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by climb-up
Tue Dec 19, 2023 11:08 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Tsalung w/ & w/o completion stages
Replies: 33
Views: 1951

Re: Tsalung w/ & w/o completion stages

What kind of injuries did you get? Mostly lower back, due partially to limited hip and ankle mobility. I also now have wrist tendinitis (although that wasn't an issue when I was doing any of the times I was actively doing yantra) which precludes even starting. I know there are a lot of modification...
by climb-up
Mon Dec 18, 2023 11:28 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Tsalung w/ & w/o completion stages
Replies: 33
Views: 1951

Re: Tsalung w/ & w/o completion stages

Thank you for the responses and info. I am student of ChNN’s but I have found after practicing my and engaging multiple times (including with trained teachers) that his yantra yoga is not for me. I love it when I’ve done it, but certain mobility issues I have make me consistently get injured, even ...
by climb-up
Mon Dec 18, 2023 11:24 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Tsalung w/ & w/o completion stages
Replies: 33
Views: 1951

Re: Tsalung w/ & w/o completion stages

Thank you for the responses and info. I am student of ChNN’s but I have found after practicing my and engaging multiple times (including with trained teachers) that his yantra yoga is not for me. I love it when I’ve done it, but certain mobility issues I have make me consistently get injured, even ...
by climb-up
Sun Dec 17, 2023 9:13 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Tsalung w/ & w/o completion stages
Replies: 33
Views: 1951

Re: Tsalung w/ & w/o completion stages

Thank you for the responses and info. I am student of ChNN’s but I have found after practicing my and engaging multiple times (including with trained teachers) that his yantra yoga is not for me. I love it when I’ve done it, but certain mobility issues I have make me consistently get injured, even w...
by climb-up
Fri Dec 15, 2023 11:31 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Tsalung w/ & w/o completion stages
Replies: 33
Views: 1951

Re: Tsalung w/ & w/o completion stages

The Tsa Lung idk about, but I think the Trulkhor that Alejandro Chaoul teaches is associated with the A - Tri cycle. It’s not in the text I’m familiar with but I am 99% sure I’ve heard him say it’s from the A Tri, maybe someone can confirm or correct that notion. Yes, I definitely saw that it was. ...
by climb-up
Fri Dec 15, 2023 8:01 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Tsalung w/ & w/o completion stages
Replies: 33
Views: 1951

Re: Tsalung w/ & w/o completion stages

The Tsa Lung idk about, but I think the Trulkhor that Alejandro Chaoul teaches is associated with the A - Tri cycle. It’s not in the text I’m familiar with but I am 99% sure I’ve heard him say it’s from the A Tri, maybe someone can confirm or correct that notion. Yes, I definitely saw that it was. ...
by climb-up
Fri Dec 15, 2023 7:20 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Tsalung w/ & w/o completion stages
Replies: 33
Views: 1951

Tsalung w/ & w/o completion stages

Hey everyone, I, like many people, have learned and practiced the tsalung that TWR teaches from the MaGyud, and I'm also interested in the trulkhor that is taught by his student Alejandro Chaoul; these are both taught as stand alone practices, available to anyone and with a specific dzogchen focus. ...
by climb-up
Wed Dec 13, 2023 3:58 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: “My mind isn’t like that”
Replies: 32
Views: 1740

Re: “My mind isn’t like that”

Is that fair, or just unfounded arrogance? I have a friend who insists that suffering is part of life’s rich spectrum of emotional experiences (and the problem with Buddhism is it wants to suppress that). I sort of agree. My uncle, a grief counselor, says that grief is the price we pay for loving. ...
by climb-up
Wed Dec 13, 2023 3:19 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: “My mind isn’t like that”
Replies: 32
Views: 1740

Re: “My mind isn’t like that”

I’ve had this happen in conversations about Buddhism with family members, and sometimes even when teaching aspects of mindfulness as a mental health skill: Often the person claims their mind does not suffer with the issue a given practice addresses. Some examples would be: “Oh I’m not bothered by i...
by climb-up
Sun Dec 10, 2023 3:36 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Mr. Beast (and philanthropy in general)
Replies: 17
Views: 1214

Re: Mr. Beast (and philanthropy in general)

I put it on my watch later list, I’m currently waiting in line somewhere so don’t have time to listen to it. The criticisms that I’ve seen related to Mr. Beast are not that it isn’t good that he’s helped x number of people, but that it’s frak up that poor people are in a situation that they have to ...
by climb-up
Mon Dec 04, 2023 8:56 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Is Dharma Bhodi / aka Kol Martens a credible teacher?
Replies: 15
Views: 1477

Re: Is Dharma Bhodi / aka Kol Martens a credible teacher?

