེལ། ནད་བཅོས་ཉམས་ཞིབ་སྡེ་ཚན་ཡིག་ཚང་དང་། སྨན་སྦྱོར་སྡེ་ཚན་གྱི་གཙང་བཟོ་ཁང་སོགས་དབུ་འབྱེད་གནང་ཡོད་པ་མ་ཟད། དགེ་ལས་སློབ་ཕྲུག་ཡོངས་ལ་གསུང་བཤད་སོང་། སྐབས་དེར་སྲིད་སྐྱོང་མཆོག་གིས་བཙན་བྱོལ་བོད་མིའི་ཚོགས་པ་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་ཇི་འདྲ་ཞིག་ཡིན་ཡང་གནས་ཡུལ་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ཁྲིམས་སྒྲིག་དང་མཐུན་པ་བྱ་དགོས་གལ་ཡིན་པ་དང་། ལྷག་པར་འཛིན་སྐྱོང་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་སྒྲིག་གཞི་བརྒྱ་ཆ་ ༩༩ ཙམ་བསྐྱར་ཞིབ་གྲུབ་ཡོད་པ་ད་དུང་འཕྲུལ་རིག་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་སྒྲིག་གཞི་གསར་པ་བཟོ་དགོས་ཡོད་སྐོར་གསུངས་སོང་། འགྲོ་ཕན་སྨན་རྩིས་ཁང་གི་གནད་དོན་དང་འབྲེལ་ནས། འགན་འཛིན་དང་འཛིན་སྐྱོང་ལྷན་ཚོགས་སོགས་འབྲེལ་ཡོད་ཡོངས་དང་གོ་བསྡུར་གྱི་འགན་འཛིན་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ནས་ཐག་གཅོད་གཞིར་བཟུང་། ཚོགས་ཆུང་ཟུར་འཛུགས་ཀྱིས་རྩ་འཛིན་དང་བླང་དོར་སྒྲིག་གཞི། བཀོད་སྒྲིག སྔོན་རྩིས་སྟངས་འཛིན་བཅས་ཀྱི་ཁྲིམས་སྒྲིག་གཏན་འབེབས་གནང་ཡོད་པ་དང་། དེར་དཔེ་བླངས་ཏེ་བོད་ཀྱི་ཟློས་གར་ཚོགས་པ་དང་ནོར་གླིང་བོད་ཀྱི་རིག་གཞུང་གཅེས་སྐྱོང་ཁང་སོགས་ཀྱི་ནང་ཁྲིམས་སྒྲིག་གཏན་འབེབས་གནང་རྒྱུ་ཡིན་པ་སོགས་གསུངས་སོང་། ལྷག་པར་དེབ་སྐྱེལ་བྱས་པའི་ཚོགས་པ་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་ཁག་སྲུང་སྐྱོབ་བྱ་རྒྱུའི་ཐད་བོད་མིའི་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་དཔལ་འབྱོར་ལས་ཁུངས་ནང་། རྒྱ་གར་གཞུང་གི་ཁྲིམས་སྒྲིག་གཞིར་བཟུང་གི་འགྲོ་ལུགས་མཐུན་མིན་དང་། སྐབས་བསྟུན་ལམ་སྟོན་བྱ་ཆེད་སྡེ་ཚན་བཙུགས་ཡོད་ཅིང་། ད་ལྟའི་ཆར་དེབ་སྐྱེལ་ཡོད་པའི་བཙན་བྱོལ་བོད་མིའི་ཚོགས་པ་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་ ༡༧༠ ཡས་མས་དང་ Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA) ཕྱི་རྒྱལ་རོགས་དངུལ་ལེན་ཆོག་པའི་དེབ་སྐྱེལ་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་ ༨༡ ཙམ་ཡོད་པ་དང་། གང་མྱུར་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་དེ་དག་ཚང་མ་བསྐོང་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས། རྒྱལ་ས་ལྡི་ལིར་རྒྱ་གར་དབུས་གཞུང་ནང་སྲིད་ལས་ཁུངས་དང་ FCRA ཚན་པའི་འབྲེལ་ཡོད་མི་སྣ་གདན་འདྲེན་ཞུས་ཏེ། རྒྱ་གར་གཞུང་གི་ཁྲིམས་དང་མཐུན་པའི་ལས་དོན་གནང་ཕྱོགས་ཐད་ཟབ་སྦྱོང་གནང་འཆར་ཡོད་སྟབས། དེབ་སྐྱེལ་ཡོད་པའི་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་དང་ས་ཆ་བདག་འཛིན་ཡག་པོ་བྱས་ཐུབ་ཚེ་མ་འོངས་བོད་པའི་འཐབ་རྩོད་རྒྱུན་གནས་ལ་ཕན་ཐོགས་ཡོད་པ་དྲན་སྐུལ་གནང་སོང་། མ་ཟད་ཆབ་སྲིད་ཀྱི་གནད་དོན་དང་འབྲེལ་ནས། དབུ་མ་དང་རང་བཙན་གཉིས་ཀས་ཁ་ཕྱིར་ལྟ་བྱ་ཡུལ་ནི་རྒྱ་ནག་གཞུང་ཡིན་པ་དང་། དབུ་མའི་ལམ་གྱི་ཐོག་ནས་མཐའ་གཉིས་ལས་གཅིག་བོད་འདི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་ཀྱི་ཐོག་ནས་རང་བཙན་གཙང་མའི་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཡིན་པ་སྒྲུབ་རྒྱུ་དེས་སྒོ་མང་པོ་ཕྱེ་ཀྱི་ཡོད་སྐོར་གསུངས་པ་དང་འབྲེལ། མི་རབས་གཞོན་པ་ཚོས་འདས་པའི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་མ་ཤེས་ན་བོད་ཀྱི་མ་འོངས་འཐབ་རྩོད་ཇི་ལྟར་རྩོད་རྒྱུ་ཡིན་པ་ནན་བརྗོད་གནང་སོང་། ད་དུང་བོད་ནང་རྒྱ་གཞུང་གི་སྲིད་བྱུས་ལག་བསྟར་འོག་མི་རབས་གཞོན་པ་མང་པོས་བོད་སྐད་ལས་རྒྱ་སྐད་མང་བ་བཀོལ་སྤྱོད་བྱེད་ཀྱི་ཡོད་པའི་སེམས་འཚབ་ཀྱི་བརྡ་ལན་འབྱོར་གྱི་ཡོད་སྟབས། བཙན་བྱོལ་ནང་དུ་ཡོད་པའི་མི་རབས་གཞོན་པ་ཚོས་ངེས་པར་དུ་འགན་འཁུར་བླངས་དགོས་གལ་ཡིན་པ་མ་ཟད། རྒྱ་ནག་གཞུང་དང་གཞུང་འབྲེལ་མ་ཡིན་པའི་ཐོག་ནས་འབྲེལ་ལམ་མུ་མཐུད་ཡོད་པ་བསྐྱར་ནན་གནང་སོང་། གཞི་རྩའི་ཟླ་བ་འདིའི་ཚེས་ ༢༠ ནས་བཟུང་འདི་ཚེས་ ༢༩ […] The post དེབ་སྐྱེལ་ཡོད་པའི་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་དང་ས་ཆ་བདག་འཛིན་ཡག་པོ་བྱས་ཐུབ་ཚེ་མ་འོངས་བོད་པའི་འཐབ་རྩོད་རྒྱུན་གནས་ལ་ཕན་ཐོགས་ཡོད་པ་དྲན་སྐུལ། appeared first on vot.

འདི་ལོ་༸སྐུའི་གོ་སྟོན་དང་བསྟུན་དད་ལྡན་རྗེས་འབྲངས་པ་ཡོངས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་པ་འདྲ་མིན་སྒོ་ནས་གོ་སྟོན་སྲུང་བརྩི་གཟབ་རྒྱས་ཞུ་བཞིན་པའི་ཁྲོད་འདིར། ཇར་མ་ནི་ནང་༸སྐུའི་གོ་སྟོན་སྲུང་བརྩི་དང་འབྲེལ། བོད་ཀྱི་དུས་སྟོན་ཐེངས་དང་པོ་དང་། ཇར་མ་ནི་བོད་ཁང་དབུ་བརྙེས་ནས་ལོ་ངོ་ ༢༠ ཧྲིལ་པོ་འཁོར་བའི་དུས་དྲན་སྲུང་བརྩི་ཞུས་འདུག དེ་ཡང་བོད་མིའི་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་ཀྱིས་དེ་འབྲེལ་གནས་ཚུལ་སྤེལ་བར་གཞིགས་ན། འདི་ཚེས་ ༢༣ དང་ ༢༤ བཅས་ཉིན་གྲངས་གཉིས་རིང་ཇར་མ་ནི་ནང་། ཇར་མ་ནི་བོད་ཁང་དང་ས་གནས་གོ་སྟོན་གོ་སྒྲིག་ཚོགས་ཆུང་། སུད་སི་དོན་ཁང་བཅས་མཉམ་འབྲེལ་ཐོག་ཡུལ་དེ་གའི་ནང་བོད་ཀྱི་དུས་སྟོན་ཐེངས་དང་པོ་གོ་སྒྲིག་ཞུས་པ་མ་ཟད།  ཇར་མ་ནི་བོད་ཁང་དབུ་བརྙེས་ནས་ལོ་ངོ་ ༢༠ ཧྲིལ་པོ་འཁོེར་བའི་དུས་དྲན་སྲུང་བརྩི་ཞུས་འདུག སྐབས་དེར་སུད་སི་སྐུ་ཚབ་དོན་ཁང་གི་རྒྱལ་ཚོགས་ཞུ་གཏུག་འགན་འཛིན་ཕུན་ཚོགས་སྟོབས་རྒྱལ་ལགས་དང་།  Frankfurt  གྲོང་སྡེའི་སྐུ་ཚབ་དང་སློབ་སྟོན་པ་ Stephan Siegler ལགས། ཇར་མ་ནི་བོད་ཁང་གསར་འཛུགས་གནང་མཁན་བྲག་གཡབ་༸སྐྱབས་མགོན་བློ་ལྡན་ཤེས་རབ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག  ༸གོང་ས་མཆོག་གི་དམིགས་བསལ་སྐུ་ཚབ་ཟུར་པ་དང་གཏན་འཇགས་ཐབས་བྱུས་ཚོགས་ཆུང་གི་སློབ་སྟོན་པ་སྐལ་བཟང་རྒྱལ་མཚན་ལགས། རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་བོད་དོན་ལས་འགུལ་ཁང་གི་ཡོ་རོབ་ཚན་པའི་འགན་འཛིན་དབང་པོ་བཀྲས་མཐོང་ལགས་སོགས་ནས་ལྷན་ཞུགས་གནང་ཡོད་པ་རེད། མཛད་སྒོའི་ཐོག་ཇར་མ་ནི་བོད་ཁང་གསར་འཛུགས་གནང་མཁན་བྲག་གཡབ་༸སྐྱབས་མགོན་བློ་ལྡན་ཤེས་རབ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས། ཇར་མ་ནི་བོད་ཁང་ནི་ཐོག་མར་སྤྱི་ནོར་༸གོང་ས་༸སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཆེན་པོ་མཆོག་གི་བཀའ་དགོངས་འོག་དབུ་བརྙེས་པ་ཞིག་ཡིན་པ་དང་། ལྟེ་གནས་འདིའི་བརྒྱུད་ད་དུང་ཡང་མུ་མཐུད་ནས་རིག་གཞུང་བར་གྱི་གོ་རྟོགས་གོང་འཕེལ་གཏོང་རྒྱུ་ཡིན་པ་གསུངས་འདུག  མ་ཟད། Stephan Siegler ལགས་ཀྱིས་ཀྱང་ Frankfurt  གྲོང་སྡེའི་སྤྱི་ཁྱབ་ཀྱི་ཚབ་ཞུས་ཏེ། བོད་མི་བླ་ན་མེད་པའི་དབུ་ཁྲིད་སྤྱི་ནོར་༸གོང་ས་༸སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཆེན་པོ་མཆོག་དང་བོད་ཀྱི་རྩ་དོན། དེ་བཞིན་འཇར་མ་ནི་བོད་ཁང་བཅས་ལ་ཡུན་རིང་ནས་ཡོད་པའི་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་བསྐྱར་ནན་དང་འབྲེལ། མ་འོངས་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་མུ་མཐུད་གནང་འཆར་ཡོད་པ་གསུངས་འདུག འདི་ག་རླུང་འཕྲིན་ཁང་གི་ཇར་མ་ནི་བོད་ཁང་གི་འགན་འཛིན་ཐོས་བསམ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་ལ་གནད་དོན་དེ་འབྲེལ་བཀའ་འདྲི་ཞུས་སྐབས་ཁོང་གིས། སྤྱིར་བཏང་ཇར་མ་ནི་བོད་ཁང་དེ་བཞིན་དེ་སྔོན་ཆོས་ཚོགས་ཤིག་ཡིན་སྐོར་གསུངས་པ་དང་འབྲེལ། འོན་ཀྱང་རིན་པོ་ཆའི་ཐུགས་དགོངས་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ་ཡོད་སྟབས་བོད་ཁང་ཞེས་པ་དེ་ནི་ཆོས་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་པ་ཙམ་མིན་པར་བོད་ཁང་གི་ངོ་བོར་བསྒྱུར་ཐུབ་ན་དགེ་མཚན་ཆེ་བར་དགོངས་ནས་མཐར་ཕྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༠༥ ལོར་བོད་ཁང་ལ་བསྒྱུར་ཡིན་པའི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་རྒྱབ་ལྗོངས་འགྲེལ་བརྗོད་གནང་སོང་། སྤྱིར་ཉིན་གཉིས་རིང་གི་དུས་སྟོན་སྲུང་བརྩི་དེའི་ཐོག་བོད་ཀྱི་སྲོལ་རྒྱུན་གཞས་སྣ་དང་ཞབས་བྲོ། ལྷ་མོ། སྒྲ་སྙན། ཡིག་གཟུགས། བོད་དོན་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་དཔེ་དེབ་ངོ་སྤྲོད། ༸གོང་ས་མཆོག་གི་སྐུ་པར་འགྲེམས་སྟོན་སོགས་ཀྱི་བོད་ཀྱི་རིག་གཞུང་ངོ་སྤྲོད་དང་། བོད་ཀྱི་གསོ་བ་རིག་པ། ཐང་ཀ སྒོམ་སོགས་ཀྱི་སྐོར་གོ་རྟོགས་སྤེལ་ཡོད་པ་རེད་འདུག The post ཇར་མ་ནི་ནང་བོད་ཀྱི་དུས་སྟོན་ཐེངས་དང་པོ་སྲུང་བརྩི་གནང་བ། appeared first on vot.

Join Tami Simon and Andrew Holecek for the second half of their exploration of reincarnation. Here, they delve deeper into Tibetan Buddhist perspectives on death, rebirth, and the power of "dark retreat" practice, revealing practical guidance for navigating everyday life. What happens after we die? And what do habits have to do with the process? In this episode of Insights at the Edge, host Tami Simon welcomes Andrew Holecek, scholar, author, and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism and non-dual wisdom traditions. Together, they dive into the mysteries of reincarnation and the "gap between lives." Drawing from Tibetan teachings on the bardos, dream yoga, and the art of dying, Andrew shares practical insights on how these ancient teachings are not just about what happens after death, but also about navigating the transitions and challenges we face here and now.  Join them to explore:  How our beliefs about death deeply inform how we live The nature of awareness and the influence of habits How cultivating lucidity transforms both our dreams and our waking lives, and more Note: These interviews originally aired on Sounds True One, where these special episodes of Insights at the Edge are available to watch live on video and with exclusive access to Q&As with our guests. Learn more at join.soundstrue.com.

This is such an interesting point, it sounds nice - oh yeah our minds play a role. Rinpoche said one time, and I'm quoting him exactly I promise, it's very shocking when we hear it, I've quoted it a lot, Rinpoche said - “The vast majority of all human beings on the planet have absolutely no idea that their mind plays any role at all in their lives.” Now this sounds almost impossible to believe doesn't it. I'll qualify it, we clearly know that our mind plays a big role when it comes to learning mathematics, learning music, and learning carpentry, I always say this point, we know our mind is the main player. If you don't have the right theories and think the right thoughts, you can never play the piano, you can't make a cake, and you can't make a table. So we do know it when it comes to theoretical things, intellectual things, or scientific things. We know the mind has to be trained to perfection. But Rinpoche's point is when it comes to becoming a happy person or an unhappy person, we have absolutely no idea that our mind plays any role at all, and that's the part that's shocking, and I think that's exactly right. Even if we're good little Buddhists we all know karma, yeah, blah, blah, blah. But the moment your hubby does the wrong thing, your wife slurps her coffee, the red light is red, you don't think it's your mind that is the problem at all. I mean even the best Buddhists, because we are so addicted, totally from eons of lifetimes, Buddha says, to seeing that the outside world is the main cause of our happiness and suffering, and that's why it's so difficult, it's incredibly difficult. Even the smallest disturbance on the outside, we know this, the smallest disturbance, we don't even bother looking at our mind, we just believe in the thing out there being the problem, and we know this is true. So it's very humbling. Karma theoretically is not complicated, it's just that it's so utterly shocking to us because it's the exact opposite of what we think. Many of us practicing for so many years, we know how tremendously hard it is, so we should not underestimate how difficult it is. But it's the essence of being a Buddhist, it's the absolute total point of all Buddha's teachings, that the mind is the main player. That the mind is the creator of everything, from the hell realms to Buddhahood, the mind is what creates it, it's as simple as that. So all we can do is keep hearing it, keep getting the theories clear, and be able to say them in a simple way because we mostly just get very confused, we go - oh yeah it's karma! What do you mean? Oh well it's just karma. That's like saying please explain the roses in the garden. Oh it's botany! Can you explain it for me? No! What good is that? You've got to learn a bit of botany, so you know how to use the law of botany. So we have to learn to know the words so we can use the law of karma. So let's look at how to think simply, what are the basic principles? This is part of our problem, we can't say the basic principles. But because we've heard it from the Tibetans in the same way that they would have said it in the 14th century, and talking to the choir, they don't really explain it in the way we need it to be explained. They don't stress the logic behind it, because the main point of karma in the first stages of the Lamrim is behave yourself, be nice, and don't kill, don't steal, and don't lie; and if you do you'll go to the hell realms for twenty two eons. I mean you're shaking in your shoes if you hear Lama Zopa talk. So let's use our concepts, let's look at what would help us! Western modern people who don't have this view. How do we present it to ourselves so that it begins to be logical to us? Well there's lots of different ways, you know, let's do that. Questions include - Karma is a natural law so there's no room for guilt? Why is ‘should' anger? Karma as a hypothesis? What is the correct way to act towards a teacher? What can we do to become more attuned to karma? What is the relationship between karma and loneliness? If someone is unkind to us, how do we fix it? Question on karma and children born with disabilities. How do delusions relate to karma and how do we work with them? Vajrayana Institute, Sydney, July 27th 2025.  

