Kagyu
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Search complete. 14 mentions across 9 episodes found for "Kagyu".
Sep 11, 2026
Susan PiverHOST
Oh, yeah
Samuel BercholzGUEST
... and Kagyu lineages of Tibet.
Samuel BercholzGUEST
And part of the reason it's being done that way in the West is because we don't have the time to, to do it 24 hours a day and, and, and look at our mind.
Samuel BercholzGUEST
Our, our situation is very different.
Tami SimonHOST
Today we're re-airing a conversation I had with the very wise and funny, deep and accessible Mingyur Rinpoche.
Tami SimonHOST
Mingyur Rinpoche is a beloved Tibetan Buddhist teacher in the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages.
Tami SimonHOST
In this episode, he shares stories and teachings, including one he calls Adding Wood to the Fire.
Tami SimonHOST
It's a way of meeting life's obstacles, not as problems to avoid, but as our fuel for growth.
Richard HorowitzGUEST
I'm like a really good note taker.
Richard HorowitzGUEST
I probably got a several volume set of like, The collected works of the enlightened llamas of the Kagyu are like, it's really interesting stuff of like how they see the world, their view of reality, what we're doing down here, how we work with our situations.
Richard HorowitzGUEST
I've really enjoyed working with them.
Richard HorowitzGUEST
So I do have a bias towards meditation, which is probably why I like the Gupta, but it has at least been scientifically validated and published.
Brett CainHOST
They have over 2,000 titles that include prominent spiritual teachers such as Pema Chödrön, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
Brett CainHOST
Beyond the world of publishing, Sam is also a dedicated Buddhist practitioner and senior teacher in the Nyingma and Kagyu traditions.
Brett CainHOST
He studied extensively under both Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Thinley Norbu Rinpoche, and has gone on to share his extensive knowledge with thousands of students.
Brett CainHOST
He's also the author of two books, including a memoir titled A Guided Tour of Hell, and his newest work, Rude Awakenings: An Unconventional Guide to the Buddhist Path, which is releasing on August 25th.
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Samuel BercholzGUEST
I remember reading, uh, around the t- that same time, uh, The Life and Teachings of Naropa.
David NichternHOST
Mm-hmm.
Samuel BercholzGUEST
Which is one of the key, key texts of the Kagyu lineage of Ti- Tibetan Buddhism, even though it takes place in India.
Samuel BercholzGUEST
And it's a, it's, it's about, uh, Naropa, this, uh, uh, professor at, at, uh, Nalanda University, and his search for a guru.
Melvin McLeodGUEST
I think that probably almost all of you do do, and then we'll segue to an insight meditation practice.
Melvin McLeodGUEST
So the first, The type of mindfulness practice I would like us now to do is attributed to the great Tibetan teacher Gampopa, who was one of the most important early figures in the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.
Melvin McLeodGUEST
And it is said that this type of meditation has the flavor of Mahamudra to it, which is the primary teaching of the Kagyu school on the nature of mind or indeed of the nature reality itself.
Melvin McLeodGUEST
From a Zen point of view, you could say that this practice has the flavor of Shikantaza about it, the objectless and open non-focal point meditation that is the specialty of the Soto school.
Melvin McLeodGUEST
So I imagine that all or most of you do or have done a classic mindfulness practice based on paying mindful attention to the breath, going in and going out in a relaxed and gentle way and returning yourself to the breath when you discover that you have been lost in thought.
Phil BensonNARRATOR
This class corresponds closely to the first, except that the development has been for evil instead of good, and the powers acquired are used for purely selfish purposes instead of for the benefit of humanity.
Phil BensonNARRATOR
Among its lower ranks come members of the Negro race who practise the ghastly rites of the Ubea or Voodoo schools and the medicine men of many a savage tribe, while higher in intellect and therefore the more blameworthy stand the Tibetan black magicians who are often though incorrectly called by Europeans Dugpas, a title properly belonging as is quite correctly explained by Surgeon Major Waddell in his recent work on the Buddhism of Tibet, only to the Bhutanese subdivision of the great Kargyu sect, which is part of what may be called the semi-reformed school of Tibetan Buddhism.
Phil BensonNARRATOR
The Dugpas no doubt deal in Tantric magic to a considerable extent, but the real red-hatted entirely unreformed sect is that of the Nyin Marpa, though far beyond them in a still lower depth lie the Bonpa, the votaries of the aboriginal religion who have never accepted any form of Buddhism at all.
Phil BensonNARRATOR
It must not, however, be supposed that all Tibetan sects, except the Gelugpa, are necessarily and altogether evil.
speaker_1HOST
And this was the obvious place to connect to.
speaker_1HOST
It was a Kagyu center, strongly connected itself to Samye Ling in Scotland.
speaker_1HOST
There is a bit of a history there about how there was a tiny center when they were the West Midlands Buddhist Center, and at some point, this name became transferred to the new place, which was initially a joint center for Theravada Buddhists and for Tibetan Buddhists.
speaker_1HOST
In due course, it was found that there wasn't that much interaction between the two sides.
Stephen BodianHOST
Today, I explore these and other questions in conversation with Lama Palden Drolma.
Stephen BodianHOST
Lama Palden is the founder and director of Suka City Foundation, a Tibetan Buddhist center named after a revered woman teacher, where she trains and mentors students in the teachings and practices of the Kagyu tradition.
Stephen BodianHOST
Lama Palden worked for years as a licensed psychotherapist and now provides spiritual counseling at the intersection of spirituality and psychology.
Stephen BodianHOST
Her book, Love on Every Breath, offers instruction and commentary in the practice of Tonglen.
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Stephen BodianHOST
Mm-hmm
Palden DrolmaGUEST
... they're very much intertwined.
Palden DrolmaGUEST
But then Mahamudra is a course in our lineage in the Kagyu and Shangpa lineages that I was trained primarily in.
Palden DrolmaGUEST
I, I had contact with all the lineages of Tibetan Buddhism and have teachers from all of them, but the primary is, um, Kagyu and, and Shangpa lineages.