THE RISKY AND DANGEROUS CONSEQUENCES FOR LONE WOMEN WHEN PUBLIC WORDS OF ADVICE DO NOT MATCH A BUDDHIST TEACHER’S ACTIONS: What happens when teachers “ignore” or “ghost” women who speak about misconduct unresolved cases, and how male “advocates for women” actually respond in practice

“In other words, the results of genuine ‘crazy wisdom’ are always positive and visible. When a teacher uses an extreme approach that is rooted in compassion, the result is spiritual growth, not trauma. Trauma is a sure sign that the ‘crazy wisdom’ behavior was missing the wisdom to see what would truly benefit the student,… Continue reading THE RISKY AND DANGEROUS CONSEQUENCES FOR LONE WOMEN WHEN PUBLIC WORDS OF ADVICE DO NOT MATCH A BUDDHIST TEACHER’S ACTIONS: What happens when teachers “ignore” or “ghost” women who speak about misconduct unresolved cases, and how male “advocates for women” actually respond in practice

NOBLE MAITREYA’S “HEAVY BLESSINGS” AND HIS KING OF ASPIRATIONS: 12th Khenting Tai Situpa’s empowerment in Borobudur, Indonesia, new translation of “Maitreya’s Aspiration” and full oral commentary transcript of 12th Tai Situpa’s commentary on the Aspiration Prayer at the Kagyu Monlam, Bodh Gaya (2024)

“ཕྱོགས་བཅུ་དག་གི་ཞིང་ཁམས་སུ། ། Throughout the pure realms of the ten directions, སངས་རྒྱས་མཆོད་པ་གང་བྱུང་བ། ། Whatever offerings are made to the awakened ones/Buddhas, སངས་རྒྱས་མཁྱེན་པས་ཡི་རང་བ། ། The buddhas know and rejoice. དེ་ལ་བདག་ནི་ཡི་རང་ངོ༌། ། In that, I also rejoice.” --Verse from Noble Maitreya’s Aspiration “Buddhas do not vilify sentient beings who are suffering, who have afflictions. They do not despise… Continue reading NOBLE MAITREYA’S “HEAVY BLESSINGS” AND HIS KING OF ASPIRATIONS: 12th Khenting Tai Situpa’s empowerment in Borobudur, Indonesia, new translation of “Maitreya’s Aspiration” and full oral commentary transcript of 12th Tai Situpa’s commentary on the Aspiration Prayer at the Kagyu Monlam, Bodh Gaya (2024)

"A true hero is not measured by the size of his strength, but by the size of his heart" --Hercules "The bodhisattva who is malicious, violent, unhappy, and addicted to malice and lust, undergoes many kinds of faults. These faults destroy (the bodhisattva) oneself, destroys [the happiness of] other beings, and destroy ethical discipline and… Continue reading The ‘hidden’ sacking of Kalu Rinpoche by his monastery for alleged misuse of funds and misconduct, degeneration and commercial use of Niguma Yoga, monastic dress, and the growing issue of spiritual materialism in Buddhist teachers and monastics

"Before its being built, it was reported in Chinese sources, that prior to its founding, the 6th Zhamarpa, Chokyi Wangchug, had been given the land by the Mu Naxi King after he pointed to it and said that would be a good place to build a monastery. Six Naxi disciples whom the 6th Zhamarpa had… Continue reading VISITING NO-HIGHER LAND (OG-MIN LING/FUGUO SI 福國寺) MONASTERY : 17th Century founded, ‘mother’ Karma Kagyu monastery in Lijiang, Og-Min Ling, its historical background and contemporary state (China/Tibet pilgrimage, part 8)

"In any case, we have our own special instructions of our own particular lineage. We have a treasure that we need to cherish and preserve it. If we can do so, then only then can we dare show our faces to the lineage masters of the past and dare say that we are upholding the… Continue reading AN EMANATION OF VAJRAVĀRĀHĪ MAKING NĀRO, MARPA AND MILA PROUD! The unparalleled and amazing Dharma Activities and Teachings of the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa (and Kagyupas): An annual 2023 review

''During a visit to Karma Monastery, Guru Rinpoche appeared to Chogyur Lingpa in a vision. In the vision, Guru Rinpoche was surrounded by twenty-one manifestations of the Karmapa. In addition to the traditional appearance of each of the fourteen incarnations who had taken birth through the period up to the time of Chogyur Lingpa, seven… Continue reading ‘MIND UNION WITH TAI SITUPA’ : Guru Padmasambhava’s Prophecy about the 15th-21st Karmapas, as revealed by famed treasure-revealer, Chogyur Lingpa

Introduction "It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance." - Marcus Aurelius For the third episode of Dakini Conversations, I speak with British journalist and writer, Mick Brown about his life and writings, mainly about his important investigative report/book The Dance of… Continue reading ‘DANCE OF 17 LIVES: THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF TIBET’S 17TH KARMAPA’. New Video/podcast interview with writer/journalist, Mick Brown (Dakini Conversations: Ep.3) and accompanying book review

'Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.'-Anais Nin Introduction This article is an attempt to clarify some of the information and misunderstandings surrounding monasticism, sex, women, consorts in Vajrayana (or Tantric) Buddhism. The first half discusses the monastic vows and rules on sexual relations, the role and meaning of a consort,… Continue reading TANTRIC BUDDHISM, VOWS, SEX AND WOMEN – the importance of love, respect and consent and what happens when a woman speaks out about lama misconduct