"The fast talker inserts himself into the centre of a crowd, Monastic wealth inserts itself into the monks' stomachs, Thick d**ks insert themselves into young girls: That is the teaching on the Three Insertions." --satirical verse by Drugpa Kunleg (1455-1529) "Pressurising or seducing a young, naive child or teenager to give up their virginity, or… Continue reading BUDDHIST PRACTICE, VOWS AND TANTRA DOES NOT ALLOW OR EXCUSE ABUSE OF WOMEN OR CHILDREN: Report on recent revelations about the Epstein files and 14th Dalai Lama, and a general analysis about the ongoing misinterpretation and misuse of Vajrayana Buddhist tantric practice by male teachers to justify sexual abuse and forcing/pressuring women, children and minors into sexual conduct with adult male teachers
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LIKE AN ANT ON A LEAF ON WATER, CALMLY REST THE MIND WHEREVER IT GOES: Instructions on Calm-Abiding, Superior Insight and Carrying Thoughts Onto the Path, 8th Karmapa’s Instructions on Gyalwang Yangonpa’s Seven Points, and Gampopa’s nephew’s advice on Mahamudra (17th Karmapa teaching, Day Two)
"When one meditates on the ocean, the waves are also the ocean, as are the thoughts of the ocean mind. The waves are like a manifestation of the ocean like mind, they are not separate from the ocean-mind. So in the same way, thoughts are like the appearance or manifestation. They don't transcend the nature… Continue reading LIKE AN ANT ON A LEAF ON WATER, CALMLY REST THE MIND WHEREVER IT GOES: Instructions on Calm-Abiding, Superior Insight and Carrying Thoughts Onto the Path, 8th Karmapa’s Instructions on Gyalwang Yangonpa’s Seven Points, and Gampopa’s nephew’s advice on Mahamudra (17th Karmapa teaching, Day Two)
LADAKH TRILOGY (PART III): THE DRUGPA (DRAGON) KAGYU IN LADAKH. Tiger’s Nose (Stakna) Monastery, a cathartic Lama Chopa puja, Tibetan History and masters: past and present, the Bhutanese connection, current activities/teachers and the Kung Fu cycling nuns
“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived; but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” – Maya Angelou “Those in power write the history, while those who suffer write the songs.” --Frank Harte “History is written by the victors.” –-Winston Churchill INTRODUCTION So as the final part of my Ladakh research trilogy… Continue reading LADAKH TRILOGY (PART III): THE DRUGPA (DRAGON) KAGYU IN LADAKH. Tiger’s Nose (Stakna) Monastery, a cathartic Lama Chopa puja, Tibetan History and masters: past and present, the Bhutanese connection, current activities/teachers and the Kung Fu cycling nuns
INVINCIBLE COURAGE AND LOVE: LIFE-THREATENING BRAVERY IN A CHINESE JAIL AND ROOT GURU, DZOGCHEN MASTER, KHENPO MUNSEL. Guru Stories (Part 3) by 8th Garchen Rinpoche
“The Guru’s mind, the Buddha's mind and my own mind are one.” ---Je Jigten Sumgon 'In that moment of anger, instead of looking at that person or what made you angry. Look at the anger itself. Meditate. You know the nature of the mind, you know how to meditate on that. So when anger arises,… Continue reading INVINCIBLE COURAGE AND LOVE: LIFE-THREATENING BRAVERY IN A CHINESE JAIL AND ROOT GURU, DZOGCHEN MASTER, KHENPO MUNSEL. Guru Stories (Part 3) by 8th Garchen Rinpoche
‘GOLDEN TEACHINGS’ OF KAGYU TANTRA: Marpa the Translator and student Ngog, the Seven Ngog Mandalas, Thirteen Tantras of Marpa, Kongtrul’s ‘Treasury of Kagyu Mantras’, 17th Karmapa’s birthday teaching and Drikung Kagyu ‘Mar-Ngog’ activities
བཅས་པའི་སྐོར་འདི་༣་གནང་གསུང་༔སྤོང་ཐག་ལན་༣་བྱས་པས་ཆོས་སྐོར་༣་ལས་མ་གནང་༔བླ་མ་ལ་ཆོས་ཡོད་པ་ལ་ཡིན་ཏེ་༔ང་རང་ནོར་གྱིས་དེ་ལས་མ་འདངས་གསུང༔ “I made three great surrenders, but did not receive more than three cycles of teachings–not because the master did not have teachings but because my wealth was not enough."--Ngog Choku Dorje on Marpa (Ducher, 2017:388) མར་པ་ལོ་ཙྰའི་བ་བརྒྱུད་ལ།In this lineage of Marpa Lotsawa,གཏམ་སྙན་མང་པོའི་འོང་སྒོ་ཡོད།Many good tidings will arrive at the door.མི་ལ་རས་པའི་སྙིང་རུས་ལ།In the hard-core determination of Milarepaསངས་རྒྱས་བསྟན་པའི་སྲོག་ཤིང་ཡོད། །Is the… Continue reading ‘GOLDEN TEACHINGS’ OF KAGYU TANTRA: Marpa the Translator and student Ngog, the Seven Ngog Mandalas, Thirteen Tantras of Marpa, Kongtrul’s ‘Treasury of Kagyu Mantras’, 17th Karmapa’s birthday teaching and Drikung Kagyu ‘Mar-Ngog’ activities
‘I DON’T EAT MY FRIENDS’: 78th birthday offering to Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, meditator, teacher and nunnery founder, on eating animals
'Animals are my friends, and I don’t eat my friends’—George Bernard Shaw ‘In Tibetan Buddhism, where we are taught that all beings have been our mothers, if you really believe what you're saying, then how can you sit down and eat your mother?' — Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo For the 78th birthday of Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo… Continue reading ‘I DON’T EAT MY FRIENDS’: 78th birthday offering to Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, meditator, teacher and nunnery founder, on eating animals
Kagyu Mahāmudrā : origin of the term, distinction between Sūtra and Secret Mantra Mahāmudrā , and pith advice from Je Gampopa by 17th Karmapa
In October 2014, HH 17th Karmapa, Orgyen Trinley Dorje, visited Dongyu Gatsal Ling, India—the nunnery founded by British nun and teacher, Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo - and conferred Mahāmudrā teachings and a White Tara empowerment. A report of the visit can be read here but it only gives a brief summary of HH’s teaching. Thus, I… Continue reading Kagyu Mahāmudrā : origin of the term, distinction between Sūtra and Secret Mantra Mahāmudrā , and pith advice from Je Gampopa by 17th Karmapa