Love & Liberation with Olivia Clementine Olivia Clementine
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A podcast about relationship and consciousness: exploring wisdom in relating with ourselves, each other and our greater world. Listen to conversations and musings on spirituality, intimacy, ecology and pathways to becoming more connected and fulfilled.
Hosted by Olivia Clementine
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Lama Sonam Tsering: Patience, Impermanence & Hyolmo
This episode is best enjoyed on video.
Link to Watch this Episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUkL7SpfIQA
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Today's conversation is with Lama Sonam Tsering at his retreat place in the Hyolmo region of Nepal.
Some of what Sonam shares includes:
00:01:00 Growing up in Hyolmo and the societal shifts
00:08:00 Sonam’s spiritual upbringing raised with a village Lama 00:10:00 Meeting and studying with a wandering yogi, astrologer and amchi from around the age of ten.
00:18:00 Learning dharma art
00:25:00 Experiences with impermanence
00:28:00 Retreat periods, Lama work and what motivated him to build a retreat center
00:37:00 Rebuilding after the 2015 earthquake in Nepal
00:40:00 Sonam shows us the inside and outside of the temple
00:44:00 About the three year retreat space
00:46:00 Building 108 stupas and carving manis
00:48:00 The Guru Rinpoche statue and concluding words his teacher shared on not worrying.
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Francis Weller: The Medicine You Carry & Suturing the Inevitable Tears
00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:00 Deep forgetting
00:06:00 Moving at geologic speed and Men of Spirit project
00:12:38 Symptoms and the soul’s deepest desires
00:15:33 Elderhood through grief
00:21:24 Kalahari desert grief maintenance rituals
00:25:00 Belonging as the premise and remembering the medicine you carry
00:29:00 Fiction and emptiness of progress
00:32:00 Preparing a community for a grief ritual
00:37:00 Grief ritual training and therapeutic communities for Palestine
00:38:00 Grief and beauty
00:45:00 Cultivating village mind
00:54:00 Finding your masculine and feminine soul expression
00:59:00 Being spiritually employed
01:01:00 The long dark and facing the world with soul
01:02:00 A metaphor for our species: Qarrtsiluni
Links:
Francis Weller
https://www.francisweller.net/
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Khandro Kunzang: Elemental Spirits, Vajra Armor & Dharma Marriage
Khandro Kunzang is a Buddhist practitioner and teacher and holder of the Khandro T'hug-t'hig path, the Dudjom Tersar, and the Rigdzin Sogdrub yogic practices of the Northern Treasures lineages.
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From today's conversation:
00:02:00 Spirits of the Six Realms
00:07:00 Offerings to non-human, non-physical beings
00:13:00 Receiving protection from Nagas
00:14:00 How spirits influence illness
00:23:00 How to know spirits are affecting your well-being or life
00:25:00 On the four forces, lungta, wang tang, sog and lu.
00:30:00 Lha-Mo Gyed-Tsi, Astrological Mo of the 8 Dakinis
00:32:00 Old tradition of ransom offerings, or lud.
00:38:00 Astrology living systems and the forgotten magic of math
00:42:00 Vajra Armor Mantra
00:46:00 Practicing according to signs
00:51:00 Lama Dawa growing up in a dharma family and perpetual retreat
00:54:00 Dharma marriage and ngakpa traditiona versus householder tradition.
00:57:00 How to deal with tax collectors as practitioners
00:59:00 Vajrakilaya Peace Mandala Project
Previous Episodes with Khandro Kunzang:
Lineage of Oral Instruction, Real Teachers & Himalayan Yogas of Tsa lung and Tummo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olIKvZQSXCI&list=PLbj5FAGzDx9WhJ7N5iJhGkZ_tY9ZnJL4m&index=18
Cultivating Siddhis, Tukdam, Lineage Protection & Consortship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7isrHtJNrJ4&list=PLbj5FAGzDx9WhJ7N5iJhGkZ_tY9ZnJL4m&index=13
Khandro Kunzang
https://www.phurbathinleyling.org/
Vajrakilaya Peace Mandala Project
https://www.phurbathinleyling.org/the-peace-mandala-project/
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Arawana Hayashi: True Activity, Direct Knowing & Japanese Court Dance
00:02:57 Social Presencing Theatre
00:06:40 Dharma art
00:09:00 True activity, non-manipulation and non-aggression.
