MUSINGS
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Minaa B.: Four Circles of Support & Healing to be Connected
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXYA1Egxt9E 00:01:19 The 4 Circles of Support 00:09:00 Healthful dependency in friendships 00:12:00 Supporting yourself and receiving support 00:18:00 Busyness, pushing and stressing 00:25:00 Going beyond western culture to influence...
Chöying Khandro: Dakini Journey & Paradox of Reality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4hfL0L6_hQ 00:00:00 Who and what is Dakini including the play of the outer, inner and secret aspects 00:07:25 - Directly experiencing these sky goers. 00:13:40 Five elements and five dakinis and how they support each other. ...
Dr. Tim Bodt: On Himalayan Borderlands & Ethnolinguistics of Duhumbi and Kusunda
00:01:04 Himalayan languages origin, overlap and geographical influences 00:11:00 Self-sufficiency, socioeconomic development, education and the impact on languages. 00:17:00 Becoming interested in 'Monyul' borderland region 00:22:00 Karmic link in Bhutan 00:28:00 ...
Dr. Sarah Jacoby: Auspicious Connections (རྟེན་འབྲེལ་), Treasure Revelation & Sera Khandro
Sarah in Tibet at Dralek Monastery in Ganze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province, PRC. Sarah is reading different editions of Sera Khandro’s collected works. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:02:00 On translating Sera Khandro's autobiography and what makes her...
Dr. Andreas Weber: Accepting to Truly Exist & Everything is Given to You
00:00:00 Introduction 00:02:00 Productivity and ecology of love 00:09:21 Rules of erotic exchange 00:13:00 Looking out to confirm our realness as an obstacles for relationship 00:17:00 Narcissism and success 00:24:00 Meaning of love from Erich Fromm and the risk of...
Nóirín Ní Riain: Theosony, Listening to the Divine & Blessing Transitions
Rev. Nóirín Ní Riain PhD is an Interfaith Minister, an internationally acclaimed spiritual singer, theologian, writer, musicologist, and Celtic Spirituality expert. CONVERSATION TIMESTAMPS: 00:02:31 As a singer coming out of stage fright 00:06:00 Living for years at...
Justin von Bujdoss: Dark Retreat, Formlessness & Returning to Completion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qoo0DeU6D8o&list=PLbj5FAGzDx9WhJ7N5iJhGkZ_tY9ZnJL4m&index=13&t=0s 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:28 Background to Dark Retreat 00:05:44 Some experiences that Justin has had in dark retreat and what he learned about himself. 00:13:00...
Dr. Andrea Loseries: Charnel Ground Practice, Mahayoga Tantra & Ritual
Some of what Andrea shares: 00:00:00 Meeting her teacher 16th Karmapa 00:22:00 Bone Relics and losing a skull that impacted her life 00:27:00 Proper care of ritual objects 00:30:00 Legendary snow lion expedition 00:36:00 How monastic institutions changed tantric...
Dr. Rick Hanson: Neuroscience, Dharma & Healing
00:01:00 Rick's sabbatical 00:03:00 The difference between mind, the brain and consciousness. 00:13:09 Why change and interconnection can be difficult to recognize and how to find the benevolence in endings. 00:19:00 The influence of the breath on the mind 00:22:56 On...
Robert Masters: Art of Intimacy & Connection as the Aphrodisiac
00:00:00 Introduction 00:00:42 Intimacy Essentials 00:02:51 Working with resistance to the journey of intimacy 00:05:07 When a relationship is workable and when it is not. 00:05:58 Projections 00:07:24 Conditioning, erotic wounding and sexual habits. 00:13:10...
Cristina Moon: Rinzai Zen & Embodied Dharma through Martial Arts
00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:15 Being a zen priest at Daihonzan Chozen-ji and taking away fear. 00:03:38 Being a good leader from the perspective of Rinzai Zen 00:07:54 Rinzai Zen's perspective of leaders and followers 00:09:31 Zen arts as a path of awakenment, on...
Charles Eisenstein: Exiled Questions & Emerging out of Habitual Rubrics into the Gifts
00:00:00 Introduction 00:04:00 Charles experience of gaslighting into greater self-trust through the corona pandemic days. 00:12:00 Shadow versus light side of spirituality, health and self-improvement. 00:18:36 Being an agent of change through friendship and...
Christina Monson: Naturalness of Illness, Dakini Guidance, Mountain Retreat & Chatral Rinpoche
Christina Monson is a Buddhist practitioner and teacher and Tibetan language translator, and interpreter with over 30 years of study, translation and practice experience in Buddhism. Some of what Christina shares today: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:42 Meeting self-made...
Londin Angel Winters & Justin Patrick Pierce: The Naturalness of Union, Unconditional Love & the Practice of Sacred Intimacy
Some of what intimacy teachers Londin and Justin share includes: 0:00 Sexual yoga and sacred intimacy in the context of modern life 8:00 How their intimacy intensifying practice of Alpha and Omega differs from common masculine feminine polarity teachings 18:00 The...
Adele Tomlin: The Inner Level of Tantric Union, Celibacy, Bliss & Love
Adele Tomlin is an independent writer, scholar, translator, practitioner and student of Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism. Some of what Adele shares includes: 00:00 Introduction 00:57 Realizations through relationship and everyday living 04:26 Challenges of relationships...
Oceana Sawyer: Living and Dying with Pleasure & the Diamond-like Quality of Humanity
Oceana Sawyer is an End of Life Doula, writes and speaks on the liminal space of active dying and grief. Note: Oceana explores some unconventional perspectives in this episode, which come from mid-stream in longer conversations in which she is embedded. They presume...
Tseyang Pharchen: In Conversation with a Mountain Retreatant
Tseyang has spent the last 12 years, all seasons but winter, retreating in the mountains of Bhutan. Some of what Tseyang shares today includes: Why she was drawn to practice in the mountains Obstacles arising when we make meaningful choices Why age does not matter...
Khandro Kunzang: Cultivating Siddhis, Tukdam, Lineage Protection & Consortship
In todays's episode Khandro shares about: Cultivating and training in relative siddhis to benefit others Enacting the four activities Signs and Tests for siddhis Story with Garchen Rinpoche Activities for subduing warfare and suffering Dudjom Rinpoche, the coldwar and...
Dr. Bayo Akomolafe: Entanglement, Generative Failure & the Need for Lostness
Some of what Bayo shares includes on: The relational universe Caught up in the modern Process vs Things Slave ship of our times Listening and fugitivity Necessity of suffering, failure and pain Power of vocality On the sacredness of language Ecstasy of becoming...