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In this episode I am once again joined by John Myrdhin Reynolds, also known as Lama Vajranatha: writer, teacher, translator, and scholar/practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism.  John shares his own decades of contact with the Bon religion, reveals its doctrines and practices, and gives a detailed history of its transmission in the West. John traces the automythos of Bon, compares it to historical evidence and Buddhist accounts, and addresses the common critique that Bon is merely plagiarised Buddhism. John also addresses misconceptions about the history of religion in Tibet, explains how to successfully practice multiple religious lineages, and reveals various means of attaining siddhi power through ritual and meditation. … Video version: https://www.guruviking.com/podcast/ep321-tibetan-bon-lama-vajranatha Also available on Youtube, iTunes, & Spotify – search ‘Guru Viking Podcast'. … Topics Include: 00:00 - Intro 00:53 - Bon vs Buddhism 01:35 - First contact with Bon and subsequent involvement 06:17 - Namkhai Norbu's nationalism and promotion of Bon 06:44 - 2 authentic Dzogchen lineages 07:45 - Bon Dzogchen 09:10 - Later transmission period and folk religion syncretism 12:03 - Old Bon vs New Bon 13:06 - Bon's automythos 14:11 - Snellgrove's “9 Ways of Bon” 16:37 - Bonpo refugee community in India 18:08 - Reprinting of Bonpo texts in exile 19:31 - Gene Smith's text preservation work 22:25 - Election of Lungtok Tenpai Nyima as the 33rd Menri Trizin 24:35 - Dalai Lama's recognition of Bon as the fifth Tibetan school 26:39 - Bon scriptures 28:38 - Are gter ma authentic? 32:17 - Personal contact post-1959 and T Lobsang Rampa 33:27 - Academic work on Bon 34:44 - Geshe Tenzin Wangyal comes to the West 40:03 - Lopon's interest in translations and USA activities 43:46 - New Age sponsorship of Bon 45:31 - Further USA activities 48:02 - Search for a Bon HQ in Europe + gtum mo studies 51:20 - Guinness sponsor a Bonpo HQ in Europe, blocked by aristocrats over Sogyal scandal 56:11 - Tenzin Wangyal's USA activities and influx of Bon teachers 58:48 - Geshe Wangyal, Jeffrey Hopkins, and Robert Thurman 59:32 - Jeffrey Hopkin's influence on Buddhist Studies 01:02:38 - Popularity of podcasts 01:04:11 - Samten Karmay 01:05:27 - Bon vs Buddhism & the question of plagiarism 01:07:34 - Bonpo one-upmanship? 01:12:44 - How to practice different lineages simultaneously 01:18:50 - Namkhai Norbu's independent status 01:21:16 - Supernatural powers of Bonpo lamas and other spiritual beings 01:24:53 - Chatral Rinpoche's siddhi powers and the possibility of miracles 01:27:24 - How to attain siddhi powers 01:30:32 - Tibetan vs gter ma in the rest of the world 01:33:06 - Accidental gter ma 01:35:39 - Misconceptions about the history of religion in Tibet 01:37:32 - Animal sacrifice and gtor ma 01:41:40 - Lithuanian's unusual religious heritage 01:45:44 - Spiritual relations in India and Tibet … Previous episodes with John Myrdhin Reynolds: - https://www.guruviking.com/search?q=vajranatha To find our more about John Myrdhin Reynolds visit: - https://vajranatha.com/ For more interviews, videos, and more visit: - https://www.guruviking.com Music ‘Deva Dasi' by Steve James

བདུན་ཕྲག་འདིའི་བོད་དོན་གསར་འགྱུར་ཕྱོགས་བསྡུས། ༢༠༢༥།༠༨།༢༢ Tibet This Week (Tibetan)– August. 22, 2025 ◆ སྤྱི་ནོར་༧གོང་ས་༧སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཆེན་པོ་མཆོག་ལ་ལ་དྭགས་མི་མང་དང་བསོད་ནམས་བོད་མི་ཡོངས་ནས་བརྟན་བཞུགས་བསྟར་འབུལ་ཞུས་པ། ◆ རྒྱ་ནག་གཞུང་གི་ཉེན་རྟོག་མི་སྣས་རྡུང་རྡེག་མནར་གཅོད་དང་དོ་དམ་བཀག་ཉར་ལ་མ་བཟོད་པར་མགོན་པོ་སྐྱིད་ལགས་ཀྱིས་ཁང་ཐོག་ནས་མཆོངས་ཏེ་ཛ་དྲག་གནས་སྟངས་འོག་ལུས་པ། ◆ དཔལ་ལྡན་སྲིད་སྐྱོང་མཆོག་གིས་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྗོངས་དང་སྦིར་སྡེ་ནང་གསུམ་དུ་གཞུང་འབྲེལ་འཚམས་གཟིགས་གནང་བ། ◆ ལུ་དྷི་ཡ་ནར་རྒྱ་གར་རང་བཙན་ཐོབ་པའི་ཉིན་མོ་དང་བསྟུན་༧སྐུའི་གོ་སྟོན་གྱི་བྱམས་བརྩེའི་ལོ་སྲུང་བརྩི་ཞུས་པ། ◆ བོད་མིའི་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་ནས་རྒྱ་གར་ལ་རང་བཙན་ཐོབ་ནས་ལོ་ངོ་ ༧༩ འཁོར་བའི་དུས་ཆེན་སྲུང་བརྩི་ཞུས་པ། ◆ དཔལ་ལྡན་ཤེས་རིག་བཀའ་བློན་མཆོག་ནས་ཇར་མན་རོགས་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་གཙོ་འཛིན་སཾ་བྷོ་ཊ་བོད་སློབ་ཚོགས་པ་གཙོས་པའི་འབྲེལ་ཡོད་ལས་ཁུངས་ཁག་ཏུ་གཟིགས་སྐོར་སྣེ་འཁྲིད་གནང་བ། ◆ དཔལ་ལྡན་བདེ་སྲུང་བཀའ་བློན་མཆོག་གིས་ཝ་ཤིང་ཊོན་དུ་གནད་ཡོད་མི་སྣ་ཁག་ཅིག་མཇལ་འཕྲད་དང་། ནིའུ་ཡོག་ཏུ་མདོ་ཁམས་ཆུ་བཞི་སྒང་དྲུག་གི་དམིགས་བསལ་ཚོགས་ཆེན་ཐོག་ཕེབས་བཞུགས་གནང་བ། https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCuAfgwBJqs1UnOfTOgTnHnrTrt_o84Xv&si=7jXE9RkMZVjBFCjH https://ghoton.net https://hhthedalailama90.net #dalailama #yearofcompassion #90thbirthday #compassionrevolution #ghoton #TibetansforTibet #centraltibetanadministration #dailynews #tibettv #weeklynews

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Are you interested in learning the main cause and relevance of the physical symptoms we experience? In this episode, Koby will share with us how our physical symptoms are an expression of a subconscious imbalance and how we can utilize homeopathy to help us mature and evolve to a level where we can cure these imbalances, which will then improve our physical health. Koby is a certified therapist in classical homeopathy (a graduate of George Vithoulkas' International Academy of Classical Homeopathy) and Chinese medicine. During his career, he also studied additional methods of treatment, including Tibetan medicine and Ayurveda-Indian medicine. As a practitioner, he also worked and studied in various countries as a member of medical delegations to Africa, as well as in England and New York. Today, as part of an innovative project to establish a medical center in Spain specializing in natural healing methods, Koby is training its team of classical homeopathic therapists. Check out these episode highlights: 03:19 - How did Koby initially become acquainted with homeopathy 05:14 - What is the mystery behind water 11:01 - What is homeopathy like in Israel 17:11 - The significant advantage of incorporating homeopathy into the public health system 21:15 - Physical symptoms are spiritually and emotionally rooted, not physically based 30:03 - Any given symptom has a deeper spiritual significance 33:36 - The result of addressing the physical symptoms without addressing the underlying emotional reality 35:00 - How can a homeopathic remedy provide the patient the maturity they need to handle future problems 36:50 - The consequence of receiving knowledge with an impure mind 44:51 - The value of homeopathy in providing clues as to where our life's journey has become blocked Connect with Koby Website: https://kobynehushtan.co.il/ If you would like to support the Homeopathy Hangout Podcast, please consider making a donation by visiting www.EugenieKruger.com and click the DONATE button at the top of the site. Every donation about $10 will receive a shout-out on a future episode.   Join my Homeopathy Hangout Podcast Facebook community here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/HelloHomies   Here is the link to my free 30-minute Homeopathy@Home online course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqBUpxO4pZQ&t=438s   Upon completion of the course - and if you live in Australia - you can join my Facebook group for free acute advice (you'll need to answer a couple of questions about the course upon request to join): www.facebook.com/groups/eughom

བོད་མིའི་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་ཀྱི་བདེ་སྲུང་བཀའ་བློན་རྒྱ་རི་སྒྲོལ་མ་མཆོག་གཟའ་འཁོར་སྔོན་མའི་ནང་། ཨ་རིའི་ནིའུ་ཡོག་ནིའུ་འཇར་སི་ཁུལ་དང་། དེ་བཞིན་རྒྱལ་ས་ཝ་ཤིང་ཀྲོན་དྲི་སི་བཅས་སུ་གཞུང་འབྲེལ་འཚམས་གཟིགས་ལ་ཕེབས་པ་དང་འབྲེལ། ཕྱི་ནང་གཉིས་ཀྱི་འབྲེལ་ཡོད་མི་སྣ་ཁག་གཅིག་མཇལ་འཕྲད་གནང་བ་མ་ཟད། བོད་མི་ཚོས་རྡོག་རྩ་ཆིག་སྒྲིལ་གནང་དགོས་པ་སོགས་ཀྱི་གསུང་བཤད་གནང་འདུག དེ་ཡང་བོད་མིའི་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་ཀྱི་དྲ་གནས་ཐོག་གནས་ཚུལ་སྤེལ་བར་གཞིགས་ན། བདེ་སྲུང་བཀའ་བློན་རྒྱ་རི་སྒྲོལ་མ་མཆོག་གིས་ ཟླ་བ་འདིའི་ཚེས་ ༡༠ ནས་ཨ་རིའི་ནང་གི་གཞུང་འབྲེལ་ཕྱོགས་བསྐྱོད་དབུ་འཛུགས་གནང་ཡོད་པ་དང་། ཐོག་མར་ཨ་རིའི་གྲོང་ཁྱེར་ནིའུ་ཡོག་ཏུ་ཕེབས་འབྱོར་གྱིས་ཁུལ་དེའི་ནང་རྟེན་གཞི་བྱས་པའི་འབྲས་སྤུངས་སྒོ་མང་ཆོས་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་གོ་སྒྲིག་ཞུས་པའི་༸སྐུའི་གོ་སྟོན་སྲུང་བརྩི་ཐོག་དམིགས་བསལ་སྐུ་མགྲོན་དུ་དབུ་བཞུགས་གནང་བ་མ་ཟད། ཚེས་ ༡༡ ཉིན་ནིའུ་ཡོག་དང་ནིའུ་ཇར་སིའི་ལ་ཡོད་པའི་གནད་ཡོད་མི་སྣ་ཁག་ཅིག་དང་མཇལ་འཕྲད་གནང་སྟེ། བོད་ཀྱི་གནད་དོན་ཐོག་བཀའ་བསྡུར་གནང་འདུག ཕྱོགས་མཚུངས་ཚེས་ ༡༢ ཉིན་རྒྱལ་ས་ཝ་ཤིང་ཌོན་ཌི་སི་ Washington DC ལ་ཕེབས་ཐོན་གནང་ཡོད་པ་དང་། སྐབས་དེར་དོན་གཅོད་ལས་ཁུངས་ཀྱི་ལས་བྱེད་དང་། ཡུལ་དེའི་བོད་རིགས་སྤྱི་མཐུན་ཚོགས་པའི་ཚོགས་གཙོ་བཅས་ནས་ཕེབས་བསུ་ཞུས་རྗེས། ཚེས་ ༡༣ ཉིན་ཨ་རིའི་འབྲེལ་ཡོད་མི་སྣ་ཁག་ཅིག་དང་མཇལ་འཕྲད་ཀྱིས་བོད་དོན་ཐོག་བཀའ་བསྡུར་གནང་ཡོད་པ་མ་ཟད། རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་བོད་དོན་ལས་འགུལ་ཁང་གི་འགན་འཛིན་གཙོས་པའི་འབྲེལ་ཡོད་ལས་བྱེད་རྣམ་པ་ཐུག་འཕྲད་ཀྱིས་ཕན་ཚུན་གྲོས་མོལ་གནང་ཡོད་འདུག ཕྱི་ཚེས་ ༡༥ ཉིན་བཀའ་བློན་རྒྱ་རི་སྒྲོལ་མ་མཆོག་གིས་ནིའུ་ཡོག་གྲོང་ཁྱེར་དུ་བྱང་ཨ་རིའི་ཁུལ་གྱི་ས་གནས་མདོ་ཁམས་ཆུ་བཞི་སྒང་དྲུག་གི་ཚོགས་པ་ཁག་དྲུག་དང་། དབུས་མདོ་ཁམས་ཆུ་བཞི་སྒང་དྲུག་ཐུན་མོང་གིས་གོ་སྒྲིག་ཞུས་པའི་མདོ་ཁམས་ཆུ་བཞི་སྒང་དྲུག་གི་དམིགས་བསལ་ཚོགས་ཆེན་གྱི་དབུ་འབྱེད་མཛད་སྒོར་གདན་ཞུས་གནང་བ་ལྟར་ཕེབས་ཡོད་པ་མ་ཟད། མཛད་སྒོའི་གཏམ་བཤད་ཁྲོད། ཨ་རི་དང་རྒྱ་གར་གཞུང་མང་ལ་བཀྲིས་རྗེས་དྲན་ཞུས་པ་དང་འབྲེལ། ཐེངས་འདིའི་དམིགས་བསལ་ཚོགས་ཆེན་དེ་ཉིད་རྒྱལ་བའི་གོ་སྟོན་སྲུང་བརྩི་ཞུ་ཕྱོགས་དང་འབྲེལ་བ་ཆགས་པ་བཞིན། ཆུ་བཞི་སྒང་དྲུག་ངོས་ནས་དེ་སྔ་༸གོང་ས་མཆོག་བཙན་བྱོལ་དུ་གདན་འདེན་ཞུ་བ་ལྟར། མགོན་པོ་གང་ཉིད་མཆོག་མྱུར་དུ་བོད་ལ་གདན་འདྲེན་ཞུ་ཐུབ་པའི་དམ་བཅའ་བརྟན་པོ་ཞིག་བཞག་སྟེ། དེའི་ཐད་ཆོལ་གསུམ་གཅིག་ཏུ་བསྒྲིལ་བའི་ཐོག་ནས་ནུས་པ་མཉམ་སྤུངས་དགོས་པའི་ཞུ་སྐུལ་གནང་འདུག བདེ་སྲུང་བཀའ་བློན་མཆོག་གིས་དེ་བཞིན་ཕྱི་ཚེས་ ༡༦ སྟེ། ཐེངས་འདིའི་ཨ་རིའི་ནང་གི་གཞུང་འབྲེལ་འཚམས་གཟིགས་ཀྱི་ཉིན་མཐའ་མར་ནིའུ་ཡོག་དང་ནིའུ་འཇར་སི་བོད་རིགས་སྤྱི་མཐུན་ཚོགས་པས་གོ་སྒྲིག་ཞུས་པའི་༸རྒྱལ་བའི་སྐུ་ཕྱའི་ཞབས་རིམ་གསོག་སྒྲུབ་ཀྱི་འདུས་ཚོགས་སུ་མཉམ་བཞུགས་གནང་སྟེ།  ཞབས་རིམ་ཐོག་ཕེབས་པའི་སེར་སྐྱ་ཡོངས་ལ་འཚམས་འདྲི་དང་སྦྲགས། ༸གོང་ས་༸སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཆེན་པོ་མཆོག་གི་སྐུ་ཁམས་གསལ་ཐང་ཡིན་པ་དང་། གང་ཉིད་ཀྱི་དགོངས་དོན་ལྟར་བོད་མི་ཚང་མས་ལས་དོན་ལ་ཧུར་ཐག་གནང་དགོས་པ་མ་ཟད།  ༸རྒྱལ་བའི་བཀའ་གསུངས་ཅི་སྒྲུབ་ཞུས་ན་ཕྱི་ནས་ང་ཚོས་ནུས་ཤུགས་ལ་གཏོར་སྐྱོན་གཏང་ཐུབ་མཁན་སུ་ཡང་ཡོད་མ་རེད་ཅེས་གསུངས་གནང་བ་དང་འབྲེལ། བོད་མི་ཚོས་རྡོག་རྩ་ཆིག་སྒྲིལ་དང་མཉམ་སྤུགས་གནང་རྒྱུ་གལ་ཆེན་ཡིན་པ་གསུངས་འདུག The post བདེ་སྲུང་བཀའ་བློན་མཆོག་གིས་ཨ་རིའི་ནང་གཞུང་འབྲེལ་འཚམས་གཟིགས་དང་འབྲེལ་བོད་མི་ཚོ་རྡོག་རྩ་ཆིག་སྒྲིལ་གནང་དགོས་པ་གསུངས་འདུག appeared first on vot.