00:12:00 Listening to the moment and nothing being toxic to its core
00:14:00 Attending to the larger beauty, humor and natural kindness in the world
00:19:00 Using the body to find words and suspending meaning-making
00:21:00 Arts and direct knowing
00:22:00 Japanese principle Ma and not projecting what you think you already know
00:25:00 Unconditional well-being.
00:31:00 Resting with experiences and building trust
00:37:00 Noticing what you love
00:41:00 Origins of Bugaku, 7th C Japanese court dance, excruciatingly leisurely, breath time.
00:46:00 Form and freedom
00:51:00 A practice to nourish your spacious self
Links:
Arawana:
https://arawanahayashi.com/
Arawana's Book: Social Presencing Theatre: The Art of Making a True Move
https://www.amazon.com/Social-Presencing-Theater-Making-True/dp/0999717979/ref=sr_1_1
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Erik Pema Kunsang: Changing Karmic Patterns, Studying Reality & Being a Decent Human
Erik Pema Kunsang is a dharma teacher, practitioner, and one of the most prolific translators of Buddhist texts and teachings.
Some of what Erik shares:
00:01:00 On serving and translating for Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, clairvoyance and what is needed for liberation.
00:04:00 Dzogchen person versus a dzogchen teaching from Trulshik Rinpoche
00:08:00 Styles of teachers and busy not doing anything.
00:11:00 Misunderstanding the nature of superficial reality and dharma bums
00:14:00 Bodhi Training
00:16:00 Describing reality
00:17:00 Using the mind as the tool. Moving towards certainty and out of vagueness. The benefits buddhist meditation rather than science.
00:19:00 About fruitful intimate relationships as part of the path of being a decent human being, not breaking trust and learning to live together.
00:23:00 The yanas including Manushayana and Devayana
00:28:00 Split between real world and spiritual world
00:29:00 Using our meditation and spiritual practice time well. Changing karmic patterns
00:32:00 What it really means to be civilized
00:34:00 Essentials for translating genuinely
00:35:00 Leaving nature to itself and no-dig gardening.
00:37:00 Closing statements on landing timeless value systems of the Buddhas
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Erik Pema Kunsang has studied and practiced the Buddha dharma and especially the teachings of Padmasambhava. He has been trained by many masters. including the Dzogchen master, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, as well as his son, Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche. Erik helped bring about Rangjung Yeshe Institute and publications for both study and translation of Dharma. He has translated and published over 60 volumes, including his freely available Tibetan English dictionary. Erik is also the founder of Bodhi Training and is currently the resident teacher at Rangjung Yeshe Gomde Retreat Center.
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Links:
Bodhi Training
https://bodhitraining.com/
Gomde Denmark
https://gomde.dk/
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Rinzin Phunjok Lama: Biodiversity & Culture Conservation in One of the Most Remote Places
Rinzin Phunjok Lama is an internationally acclaimed wildlife biologist and conservationist from Nepal.
Watch this Episode on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIZyLwua1x8&feature=youtu.be
00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:00 Growing up in Humla, Nepal
00:09:30 Changes in the landscape and culture
00:14:00 Supporting the future of this remote region
00:16:28 Snow leopards folklore and significance for the Himalayas
00:20:00 Living in the field for seasons at a time
00:23:00 Rinzin’s aspirations
Thank you to Tashi R. Ghale for many wildlife photos included in this interview. Thank you to Karma Lhazom for filming.
Links:
Rinzin
https://rinzinlama.com/
UKALI
https://ukali.org/
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