Bon

I do not know enough about Shakyapath to say The Galugpa path was until recently very monastic and prioritizes Lamrim even more than Nundro.

So I'm most familiar with Kargu, Nyingma and Bon.

So the Nyingma path, because it used to be passed down from a teacher like Marpa, 20 or 30 students that hung around or came and went.

Or like Wangdor Rinpoche's teacher, Jangchub Dorji, who lived in a place and students came and went and some lived there in the town with him.

And so different methods of working with this were occurring, but I don't think it's Western versus Tibetan.

Much more Nyingma versus Kargyu.

Now, my studies with the Bon, Nundro is encouraged, but not necessarily for everyone.

And not necessarily at all times.

But in Tibet, they say that that Dzogchen practice, comes from Shambhala.

And it was something preserved by the older Bon religion of Tibet before Padmasambhava came there and brought Buddhism and so forth.

And then it was appropriated by Buddhism, right? And I wouldn't be at all surprised if, you know, as you suggested earlier, this kind of...

this kind of reconceiving of the relationship between individuals and the potential it has for restructuring society is something that was being developed in Shambhala by an offshoot of Atlanteans who had fought against that repressive hierarchical caste society.

I do not know enough about Shakyapath to say The Galugpa path was until recently very monastic and prioritizes Lamrim even more than Nundro.

So I'm most familiar with Kargu, Nyingma and Bon.

So the Nyingma path, because it used to be passed down from a teacher like Marpa, 20 or 30 students that hung around or came and went.

Or like Wangdor Rinpoche's teacher, Jangchub Dorji, who lived in a place and students came and went and some lived there in the town with him.

And so different methods of working with this were occurring, but I don't think it's Western versus Tibetan.

Much more Nyingma versus Kargyu.

Now, my studies with the Bon, Nundro is encouraged, but not necessarily for everyone.

And not necessarily at all times.

If anyone has a signal, how many previous Buddhas have there been in this world? Because I'm an old lady and I forget my numbers and I never was a scholar, I'm just an old cave yogi trying to show y'all what us cave yogis do.

The Bon lineage dates from the previous Buddha.

who is the sixth, eighth, or seventh, depending on what Guadalman's number is.

And I honestly can't remember.

But there's overlaps all over the place.

And I'm not sure of the main archetype in the Bon one, so go take the course and find out.

It looks like it's gonna be fun.

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One of our Russian viewers asks, in Dzogchen there are instructions on investigating external phenomena, such as individual manifestations.

How does one arrive at such as a realization?

That sounds like Bon Dzogchen, which has a more intellectual approach.

In the Nyingma Dzogchen, the way we investigate external phenomenon, and internal phenomena, all phenomena, is to simply determine whether it's still or moving.

And her background isn't just theoretical.

Natalia brings verified initiations at seven sacred sites around the world, alongside deep training in the ancient Tibetan Bon tradition.

She brings a level of depth, rigor, and authenticity to this work that is so often missing in the spiritual space.

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I thought I'm going crazy," et cetera, and, "What do you think?" And, um, I also feel a lot of other people's emotions in my body and how to cope with that, how to distinguish my own emotions from other people's.

And so many questions, uh, we have, uh, that, um, there are not too many answers.

So tell me a little bit about the Bon tradition then.

Uh, the Bon tradition, it is, um...