འདི་ཚེས་ ༡༤ ནས་འགོ་འཛུགས་ཀྱིས་ཚེས་ ༡༦ བར་སུད་སི་གྲོང་འཁྱེར་ཛུ་རིག་ནང་རྒྱལ་ཡུམ་ཆེན་མོའི་རྗེས་དྲན་རྐང་རྩེད་སྤོ་ལོའི་རྩེད་འགྲན་གོ་སྒྲིག་ཞུས་འདུག་པ་དང་། རྩེད་འགྲན་དེ་བཞིན་ཡོ་རོབ་ནང་ཐེངས་དང་པོ་དེ་ཆགས་ཀྱི་ཡོད་པ་རེད་འདུག དེ་ཡང་བོད་རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་རྩེད་རིགས་ཚོགས་པའི་གོ་སྒྲིག་གནང་བའི་ཉིན་གསུམ་གྱི་རྩེད་འགྲན་དེ་ནི། ཡུ་རོབ་ཏུ་གནས་སྡོད་བྱེད་མཁན་བོད་མི་རྣམས་ཀྱི་བར་མཐུན་སྒྲིལ་དང་སྤོབས་སེམས། རེ་བ་བཅས་ལ་འབྲེལ་ལམ་གཟབ་ཏུ་གཏོང་རྒྱུར་དམིགས་པ་ཞིག་རེད་འདུག འདི་ག་རླུང་འཕྲིན་ཁང་གིས་བོད་རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་རྩེད་རིགས་ཚོགས་པའི་འགན་འཛིན་བྱང་ཆུབ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་ལགས་སུ་རྩེད་འགྲན་དེ་འབྲེལ་བཀའ་འདྲི་ཞུ་སྐབས། ཁོང་གིས་རྩ་བའི་ཚོགས་པ་དེ་གའི་ངོས་ནས་བོད་རིགས་གཞོན་སྐྱེས་རྣམས་ལ་གོ་སྐབས་ཀྱི་དེང་ཆ་ཞིག་བསྐྲུན་ཐབས་བྱེད་བཞིན་ཡོད་པ་འགྲེལ་བརྗོད་ཀྱིས། ཕྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༡༦ ནས་ཡོ་རོབ་ནང་རྒྱལ་ཡུམ་ཆེན་མོའི་རྩེད་འགྲན་གོ་སྒྲིག་ཞུ་ཐབས་བྱས་ཡོད་ཀྱང་ལམ་ལྷོངས་བྱུང་མེད་པ་དེ་ལྟར་ཡང་། འདི་ལོ་རྩེད་འགྲན་དེ་བཞིན་གོ་སྒྲིག་ཞུས་ཐུབ་པ་དང་། མ་འོངས་ཨོ་གླིང་ནང་དུ་དང་གོ་སྒྲིག་ཞུ་འཆར་ཡོད་ཅེས་འགྲེལ་བརྗོད་གནང་སོང་། ཐེངས་འདིའི་ཡོ་རོབ་ཁུལ་གྱི་རྒྱལ་ཡུམ་ཆེན་མོའི་རྗེས་དྲན་གྱི་རྩེད་འགྲན་དེའི་ཁྲོད། སུད་སི་དང་། བེལ་ཇི་ཡམ། ཕ་རན་སི། ལིཀ་ཊེན་སིཊ་ཡིན། ཨིན་ལན་སོགས་ཀྱི་ཁྱོན་རུ་ཁག་ ༡༢ མཉམ་ཞུགས་གནང་ཡོད་འདུག་པ་དང་། མཐའ་མའི་རྩེད་འགྲན་དེ་བོད་པ་ཆིག་སྒྲིལ་རུ་ཁག་དང་། བེལ་ཇི་རམ་རུ་ཁག་གཉིས་ཀྱི་བར་རྩེད་འགྲན་གནང་བའི་བརྒྱུད། ཡོ་རོབ་རྒྱལ་ཡུམ་ཆེན་མོའི་རྩེད་འགྲན་གྱི་རྒྱལ་ཁ་བོད་པ་ཆིག་སྒྲིལ་རུ་ཁག་ལ་ཐོབ་ཡོད་པ་རེད་འདུག རྩེད་འགྲན་གྱི་ཉིན་མཐའ་མར་མཇུག་བསྡོམས་མཛད་སྒོའི་ཐོག སུད་སུ་སྐུ་ཚབ་དོན་ཁང་གི་རྒྱལ་ཚོགས་ཞུ་གཏུག་འགན་འཛིན་ཕུན་ཚོགས་སྟོབས་རྒྱལ་ལགས་ཆེད་ཕེབས་ཀྱིས། རྩེད་འགྲན་པའི་དམིགས་ཡུལ་ནི་རྒྱལ་ཁ་ཐོབ་པ་དང་། ཕམ་ཁ་བྱུང་བ་ཁོ་ན་མ་ཡིན་པར། རྩེད་འགྲན་སྐབས་རྩེད་འགྲན་པ་གཅིག་ནས་གཞན་ཞིག་གིས་རྩལ་དང་ཐབས་ལམ་སོགས་སྦྱོང་བ་དང་། རང་ལས་ལོ་ན་གཞོན་པའི་བོད་པའི་གཞོན་སྐྱེས་རྣམས་ལ་སེམས་ཤུགས་སྦྱིན་ཐབས་བྱེད་དགོས་སྐོར་གསུང་བཤད་གནང་འདུག The post ཡོ་རོབ་ནང་རྒྱལ་ཡུམ་ཆེན་མོའི་རྗེས་དྲན་རྐང་རྩེད་སྤོ་ལོའི་རྩེད་འགྲན་ཐེངས་དང་པོ་ཚོགས་པ། appeared first on vot.

What happens after we die? And what do habits have to do with the process? In this episode of Insights at the Edge, host Tami Simon welcomes Andrew Holecek, scholar, author, and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism and non-dual wisdom traditions. Together, they dive into the mysteries of reincarnation and the "gap between lives." Drawing from Tibetan teachings on the bardos, dream yoga, and the art of dying, Andrew shares practical insights on how these ancient teachings are not just about what happens after death, but also about navigating the transitions and challenges we face here and now.  Join them to explore:  How our beliefs about death deeply inform how we live The nature of awareness and the influence of habits How cultivating lucidity transforms both our dreams and our waking lives Whether you're curious about what happens after we die or seeking wisdom to live more fully, this episode offers insights for inner explorers of all beliefs and backgrounds. Note: This interview originally aired on Sounds True One, where these special episodes of Insights at the Edge are available to watch live on video and with exclusive access to Q&As with our guests. Learn more at join.soundstrue.com.  

On today's podcast, we're going to talk about how modern technology and designs, in conjunction with social media, are injecting new energy into the art of traditional Tibetan carpet weaving in order to sustain and promote its cultural legacy.

