The Freedom Place Podcast: Wisdom teachings of the enlightened adept t.k.

Welcome to the twelfth episode of The Freedom Place podcast featuring interviews with American-born sage, Traktung Khepa. I'm your host, Greg Kaminsky. For more information about t.k. and his work, visit https://www.TraktungKhepa.com.

In this interview, t.k. discusses meaning. What is meaning? Where can it be found? Does it come from outside us, do we create it, or is it found outside of relationality? In this conversation, t.k. presents meaning, not as a particular meaning of this or that, but meaningfulness itself as divinity. Please leave us questions or comments, or send them to [email protected].

The intro music is "Devotion" by David Modica and the outro music is "Ultimate View Meditation and Action" by Honey Rain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qm1ViBRKpE&t=90s

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Welcome to the eleventh episode of The Freedom Place podcast featuring interviews with American-born sage, Traktung Khepa. For more information about t.k. and his work, visit https://www.TraktungKhepa.com.

In this interview, t.k. discusses Socrates' ancient aphorism, "Know Thyself." He describes the way in which delusion arises as a process structure and how this process structure, mistakenly perceived as an individual (a subjective self in a world of objects) engages in unconscious lying in order to armor and protect itself. This self-lying is the pivot point for one who is on a spiritual path as the place where one can engage in the work of knowing thyself.

The intro music is "Devotion" by David Modica and the outro music is "Land of Unmaking" by Just a Tourist, from their album Narrow Canyons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w74JJlor0w

Welcome to the tenth episode of The Freedom Place podcast featuring interviews with American-born sage, Traktung Khepa. I'm your host, Greg Kaminsky. For more information about t.k. and his work, visit https://www.TraktungKhepa.com.

In this interview, t.k. discusses the notion of spiritual authority and the value of holding an attitude of questioning. One of the teachings here is that it is the quality and integrity of the spiritual teaching that invests the teacher with authority, not the other way around. Also, it is vitally important that students and those seeking to learn not accept what they are taught at face value, but deeply consider the teachings and then ask questions to ensure their understanding.

The intro music is "Devotion" by David Modica and the outro music is "How Will You Live?" by Just a Tourist from their excellent recent album, Ruined for Business. https://open.spotify.com/album/730Z2u5jv0wefNUcgIUH0t

Welcome to the ninth episode of The Freedom Place podcast featuring interviews with American-born sage, Traktung Khepa. I'm your host, Greg Kaminsky. For more information about t.k. and his work, visit https://www.TraktungKhepa.com.

In this interview, t.k. answers three questions sent in by a listener of the podcast. We'd love to make listener questions a regular feature, so to have t.k. answer your questions in an upcoming episode, please send them to me, Greg Kaminsky, via Facebook Messenger, or email them to [email protected].

The three questions answered today are:

1. If the theistic concept of God is wrong, what is holding Being in place?

2. If the theistic concept of God is wrong, how can you explain cause and effect?

3. Would you talk more about how the emptiness discovered in meditation is not a mere nothingness, a nihilist materialist version of emptiness?

The intro music is "Devotion" by David Modica and the outro music is "Six Questions - You Can Go Where You Please" by Honey Rain.

Welcome to the eighth episode of The Freedom Place podcast! This is a platform for distributing interviews with and teachings of American-born sage Traktung Khepa.

This is the second part of an extraordinary interview where t.k. talks about the human quest for ultimate meaning, art history and the development of perspective, the philosophical developments of existentialism and post-modern deconstructionism, and non-duality. In this segment, he spends a considerable amount of time discussing the essence and nature of reality from the perspective of an enlightened being, the esoteric schools of the west, that realization is not limited by culture or geography, and that authentic esoteric schools exist almost like appendant bodies affiliated with major religious traditions. Finally, we spend some time talking about the way esotericism and justice interface.

Feel free to leave comments or questions or send them to [email protected]. For more information, visit https://www.TraktungKhepa.com.

The intro music is "Devotion" by David Modica and the outro music is "Red and Black" by Chen from the amazing album called Unstilted. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6aqrXB7pjMuB33pw3t8woy

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Welcome to the seventh episode of The Freedom Place podcast! This is a platform for distributing interviews with and teachings of American-born sage Traktung Khepa.

