Tibetan Buddhism Mahamudra teaching.
I was on a course this lama had in Norway in 1995. This was over three and a half year after i meet buddhism on a backpacker tour that should go to China, HongKong, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia and maybe to other places. The tour was going to ther countries instead because when we was in China I saw some pictures in my China travelbook from a place with name Tibet and I wanted to see some castles that I saw pictures of in the book. The castles was named temples. I had never heard about Tibet or buddhism this time. My friend did not wanted to travel to Tibet because he wanted to try to find work in Hong Kong for some months because he had heard that it was easy to find work there and earn more money to travel for and then we could travel a very long time.
I wanted to see this castle before we go to Hong Kong and we did that and in Tibet we did a bus tour with other backpackers from Yak Hotel. Then we saw a lot of places in Tibet in a 14 day tour with bus. The other backpackers wanted to go to Nepal after Tibet and we changed plans and followed them to Kathmandu in Nepal instead of going to Hong Kong after China. And after we had been in Nepal in one month we travel to India instead of Hong Kong, Thailand, Indonesia and Australia. We was in India in over two months and Bangladesh in 3 weeks. In India we travel down to Calcutta first and from there to Bangladesh and back to India. On the way from Nepal to Calcutta we had to stop because it was late and we need to sleep and we stopped in a town with name Patna. In Patna we did not find any free room in the hotels. All hotels was full. It was late and we did not know what to do. In our travelbook we did find a town called Bodhhgaya near by Patna and in this town it was easier and possible to find places to sleep for backpackers. This town Bodhgaya was a nice place and it was a buddhistplace. I liked this place and I stay there in 14 days instead of one night as planned. My friend had been talking with a American man in Nepal and he had been in Bodhgaya and he had recomended him to go there if we had time. I was happy that we not find hotel in Patna and ended up in this place that this American man recomended instead. I loved Bodhgaya. I have many pictures from there in Januar 1991.
Bodhgaya was a place that this Siddhartha Gotama (Buddha) had been and he had been enlighten there. It was many buddhist monks and buddhist there. This was in January in 1991. It was courses in something they called meditation there and I listening to some teachers in two hours in two evenings. I did not know anything about meditation or buddhism this time, but I started to learn there in this two hours.
Two months later me and my friend wanted to go to Kashmir and live in boathotels there. We heard that it was maybe dangerous for tourist in Kashmir this time because something and then we changed the plan and we was going to a town north in India instead with name Dharamsala. A swedish girl that I meet in Bodhgaya was buddhist and she should be in Dharamsala in february to marz because she like to be there then because it was a tibetan refugees place and the tibetans celebrated the tibetan new year in the end of february there. A man with name Dalai Lama that got the nobel peace price in 1988 live in Dharamsala. I did not know anything about Dalai Lama in 1992 when I was there. I only know that he got this peace price. I did not know much about the peace price in 1988, but I know more when I was older and Aung san suu kyi got the price two year later.
In Dharamsala it was many backpackers and I was there in over three weeks.I met this swedish girl there. I was looking around in Dharamsala and it was meditation courses there to. I find one course on a place named Tusita and there it was many backpackers and it was teaching in English. I took this course that was a intro course in buddhism and meditation. One time on the course a teacher was talking about meditation and he talking about that when we meditated we trained our mind to be relaxed, calmand consentrated. And he was talking about that in our mind it was much more than this world that we experieced in our dayli samsaric mind. I did not know what the mind was this time. I had never been thinking about what the mind was. I had always been seeing outwards and nearly never been seeing invards like buddhist do.
I was thinking and thinking about what my mind was. I had never been whatching my thoughts before. I saw that my thoughts was the thinker
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The low minded one posted this and the words bla bla under a quote by Niguma, an enlightened female Buddha and student of Naropa, and under a quote about the female gatekeepers. It was very horrifying to see, and we realized why when we heard the words, "abused and polluted," and "too many of it," concerning two of the five Female Buddhas, Mamaki and Samayatara. This is why Buddha speech is elusive. Hope this helps and there will be attainment. HUM HUM HUM HUM JAH HUM VAM HOH!
CarolineLKroll 2 months ago
Thank you for sharing these beautiful teachings by such a venerable teacher.
CarolineLKroll 2 months ago
The reason I felt I should mention that is because a very low minded individual used this link and those words to try to demean and degrade an enlightened individual who speaks only meaningful words of truth. Not everyone hears bla bla when meaningful words are spoken, and we cherish those that are even capable of speaking meaningful words and knowing what they are saying.
CarolineLKroll 2 months ago
Meaningful words are meaningful words and will never be spoken too many times. Yes, some listeners won't want to hear them, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't speak them. Mantras gain in efficacy the more they are repeated. This is true for holy words and for speaking of holy things like the atemporal buddhas of air and water, which are primordially pure. The more we understand water is self, air is self, the more holy and less contaminated they will seem.
CarolineLKroll 2 months ago
You were very lucky to have a chance to travel so far and to experience so much and too learn the dharma. Please continue to share the things you lernt on your long journey. Namaste
nydefect 5 months ago
@Honestyforall: incredible story. Thanks so much for sharing this. It is a delight to be able to include a man such as this at all. I have not had the pleasure of meeting any of "these guys" in person but have received mandala dust and have watched some of the 'nameless' monks touring Indiana making one of the mandalas at a university campus in Indianapois in 2007 or 2008 or so...maybe even
MiriamSPia 7 months ago
@Honestyforall: incredible story. Thanks so much for sharing this. It is a delight to be able to include a man such as this at all. I have not had the pleasure of meeting any of "these guys" in person but have received mandala dust and have watched some of the 'nameless' monks touring Indiana making one of the mandalas at a university campus in Indianapis in 2007 or 2008 or so...maybe even
MiriamSPia 7 months ago
may all sentient beings be happy
may all sentient beings be free from suffering forever
may all sentient beings never be parted from their happiness
may all beings have equinimity
jedster12345 11 months ago
Sadhu sadhu adhu
bipulverma 2 years ago