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Nonprofits, your “10 blue links” era is over. In this episode, Avinash Kaushik (Human-Made Machine; Occam's Razor) breaks down Answer Engine Optimization—why LLMs now decide who gets seen, why third-party chatter outweighs your own site, and what to do about it. We get tactical: build AI-resistant content (genuine novelty + depth), go multimodal (text, video, audio), and stamp everything with real attribution so bots can't regurgitate you into sludge. We also cover measurement that isn't delusional—group your AEO referrals, expect fewer visits but higher intent, and stop worshiping last-click and vanity metrics. Avinash updates the 10/90 rule for the AI age (invest in people, plus “synthetic interns”), and torpedoes linear funnels in favor of See-Think-Do-Care anchored in intent. If you want a blunt, practical playbook for staying visible—and actually converting—when answers beat searches, this is it. About Avinash Avinash Kaushik is a leading voice in marketing analytics—the author of Web Analytics: An Hour a Day and Web Analytics 2.0, publisher of the Marketing Analytics Intersect newsletter, and longtime writer of the Occam's Razor blog. He leads strategy at Human Made Machine, advises Tapestry on brand strategy/marketing transformation, and previously served as Google's Digital Marketing Evangelist. Uniquely, he donates 100% of his book royalties and paid newsletter revenue to charity (civil rights, early childhood education, UN OCHA; previously Smile Train and Doctors Without Borders). He also co-founded Market Motive. Resource Links Avinash Kaushik — Occam's Razor (site/home) Occam's Razor by Avinash Kaushik Marketing Analytics Intersect (newsletter sign-up) Occam's Razor by Avinash Kaushik AEO series starter: “AI Age Marketing: Bye SEO, Hello AEO!” Occam's Razor by Avinash Kaushik See-Think-Do-Care (framework explainer) Occam's Razor by Avinash Kaushik Books: Web Analytics: An Hour a Day | Web Analytics 2.0 (author pages) Occam's Razor by Avinash Kaushik+1 Human Made Machine (creative pre-testing) — Home | About | Products humanmademachine.com+2humanmademachine.com+2 Tapestry (Coach, Kate Spade) (company site) Tapestry Tools mentioned (AEO measurement): Trakkr (AI visibility / prompts / sentiment) Trakkr Evertune (AI Brand Index & monitoring) evertune.ai GA4 how-tos (for your AEO channel + attribution): Custom Channel Groups (create an “AEO” channel) Google Help Attribution Paths report (multi-touch view) Google Help Nonprofit vetting (Avinash's donation diligence): Charity Navigator (ratings) Charity Navigator Google for Nonprofits — Gemini & NotebookLM (AI access) Announcement / overview | Workspace AI for nonprofits blog.googleGoogle Help Example NGO Avinash supports: EMERGENCY (Italy) EMERGENCY Transcript Avinash Kaushik: [00:00:00] So traffic's gonna go down. So if you're a business, you're a nonprofit, how. Do you deal with the fact that you're gonna lose a lot of traffic that you get from a search engine? Today, when all of humanity moves to the answer Engine W world, only about two or 3% of the people are doing it. It's growing very rapidly. Um, and so the art of answer engine optimization is making sure that we are building for these LMS and not getting stuck with only solving for Google with the old SEO techniques. Some of them still work, but you need to learn a lot of new stuff because on average, organic traffic will drop between 16 to 64% negative and paid search traffic will drop between five to 30% negative. And that is a huge challenge. And the reason you should start with AEO now ​ George Weiner: [00:01:00] This week's guest, Avinash Kaushik is an absolute hero of mine because of his amazing, uh, work in the field of web analytics. And also, more importantly, I'd say education. Avinash Kaushik, , digital marketing evangelist at Google for Google Analytics. He spent 16 years there. He basically is. In the room where it happened, when the underlying ability to understand what's going on on our websites was was created. More importantly, I think for me, you know, he joined us on episode 45 back in 2016, and he still is, I believe, on the cutting edge of what's about to happen with AEO and the death of SEO. I wanna unpack that 'cause we kind of fly through terms [00:02:00] before we get into this podcast interview AEO. Answer engine optimization. It's this world of saying, alright, how do we create content that can't just be, , regurgitated by bots, , wholesale taken. And it's a big shift from SEO search engine optimization. This classic work of creating content for Google to give us 10 blue links for people to click on that behavior is changing. And when. We go through a period of change. I always wanna look at primary sources. The people that, , are likely to know the most and do the most. And he operates in the for-profit world. But make no mistake, he cares deeply about nonprofits. His expertise, , has frankly been tested, proven and reproven. So I pay attention when he says things like, SEO is going away, and AEO is here to stay. So I give you Avan Kashic. I'm beyond excited that he has come back. He was on our 45th episode and now we are well over our 450th episode. So, , who knows what'll happen next time we talk to him. [00:03:00] This week on the podcast, we have Avinash Kaushik. He is currently the chief strategy officer at Human Made Machine, but actually returning guest after many, many years, and I know him because he basically introduced me to Google Analytics, wrote the literal book on it, and also helped, by the way. No big deal. Literally birth Google Analytics for everyone. During his time at Google, I could spend the entire podcast talking about, uh, the amazing amounts that you have contributed to, uh, marketing and analytics. But I'd rather just real quick, uh, how are you doing and how would you describe your, uh, your role right now? Avinash Kaushik: Oh, thank you. So it's very excited to be back. Um, look forward to the discussion today. I do, I do several things concurrently, of course. I, I, I am an author and I write this weekly newsletter on marketing and analytics. Um, I am the Chief Strategy Officer at Human Made Machine, a company [00:04:00] that obsesses about helping brands win before they spend by doing creative pretesting. And then I also do, uh, uh, consulting at Tapestry, which owns Coach and Kate Spades. And my work focuses on brand strategy and marketing transformation globally. George Weiner: , Amazing. And of course, Occam's Razor. The, the, yes, the blog, which is incredible. I happen to be a, uh, a subscriber. You know, I often think of you in the nonprofit landscape, even though you operate, um, across many different brands, because personally, you also actually donate all of your proceeds from your books, from your blog, from your subscription. You are donating all of that, um, because that's just who you are and what you do. So I also look at you as like team nonprofit, though. Avinash Kaushik: You're very kind. No, no, I, I, yeah. All the proceeds from both of my books and now my newsletter, premium newsletter. It's about $200,000 a year, uh, donated to nonprofits, and a hundred [00:05:00] percent of the revenue is donated nonprofit, uh, nonprofits. And, and for me, it, it's been ai. Then I have to figure out. Which ones, and so I research nonprofits and I look up their cha charity navigators, and I follow up with the people and I check in on the works while, while don't work at a nonprofit, but as a customer of nonprofits, if you will. I, I keep sort of very close tabs on the amazing work that these charities do around the world. So feel very close to the people that you work with very closely. George Weiner: So recently I got an all caps subject line from you. Well, not from you talking about this new acronym that was coming to destroy the world, I think is what you, no, AEO. Can you help us understand what answer engine optimization is? Avinash Kaushik: Yes, of course. Of course. We all are very excited about ai. Obviously you, you, you would've to live in. Some backwaters not to be excited about it. And we know [00:06:00] that, um, at the very edge, lots of people are using large language models, chat, GPT, Claude, Gemini, et cetera, et cetera, in the world. And, and increasingly over the last year, what you have begun to notice is that instead of using a traditional search engine like Google or using the old Google interface with the 10 blue links, et cetera. People are beginning to use these lms. They just go to chat, GPT to get the answer that they want. And the one big difference in this, this behavior is I actually have on September 8th, I have a keynote here in New York and I have to be in Shanghai the next day. That is physically impossible because it, it just, the time it takes to travel. But that's my thing. So today, if I wanted to figure out what is the fastest way. On September 8th, I can leave New York and get to Shanghai. I would go to Google flights. I would put in the destinations. It will come back with a crap load of data. Then I poke and prod and sort and filter, and I have to figure out which flight is right for that. For this need I have. [00:07:00] So that is the old search engine world. I'm doing all the work, hunting and pecking, drilling down, visiting websites, et cetera, et cetera. Instead, actually what I did is I went to charge GBT 'cause I, I have a plus I, I'm a paying member of charge GBT and I said to charge GBTI have to do a keynote between four and five o'clock on September 8th in New York and I have to be in Shanghai as fast as I possibly can be After my keynote, can you find me the best flight? And I just typed in those two sentences. He came back and said, this Korean airline website flight is the best one for you. You will not get to your destination on time until, unless you take a private jet flight for $300,000. There is your best option. They're gonna get to Shanghai on, uh, September 10th at 10 o'clock in the morning if you follow these steps. And so what happened there? I didn't have to hunt and pack and dig and go to 15 websites to find the answer I wanted. The engine found the [00:08:00] answer I wanted at the end and did all the work for me that you are seeing from searching, clicking, clicking, clicking, clicking, clicking to just having somebody get you. The final answer is what I call the, the, the underlying change in consumer behavior that makes answer engine so exciting. Obviously, it creates a challenge for us because what happened between those two things, George is. I didn't have to visit many websites. So traffic is going down, obviously, and these interfaces at the moment don't have paid search links for now. They will come, they will come, but they don't at the moment. So traffic's gonna go down. So if you're a business, you're a nonprofit, how. Do you deal with the fact that you're gonna lose a lot of traffic that you get from a search engine? Today, when all of humanity moves to the answer Engine W world, only about two or 3% of the people are doing it. It's growing very rapidly. Um, and so the art of answer engine optimization [00:09:00] is making sure that we are building for these LMS and not getting stuck with only solving for Google with the old SEO techniques. Some of them still work, but you need to learn a lot of new stuff because on average, organic traffic will drop between 16 to 64% negative and paid search traffic will drop between five to 30% negative. And that is a huge challenge. And the reason you should start with AEO now George Weiner: that you know. Is a window large enough to drive a metaphorical data bus through? And I think talk to your data doctor results may vary. You are absolutely right. We have been seeing this with our nonprofit clients, with our own traffic that yes, basically staying even is the new growth. Yeah. But I want to sort of talk about the secondary implications of an AI that has ripped and gripped [00:10:00] my website's content. Then added whatever, whatever other flavors of my brand and information out there, and is then advising somebody or talking about my brand. Can you maybe unwrap that a little bit more? What are the secondary impacts of frankly, uh, an AI answering what is the best international aid organization I should donate to? Yes. As you just said, you do Avinash Kaushik: exactly. No, no, no. This such a, such a wonderful question. It gets to the crux. What used to influence Google, by the way, Google also has an answer engine called Gemini. So I just, when I say Google, I'm referring to the current Google that most people use with four paid links and 10 SEO links. So when I say Google, I'm referring to that one. But Google also has an answer engine. I, I don't want anybody saying Google does is not getting into the answer engine business. It is. So Google is very much influenced by content George that you create. I call it one P content, [00:11:00] first party content. Your website, your mobile app, your YouTube channel, your Facebook page, your, your, your, your, and it sprinkles on some amount of third party content. Some websites might have reviews about you like Yelp, some websites might have PR releases about you light some third party content. Between search engine and engines. Answer Engines seem to overvalue third party content. My for one p content, my website, my mobile app, my YouTube channel. My, my, my, everything actually is going down in influence while on Google it's pretty high. So as here you do SEO, you're, you're good, good ranking traffic. But these LLMs are using many, many, many, literally tens of thousands more sources. To understand who you are, who you are as a nonprofit, and it's [00:12:00] using everybody's videos, everybody's Reddit posts, everybody's Facebook things, and tens of thousands of more people who write blogs and all kinds of stuff in order to understand who you are as a nonprofit, what services you offer, how good you are, where you're falling short, all those negative reviews or positive reviews, it's all creepy influence. Has gone through the roof, P has come down, which is why it has become very, very important for us to build a new content strategy to figure out how we can influence these LMS about who we are. Because the scary thing is at this early stage in answer engines, someone else is telling the LLMs who you are instead of you. A more, and that's, it feels a little scary. It feels as scary as a as as a brand. It feels very scary as I'm a chief strategy officer, human made machine. It feels scary for HMM. It feels scary for coach. [00:13:00] It's scary for everybody, uh, which is why you really urgently need to get a handle on your content strategy. George Weiner: Yeah, I mean, what you just described, if it doesn't give you like anxiety, just stop right now. Just replay what we just did. And that is the second order effects. And you know, one of my concerns, you mentioned it early on, is that sort of traditional SEO, we've been playing the 10 Blue Link game for so long, and I'm worried that. Because of the changes right now, roughly what 20% of a, uh, search is AI overview, that number's not gonna go down. You're mentioning third party stuff. All of Instagram back to 2020, just quietly got tossed into the soup of your AI brand footprint, as we call it. Talk to me about. There's a nonprofit listening to this right now, and then probably if they're smart, other organizations, what is coming in the next year? They're sitting down to write the same style of, you know, [00:14:00] ai, SEO, optimized content, right? They have their content calendar. If you could have like that, I'm sitting, you're sitting in the room with them. What are you telling that classic content strategy team right now that's about to embark on 2026? Avinash Kaushik: Yes. So actually I, I published this newsletter just last night, and this is like the, the fourth in my AEO series, uh, newsletter, talks about how to create your content portfolio strategy. Because in the past we were like, we've got a product pages, you know, the equivalent of our, our product pages. We've got some, some, uh, charitable stories on our website and uh, so on and so forth. And that's good. That's basic. You need to do the basics. The interesting thing is you need to do so much more both on first party. So for example, one of the first things to appreciate is LMS or answer engines are far more influenced by multimodal content. So what does that mean? Text plus [00:15:00] video plus audio. Video and audio were also helpful in Google. And remember when I say Google, I'm referring to the old linky linking Google, not Gemini. But now video has ton more influence. So if you're creating a content strategy for next year, you should say many. Actually, lemme do one at a time. Text. You have to figure out more types of things. Authoritative Q and as. Very educational deep content around your charity's efforts. Lots of text. Third. Any seasonality, trends and patterns that happen in your charity that make a difference? I support a school in, in Nepal and, and during the winter they have very different kind of needs than they do during the summer. And so I bumped into this because I was searching about something seasonality related. This particular school for Tibetan children popped up in Nepal, and it's that content they wrote around winter and winter struggles and coats and all this stuff. I'm like. [00:16:00] It popped up in the answer engine and I'm like, okay. I research a bit more. They have good stories about it, and I'm supporting them q and a. Very, very important. Testimonials. Very, very important interviews. Very, very important. Super, super duper important with both the givers and the recipients, supporters of your nonprofit, but also the recipient recipients of very few nonprofits actually interview the people who support them. George Weiner: Like, why not like donors or be like, Hey, why did you support us? What was the, were the two things that moved you from Aware to care? Avinash Kaushik: Like for, for the i I Support Emergency, which is a Italian nonprofit like Ms. Frontiers and I would go on their website and speak a fiercely about why I absolutely love the work they do. Content, yeah. So first is text, then video. You gotta figure out how to use video a lot more. And most nonprofits are not agile in being able to use video. And the third [00:17:00] thing that I think will be a little bit of a struggle is to figure out how to use audio. 'cause audio also plays a very influential role. So for as you are planning your uh, uh, content calendar for the next year. Have the word multimodal. I'm sorry, it's profoundly unsexy, but put multimodal at the top, underneath it, say text, then say video, then audio, and start to fill those holes in. And if those people need ideas and example of how to use audio, they should just call you George. You are the king of podcasting and you can absolutely give them better advice than I could around how nonprofits could use audio. But the one big thing you have to think about is multimodality for next year George Weiner: that you know, is incredibly powerful. Underlying that, there's this nuance that I really want to make sure that we understand, which is the fact that the type of content is uniquely different. It's not like there's a hunger organization listening right now. It's not 10 facts about hunger during the winter. [00:18:00] Uh, days of being able to be an information resource that would then bring people in and then bring them down your, you know, your path. It's game over. If not now, soon. Absolutely. So how you are creating things that AI can't create and that's why you, according to whom, is what I like to think about. Like, you're gonna say something, you're gonna write something according to whom? Is it the CEO? Is it the stakeholder? Is it the donor? And if you can put a attribution there, suddenly the AI can't just lift and shift it. It has to take that as a block and be like, no, it was attributed here. This is the organization. Is that about right? Or like first, first party data, right? Avinash Kaushik: I'll, I'll add one more, one more. Uh, I'll give a proper definition. So, the fir i I made 11 recommendations last night in the newsletter. The very first one is focus on creating AI resistant content. So what, what does that mean? AI resistant means, uh, any one of us from nonprofits could [00:19:00] open chat, GPT type in a few queries and chat. GD PT can write our next nonprofit newsletter. It could write the next page for our donation. It could create the damn page for our donation, right? Remember, AI can create way more content than you can, but if you can use AI to create content, 67 million other nonprofits are doing the same thing. So what you have to do is figure out how to build AI resistant content, and my definition is very simple. George, what is AI resistance? It's content of genuine novelty. So to tie back to your recommendation, your CEO of a nonprofit that you just recommended, the attribution to George. Your CEO has a unique voice, a unique experience. The AI hasn't learned what makes your CEO your frontline staff solving problems. You are a person who went and gave a speech at the United Nations on behalf of your nonprofit. Whatever you are [00:20:00] doing is very special, and what you have to figure out is how to get out of the AI slop. You have to get out of all the things that AI can automatically type. Figure out if your content meets this very simple, standard, genuine novelty and depth 'cause it's the one thing AI isn't good at. That's how you rank higher. And not only will will it, will it rank you, but to make another point you made, George, it's gonna just lift, blanc it out there and attribute credit to you. Boom. But if you're not genuine, novelty and depth. Thousand other nonprofits are using AI to generate text and video. Could George Weiner: you just, could you just quit whatever you're doing and start a school instead? I seriously can't say it enough that your point about AI slop is terrifying me because I see it. We've built an AI tool and the subtle lesson here is that think about how quickly this AI was able to output that newsletter. Generic old school blog post and if this tool can do it, which [00:21:00] by the way is built on your local data set, we have the rag, which doesn't pause for a second and realize if this AI can make it, some other AI is going to be able to reproduce it. So how are you bringing the human back into this? And it's a style of writing and a style of strategic thinking that please just start a school and like help every single college kid leaving that just GPT their way through a degree. Didn't freaking get, Avinash Kaushik: so it's very, very important to make sure. Content is of genuine novelty and depth because it cannot be replicated by the ai. And by the way, this, by the way, George, it sounds really high, but honestly to, to use your point, if you're a CEO of a nonprofit, you are in it for something that speaks to you. You're in it. Because ai, I mean nonprofit is not your path to becoming the next Bill Gates, you're doing it because you just have this hair. Whoa, spoiler alert. No, I'm sorry. [00:22:00] Maybe, maybe that is. I, I didn't, I didn't mean any negative emotion there, but No, I love it. It's all, it's like a, it's like a sense of passion you are bringing. There's something that speaks to you. Just put that on paper, put that on video, put that on audio, because that is what makes you unique. And the collection of those stories of genuine depth and novelty will make your nonprofit unique and stand out when people are looking for answers. George Weiner: So I have to point to the next elephant in the room here, which is measurement. Yes. Yes. Right now, somebody is talking about human made machine. Someone's talking about whole whale. Someone's talking about your nonprofit having a discussion in an answer engine somewhere. Yes. And I have no idea. How do I go about understanding measurement in this new game? Avinash Kaushik: I have. I have two recommendations. For nonprofits, I would recommend a tool called Tracker ai, TRA, KKR [00:23:00] ai, and it has a free version, that's why I'm recommending it. Some of the many of these tools are paid tools, but with Tracker, do ai. It allows you to identify your website, URL, et cetera, et cetera, and it'll give you some really wonderful and fantastic, helpful report It. Tracker helps you understand prompt tracking, which is what are other people writing about you when they're seeking? You? Think of this, George, as your old webmaster tools. What keywords are people using to search? Except you can get the prompts that people are using to get a more robust understanding. It also monitors your brand's visibility. How often are you showing up and how often is your competitor showing up, et cetera, et cetera. And then he does that across multiple search engines. So you can say, oh, I'm actually pretty strong in OpenAI for some reason, and I'm not that strong in Gemini. Or, you know what, I have like the highest rating in cloud, but I don't have it in OpenAI. And this begins to help you understand where your current content strategy is working and where it is not [00:24:00] working. So that's your brand visibility. And the third thing that you get from Tracker is active sentiment tracking. This is the scary part because remember, you and I were both worried about what other people saying about us. So this, this are very helpful that we can go out and see what it is. What is the sentiment around our nonprofit that is coming across in, um, in these lms? So Tracker ai, it have a free and a paid version. So I would, I would recommend using it for these three purposes. If, if you have funding to invest in a tool. Then there's a tool called Ever Tool, E-V-E-R-T-U-N-E Ever. Tune is a paid tool. It's extremely sophisticated and robust, and they do brand monitoring, site audit, content strategy, consumer preference report, ai, brand index, just the. Step and breadth of metrics that they provide is quite extensive, but, but it is a paid tool. It does cost money. It's not actually crazy expensive, but uh, I know I have worked with them before, so full disclosure [00:25:00] and having evaluated lots of different tools, I have sort of settled on those two. If it's a enterprise type client I'm working with, then I'll use Evert Tune if I am working with a nonprofit or some of my personal stuff. I'll use Tracker AI because it's good enough for a person that is, uh, smaller in size and revenue, et cetera. So those two tools, so we have new metrics coming, uh, from these tools. They help us understand the kind of things we use webmaster tools for in the past. Then your other thing you will want to track very, very closely is using Google Analytics or some other tool on your website. You are able to currently track your, uh, organic traffic and if you're taking advantage of paid ads, uh, through a grant program on Google, which, uh, provides free paid search credits to nonprofits. Then you're tracking your page search traffic to continue to track that track trends, patterns over time. But now you will begin to see in your referrals report, in your referrals report, you're gonna begin to seeing open [00:26:00] ai. You're gonna begin to see these new answer engines. And while you don't know the keywords that are sending this traffic and so on and so forth, it is important to keep track of the traffic because of two important reasons. One, one, you want to know how to highly prioritize. AEO. That's one reason. But the other reason I found George is syn is so freaking hard to rank in an answer engine. When people do come to my websites from Answer engine, the businesses I work with that is very high intent person, they tend to be very, very valuable because they gave the answer engine a very complex question to answer the answers. Engine said you. The right answer for it. So when I show up, I'm ready to buy, I'm ready to donate. I'm ready to do the action that I was looking for. So the percent of people who are coming from answer engines to your nonprofit carry significantly higher intention, and coming from Google, who also carry [00:27:00] intent. But this man, you stood out in an answer engine, you're a gift from God. Person coming thinks you're very important and is likely to engage in some sort of business with you. So I, even if it's like a hundred people, I care a lot about those a hundred people, even if it's not 10,000 at the moment. Does that make sense George? George Weiner: It does, and I think, I'm glad you pointed to, you know, the, the good old Google Analytics. I'm like, it has to be a way, and I, I think. I gave maximum effort to this problem inside of Google Analytics, and I'm still frustrated that search console is not showing me, and it's just blending it all together into one big soup. But. I want you to poke a hole in this thinking or say yes or no. You can create an AI channel, an AEO channel cluster together, and we have a guide on that cluster together. All of those types of referral traffic, as you mentioned, right from there. I actually know thanks to CloudFlare, the ratios of the amount of scrapes versus the actual clicks sent [00:28:00] for roughly 20, 30% of. Traffic globally. So is it fair to say I could assume like a 2% clickthrough or a 1% clickthrough, or even worse in some cases based on that referral and then reverse engineer, basically divide those clicks by the clickthrough rate and essentially get a rough share of voice metric on that platform? Yeah. Avinash Kaushik: So, so for, um, kind of, kind of at the moment, the problem is that unlike Google giving us some decent amount of data through webmaster tools. None of these LLMs are giving us any data. As a business owner, none of them are giving us any data. So we're relying on third parties like Tracker. We're relying on third parties like Evert Tune. You understand? How often are we showing up so we could get a damn click through, right? Right. We don't quite have that for now. So the AI Brand Index in Evert Tune comes the closest. Giving you some information we could use in the, so your thinking is absolutely right. Your recommendation is ly, right? Even if you can just get the number of clicks, even if you're tracking them very [00:29:00] carefully, it's very important. Please do exactly what you said. Make the channel, it's really important. But don't, don't read too much into the click-through rate bits, because we're missing the. We're missing a very important piece of information. Now remember when Google first came out, we didn't have tons of data. Um, and that's okay. These LLMs Pro probably will realize over time if they get into the advertising business that it's nice to give data out to other people, and so we might get more data. Until then, we are relying on these third parties that are hacking these tools to find us some data. So we can use it to understand, uh, some of the things we readily understand about keywords and things today related to Google. So we, we sadly don't have as much visibility today as we would like to have. George Weiner: Yeah. We really don't. Alright. I have, have a segment that I just invented. Just for you called Avanade's War Corner. And in Avanade's War Corner, I noticed that you go to war on various concepts, which I love because it brings energy and attention to [00:30:00] frankly data and finding answers in there. So if you'll humor me in our war corner, I wanna to go through some, some classic, classic avan. Um, all right, so can you talk to me a little bit about vanity metrics, because I think they are in play. Every day. Avinash Kaushik: Absolutely. No, no, no. Across the board, I think in whatever we do. So, so actually I'll, I'll, I'll do three. You know, so there's vanity metrics, activity metrics and outcome metrics. So basically everything goes into these three buckets essentially. So vanity metrics are, are the ones that are very easy to find, but them moving up and down has nothing to do with the number of donations you're gonna get as a nonprofit. They're just there to ease our ego. So, for example. Let's say we are a nonprofit and we run some display ads, so measure the number of impressions that were delivered for our display ad. That's a vanity metric. It doesn't tell you anything. You could have billions of impressions. You could have 10 impressions, doesn't matter, but it is easily [00:31:00] available. The count is easily available, so we report it. Now, what matters? What matters are, did anybody engage with the ad? What were the percent of people who hovered on the ad? What were the number of people who clicked on the ad activity metrics? Activity metrics are a little more useful than vanity metrics, but what does it matter for you as a non nonprofit? The number of donations you received in the last 24 hours. That's an outcome metric. Vanity activity outcome. Focus on activity to diagnose how well our campaigns or efforts are doing in marketing. Focus on outcomes to understand if we're gonna stay in business or not. Sorry, dramatic. The vanity metrics. Chasing is just like good for ego. Number of likes is a very famous one. The number of followers on a social paia, a very famous one. Number of emails sent is another favorite one. There's like a whole host of vanity metrics that are very easy to get. I cannot emphasize this enough, but when you unpack and or do meta-analysis of [00:32:00] relationship between vanity metrics and outcomes, there's a relationship between them. So we always advise people that. Start by looking at activity metrics to help you understand the user's behavior, and then move to understanding outcome metrics because they are the reason you'll thrive. You will get more donations or you will figure out what are the things that drive more donations. Otherwise, what you end up doing is saying. If I post provocative stuff on Facebook, I get more likes. Is that what you really wanna be doing? But if your nonprofit says, get me more likes, pretty soon, there's like a naked person on Facebook that gets a lot of likes, but it's corrupting. Yeah. So I would go with cute George Weiner: cat, I would say, you know, you, you get the generic cute cat. But yeah, same idea. The Internet's built on cats Avinash Kaushik: and yes, so, so that's why I, I actively recommend people stay away from vanity metrics. George Weiner: Yeah. Next up in War Corner, the last click [00:33:00] fallacy, right? The overweighting of this last moment of purchase, or as you'd maybe say in the do column of the See, think, do care. Avinash Kaushik: Yes. George Weiner: Yes. Avinash Kaushik: So when the, when the, when we all started to get Google Analytics, we got Adobe Analytics web trends, remember them, we all wanted to know like what drove the conversion. Mm-hmm. I got this donation for a hundred dollars. I got a donation for a hundred thousand dollars. What drove the conversion. And so what lo logically people would just say is, oh, where did this person come from? And I say, oh, the person came from Google. Google drove this conversion. Yeah, his last click analysis just before the conversion. Where did the person come from? Let's give them credit. But the reality is it turns out that if you look at consumer behavior, you look at days to donation, visits to donation. Those are two metrics available in Google. It turns out that people visit multiple times before [00:34:00] they make a donation. They may have come through email, their interest might have been triggered through your email. Then they suddenly remembered, oh yeah, yeah, I wanted to go to the nonprofit and donate something. This is Google, you. And then Google helps them find you and they come through. Now, who do you give credit Email or the Google, right? And what if you came 5, 7, 8, 10 times? So the last click fallacy is that it doesn't allow you to see the full consumer journey. It gives credit to whoever was the last person who sent you this, who introduced this person to your website. And so very soon we move to looking at what we call MTI, Multi-Touch Attribution, which is a free solution built into Google. So you just go to your multichannel funnel reports and it will help you understand that. One, uh, 150 people came from email. Then they came from Google. Then there was a gap of nine days, and they came back from Facebook and then they [00:35:00] converted. And what is happening is you're beginning to understand the consumer journey. If you understand the consumer journey better, we can come with better marketing. Otherwise, you would've said, oh, close shop. We don't need as many marketing people. We'll just buy ads on Google. We'll just do SEO. We're done. Oh, now you realize there's a more complex behavior happening in the consumer. They need to solve for email. You solve for Google, you need to solve Facebook. In my hypothetical example, so I, I'm very actively recommend people look at the built-in free MTA reports inside the Google nalytics. Understand the path flow that is happening to drive donations and then undertake activities that are showing up more often in the path, and do fewer of those things that are showing up less in the path. George Weiner: Bring these up because they have been waiting on my mind in the land of AEO. And by the way, we're not done with war. The war corner segment. There's more war there's, but there's more, more than time. But with both of these metrics where AEO, if I'm putting these glasses back on, comes [00:36:00] into play, is. Look, we're saying goodbye to frankly, what was probably somewhat of a vanity metric with regard to organic traffic coming in on that 10 facts about cube cats. You know, like, was that really how we were like hanging our hat at night, being like. Job done. I think there's very much that in play. And then I'm a little concerned that we just told everyone to go create an AEO channel on their Google Analytics and they're gonna come in here. Avinash told me that those people are buyers. They're immediately gonna come and buy, and why aren't they converting? What is going on here? Can you actually maybe couch that last click with the AI channel inbound? Like should I expect that to be like 10 x the amount of conversions? Avinash Kaushik: All we can say is it's, it's going to be people with high intention. And so with the businesses that I'm working with, what we are finding is that the conversion rates are higher. Mm. This game is too early to establish any kind of sense of if anybody has standards for AEO, they're smoking crack. Like the [00:37:00] game is simply too early. So what we I'm noticing is that in some cases, if the average conversion rate is two point half percent, the AEO traffic is converting at three, three point half. In two or three cases, it's converting at six, seven and a half. But there is not enough stability in the data. All of this is new. There's not enough stability in the data to say, Hey, definitely you can expect it to be double or 10% more or 50% more. We, we have no idea this early stage of the game, but, but George, if we were doing this again in a year, year and a half, I think we'll have a lot more data and we'll be able to come up with some kind of standards for, for now, what's important to understand is, first thing is you're not gonna rank in an answer engine. You just won't. If you do rank in an answer engine, you fought really hard for it. The person decided, oh my God, I really like this. Just just think of the user behavior and say, this person is really high intent because somehow [00:38:00] you showed up and somehow they found you and came to you. Chances are they're caring. Very high intent. George Weiner: Yeah. They just left a conversation with a super intelligent like entity to come to your freaking 2001 website, HTML CSS rendered silliness. Avinash Kaushik: Whatever it is, it could be the iffiest thing in the world, but they, they found me and they came to you and they decided that in the answer engine, they like you as the answer the most. And, and it took that to get there. And so all, all, all is I'm finding in the data is that they carry higher intent and that that higher intent converts into higher conversion rates, higher donations, as to is it gonna be five 10 x higher? It's unclear at the moment, but remember, the other reason you should care about it is. Every single day. As more people move away from Google search engines to answer engines, you're losing a ton of traffic. If somebody new showing up, treat them with, respect them with love. Treat them with [00:39:00] care because they're very precious. Just lost a hundred. Check the landing George Weiner: pages. 'cause you may be surprised where your front door is when complexity is bringing them to you, and it's not where you spent all of your design effort on the homepage. Spoiler. That's exactly Avinash Kaushik: right. No. Exactly. In fact, uh, the doping deeper into your websites is becoming even more prevalent with answer engines. Mm-hmm. Um, uh, than it used to be with search engines. The search always tried to get you the, the top things. There's still a lot of diversity. Your homepage likely is still only 30% of your traffic. Everybody else is landing on other homepage or as you call them, landing pages. So it's really, really important to look beyond your homepage. I mean, it was true yesterday. It's even truer today. George Weiner: Yeah, my hunch and what I'm starting to see in our data is that it is also much higher on the assisted conversion like it is. Yes. Yes, it is. Like if you have come to us from there, we are going to be seeing you again. That's right. That's right. More likely than others. It over indexes consistently for us there. Avinash Kaushik: [00:40:00] Yes. Again, it ties back to the person has higher intent, so if they didn't convert in that lab first session, their higher intent is gonna bring them back to you. So you are absolutely right about the data that you're seeing. George Weiner: Um, alright. War corner, the 10 90 rule. Can you unpack this and then maybe apply it to somebody who thinks that their like AI strategy is done? 'cause they spend $20 or $200 a month on some tool and then like, call it a day. 'cause they did ai. Avinash Kaushik: Yes, yes. No, it's, it's good. I, I developed it in context of analytics. When I was at my, uh, job at Intuit, I used to, I was at Intuit, senior director for research and analytics. And one of the things I found is people would consistently spend lots of money on tools in that time, web analytics tools, research tools, et cetera. And, uh, so they're spending a contract of a few hundred thousand dollars or hundreds of thousands of dollars, and then they give it to a fresh graduate to find insights. [00:41:00] I was like, wait, wait, wait. So you took this $300,000 thing and gave it to somebody. You're paying $45,000 a year. Who is young in their career, young in their career, and expecting them to make you tons of money using this tool? It's not the tool, it's the human. And so that's why I developed the the 10 90 rule, which is that if you have a, if you have a hundred dollars to invest in making smarter decisions, invest $10 in the tool, $90 in the human. We all have access to so much data, so much complexity. The world is changing so fast that it is the human that is going to figure out how to make sense of these insights rather than the tool magically spewing and understanding your business enough to tell you exactly what to do. So that, that's sort of where the 10 90 rule came from. Now, sort of we are in this, in this, um, this is very good for nonprofits by the way. So we're in this era. Where On the 90 side? No. So the 10, look, don't spend insane money on tools that is just silly. So don't do that. Now the 90, let's talk about the [00:42:00] 90. Up until two years ago, I had to spell all of the 90 on what I now call organic humans. You George Weiner: glasses wearing humans, huh? Avinash Kaushik: The development of LLM means that every single nonprofit in the world has access to roughly a third year bachelor's degree student. Like a really smart intern. For free. For free. In fact, in some instances, for some nonprofits, let's say I I just reading about this nonprofit that is cleaning up plastics in the ocean for this particular nonprofit, they have access to a p HT level environmentalist using the latest Chad GP PT 4.5, like PhD level. So the little caveat I'm beginning to put in the 10 90 rule is on the 90. You give the 90 to the human and for free. Get the human, a very smart Bachelor's student by using LLMs in some instances. Get [00:43:00] for free a very smart TH using the LLMs. So the LLMs have now to be incorporated into your research, into your analysis, into building a next dashboard, into building a next website, into building your next mobile game into whatever the hell you're doing for free. You can get that so you have your organic human. Less the synthetic human for free. Both of those are in the 90 and, and for nonprofit, so, so in my work at at Coach and Kate Spade. I have access now to a couple of interns who do free work for me, well for 20 minor $20 a month because I have to pay for the plus version of G bt. So the intern costs $20 a month, but I have access to this syn synthetic human who can do a whole lot of work for me for $20 a month in my case, but it could also do it for free for you. Don't forget synthetic humans. You no longer have to rely only on the organic humans to do the 90 part. You would be stunned. Upload [00:44:00] your latest, actually take last year's worth of donations, where they came from and all this data from you. Have a spreadsheet lying around. Dump it into chat. GPT, I'll ask it to analyze it. Help you find where most donations came from, and visualize trends to present to board of directors. It will blow your mind how good it is at do it with Gemini. I'm not biased, I'm just seeing chat. GPD 'cause everybody knows it so much Better try it with mistrial a, a small LLM from France. So I, I wanna emphasize that what has changed over the last year is the ability for us to compliment our organic humans with these synthetic entities. Sometimes I say synthetic humans, but you get the point. George Weiner: Yeah. I think, you know, definitely dump that spreadsheet in. Pull out the PII real quick, just, you know, make me feel better as, you know, the, the person who's gonna be promoting this to everybody, but also, you know, sort of. With that. I want to make it clear too, that like actually inside of Gemini, like Google for nonprofits has opened up access to Gemini for free is not a per user, per whatever. You have that [00:45:00] you have notebook, LLM, and these. Are sitting in their backyards for free every day and it's like a user to lose it. 'cause you have a certain amount of intelligence tokens a day. Can you, I just like wanna climb like the tallest tree out here and just start yelling from a high building about this. Make the case of why a nonprofit should be leveraging this free like PhD student that is sitting with their hands underneath their butts, doing nothing for them right now. Avinash Kaushik: No, it is such a shame. By the way, I cannot add to your recommendation in using your Gemini Pro account if it's free, on top of, uh, all the benefits you can get. Gemini Pro also comes with restrictions around their ability to use your data. They won't, uh, their ability to put your data anywhere. Gemini free versus Gemini Pro is a very protected environment. Enterprise version. So more, more security, more privacy, et cetera. That's a great benefit. And by the way, as you said, George, they can get it for free. So, um, the, the, the, the posture you should adopt is what big companies are doing, [00:46:00] which is anytime there is a job to be done, the first question you, you should ask is, can I make the, can an AI do the job? You don't say, oh, let me send it to George. Let me email Simon, let me email Sarah. No, no, no. The first thing that should hit your head is. I do the job because most of the time for, again, remember, third year bachelor's degree, student type, type experience and intelligence, um, AI can do it better than any human. So your instincts to be, let me outsource that kind of work so I can free up George's cycles for the harder problems that the AI cannot solve. And by the way, you can do many things. For example, you got a grant and now Meta allows you to run X number of ads for free. Your first thing, single it. What kind of ad should I create? Go type in your nonprofit, tell it the kind of things you're doing. Tell it. Tell it the donations you want, tell it the size, donation, want. Let it create the first 10 ads for you for free. And then you pick the one you like. And even if you have an internal [00:47:00] designer who makes ads, they'll start with ideas rather than from scratch. It's just one small example. Or you wanna figure out. You know, my email program is stuck. I'm not getting yield rates for donations. The thing I want click the button that called that is called deep research or thinking in the LL. Click one of those two buttons and then say, I'm really struggling. I'm at wits end. I've tried all these things. Write all the detail. Write all the detail about what you've tried and now working. Can you please give me three new ideas that have worked for nonprofits who are working in water conservation? Hmm. This would've taken a human like a few days to do. You'll have an answer in under 90 seconds. I just give two simple use cases where we can use these synthetic entities to send us, do the work for us. So the default posture in nonprofits should be, look, we're resource scrapped anyway. Why not use a free bachelor's degree student, or in some case a free PhD student to do the job, or at least get us started on a job. So just spending 10 [00:48:00] hours on it. We only spend the last two hours. The entity entity does the first date, and that is super attractive. I use it every single day in, in one of my browsers. I have three traps open permanently. I've got Claude, I've got Mistrial, I've got Charge GPT. They are doing jobs for me all day long. Like all day long. They're working for me. $20 each. George Weiner: Yeah, it's an, it, it, it's truly, it's an embarrassment of riches, but also getting back to the, uh, the 10 90 is, it's still sitting there. If you haven't brought that capacity building to the person on how to prompt how to play that game of linguistic tennis with these tools, right. They're still just a hammer on a. Avinash Kaushik: That's exactly right. That's exactly right. Or, or in your case, you, you have access to Gemini for nonprofits. It's a fantastic tool. It's like a really nice card that could take you different places you insist on cycling everywhere. It's, it's okay cycle once in a while for health reasons. Otherwise, just take the car, it's free. George Weiner: Ha, you've [00:49:00] been so generous with your time. Uh, I do have one more quick war. If you, if you have, have a minute, uh, your war on funnels, and maybe this is not. Fully fair. And I am like, I hear you yelling at me every time I'm showing our marketing funnel. And I'm like, yeah, but I also have have a circle over here. Can you, can you unpack your war on funnels and maybe bring us through, see, think, do, care and in the land of ai? Avinash Kaushik: Yeah. Okay. So the marketing funnel is very old. It's been around for a very long time, and once I, I sort of started working at Google, access to lots more consumer research, lots more consumer behavior. Like 20 years ago, I began to understand that there's no such thing as funnel. So what does the funnel say? The funnel says there's a group of people running around the world, they're not aware of your brand. Find them, scream at them, spray and pray advertising at them, make them aware, and then somehow magically find the exact same people again and shut them down the fricking funnel and make them consider your product.[00:50:00] And now that they're considering, find them again, exactly the same people, and then shove them one more time. Move their purchase index and then drag them to your website. The thing is this linearity that there's no evidence in the universe that this linearity exists. For example, uh, I'm going on a, I like long bike rides, um, and I just got thirsty. I picked up the first brand. I could see a water. No awareness, no consideration, no purchase in debt. I just need water. A lot of people will buy your brand because you happen to be the cheapest. I don't give a crap about anything else, right? So, um, uh, uh, the other thing to understand is, uh, one of the brands I adore and have lots of is the brand. Patagonia. I love Patagonia. I, I don't use the word love for I think any other brand. I love Patagonia, right? For Patagonia. I'm always in the awareness stage because I always want these incredible stories that brand ambassadors tell about how they're helping the environment. [00:51:00] I have more Patagonia products than I should have. I'm already customer. I'm always open to new considerations of Patagonia products, new innovations they're bringing, and then once in a while, I'm always in need to buy a Patagonia product. I'm evaluating them. So this idea that the human is in one of these stages and your job is to shove them down, the funnel is just fatally flawed, no evidence for it. Instead, what you want to do is what is Ash's intent at the moment? He would like environmental stories about how we're improving planet earth. Patagonia will say, I wanna make him aware of my environmental stories, but if they only thought of marketing and selling, they wouldn't put me in the awareness because I'm already a customer who buys lots of stuff from already, right? Or sometimes I'm like, oh, I'm, I'm heading over to London next week. Um, I need a thing, jacket. So yeah, consideration show up even though I'm your customer. So this seating do care is a framework that [00:52:00] says, rather than shoving people down things that don't exist and wasting your money, your marketing should be able to discern any human's intent and then be able to respond with a piece of content. Sometimes that piece of content in an is an ad. Sometimes it's a webpage, sometimes it's an email. Sometimes it's a video. Sometimes it's a podcast. This idea of understanding intent is the bedrock on which seat do care is built about, and it creates fully customer-centric marketing. It is harder to do because intent is harder to infer, but if you wanna build a competitive advantage for yourself. Intent is the magic. George Weiner: Well, I think that's a, a great point to, to end on. And again, so generous with, uh, you know, all the work you do and also supporting nonprofits in the many ways that you do. And I'm, uh, always, always watching and seeing what I'm missing when, um, when a new, uh, AKA's Razor and Newsletter come out. So any final sign off [00:53:00] here on how do people find you? How do people help you? Let's hear it. Avinash Kaushik: You can just Google or answer Engine Me. It's, I'm not hard. I hard to find, but if you're a nonprofit, you can sign up for my newsletter, TMAI marketing analytics newsletter. Um, there's a free one and a paid one, so you can just sign up for the free one. It's a newsletter that comes out every five weeks. It's completely free, no strings or anything. And that way I'll be happy to share my stories around better marketing and analytics using the free newsletter for you so you can sign up for that. George Weiner: Brilliant. Well, thank you so much, Avan. And maybe, maybe we'll have to take you up on that offer to talk sometime next year and see, uh, if maybe we're, we're all just sort of, uh, hanging out with synthetic humans nonstop. Thank you so much. It was fun, George. [00:54:00]

