There are going to be many practice retreats in which you can participate, to learn this or that practice.Johnny Dangerous wrote: ↑Tue Dec 11, 2018 5:08 pmThere are, but honestly the impact is somewhat limited when all you can do is email someone, valuable as that can be at times. There are no gars near me or anything, no DC practitioners to meet up with. I personally don't want to attempt something like the Tuns simply from a book. The DC practices I do engage in I feel like I learned from Rinpoche during webcast retreats. On the other hand, I have other lineages that I can receive instruction in in person, and which I have already done a number of times with groups, so I know the melodies etc. somewhat, which was my idea with this Ngondro. I'm tabling the idea for now anyway as my interest in Ngondro has always run hot and cold.Malcolm wrote: ↑Tue Dec 11, 2018 4:18 pmBy ChNN's design, there are plenty of senior DC instructors around to support people in this interim period.Grigoris wrote: ↑Tue Dec 11, 2018 2:29 pm Good on you! But I did not say anything about being attached at the hip. My teacher lives 5,432km away and I see him once a year for a week.
It is one thing to do practices that are taught as part of an established lineage and another thing to practice the terma of a specific teacher that are not part of a lineage collection (tersar). In the first instance any teacher that belongs to the lineage should have the experience to guide you, in the second instance...
The thun practices are really not that daunting and can be easily learned from books and tapes.