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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Tibetan Buddhism Mahamudra teaching day 1 part 5 of 7by Honestyforall3,422 views
Thank you for sharing. Your story was not how I had thought. I had heard of the Dalai Lama by the time I was a 10 year old. I was no Buddhist; I was a Unitarian Universalist in a Christian country - the USA. My family and religion are very broad minded. So, say I first of Buddhists and DL by 1978. I learned the word Rinpoche by 1990. After 2000 I read some books about Buddhism and by Buddhists-for nonBuddhists in English. Meditation and spiritual teacher/student and philosophy are "me".
MiriamSPia 8 months ago