Have you ever felt like the energy in your home was heavy, stuck, or just in need of a reset? In this episode, we're exploring the art of cleansing rituals — practices that not only clear negative energy but also fill your home with light, love, and fresh possibilities. I'll share my journey from sound healing with Tibetan singing bowls to discovering how simple tools like bells, sage, Palo Santo, rose water — even a saucepan and wooden spoon — can completely shift the atmosphere in your space. You'll also learn step-by-step how to set intentions, invite positive energy, and create a meaningful ritual for your home. Think of this as giving your house a spiritual spring clean while nourishing your own soul. If you've been wanting to reconnect with your home and elevate its energy, this conversation will show you just how magical and heart-opening space clearing can be.   Key Takeaways:  Intention is everything — before starting, set a clear intention for how you want your home to feel, and let that guide your ritual. Space clearing is like a spiritual spring clean — it refreshes stagnant energy in your home and creates space for more lightness, joy, and flow. You don't need fancy tools — from singing bowls and tuning forks to a saucepan and wooden spoon, anything that makes sound can shift the energy.   Resources: Feng Shui Mini Course or Feng Shui 101 - https://love.powerhousefengshui.com/feng-shui-101 Feng Shui Checklist - https://www.powerhousefengshui.com/feng-shui-checklist-1   Connect with Patricia Lohan: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/powerhousefengshui/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@PatriciaLohan Website - https://patricialohan.com/ Send us an email: miracles@patricialohan.com

Seriah is joined by Brennan and Saxon for A Wandering The Road episode. Topics include tech issues, Seriah's recent poltergeist incidents, kundalini energy, strange experiences with the perception of “energy”, a knock on the inside of Seriah's eyelids, the infamous 3 knocks, sensory deprivation tanks, a yoga studio with stereo Tibetan singing bowl sounds, stereo backpacks, Seriah's level stress and poltergeist activity, PK energy and stress, the movie “Final Destination: Bloodlines” movie and a real disaster, actor Tony Todd and his final scene, the band “Drama Scream” and a weird experience, owls in upstate New York, bizarre owl experiences, Seriah's 8 owls in a particular tree, bird watchers, Randonautica experiences, Brennan's short stories for his “Fear Daily” podcast, an electrical power station disguised as a house, Randonautica directing a user to a traphouse / drughouse, Seriah's liminal life, ultraterrestrial beings afraid of humans, a DMT trip encountering a defensive being, Paratopia Oculus, Jeff Ritzmann and Jeremy Vaeni, a shroudman encounter, electro-magnetic fields interfering with communication with the Other, chronic cell phone usage, misperceptions of asbestos and lead and the implications of modern technology, the crisis of concentration, the 2017 film time-travel movie “Curvature”, acoustic strip headphones, different ways of watching films, the possibility that ultraterrestial / Other beings are unable to communicate with humans, Harry Houdini, dreams of deceased loved ones, the video game analogy, a dark take on that idea, experiences and the brain filtering, NDEs and their consequences, Cherylee Black, intelligence civilization and morality among animals, morals vs /and/with religion, moral relativism and moral absolutes, and much more! This is an absolutely fascinating conversation!

