In this conversation, we sit down in Pharping Nepal with Josh Kinney, a western practitioner who spent over two decades immersed in the living meditation traditions of Nangchen in Eastern Tibet training under some of its most extraordinary masters, including the force of nature Yogi Pema Dorje, and the renowned Lhagen Pema Drimed. You will hear stories of cave retreats, Tibetan yogas, dark retreat practice, and what it means to enter this remotely held lineage as an outsider with devotion and a willingness to keep showing up.

Time notes:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:01:39 First steps into dharma

00:03:24 Eastern Tibet

00:04:12 Putting on robes

00:05:54 Adeu Rinpoche

000:9:58 Meeting Yogi Pema Dorje

00:12:27 Cave retreats and ngondro

00:14:59 Five Buddha family teachings

00:19:13 Sealed retreats with Pema Dorje

00:25:13 Tibetan yogas

00:27:15 Dark retreat

00:30:22 Pema Dorje's early life and tests

00:36:40 Naked yogi tales

00:39:08 Retreat training style

00:43:23 Lhagen Pema Drimed

00:49:57 Guided retreat stories

00:53:53 Chudlen essence practice

00:58:24 Dark retreat with friends

01:03:00 Peter Galambos as an example

01:04:43 Outer, inner and secret retreat

01:07:00 3-year retreat and serendipity as the way

Links:

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0mVOZmJ5bg

Josh Kinney:

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/joshua.kinney.524

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mcguru29

Support building a dark retreat hermitage at Gebchak:

In response to Tsogyal Rinpoche and senior Gebchak female practitioners asking Josh to advise and direct the building of this future dark retreat center at the mother nunnery of Gebchak, in Eastern Tibet, Josh is currently requesting support to make this vision come to fruition. This space will be able to hold 15 practitioners at a time and will include bathrooms and a communal kitchen.

You can make an offering here, and Josh will send you a receipt for your gift:

paypal.me/gebchakyogis

For questions, you can write Josh: mcreynolds290 (at) gmail (dot) com

Suggested Episode Series:

On the Gebchak Yoginis, a 3 Part Series with Elizabeth McDougal:

Part One: https://oliviaclementine.com/elizabeth-mcdougal-the-gebchak-yoginis-part-one/

Love & Liberation podcast website & transcripts

https://oliviaclementine.com/podcasts