I think this guy used to have a yoga study up the street from my house. It was before I was involved in Tibetan Buddhism and I was looking for a legit practice lineage and thought this seemed to be it... ...I'm glad I never connected. I was scanning the biography to comment on it, but it's quite lon...
by climb-up
Mon Dec 04, 2023 7:49 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: What role do ritual implements play in Dzogchen?
Replies: 160
Views: 6668

Re: What role do ritual implements play in Dzogchen?

In the lower vehicles they have yidam, mandala, tummo etc. In Ati yoga we have gazing at the sky and starlight with our crystal nadi. Ati yoga is unsurpassed. Of course it is, but there are all those things you say belong to the lower vehicles in Ati also. Read ChNNR book on Trechö for example. I d...
by climb-up
Fri Dec 01, 2023 8:21 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: What role do ritual implements play in Dzogchen?
Replies: 160
Views: 6668

Re: What role do ritual implements play in Dzogchen?

Not entirely positive, but I would guess TharLam De Sum is a reference to Lam Rim literature...the Stages of the Path (of Liberation) for the Three Types of Individuals, being a generic (as well as specific) category or title. Ah, that would make sense. I know that at one point I heard about the hi...
by climb-up
Fri Dec 01, 2023 7:43 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: What role do ritual implements play in Dzogchen?
Replies: 160
Views: 6668

Re: What role do ritual implements play in Dzogchen?

Maybe that’s true from a historical realism perspective, but there are certainly traditional Dzogchen texts which make the distinction, and teachers who teach it. Well then, find me a few Tibetan texts in which the word "gyud "( rgyud ) is set up to be a contrast to "dzogchen". ...
by climb-up
Tue Nov 28, 2023 7:16 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: What role do ritual implements play in Dzogchen?
Replies: 160
Views: 6668

Re: What role do ritual implements play in Dzogchen?

just like ChNNR by the way, no problem using all kind of "tantric" methods, as I posted above, like "turning back death", "powa" and "leading the dead" when needed. ChNN certainly had no problem using all sorts of tantric methods, and teaching them extensivel...
by climb-up
Tue Nov 28, 2023 6:41 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: What role do ritual implements play in Dzogchen?
Replies: 160
Views: 6668

Re: What role do ritual implements play in Dzogchen?

just like ChNNR by the way, no problem using all kind of "tantric" methods, as I posted above, like "turning back death", "powa" and "leading the dead" when needed. ChNN certainly had no problem using all sorts of tantric methods, and teaching them extensivel...
by climb-up
Tue Nov 28, 2023 12:01 am
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: What role do ritual implements play in Dzogchen?
Replies: 160
Views: 6668

Re: What role do ritual implements play in Dzogchen?

I've read a few former posts about ritual implements and the short summary is that vajra and bell are used in all tantric practice, damaru in highest yoga tantra and chod drum in chod. What about in Dzogchen? Are all of these used? None? Up to the teacher? Well, this seems to be a far more contenti...
by climb-up
Wed Oct 18, 2023 4:25 pm
Forum: Wellness, Diet and Fitness
Topic: Transpersonal psychology class … 🤔
Replies: 9
Views: 696

Re: Transpersonal psychology class … 🤔

I think it was my Junior year in College when I took a "cross-disciplinary" course --don't recall the name, but it had three modules: Jungian Psychology (which I would say is somewhat transpersonal), Tibetan Buddhism focused on the Heart Sutra (using a now-dead and somewhat discredited &q...
by climb-up
Wed Oct 18, 2023 4:19 pm
Forum: Wellness, Diet and Fitness
Topic: Transpersonal psychology class … 🤔
Replies: 9
Views: 696

Re: Transpersonal psychology class … 🤔

Yeah, this energy codes book used the typical modern chakra system, but the part that bugged me was the actual teaching of various pranayamas as if they were just her idea…she clearly was a Yoga practitioner and I found it really bizarre how the book acted like she just sort of developed (and copyr...
by climb-up
Mon Oct 16, 2023 10:06 pm
Forum: Wellness, Diet and Fitness
Topic: Transpersonal psychology class … 🤔
Replies: 9
Views: 696

Re: Transpersonal psychology class … 🤔

Idk, maybes it’s just snobbery but when you learn Tsalung , etc. from a real lineage and a conscientious, caring teacher, something like that just seems insulting. Usually not one to cry ‘cultural appropriation’ but this person basically took ideas from yogic disciplines and tried to make them into...

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