རྒྱ་གར་དང་ཨོསྟྲེ་ལི་ཡ། ཨོ་རོབ། བྱང་ཨ་རི། བལ་ཡུལ་སོགས་ནས་བོད་པའི་སློབ་མ་ ༩༠ ཡིས་བྲིས་པའི་རང་ཉིད་དང་༸གོང་ས་༸སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཆེན་པོ་མཆོག་གི་བར་ལ་འབྲེལ་ལམ་མཚོན་པའི་རི་མོ་འགྲེམས་སྟོན་གནང་བཞིན་འདུག དེ་ཡང་འགྲེམས་སྟོན་དེ་བཞིན་བཞུགས་སྒར་དྷརྨ་སཱ་ལཱར་ཁ་དོག་སྒྱུ་རྩལ་མཐུན་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་གོ་སྒྲིག་དང་། བོད་ཀྱི་ཐེབས་རྩ་དང་། ༸གོང་ས་༸སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ་མཆོག་གི་ཀུན་ཕན་བདེ་རྩ་ཚོགས་པ་གཉིས་ཀྱིས་མཐུན་འགྱུར་གནང་བ་ཞིག་ཡིན་ཞིང་། བྱམས་བརྩེའི་ལོ་ཞེས་པ་སྐུའི་གོ་སྟོན་སྲུང་བརྩིའི་ཆ་ཤས་ཤིག་ཡིན་པ་འདུག་པ་དང་། བརྩེ་བའི་༸སྐུ་མདུན་ཞེས་པའི་འགྲེམས་སྟོན་དེ་ཁ་སང་ཚེས་ ༡༧ ནས་འགོ་འཛུགས་ཀྱི་འདི་ཚེས་ ༢༤ བར་ Juniper Café ཇི་ནི་པར་ཇ་ཁང་དང་། The Other Space Gallery and Café དེ་བཞིན་ Dakini House བཅས་ཀྱི་ནང་གནང་བཞིན་འདུག ཐོག་མའི་ཆར་རི་མོ་སྒྱུ་རྩལ་གྱི་ལས་འཆར་དེའི་ནང་ཆ་ཤས་ལེན་མཁན་འཛམ་གླིང་ས་ཕྱོགས་གང་ས་ནས་བོད་པའི་སློབ་མ་ཁྱོན་ ༧༠༠ ལྷག་མཉམ་ཞུགས་གནང་ཡོད་ཅིང་། དེའི་ཁྲོད་ནས་འདེམས་སྒྲུག་ཚོགས་ཆུང་གིས་རི་མོ་ ༩༠ འདེམས་སྒྲུག་གནང་འདུག་པ་མ་ཟད། མཉམ་ཞུགས་གནང་མཁན་ཁོངས་ནས་སློབ་མ་ལོ་ན་རྒན་ཤོས་ལོ་ ༡༨ དང་ལོ་ན་ཆུང་ཤོས་ལོ་ ༦ ཆགས་ཀྱི་འདུག རི་མོ་འདེམས་སྒྲུག་ཚོགས་ཆུང་ནི་རྒྱབ་ལྗོངས་མི་འདྲ་བའི་མི་སྣ་ཁག་བདུན་ལས་གྲུབ་པ་ཞིག་ཆགས་ཀྱི་འདུག འདི་ག་རླུང་འཕྲིན་ཁང་ནས་ཁ་དོག་རི་མོའི་སྒྱུ་རྩལ་མཐུན་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ཚོགས་མི་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཉི་མ་ལགས་སུ་བཀའ་འདྲི་ཞུས་སྐབས། ཁོང་གིས་ལས་གཞི་དེ་ནི་ད་རེས་ཐེངས་གཉིས་པ་ཆགས་ཀྱི་ཡོད་པ་དང་། འགྲེམས་སྟོན་ཐེངས་དང་པོ་དེ་འདི་ལོའི་ཕྱི་ཟླ་ ༧ ཚེས་ ༤ ཉིན་རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་རྒྱལ་ས་ལྡི་ལིར་རྟེན་གཞི་བྱས་པའི་ India International Centre རྒྱ་གར་རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་ལྟེ་གནས་ཁང་དུ་གནང་ཡོད་པ་མ་ཟད། དམིགས་ཡུལ་གཞན་ཞིག་ནི་བོད་པའི་ལོ་ན་གཞོན་པ་དག་ལ་སྒྱུ་རྩལ་གྱི་དོ་དབྱིངས་དང་བག་ཆགས་བསྐྲུན་ཐབས་ཞིག་ཡིན་པ་འགྲེལ་བརྗོད་གནང་སོང་། ལྷག་པར་རི་མོའི་པར་སྒྲོམ་དེ་དག་༸གོང་ས་མཆོག་གི་ཐུགས་དགོངས་བཞིན་ཁོར་ཡུག་ལ་མི་གནོད་པའི་རིགས་བེད་སྤྱོད་བྱེད་ཡོད་པ་དང་། རི་མོ་དེ་དག་ཚོང་འགྲེམས་བྱེད་ཀྱི་ཡོད་པས་བྱུང་དངུལ་ཡོངས་རྫོགས་སློབ་ཕྲུག་རང་ཉིད་ལ་གནང་རྒྱུ་ཡིན་པ་གསུངས་སོང་། རྩ་བའི་ཁ་སང་འགྲེམས་སྟོན་དབུ་འབྱེད་དེ་ […] The post བརྩེ་བའི་༸སྐུ་མདུན་ཞེས་པའི་བརྗོད་གཞིའི་འོག་སློབ་མ་ ༩༠ ཡི་རི་མོ་སྒྱུ་རྩལ་འགྲེམས་སྟོན་བརྒྱུད་གོ་སྟོན་སྲུང་བརྩི། appeared first on vot.

After a brief intro, I jump into the four (very random) China stories of the week (1:25), followed by a deep dive into how the Babylon Bee recently (no joke) promoted Falun Gong, a Chinese Buddhist cult (23:31). For the final five or so minutes, I go through all of the Pray for China cities to "remember" this week. (52:12). Welcome to China Compass on the Fight Laugh Feast Network! I'm your China travel guide, Missionary Ben. Follow me (@chinaadventures) on Twitter/X where I post new/unique Chinese city prayer profiles every single day. Also, you can email me any questions or comments (bfwesten at gmail dot com) and find everything else, including my books, at PrayGiveGo.us! Pray for China places of the week (Follow @chinaadventures to see which city daily) https://chinacall.substack.com/p/pray-for-china-aug-17-23-2025 Robot Antelopes in Tibet https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-deploys-robot-antelope-in-tibet-to-surveil-real-herds China's Strategic Rare Earth Move (50 Years Ago!) https://indiandefencereview.com/in-1978-chinese-engineers-visited-two-major-american-companies-on-their-return-they-founded-an-empire-rare-earths/ All the Peanut Butter in China? https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/charted-peanut-butter-consumption-per-capita-by-country/ Hong Kong to be China's Crypto Hub https://cointelegraph.com/news/china-crypto-liquidation-plans-reveal-its-grand-strategy The Bee: 10 Undeniable Reasons Communist China Is Way Better Than America https://babylonbee.com/news/10-undeniable-reasons-communist-china-is-way-better-than-america Not ‘da Bee: Here’s the Falun Gong Streaming Platform That Sponsored the Bee Article https://www.ganjingworld.com/tag/Falun%20Dafa/1699198512775 More About Falun Gong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong https://www.ucanews.com/news/falun-gongs-secrets-for-surviving-in-china/85660 Final Thoughts on Falun Gong: Not a typical cult, but close (ie, mysterious god-like leader, etc) Not Christian at all, but has some political/practical overlap (right wing, anti-big gov) Better organized than Christians (calls, vpns, hackers, promotions) Follow or subscribe to China Compass and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. And don’t forget: Follow @chinaadventures on X, and find everything else @ PrayGiveGo.us. Luke 10, verse 2, the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Talk to you again soon!

ལུ་དྷི་ཡ་ནཱར་༸སྐུའི་གོ་སྟོན་དང་རྒྱ་གར་རང་བཙན་ཉིན་མོ་སྲུང་བརྩི The post ལུ་དྷི་ཡ་ནཱར་༸སྐུའི་གོ་སྟོན་དང་རྒྱ་གར་རང་བཙན་ཉིན་མོ་སྲུང་བརྩི། appeared first on vot.

After a brief intro, I jump into the four (very random) China stories of the week (1:25), followed by a deep dive into how the Babylon Bee recently (no joke) promoted Falun Gong, a Chinese Buddhist cult (23:31). For the final five or so minutes, I go through all of the Pray for China cities to "remember" this week. (52:12). Welcome to China Compass on the Fight Laugh Feast Network! I'm your China travel guide, Missionary Ben. Follow me (@chinaadventures) on Twitter/X where I post new/unique Chinese city prayer profiles every single day. Also, you can email me any questions or comments (bfwesten at gmail dot com) and find everything else, including my books, at PrayGiveGo.us! Pray for China places of the week (Follow @chinaadventures to see which city daily) https://chinacall.substack.com/p/pray-for-china-aug-17-23-2025 Robot Antelopes in Tibet https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-deploys-robot-antelope-in-tibet-to-surveil-real-herds China's Strategic Rare Earth Move (50 Years Ago!) https://indiandefencereview.com/in-1978-chinese-engineers-visited-two-major-american-companies-on-their-return-they-founded-an-empire-rare-earths/ All the Peanut Butter in China? https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/charted-peanut-butter-consumption-per-capita-by-country/ Hong Kong to be China's Crypto Hub https://cointelegraph.com/news/china-crypto-liquidation-plans-reveal-its-grand-strategy The Bee: 10 Undeniable Reasons Communist China Is Way Better Than America https://babylonbee.com/news/10-undeniable-reasons-communist-china-is-way-better-than-america Not ‘da Bee: Here’s the Falun Gong Streaming Platform That Sponsored the Bee Article https://www.ganjingworld.com/tag/Falun%20Dafa/1699198512775 More About Falun Gong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong https://www.ucanews.com/news/falun-gongs-secrets-for-surviving-in-china/85660 Final Thoughts on Falun Gong: Not a typical cult, but close (ie, mysterious god-like leader, etc) Not Christian at all, but has some political/practical overlap (right wing, anti-big gov) Better organized than Christians (calls, vpns, hackers, promotions) Follow or subscribe to China Compass and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. And don’t forget: Follow @chinaadventures on X, and find everything else @ PrayGiveGo.us. Luke 10, verse 2, the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Talk to you again soon!

In this interview I am once again joined by Dr Ben Joffe, anthropologist, occultist, and scholar practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism. Dr Joffe leads a deep dive into the topic of divination, explores its underlying mechanisms and practical methods, and compares different cultural understandings of the practice. Dr Joffe details his understanding of the tarot as a scholar and reader, shares his advice for those who wish to learn the system, and reveals how to use tarot for information gathering, sorcery, and magickal workings. Dr Joffe also reflects on his own journey as a tarot reader, addresses criticisms that tarot and other psychic methods are exploitative, and considers the uneasy relationship between divination and licensed counselling. … Video version: https://www.guruviking.com/podcast/ep320-divination-tarot-dr-ben-joffe Also available on Youtube, iTunes, & Spotify – search ‘Guru Viking Podcast'. … Topics include: 00:00 - Intro 02:12 - What is divination? 06:08 - Synchronicity and randomness 09:37 - Dependent origination 14:34 - Ben's extensive study of divination 22:13 - Mechanistic vs intuitive 29:17 - Scrying and establishing parameters 34:56 - Childhood divination 39:59 - What should divination mean for the client? 41:50 - Addiction to divination 43:50 - Cold reading and choosing a question 48:45 - Ben's recounts his own history as a diviner 01:20:43 - Structure of the tarot 01:27:16 - How to read tarot 01:48:38 - Tarot reading mistakes 01:53:46 - Tibetan butter lamp divination 01:57:11 - Collaboration vs cold reading 02:02:10 - Studying the history of tarot 02:06:58 - 6 reasons to engage with tarot 02:09:22 - Critique of modern, inclusive decks 02:12:43 - Bad omens and gatekeeping 02:20:17 - Is tarot exploitative pseudo-counselling? 02:47:23 - Why not just become a counsellor? 02:54:19 - Is tarot over-psychologised? 02:55:25 - Ben reflects on his recurring clients 03:01:11 - The power of the right question 03:07:39 - Shaman and tarot reader as therapy-adjacent 03:13:18 - Does clairvoyance actually have value? 03:16:16 - Caution about taking life advice from Buddhist lamas 03:21:44 - Wild West of Tiktok diviners 03:22:49 - Anti-divination laws 03:29:14 - Tibetan and Buddhist divination 
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Venerable Lama Konchok Sonam is the Spiritual Director of the Drikung Meditation Center. Born in Lhasa, Tibet, Lama Sonam began his Buddhist training when young within the Drikung Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. At the age of 18, Lama Sonam took full ordination and became a monk (Gelong). Lama Sonam then went on to complete a retreat on Ngondro (Common and Extraordinary Preliminaries) and the Five-Fold Path of Mahamudra under H.H. Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche and Gelong Yeshe. Lama Sonam received teachings and blessings from more than twenty-five great masters, including Nyedak Rinpoche, his beloved main teacher, and the Most Venerable Pachung Rinpoche, the renown scholar and retreat master at Drikung Thil monastery. Lama Sonam served as disciplinarian at Jang Chub Ling monastery, in Dehra Dun, India. This difficult position required an extremely vast knowledge of the Dharma, and inspirational deep inner qualities. Lama Sonam has also served as the personal attendant to H.H. Chungtsang Rinpoche, H.E. Drubwang Rinpoche, Tongkar Tulku, and H.E. Thritsab Rinpoche, and tutored American tulku Thadag Rinpoche (Jack Churchward).   On June 9, 2003, Lama Sonam arrived in Boston to be the Resident Lama at the Drikung Meditation Center. Lama Sonam has shown himself to be expert in both the theoretical and practical aspects of training the mind through meditation and Vajrayana methods for awakening our Buddha Nature. In the fall of 2005, Lama Sonam started the Jowo Rinpoche Statue Project to benefit the Boston area, the United States, and the world. Lama Sonam began to realize his vision of bringing the blessings of Buddhism, from Buddha Shakyamuni and countless other enlightened masters from the East- India, Nepal, and Tibet, to the United States by creating a pilgrimage site. Arriving in May of 2008, the centerpiece of the pilgrimage site is an eight foot tall gilded, jewel-encrusted bronze, the U.S. Jowo Rinpoche Statue. The magnificent U.S. Jowo Rinpoche statue is a replica and spiritual emanation of the most revered Jowo Rinpoche statue that was made at the time of the historical Buddha and brought to Lhasa, Tibet in 641 AD.

