Dharma Wheel

I have not read this thread,but I found this today on vimeo
Our Pristine Mind
https://vimeo.com/205333107

This is still available.Thanks for the link

As a former smoker ,I can assure you that it harms your winds and channels,and so does weed.

But your attachment to tobacco may be a more serious impediment

A link would be helpful

Have you ever been to their place in Big Sur?

Goenka's Vipassana retreat was probably the LEAST cultish experience I've ever had with Buddhist meditation (my first Zen retreat was around 1982, so I've been around a little). I would agree,and add that any of these Dzogchen centers,or any dharma center for that matter,tends to have an inner circ...

lunak wrote:Thanks Kukuripa,

have you been to his workshops?
what is the title of the book yo9u mentioned?

Lu

Try this for starters
http://www.amazon.com/Stilling-Mind-Sha ... an+wallace

I've never heard of any controversy personally. The only complaints I've heard leveraged against him is that due to his heavy background in Theravada, he sometimes has a tendency to reduce certain Dzogchen teachings into a Sutra-level exposition, but that's just what I've gathered from hearsay. Per...

Lunac,from the way you described yourself,and your concern about 700 euro for a retreat, you might want to explore Anapanasati rather than the 9th yana,and Goenka retreats are free

Just to point something out though, the OP Lunak has not logged on once since he made this post. Maybe he's seen the replies without logging on, or maybe not. But perhaps this thread should be laid to rest since it's been a lot of effort from various well intentioned people and even disagreement in...

I really recommend Alan Wallace ,and I have heard many hours of his teaching,and that price is common for these kind of retreats,so do it if you can,but I think you can also learn that subject quite well from reading his book

I have listened to Alan Wallace for maybe 2000 hours and have found him consistently reliable.He is the best teacher I have known in many years of study