By Amrita Mandala Sangha
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In this dialogue between Amrita Baba and his student Amrita Simha, the listener is given a down-to-earth presentation of the subtle body of meridians. How this subtle anatomy relates to physical trauma, as well as how it can relate to light body or immortality body. Baba and Simha also discuss practices from various traditions of eastern internal arts, and how these practices are applied in Amrita Mandala practices, and their own experiences with these practices.
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Shane gives an account of his spiritual journey and experiences along the Amrita Mandala path from initial awakening in 2017 to first stage of Buddhahood / perfect realisation of emptiness over one and a half years ago in September 2021 (this episode recorded Thursday 23rd March 2023).
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In this interview, Helena Ahlbäck from Finland shares the story of her path to full emptiness realization and the attainment of 10th bhumi.
We are told her story of finding bodhicitta, the heart of enlightenment, and how it carried her to realization and away from plateauing in practice.
How she experienced the various stages of the path and bhumis, meaning what are the various challenges she had to face as she went along?
And how is it the practice of post-emptiness, meaning the "leaping over" into luminosity and Light Body?
And much more about the life, view, and conduct of a yogini of our time.
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In this interview, we meet with Robert Andersson from Sweeden, who shares his story of spiritual endeavors and insights!
Robert reveals how he achieved his first awakening insight using the Just One Look Method.
He describes his post-awakening practice, the mingling of the samsaric mind and the original mind - or what in Amrita Mandala is referred to as Bhumi Openings and Bhumi Perfections.
Lastly, we hear about his realization of Dharmadatu Exhaustion,-
when one's recognition of one's primordial mind is completely stable and with no regression.
The interview also includes an interesting discussion on emotions; what is a healthy view of emotion from a dharma perspective and how does one who has reached realization experience emotions? And, he tells the story of how bodhicitta was coming through in his life pre-awakening and how he views bodhicitta now.
Finally, the motivation for the rarest and most sought-after Spiritual Achievement; namely the Light Body/Rainbow Body, the ultimate fruit of the spiritual path.
Thank you so much Robert for your effort, bravery, and generous sharing!
May all beings benefit!
In this interview we are taken through the path of Amrita practitioner Ugi. He started his path with the search for happiness, be it through relationship, self-development or career. Eventually ending up finding the futility in of these endeavours and being pulled towards Dharma practice.
When so encountering dharma and meditation teachings, we hear about the pitfall of Shamata practice, especially related to view-teachings on how to view thoughts. And we hear about the many variations of the modern non-dual stage, and how that compare to the lineages of Mahamudra and Dzogchen. Then there is the encountering with the Amrita Mandala lineage and teachings, and we are given clear in-depth descriptions of the Ugi’s insights and path:
• The first Breakthrough or Awakening, seeing one’s own mind for the first time.
• The phase and practices that we use for this breakthrough to mature and stabilize.
• The stage of one-taste of thoughts and emotions.
• Description of the stages of cessation and working with "substrate" mind at a very late point of practice.
• The point of Exhaustion where one "flip" into the sameness of samsara and nirvana, and you do not stray from all pervasive wakefulness anymore, one has completed the Trechöd practice and reached the forth vision.
• These stages of insights are discussed here both from the point of view of Bhumis, as is Amrita Mandalas path map, and in relation to the Four Yogas of Mahamudra, so a comparison of two different path maps.
In the 7th episode of the Lion-Faced Guru Podcast, Kim Rinpoche, Lama Karl and Acharya Ugi from the Pemako Buddhist lineage will talk about one of the essential aspects of dharmic practice: Bodhicitta, the aspiration to achieve Buddhahood for the liberation of all sentient beings.
As simple and straightforward this aspect of Bodhicitta might seem, it’s one of the topics so many practitioners of Dharma struggle with. And a quick look into Dharma literature reveals that this isn’t due to a lack of explanation. The books are full of explanations regarding Bodhicitta.
Yet, people have a hard time connecting their own experience to it which often leads to doubt, confusion and hesitation towards the Dharma and their practice thereof.
In the following pragmatic discussion, we will address these difficulties from our own personal understanding that we’ve come to due to our own experiences and challenges with the aspect of Bodhicitta.
In the 6th episode, Amrita Baba continues to interview Lama John Hoag on his extensive practice time with Dudjom Rinpoche, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Chatral Rinpoche and other highly realized masters like Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche. This provides a rare insight into how exactly these great masters have taught Tantric Buddhism and introduced people to the Nature of Mind.
In the 5th episode of the Lion-Faced Guru Podcast, Amrita Baba interviews Lama John Hoag from the US about his in-depth experiences with Japanese Zen and how he eventually switched to Vajrayana Buddhism ending up studying with Dudjom Rinpoche, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche and Chatral Rinpoche in Nepal. John and Kim also discuss the incomparable directness and simplicity of Tantric Guru Yoga comparted to the concentration-based approaches of Zen.
In the 4th episode of the Lion-Faced Guru Podcast, Amrita Baba interviews Lama Lyse from New Zealand about her inspiring life, her spiritual path and her fascinating years with two of the greatest Nyingma/Dzogchen masters of our recent time: Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche and Chatral Rinpoche. Lama Lyse is a longtime and close student of Dilgo Khyentse and Chatral Rinpoche. Both were great figures of the Nyingma-school of Tibetan Buddhism. She lived close to Dilgo Rinpoche for six years until his passing in 1991 and then continued her studies with Chatral Rinpoche which lasted another 28 years until his passing in 2015 including an eight-year retreat directly under his guidance.
An interview with Amrita Baba from Pemako Buddhism about the importance of maps of Awakening and his own experiences on the Path so far.
The podcast currently has 11 episodes available.