བདུན་ཕྲག་འདིའི་བོད་དོན་གསར་འགྱུར་ཕྱོགས་བསྡུས། ༢༠༢༥།༠༨།༡༥ Tibet This Week (Tibetan)– August. 15, 2025 ◆ ༧སྐུའི་གོ་སྟོན་སྐབས་བོད་ནང་རྒྱ་ནག་གཞུང་གིས་དམ་དྲག་ཤུགས་ཆེ་བྱས་པའི་གནས་ཚུལ་ཐོན་པ། ◆ རྒྱ་ནག་གཞུང་གིས་ཧོར་གཙང་ཀིརྟི་དགོན་པའི་ཁྲི་ཚབ་དགེ་བཤེས་ལྷ་རམས་པ་དཀོན་མཆོག་ཆོས་གྲགས་ལགས་འཛིན་བཟུང་བཙན་ཁྲིད་ཀྱིས་གར་སོང་ཆ་མེད་དུ་བཏང་བ། ◆ དཔལ་ལྡན་སྲིད་སྐྱོང་མཆོག་གིས་ལྡི་ལི་བོད་སྒར་བསམ་ཡས་གླིང་དང་ཌལ་ཧོར་ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་དུ་འཚམས་གཟིགས་གནང་བ། ◆ དཔལ་ལྡན་ཤེས་རིག་བཀའ་བློན་མཆོག་ས་རཱ་བོད་ཀྱི་མཐོ་རིམ་སློབ་གཉེར་ཁང་དབུ་བརྙེས་ཏེ་ལོ་ངོ་ ༢༧ འཁོར་བའི་དུས་དྲན་སྲུང་བརྩིའི་མཛད་སྒོར་ཕེབས་ཞུགས་གནང་བ། ◆ ལྷོ་ཨ་མི་རི་ཀའི་ཡུལ་གྲུ་ཅི་ལིའི་(Chile)རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཏུ་བྱམས་བརྩེའི་ལོ་སྲུང་བརྩི་ཞུས་པའི་མཛད་སྒོར་དཔལ་ལྡན་ཕྱི་དྲིལ་བཀའ་བློན་མཆོག་ཕེབས་ཞུགས་གནང་བ། ◆ དཔལ་ལྡན་ཁྲིམས་ཞིབ་པ་ཆེ་བ་ཡེ་ཤེས་དབང་མོ་མཆོག་གི་མདུན་དུ་ཟུང་དྲུང་མིག་དམར་རྡོ་རྗེ་ལགས་ཀྱིས་སྐོར་སྐྱོད་ཁྲིམས་ཞིབ་པའི་ལས་འཁུར་དམ་འབུལ་ཞུས་པ། ◆ དབུས་འོས་བསྡུ་ལས་ཁང་ནས་བོད་མིའི་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཁྲོད་འོས་བསྡུ་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ཁྱབ་གདལ་འགྲོ་བཞིན་པའི་འཁྱོག་བཤད་རིགས་ལ་བདག་སྤྲོད་མི་གནང་བའི་ཡོངས་ཁྱབ་གནང་བ། https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCuAfgwBJqs1UnOfTOgTnHnrTrt_o84Xv&si=7jXE9RkMZVjBFCjH https://ghoton.net https://hhthedalailama90.net #dalailama #yearofcompassion #90thbirthday #compassionrevolution #ghoton #TibetansforTibet #centraltibetanadministration #dailynews #tibettv #weeklynews

The Future of Health: Dr. Shamini Jain “The Force is with you—it really is. Your biofield is always with you, teaching us that we have innate healing power. We are finally coming into a time where we are tired of models that tell us we have to believe in either science or spirituality. These practices can integrate into healthcare without being anti-conventional medicine.” What does science actually say about the power of our healing connection? The importance and roles of consciousness, energy and information to create and guide health have been central topics of millennia-old ‘whole systems' of care that include Chinese, Tibetan, Native American, African, and Ayurvedic medicine. The term “biofield” is relatively new, and leans toward these ancient and indigenous ways of perceiving our wholeness. Get the Book >>> Healing Ourselves Dr. Shamini Jain is Founder and President of the 501c3 social-profit, Consciousness and Healing Initiative (CHI), an international collaborative of scientists, healing practitioners, educators and artists who lead humanity to heal ourselves. She also serves as an adjunct professor at UC San Diego's Department of Family Medicine, where she supports education within UCSD's Centers for Integrative Health. A clinical psychologist and an award-winning researcher and author in psychoneuroimmunology, integrative health and biofield science, Dr. Jain is an international keynote speaker and self-healing teacher. She integrates her expertise in clinical psychology, psychoneuroimmunology, Eastern contemplative practices, and vocal empowerment to teach others how they can best heal themselves and live joyful, fulfilling lives. https://www.shaminijain.com/ Newsletter Sign Up Here - Stay Connected / SIMRAN's Community  11:11 Talk Radio... Conversations of energy, growth, truth, and wisdom that expand personal growth, empower conscious living, and raise self-awareness.  Learn more about Simran here: www.iamsimran.com www.1111mag.com/

བྱམས་བརྩེའི་ལོ་སྲུང་བརྩི་དང་བསྟུན་ཀར་ནཱ་ཊ་ཀ་མངའ་སྡེའི་གཞུང་དང་སྤྱི་ཁྱབ་བློན་ཆེན་ཟུར་པ་དམ་པ་སྐུ་ཞབས་ Nijalingappa མཆོག་ལ་བཀའ་དྲིན་རྗེས་དྲན། The post བྱམས་བརྩེའི་ལོ་སྲུང་བརྩི་དང་བསྟུན་ཀར་ནཱ་ཊ་ཀ་མངའ་སྡེའི་གཞུང་དང་སྤྱི་ཁྱབ་བློན་ཆེན་ཟུར་པ་དམ་པ་ Nijalingappa མཆོག་ལ་བཀའ་དྲིན་རྗེས་དྲན། appeared first on vot.

A step-by-step guide to reclaiming the soul• Shares four maps for spiritual rebirth based on Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, Tibetan Buddhist philosophy, and the precession of the equinoxes• Traces the author's journey of rebirth, covering his transformation through a spiritual crisis and the creation of a more meaningful life• Provides visualization practices based on ancient Tibetan wisdom to support you on the path of self-realizationExploring wisdom from mystical traditions and perennial philosophy on "dying before you die," Buddhist psychotherapist Miles Neale shares his own hero's journey of rebirth, providing a detailed roadmap for the pilgrimage through dissolution, into the great mystery, and back again to the world. He shares his transformation through a spiritual crisis and, ultimately, his creation of a more meaningful life. He provides four intersecting maps to help guide readers through the experiential process of metaphoric death, reclaiming the soul, and sharing one's genius with others. These four maps—the cosmological map, psychological map, alchemical map, and mythopoetic map—draw on the mythological stages of Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung's process of individuation, the Tibetan Buddhist alchemy of conscious rebirth, and the astrological phenomenon of the precession of the equinoxes, offering a detailed philosophical underpinning for the soul's journey to immortality. He also provides in-depth visualization practices based on ancient Tibetan wisdom to support you on the path of self-realization.Integrating Tibetan Buddhism with psychology, trauma healing, neuroscience, and mythology, along with profound personal experience, Neale provides a step-by-step manual for spiritual rebirth, revealing how to reframe life's unrelenting challenges and transitions as opportunities for psychological growth.Dr. Miles Neale, PsyD is a psychotherapist in private practice, teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, founder of the Gradual Path for inner and outer journeys, author of Gradual Awakening, and co-editor of Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy.His forthcoming book, Return with Elixir: Four Maps for the Pilgrimage of the Soul Through Death and Rebirth (Inner Traditions, 2025), integrates Joseph Campbell's mythology, Carl Jung's psychology, Tibetan Buddhist alchemy, and the precession of the equinoxes.Over the past twenty-five years, Miles has fused Eastern spirituality with Western psychology. He earned a Masters in meditation research from New York University, a Doctorate in clinical psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies, and trained in long-term mentor-student relationships with preeminent American Buddhist scholars Professor Robert Thurman, PhD, and Dr. Joseph Loizzo, MD, PhD as well as Tibetan master Geshe Tenzin Zopa.Miles has taught psychology and meditation at the integrative medical clinics of Harvard, Columbia, and Cornell Universities, designed and led the Contemplative Studies Immersion certificate program based on the Tibetan gradual path (lam rim), offers courses and workshops internationally including at the Tibet House, US, and has initiated fundraising campaigns for nunneries in the Himalayan region.Miles curates and leads life-changing pilgrimages to sacred sites around the world and lives with his wife and two kids in Bali, Indonesia.www.milesneale.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/earth-ancients--2790919/support.

00:00:00 – Alex Jones Clips & Show Banter Lighthearted opening with jokes about nicknames and co-host absences. Discussion drifts into playing August 7th Alex Jones clips, highlighting bizarre rants about goblins, lizard people, and over-the-top food consumption stories. Anecdotes include confirmation Alex once stood shirtless near coworkers. 00:10:00 – Consciousness & Time Travel Theories Conversation moves from podcast production trends into a Popular Mechanics article suggesting consciousness can “jump through time.” Discusses precognition, dream-based predictions, and cultural views on non-linear time. Examples from scientific studies suggest brain activity can anticipate events before they happen. 00:20:00 – Precognition Experiments & Cultural Beliefs Details statistical research by Dean Radin and Julia Mossbridge showing measurable anticipatory brain responses. Touches on deja vu as possible “memories from the future” and historic practices like Tibetan oracles and psychoactive-assisted visions to gain foresight. Mentions Philip K. Dick's claims of parallel world memories. 00:30:00 – Past Life Memory Study Covers a Portuguese-led study on adults claiming past life memories, noting most were female and memories often linked to phobias or trauma. Findings show correlations with mental health issues like PTSD. Review of related academic literature on reincarnation and between-life memories. 00:40:00 – Mark Maron Rant & Lou Elizondo Restaurant Mark Maron critiques comedians for repetitive “anti-woke” material and conflating cultural pushback with censorship, prompting debate on actual government-linked online suppression. Shift to news that UFO figure Lou Elizondo opened a WWII-themed restaurant in Buffalo, Wyoming. 00:50:00 – Bill Gates' Carbon Butter & Odd Headlines Examines a Bill Gates–backed company making butter from captured carbon and hydrogen, raising skepticism about nutrition and safety. Other odd news: NFL's heaviest player told to lose weight, and difficulty generating AI images of Lou Elizondo in a urinal for comedic effect. 01:00:00 – NFL Weight Ultimatum & Failed Government Grocery Store Spotlight on massive rookie Desmond Watson's athleticism despite weighing 464 lbs, and team's push to slim him down. Then a Kansas City government-run grocery store closes after rampant shoplifting, bad inventory, and unsafe environment, despite $30M in public funding. 01:10:00 – Crossbow Bolt in Head & AI Image Gags Story of Italian man surviving two days with a crossbow bolt lodged in his forehead. Humorous detours into generating Bill Gates–themed butter product images. Discussion of Titanic conspiracy claiming Olympic ship sank instead for insurance fraud. 01:20:00 – Bermuda Triangle ‘Solved' & Worst Song Debate Scientist attributes disappearances to bad weather, navigation errors, and magnetic anomalies—no paranormal cause. Viral backlash brands Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros' “Home” as “worst song ever made,” prompting defense from the band's singer. 01:30:00 – Amsterdam Go-Kart Tours Backlash Reports of new go-kart city tours in Amsterdam sparking official concern over traffic safety and tourist rowdiness, likened to previously banned beer bikes. Safety restrictions detailed; debate over whether such attractions belong in busy urban spaces. 01:40:00 – Farewell to AOL Dial‑Up AOL announces it's finally discontinuing dial‑up internet and related software next month; cue nostalgia for the modem screech, jokes about AIM, and a heads‑up that remaining subscribers have until September 30 to switch. 01:50:00 – Pokémon Cards > Happy Meals Chat about a Japan craze: people buying piles of McDonald's Happy Meals just to grab the special Pokémon cards and leaving the food behind. Goofing on “unhappy meal” returns, Alex Jones ringtones, and printer‑jam life while slogging through emails. 02:00:00 – Sign‑Off Shenanigans Quick bits on blue‑light glasses, a listener planning a “Potent Trump” report, and one last drop of the recurring “I'm just a big ol' fat woman” stinger before the classic OBDM wrap: “keep watching the skies,” take care of each other, and we're out.   Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research ▀▄▀▄▀ CONTACT LINKS ▀▄▀▄▀ ► Phone: 614-388-9109 ► Skype: ourbigdumbmouth ► Website: http://obdmpod.com ► Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/obdmpod ► Full Videos at Odysee: https://odysee.com/@obdm:0 ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/obdmpod ► Instagram: obdmpod ► Email: ourbigdumbmouth at gmail ► RSS: http://ourbigdumbmouth.libsyn.com/rss ► iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/our-big-dumb-mouth/id261189509?mt=2  

Send us a textHow often do you sit with a cup of herbal tea and really feel the effects that it has in your body?  And if you have experienced this, what did you notice?  Traditionally, through many ancient cultures plants have been allies to humans.  Meditating with plants and fostering relationship with plants can be a profound way to potentiate both the plants and the meditation practice.In this special episode of The Nourished Nervous System, I am thrilled to welcome David Crow, an expert in herbalism and classical Asian medicine. We dive into an enlightening conversation about the synergy between herbs and meditation, exploring how these practices can potentiate each other. I share my serendipitous journey with David, highlighting key moments that led to deep learning experiences. David elaborates on his path studying Acupuncture, Tibetan and Ayurvedic medicine and his practices in meditation. We discuss practical applications of herbs combined with meditation to enhance healing, introducing the concept of 'illuminated herbalism.' This conversation covers the profound relationship between mindfulness and herbal practices, and I wrap up with details on David's courses and resources for those interested in this integrative approach.In this episode:David Crow's Background and JourneyIntegrating Herbal Medicine and MeditationPractical Applications and Personal ExperiencesMindful Tea Drinking: Unlocking Hidden DimensionsThe Power of Attention in Herbal PotencyUsing Herbs to Enhance Yoga Nidra and MeditationDirecting Herbal Effects with Focused AttentionPractical Applications: Herbs for Different SystemsExploring the Unity of Breath and PlantsConnect with David:WebsiteInstagramFacebookIlluminated Herbalism CourseShop with all courses and booksMy resources:Weekend Nervous System Reset Deep Rest MeditationNourished For Resilience Workbook Book a free Exploratory CallFind me at www.nourishednervoussystem.comand @nourishednervoussytem on Instagram

Can a few minutes of reflection each day really change how you experience your life? Tune in for an inspiring discussion with Venerable Lama Lhanang Rinpoche & Mordy Levine on their new book The Buddha in You: A Beginner's Guide to Buddhism, from Karma to Nirvana. Moments with Marianne airs in the Southern California area on KMET1490AM & 98.1 FM, an ABC Talk News Radio Affiliate!  https://www.kmet1490am.comLama Lhanang Rinpoche was born in the Amdo region of historic Tibet and received a traditional monastic education and later studied under several respected Tibetan lamas. Today, he teaches Vajrayana Buddhism at the Jigme Lingpa Center in San Diego, California.http://www.BuddhistSanDiego.comMordy Levine is an entrepreneur, meditation teacher, and the president of the Jigme Lingpa Center. He also created the Meditation Pro Series, a meditation program designed to alleviate chronic health issues. http://www.MordyLevine.com   Order on Amazon: https://a.co/d/7oMOlmu For more show information visit:   www.MariannePestana.com

Victoria གྲོས་ཚོགས་ནང་གྲོས་ཚོགས་འཐུས་མི་ ༢༠ མཉམ་ཞུགས་ཀྱིས་༸སྐུའི་གོ་སྟོན་སྲུང་བརྩི། The post Victoria གྲོས་ཚོགས་ནང་གྲོས་ཚོགས་འཐུས་མི་ ༢༠ མཉམ་ཞུགས་ཀྱིས་༸སྐུའི་གོ་སྟོན་སྲུང་བརྩི། appeared first on vot.

ཐའེ་ལེནྜ་རྒྱ་ནག་གཞུང་ཚབ་ཁང་གིས་འགྲེམས་སྟོན་ཕྱིར་བསྡུ་བྱས་པའི་བོད་པའི་སྒྱུ་རྩལ་བ་བསྟན་འཛིན་མིང་འགྱུར་ལགས་སུ་བཀའ་འདྲི། The post ཐའེ་ལེནྜ་རྒྱ་ནག་གཞུང་ཚབ་ཁང་གིས་འགྲེམས་སྟོན་ཕྱིར་བསྡུ་བྱས་པའི་བོད་པའི་སྒྱུ་རྩལ་བ་བསྟན་འཛིན་མིང་འགྱུར་ལགས་སུ་བཀའ་འདྲི། appeared first on vot.

