Tibetan Buddhism Mahamudra teaching day 1 part 1 of 7

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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[Honestyforall]

It is no secret in Tai Situ`s Mahamudra teaching for only his students on this videoes because everybody can have this videoes here. It important to know that A tibetan Lama will always help everybody to break down their ego so they can reach enlightenment. It is not much secret in buddhism at all, but sometimes some westerners that have a big ego and that have learned some tantras like to think that they learn something that few people learn and their ego blow up when others want to learn it.

[melisse1123]

Wow it's fascinating to see a real life Buddhist teachings. It reminds me of a bunch of scenes from the documentary My Reincarnation which is all about My Reincarnation. Well it's so much more than that. It's an amazing film that everyone should really just see. bitly .com/t3FuWB

[CarolineLKroll]

We love to see any mahamudra teachings on youtube and are very happy that these are shared so lovingly. We do see and appreciate that he is very brave, and working very hard to teach something that he knows is most marvelous!

[CarolineLKroll]

We don't doubt that he is going through the process, but we think here he is just beginning to understand primordial purity, and should develop more reverence for the female buddhas and female gatekeepers to develop his buddha speech. It is dangerous to carry greed far on the path because greed can very quickly send you to the hells. Letting go is a very important step in the process.

[CarolineLKroll]

Strange, but after Great Bliss arose, the marks manifested, and we went through the endurance, compassion and lovingkindness replaced greed and vanity, and we certainly can't say that our greed is limitless or that others' greed is limitless. This is supposed to be advanced meditation practice, a central channel meditation, and one of the three moral teachings, not sure what happened there or why greed is an issue even at the beginning stage being discussed.

[awshucks]

'Desire' exists as a multiform. As with everything in existence (and out of it) the object called desire can be beneficial or harmful based on the time, place, and extent of application.

As to which desires harm and which desires benefit, this is largely a point of view of minds at different stages of development.

[awshucks]

As with most videos on googles conditioningtube...tertiary and misleading. Mahamudra as tantra is a 'fast' method of enlightenment, however this teaching is not it. I wonder why?

Many of this priests words at times merely misleading, and at times are outright misrepresentations of very basic tibetan buddhist tenet.

The other side of the blade called greed (desire) is 'can'...having the basic ability to effect an action.

As a buddha would remind you...go...go further...go further still.

[hyabusaxxx]

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[nydefect]

All this talk about position and power is exactly what mahamudra is trying to help you see through. If a man is wise and you can learn from him, be quiet and Listen'' If he has nothing for you to learn politely be on your way but don't ruin it for those who are not yet at the same point of understanding. Much respect for you and the dharma Namaste

[tribalfriend1]

@Honestyforall Are Mahamudras secret? What are the dangers of learning these teachings? What are tantras?