Tiokasin Ghosthorse is of the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation of South Dakota and has a long history with Indigenous activism and advocacy. He has been the Founder, Host, and Executive Producer of “First Voices Radio'' for over 30 years.

Some of what Tiokasin shares today includes:

00:00:00 Land raising children, Lakota language and trusting the future

00:06:00 Male and female energies, intuition and ceremony

00:10:00 No teaching and traditional education as a giving

00:13:00 Burying diplomas to return to Self.

00:15:00 Land ownership, colonial coma and defined by Earth

00:21:00 Dualistic psychology, premeditated ignorance and the ultimate philosopher.

00:24:00 Deathsong, innocence and grief

00:26:00 Adapting to Nature and the language of Earth

00:28:00 Grief, freedom and containment

00:34:00 Dreams, the 5th world,

and ancestors going into the future

Our previous conversation on Lakota, Elders & Evolutionary Understanding:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBbpRlnV2_8

Tiokasin and First Voices Radio:

https://firstvoicesindigenousradio.org/about

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Carroll Dunham: The Path of a Householder Practitioner, Rites of Place & Taking Risks

Carroll Dunham is a medical anthropologist, storyteller, Buddhist practitioner, and chaplain, who has devoted her life to exploring human entanglement between other species. She was based in Nepal for over 30 years and has lived and traveled amongst nomadic communities including in China, Mongolia, and India. 

Some of what Carroll shares today includes:

00:00:00 From New Jersey to Nepal, a nunnery, her future husband, and the 1985 Kalachakra gathering.

00:08:00 Stories of meeting her teachers, great meditation masters, including Dilgo Khyentse, Bakha Tulku, Trulshik Rinpoche, and Lama Wangdu.

00:17:00 Advice from His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

00:19:33 Taksang (Tiger’s Nest), the Nechung Oracle & receiving Dilgo Khyentse full terma.

00:23:00 Innovation, monasteries, and keeping the dharma meaningful and safe.

00:25:00 Stories and memories of Trulshik Rinpoche

00:30:00 Learning Himalayan languages

00:33:00 Humla and how it is unique

00:35:00 Dragon Brides; on polyandry, women with many husbands

00:40:00 On her meeting and marriage with her husband Thomas Kelly

00:43:00 Fostering children and non-dual gifts of Nepal.

00:49:00 The market economy’s impact on relationships, Earth, and family structure.

00:56:00 Notions of modernity disguised as freedom.

00:57:00 Raising children in a seasonal manner, rituals, healing, and rites of passage

01:09:00 Best place to give birth and to die.

01:10:00 Relationships, healing, mistakes and safety in anthropological work

01:20:00 Nepal’s ethnic diversity and environmental challenges

01:27:00 Longevity, biomimicry, meditation and aging

01:30:00 The origins and journey of clothing.

01:38:00 Innovations of waste and creative change agents in the textile industry

01:45:00 Risk, collaboration, and the unexpected amazing.

About Carroll Dunham:

Carroll is a medical anthropologist whose work explores human entanglement with other species, from microbes to yaks.  Based in Nepal for 30 years, she has lived and traveled extensively amongst nomadic communities, including those in India, Mongolia, and China. 

A lifelong student of Buddhism, Tibetan medicine, and Himalayan medicinal plants, she is committed to amplifying Indigenous voices and advocating stewardship of fragile ecosystems. She is currently the co-founder of Around the World in 80 Fabrics. Revitalizing vanishing textile traditions to reduce petroleum-fueled fast fashion. 

A storyteller at heart, Carroll has authored five books and produced over a dozen documentaries for National Geographic, PBS, and BBC.  As a Buddhist chaplain, she is passionate about resiliency and the human ability to thrive post disasters.

www.wildearthjourneys.com

Around the World in 80 Fabrics

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00:00:00 Song Dzomba Yakmo Beautiful Abundance & Introduction

00:01:00 Growing up in a Ngakpa family in Admo Tibet.

00:03:40 Importance of life

00:07:00 Drukmo’s ngakpa grandfather

00:12:00 Slowing down and taking in advice from her grandfather

00:15:00 Most important dharma principles

00:17:00 Tibetan medicine helping come out of religious dogma

00:22:00 Creating community and working with miscommunication

00:26:00 Not needing to have a great relationship with everyone

00:30:00 Feeling discomfort as light

00:30:20 Song: 福泽善报 Full of blessings

00:33:00 Ngakma and Ngakpa lifestyle

00:39:00 Organizing her life

00:41:00 The importance of community acceptance

00:46:00 Drukmo’s beginning in chanting and singing.

00:51:00 Initial conflict in sharing dharma music

00:52:23 Experience sharing her music in Amdo

00:56:00 Vajra mind and having faith in your practice

00:58:00 Shame free sex education with her grandmother 

01:01:00 Gifting culture, love, and nomad society

01:05:00 Harmonious divorce and raising a family

01:08:00 Sowa Rigpa, the wisdom of nourishment and 5 Healing Methods

01:10:00 Tibetan spiritual healing

01:15:40 Song: Purification Mantra of the Five Elements

All Songs today are from Drukmo Gyal:

Dzomba Yakmo Beautiful Abundance

福泽善报 Full of blessings

Purification Mantra of the Five Elements

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00:00:00 A life re-directing pilgrimage

00:03:00 Earth treasure vases and the terma, treasure tradition.

00:13:00 Liberian women ending the 14 year Civil War

00:18:00 Christian Bethelson, Thich Nhat Hanh and engaged Buddhism

00:23:00 The timing of forgiveness and healing the earth and our bodies.

00:27:00 The fine line of letting go and holding people accountable

00:28:00 Love Letter to the Earth from Thich Nhat Hanh and the path of enlightenment.

00:32:00 The old story of urgency and pressure

00:33:00 Becoming a holy vessel and skillful action

00:38:00 Right timing, intention and aligning with something larger than ourselves

00:40:00 Gaia Mantra

00:42:00 Collective awakening and a fall that brought Cynthia on a new path

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Previous episode with Cynthia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMbIRHLPGYQ

Cynthia became a dharma teacher (Dharmacharya) in the Order of Interbeing of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh in 1994 and in recognition of her dedication in carrying out the Earth Treasure Vase practice, she was made an honorary lama in the Vajrayana tradition of Tibetan Buddhism in 2018. Inspired by thirty years of pilgrimage into diverse communities and ecosystems, today Cynthia is forging a new path of dharma in service to Gaia—a path deeply rooted in the feminine, honoring indigenous cultures, and devoted to collective awakening.

https://www.summonedbytheearth.org

https://gaiamandala.net

https://www.amazon.com/Summoned-Earth-Becoming-Vessel-Healing/dp/1632261324

https://www.instagram.com/cynthiajurs

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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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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

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Francis Weller

https://www.francisweller.net/

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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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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 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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Bodhi Training

https://bodhitraining.com/

Gomde Denmark

https://gomde.dk/

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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.

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