བོད་མིའི་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་ཀྱི་སྲིད་སྐྱོང་སྤེན་པ་ཚེ་རིང་མཆོག་ནས་དེ་སྔོན་བོད་མི་གནས་སྡོད་ས་གནས་ཁག་ཏུ་ཐེངས་གཉིས་རེ་སྐོར་སྐྱོད་ཐུབ་པའི་ཐོག་མའི་ཁས་ལེན་ལྟར།   ཁ་སང་འདི་ག་ལྡི་ལི་ཁུལ་དུ་གནས་སྡོད་ལ་དྭགས་བྷུ་དྷ་བྷི་ཧར་དང་།  བོད་སྒར་བསམ་ཡས་གླིང་བཅས་སུ་མཚམས་གཟིགས་གནང་སྟེ།    ས་གནས་བོད་མིའི་བདེ་སྡུག་གི་གནས་སྟངས་རྒྱུས་ལོན་གནང་ཡོད་པ་མ་ཟད།   ཁོང་གི་ལས་རྒྱུན་རིང་བོད་མིའི་རང་དབང་འཐབ་རྩོད་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ཆབ་སྲིད་ཀྱི་གནད་དོན་དང་།   སྤྱི་ཚོགས་བདེ་དོན།   ལྷག་པར་དུ་འཛིན་སྐྱོང་བཅས་ཀྱིས་ལས་དོན་མི་མང་ལ་སྙན་སེང་ཞུས་སོང་། དེ་ཡང་སྲིད་སྐྱོང་སྤེན་པ་ཚེ་རིང་མཆོག་ནས་ཐོག་མར་ལ་དྭགས་བྷུ་དྷ་བྷི་ཧར་དང་།   བོད་སྒར་བསམ་ཡས་གླིང་བཅས་གཟིགས་སྐོར་གནང་པ་དང་སྦྲགས།   ས་གནས་ཀྱི་འབྲེལ་ཡོད་ཁག་དང་ཟུར་དུ་མཇལ་འཕྲད་གནང་བའི་བརྒྱུད། བོད་སྒར་གྱི་བོད་ཕྲུག་ཁྱིམ་སྡེའི་རྩེད་ཐང་དུ་མི་མང་འདུ་འཛོམས་སར།  རང་ཉིད་དེ་སྔོན་ ༢༠༠༦ ལོར་སྤྱི་འཐུས་ཤིག་དང་།  ལྡི་ལིར་ཕྱག་ལས་གནང་བཞིན་པའི་ཁྲོད།   བོད་སྒར་དེ་བཞིན་གནས་མིན་གྱི་ཁྲིམས་ཐོག་དཀའ་ངལ་ལ་གདོང་ལེན་བྱས་པའི་ཉམས་མྱོང་དང་འབྲེལ་ཏེ།   བསམ་ཡས་གླིང་གི་མི་མང་ཚོས་ངེས་པར་དུ་ཡུལ་ཁྲིམས་ལ་བརྩི་སྲུང་བྱེད་དགོས་པའི་ལམ་སྟོན་གནང་སོང་། སྲིད་སྐྱོང་མཆོག་གིས་ལྡི་ལི་བོད་སྒར་བསམ་ཡས་གླིང་གི་གཙོས་པའི་མི་མང་ཚོས་ངོས་ནས་ལྡི་ལི་དེ་བཞིན་རྒྱལ་ས་ཡིན་པའི་ས་ཆའི་གནས་བབ་དང་འབྲེལ། རྒྱུན་དུ་བོད་མིའི་རང་དབང་འཐབ་རྩོད་ཀྱི་ལས་དོན་ཁག་ལ་ཐུགས་འགན་ཆེ་བཞེས་གནང་བཞིན་པར་བསྔགས་བརྗོད་དང་སྦྲགས།   ད་ལྟའི་སྐབས་ ༡༦ པའི་ཁོང་གི་བཀའ་ཤག་ངོས་ནས་བོད་རྒྱའི་དཀའ་རྙོག་སེལ་ཐབས་སུ་དབུ་མའི་ལམ་གྱི་སྲིད་བྱུས་འོག་འཐབ་བྱུས་དང་ལྡན་པའི་ཐོག་ནས་བོད་དོན་འཐབ་རྩོད་རྒྱུན་སྐྱོང་གནང་བཞིན་པའི་སྐོར་ཡང་གསལ་བཤད་གནང་སོང་། སྲིད་སྐྱོང་མཆོག་གིས་ད་དུང་།  ༸སྐུའི་གོ་སྟོན་དང་འབྲེལ་བཀའ་ཤག་གི་ངོས་ནས་༸གོང་ས་༸སྐྱབས་མགོན་ཆེན་པོ་མཆོག་གི་༸སྐུའི་ཡང་སྲིད་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་བོད་མིའི་ལངས་ཕྱོགས་རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་སྟེང་གསལ་སྟོན་གནང་ཟིན་པ་མ་ཟད། ཨ་མི་རི་ཀ་གཙོས་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཁག་བདུན་ལྷག་ནས་༸སྐུའི་ཡང་སྲིད་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་གནད་དོན་ཐད་མགོན་པོ་༸གང་ཉིད་མཆོག་གི་དགོངས་གཞི་ལས་གཞན་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་སུ་ཞིག་གི་ཀྱང་ཐེ་བྱུས་ཆོག་གི་མེད་པའི་བསྒྲགས་གཏམ་སྤེལ་ཡོད་པའི་སྐོར་ཡང་གསལ་བཤད་གནང་སོང་།    སྲིད་སྐྱོང་མཆོག་གིས་གཞན་ཡང་སྐབས་ ༡༦ པའི་ད་ལྟའི་བཀའ་ཤག་གི་ངོས་ནས་བོད་མིའི་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་དང་གཞུང་ཁོངས་མ་ཡིན་པའི་སྒྲིག་འཛུགས་ཁག་གི་ཁྲིམས་སྒྲིག་བསྐྱར་བཅོས་སོགས་ཀྱི་ལས་དོན་གསལ་བཤད་དང་འབྲེལ།    རྗེས་འབྱོར་བོད་མིའི་གཙོས་རང་ཁྱིམ་མེད་པའི་པའི་བོད་མི་ཚོར་སྡོད་ཁང་མཐུན་རྐྱེན་མཁོ་སྤྲོད་ཀྱིས་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་བདེ་དོན་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ལས་གཞི་ཁག་ངོ་སྤྲོད་དང་སྦྲགས།  བོད་མི་ནང་ཁུལ་ཆོལ་ཁ་ཆོས་ལུགས་དང་།   དབུ་མ་རང་བཙན་སོགས་ཁ་ལ་འཁྱེར་ནས་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ནང་ཁུལ་དོན་མེད་རྩོད་རྙོག་མ་བཟོས་པར།  ཚང་མས་ནུས་པ་མཉམ་སྤུངས་བྱེད་དགོས་པའི་འབོད་སྐུལ་ཡང་གནང་ཡོད།  The post སྲིད་སྐྱོང་མཆོག་གིས་ལྡི་ལི་བོད་སྒར་མི་མང་ཚོས་ཡུལ་ཁྲིམས་ལ་བརྩི་སྲུང་གནང་དགོས་པའི་འབོད་སྐུལ། appeared first on vot.

On today's podcast, we'll talk about the ancient art of Tibetan Opera, which had been dwindling but is now reaching new stages of development thanks to greater support from the government as well as audiences. 

ཨ་རི་ནང་བོད་དོན་དྲིལ་བསྒྲགས་ཆེད་བོད་དོན་རྒྱུག་ཤར་ཞེས་པའི་ལས་འགུལ་སྤེལ་འདུག The post ཨ་རི་ནང་བོད་དོན་དྲིལ་བསྒྲགས་ཆེད་བོད་དོན་རྒྱུག་ཤར་ཞེས་པའི་ལས་འགུལ་སྤེལ་འདུག appeared first on vot.

སྲིད་སྐྱོང་མཆོག་ནེ་ནི་ཏཱལ་བོད་མིའི་གཞིས་ཆགས་སུ་ཐེངས་དང་པོ་གཞུང་འབྲེལ་འཚམས་གཟིགས་གནང་འདུག The post སྲིད་སྐྱོང་མཆོག་ནེ་ནི་ཏཱལ་བོད་མིའི་གཞིས་ཆགས་སུ་ཐེངས་དང་པོ་གཞུང་འབྲེལ་འཚམས་གཟིགས། appeared first on vot.

ཆོས་ཚན་ཟུང་འབྲེལ་གྱི་བློ་སྦྱོང་དང་སྒོམ་སྒྲུབ་ཅེས་པའི་བརྗོད་གཞི་ཐོག་དབྱར་དུས་སྒོམ་སྒྲུབ་ཐེངས་དང་པོ་འཛོམས་གནང་བ། The post ཆོས་ཚན་ཟུང་འབྲེལ་གྱི་བློ་སྦྱོང་དང་སྒོམ་སྒྲུབ་ཅེས་པའི་བརྗོད་གཞི་ཐོག་དབྱར་དུས་སྒོམ་སྒྲུབ་ཐེངས་དང་པོ་འཛོམས་གནང་བ། appeared first on vot.

བདུན་ཕྲག་འདིའི་བོད་དོན་གསར་འགྱུར་ཕྱོགས་བསྡུས། ༢༠༢༥།༠༨།༠༨ Tibet This Week (Tibetan)-August 08, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDorrxcmhCU&list=PLCuAfgwBJqs1UnOfTOgTnHnrTrt_o84Xv https://ghoton.net/ https://hhthedalailama90.net/

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Ethan welcomes Buddhist Geeks Co-Founder, teacher, and Palestinian-American Dharma teacher Vince Fakhoury Horn. They discuss the rise of "podcast dharma" in the early 21st century, Vince's path to teaching meditation, Vince's experience of his Palestinian heritage, why it's hard to get Dharma teachers to speak out about the genocide in Gaza, The Buddhist practice of Mohsen Mahdawi, and the complex legacy of Chogyam Trungpa and Tibetan refugees in relation to the Palestinian experience.  Vince Fakhoury Horn is part of a new generation bringing dharma, meditation, & mindfulness to life in the 21st century. A computer engineering dropout turned full-time meditator, Vince spent his 20s co-founding the ground-breaking project, Buddhist Geeks, while simultaneously doing a full year, in total, of silent retreat practice. Vince began teaching in 2010 and has since been authorized in both the Pragmatic Dharma lineage of Kenneth Folk, and by Trudy Goodman (InsightLA) & Jack Kornfield of (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) in the Insight Meditation tradition. Since then he has spent thousands of hours supporting individuals, groups, & organizations in incorporating meditation practice into their lives. Please support the podcast via Substack and subscribe for free or with small monthly contributions. Paid subscribers will receive occasional extras like guided meditations, extra podcast episodes and more! The Thursday Meditation Group starts up again on July 10th, and a special guided meditation on Open Awareness in Everyday Life was released this week. Another bonus podcast discussed a mindful take on the Revolutionary Astrology of Summer 2025 with Juliana McCarthy and Ethan Nichtern. You can also subscribe to The Road Home podcast wherever you get your pods (Apple, Spotify,Ethan's Website, etc). Ethan's most recent book, Confidence: Holding Your Seat Through Life's Eight Worldly Winds was just awarded a gold medal in the 2025 Nautilus Book Awards. You can visit Ethan's website to order a signed copy. Please allow two weeks from the time of your order for your copy to arrive. Don't forget to sign up for the August 23 “Windhorse Meditation” Online Retreat at this link and the upcoming 5 day retreat at the lovely Garrison Institute at this link ! Check out all the cool offerings at our podcast sponsor Dharma Moon, including theBody of Meditation Teacher Training program beginning July 10th, 2025. Free video courses co-taught by Ethan and others, such as The Three Marks of Existence, are also available for download.

Erik Pema Kunsang is a dharma teacher, practitioner, and one of the most highly regarded Tibetan translators. Today, we meet in his homeland of Denmark, where Erik shares stories of meditation masters he has spent time with, as well as on some essential aspects of the path and fruit of spiritual realization.   00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:24 Trulshik Adeu Rinpoche 00:04:50 Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche 00:12:22 Dilgo Khyentse and 16th Karmapa 00:13:25 Tulku Urgyen on nature of mind 00:17:20 Dilgo Khyentse's style of teaching 00:20:44 Former training for realization 00:23:46 Tantras and sutras theatre 00:26:37 Chatral Sangye Dorje 00:27:30 Open-mindedness towards Bodhisattva activity 00:30:12 Outcome of denigrating a bodhisattva 00:36:00 Karmic links with humans and non-humans 00:39:44 Two accumulations 00:42:18 Instantaneous enlightenment 00:44:00 Seeking what makes sense in this life ~ Links: Gomde Denmark https://gomde.dk/   Previous conversations with Erik https://oliviaclementine.com/erik-pema-kunsang-changing-karmic-patterns-studying-reality-being-a-decent-human/   Podcast website & transcript https://oliviaclementine.com/erik-pema-kunsang-stories-of-meditation-masters/  

In this week's show, Lian is joined by Nicholas Breeze Wood. Nicholas has practiced shamanism for over 40 years, combining it with the 'earthier' end of Tibetan Buddhism, as well as with 'medicine' teachings from Native North American peoples. He has worked with many gifted medicine people and shamans over the years, and is deeply apprenticed to his own spirit helpers, whose teachings never fail to awe and surprise him. Nick's shamanism is a fusion of traditional Himalayan and Mongolian forms, combined with teachings from his own spirits. He works especially deeply with ritual objects - such as bronze shaman's mirrors, phurba daggers and many other Mongolian and Tibetan shamanic and Buddhist ritual objects - for which he holds traditional teachings and, where required, traditional initiations. Despite being a ‘rather uneducated Buddhist,' he is an ordained Tibetan Buddhist lama, a type called a ngakpa, whose role is similar to a shaman's. Ngakpas are non-monastic, non-celebrate lamas who live in the community, specialising in ritual and magic for people within their community. Nick is the editor of Sacred Hoop Magazine - a leading international magazine about shamanism - which has been published since 1993. He is also a musician and artist. He is the author of several books including, 'Walking with the Tiger,' 'Sacred Drums of Siberia,' 'A Little Book of Revealing,' 'Voices From The Earth,' 'The Book of the Shaman,' 'The Shaman Box,' and 'The Resplendent Other'. He runs the large Facebook group 3Worlds Shamanism, has done a podcast called the 3Worlds shamanism podcast on and off since 2006 and also has a somewhat neglected YouTube channel, also called 3Worlds Shamanism. In this episode, Lian and Nicholas explore what it means to walk the path of shamanism in the modern West. Together, they trace the winding threads of Nicholas' life… from the windswept fields of his Midlands childhood to the birth of Sacred Hoop magazine, through encounters with medicine wheel teachings, Mongolian and Himalayan shamans, and the long shadow of Castaneda. What unfolds is not a how-to or a prescription… but a living braid of animism, discipline, and devotion. Nicholas reflects on the unexpected gift of dyslexia and how neurodivergence shaped his initiatory path, as a different kind of perception… one that enabled a direct, embodied relationship with the unseen. He and Lian explore the tension between psychotherapeutic frameworks and authentic shamanic practice, and the danger of mistaking surface form for deep structure. What makes a shaman, he says, is not sensitivity or interest, but being chosen by the spirits themselves. Woven through the conversation is the question of lineage. What does it mean to carry teachings from other lands onto this one? How do we honour both the transmission and the soil we stand upon? From the cosmology of the medicine wheel to the pitfalls of cultural appropriation, from core shamanism to the necessity of cosmological bone… this episode offers a rare encounter with an elder who has walked the shamanic path for many decades. We'd love to know what YOU think about this week's show. Let's carry on the conversation… please leave a comment wherever you are listening or in any of our other spaces to engage. What you'll learn from this episode: Why the word “shaman” is often misused… and how understanding deep structure versus surface form can clarify what is truly sacred. How neurodivergence can shape perception in ways that become part of our gift, especially when navigating the unseen or the unknown. What it might mean to birth a Western lineage… one rooted not in imitation, but in integration, initiation, and real relationship with land and spirit. Resources and stuff spoken about: Visit Nick's websites: Sacred Hoop Magazine 3Worlds Podcast Buy Nick's books Join Nick on YouTube Join UNIO, the Academy of the Soul. This is for the old souls in this new world… Discover your kin & unite with your soul's calling to truly live your myth. Be Mythical Join our mailing list for soul stirring goodness: https://www.bemythical.com/moonly Discover your kin & unite with your soul's calling to truly live your myth: https://www.bemythical.com/unio Go Deeper: https://www.bemythical.com/godeeper Follow us: Facebook Instagram TikTok YouTube Thank you for listening! There's a fresh episode released each week here and on most podcast platforms - and video too on YouTube. If you subscribe then you'll get each new episode delivered to your device every week automagically. (that way you'll never miss a show).

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Sandra is a long-time BSWA member who enjoys holding space for group meditations. She has led the Spiritual Education Group at BSWA and Mindfulness Meditation sessions at her workplace. She also enjoys bringing people together for a good yarn and has suppported the Kalyana Friendship Group at BSWA. These days she collaborates with others at the Buddhist Council of WA and volunteers at Sakyadhita Australia Perth Chapter. Credits: - Thank you to Tour Leader Vikas Kumar and all the team at Ekno Travels who made our journey possible. - Unless otherwise noted, this shared collection of photographs was supplied by Vikas Kumar, Helen Richardson, Sharon Thrupp, Kathy Uno, Deanne McKenzie, Sandra Henville and Venerable Thubten Chokyi who travelled together from 1 – 15 June 2025, to the place mapped in this presentation. - Maps produced using ESRI © OpenStreetMap contributors - Videos of chanting nuns at Dormaling Nunnery and traditional Tibetan dancers near Norbilingka and were recorded by Sandra Henville 10 June 2025 - Vicki Mackenzie (1998) Cave In The Snow, Bloomsbury Publishing, 1998 - Khyentse Norbu (2000) The Cup Film Release date: 20 April 2000 (Australia); Director: Khyentse Norbu, Producers: Raymond Steiner, Malcolm Watson - Geleck Palsang (2022) Amala - The Life and struggle of Dalai lama's sister (2022) Director: Geleck Palsang. https://youtu.be/nkkb7hkRRCY?si=qbrfcR0MSBY_O-F9 - Tenzin Yankyi (2025) Golden Flowers of Dhamma. Director: Tenzin Yankyi 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_IftsyDwFk - Presentation compiled by Sandra Henville Every year, the monastic community (Monks and nuns) go on a three month retreat called the “Rains Retreat” from mid July to mid October. During this period, they do not visit our centres for teachings as it's a time for deepening their own practice. While the monks and nuns are away, we will have some interesting guest speakers coming in to give the Friday Night talk. Dust in Our Eyes 2025 (Rains Retreat Speakers' Series 2025) Hear stories of everyday dhamma as told by monastics and lay practitioners from various Buddhist traditions. Support us on https://ko-fi.com/thebuddhistsocietyofwa BSWA teachings are available: BSWA Teachings BSWA Podcast Channel BSWA DeeperDhamma Podbean Channel BSWA YouTube  

Raj Kumar Singh is a PhD researcher in Anthropology at the University of Delhi, currently studying the relationship between religion and economy in Mcleodganj, Dharamshala. He has published several articles and book chapters on Hindu nationalism, Tibetan Buddhism, and the relationship between Communism, Buddhism, and Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar. Visit Sacred Writes: https://www.sacred-writes.org/2025-carpenter-cohorts-summer  

RUMOURS OF XI JINPING'S UPCOMING REBUKE JUST LIKE HIS FATHER: 1/8 The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of XI Zhongxun, Father of XI Jinping Hardcover – 3 June 2025 by  Joseph Torigian  (Author) https://www.amazon.com.au/Partys-Interests-Come-First-Zhongxun/dp/1503634752/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0 1949 XI ZHONGXUN China's leader, Xi Jinping, is one Cf the most powerful individuals inCtheCworld--and one of the least understood. Much can be learned, however, about both Xi Jinping and the nature of the party he leads from the memory and legacy of his father, the revolutionary Xi Zhongxun (1913-2002). The elder Xi served the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for more than seven decades. He worked at the right hand of prominent leaders Zhou Enlai and Hu Yaobang. He helped build the Communist base area that saved Mao Zedong in 1935, and he initiated the Special Economic Zones that launched China into the reform era after Mao's death. He led the Party's United Front efforts toward Tibetans, Uyghurs, and Taiwanese. And though in 1989 he initially sought to avoid violence, he ultimately supported the Party's crackdown on the Tiananmen protesters. The Party's Interests Come First is the first biography of Xi Zhongxun written in English. This biography is at once a sweeping story of the Chinese revolution and the first several decades of the People's Republic of China and a deeply personal story about making sense of one's own identity within a larger political context. Drawing on an array of new documents, interviews, diaries, and periodicals, Joseph Torigian vividly tells the life story of Xi Zhongxun, a man who spent his entire life struggling to balance his own feelings with the Party's demands. Through the eyes of Xi Jinping's father, Torigian reveals the extraordinary organizational, ideological, and coercive power of the CCP--and the terrible cost in human suffering that comes with it.