This is the first part of an extraordinary interview where t.k. talks about the human quest for ultimate meaning, art history and the development of perspective, the philosophical developments of existentialism and post-modern deconstructionism, and non-duality. What he presents is a brilliant historical analysis of western art and philosophy that demonstrates a long-term cultural vectoral momentum in which all concepts and suppositions, whether artistic, philosophical, religious, scientific, or personal are questioned and may be undercut, leaving the field open for the potential exploration of non-dual reality. As an aside, I find that considering this approach provides redemption from feelings of ambivalence and my own judgments about modern culture to a much greater degree than I expected.

Feel free to leave comments or questions or send them to [email protected]. For more information, visit https://TraktungKhepa.com.

The intro music is "Devotion" by David Modica and the outro music is the title track from Just a Tourist's wonderful brand new album, "Ruined for Business," available where you buy music!

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Welcome to the sixth episode of The Freedom Place podcast! This is a platform for distributing interviews with and teachings of American-born sage Traktung Khepa.

In this extraordinary interview, t.k. talks about the pre-preliminaries of Tantric practice and the way to approach the considerations that are foundational to an esoteric path. He stresses over and over how not contemplating these considerations deeply enough to break through the inertia of habits of daily life often causes issues for practitioners later on the path. What is being discussed here is an alchemical contemplation that engages the intellect, emotions, and conduct, in that order, to truly understand the object of contemplation. If one were to truly contemplate the considerations of precious human birth, impermanence, the law of cause and effect, and that delusion will not end until one consciously puts an end to it, then, theoretically, most obstructions and hindrances to practice and realization would be cut through like a hot knife through butter. t.k. also expresses how the masters and adepts of every esoteric tradition recognize this form of contemplation as the starting point of the path.

Feel free to leave comments or questions or send them to [email protected].

The intro music is "Devotion" by David Modica and the outro music is "Blue Flame" from Just a Tourist's wonderful brand new album entitled "Ruined for Business," available where you buy music!

https://www.traktungkhepa.com/

Welcome to the fifth episode of The Freedom Place podcast! This is a platform for distributing interviews with and teachings of American-born sage Traktung Khepa.

In this extraordinary interview, t.k. answers my questions about alchemy. I've been wanting to do this interview for some time since discovering t.k.'s accomplishment of the alchemical path. If you've ever wondered, as I have, whether it's possible to evolve beyond the human state, or to know the first matter and how the philosopher's stone is created and its function, you're about to find out. As far as I'm aware, this is the first interview of its kind where these questions are definitively answered. There is much to consider here, but ultimately, once one decides if they believe it is possible, the next consideration is whether to engage the methods of the path in order to prove it for oneself...

Feel free to leave comments or questions or send them to [email protected]. For more information, visit TraktungKhepa.com.

The intro music is "Devotion" by David Modica and the outro music is "In Your Body" from Just a Tourist's wonderful brand new album entitled "Ruined for Business," now available where you buy music!

https://www.traktungkhepa.com/

Welcome to the fourth episode of The Freedom Place podcast! This is a platform for distributing interviews with and teachings of American-born sage Traktung Khepa.

If you've listened to the first three episodes, you may, as I do, wonder exactly who is this enlightened being giving these tremendous teachings? Well, hopefully this interview will begin to provide some considerations on that question. In it, Rinpoche discusses who he is, the concept of identity, and what a Buddha is. I feel tremendous joy in being able to share this interview with you and I pray that it has as much of an impact as it did on me.

Feel free to leave comments or questions or send them to [email protected].

The intro music is "Devotion" by David Modica and the outro music is "Dakini Night Poem" sung by Sky, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHwcywjXWUA.

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Welcome to the third episode of The Freedom Place podcast! This is a platform for distributing interviews with and teachings of American-born sage Traktung Khepa.

Today's recording is from a teaching that was given on Sunday, June 9th, 2019 at Tsogyelgar near Ann Arbor, Michigan. This teaching addresses:

Coming to perfect silence and stillness / passivity & discovery / samatha & vipassana / shine & lhatong / calm abiding & further seeing

Rinpoche also discusses his comment, "Duality is mockery; difference is love," as another expression of Longchenpa's One Ground, Two Paths teaching.

Feel free to leave comments or questions or send them to [email protected].

The intro music is "Devotion" by David Modica and the outro music is "Something of Silence" from Just a Tourist's brand new album, Ruined for Business, soon to be available where you buy music.

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