"The body mind is the only disciple. Awareness, the only Guru."
The Wisdom Blessings of the Guru are always welcome! And we welcome this latest episode of The Freedom Place Podcast where t.k. graces us by discussing some select passages from his new book, The Concealing and Revealing.: The Wisdom of Reality Only - https://www.amazon.com/Concealing-Revealing-wisdom-Reality-Only/dp/B0FD4NJCVM/Enjoy!
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The Greatest Magic is to Have Compassion for All Beings
In this latest recording, t.k. discusses the nature of compassion, the meaning of the title of the new book The Concealing and Revealing.: The Wisdom of Reality Only, the role of the Guru, and the nature of Love. We are truly blessed to have another interview and opportunity to listen to sublime wisdom teachings. With deep and profound gratitude to the spiritual master for sharing wisdom with us, we give thanks. Please enjoy!The Concealing and Revealing.: The Wisdom of Reality Only by t.k. - https://www.amazon.com/Concealing-Revealing-wisdom-Reality-Only/dp/B0FD4NJCVM/
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Meaningfulness, pt. 2
In this recording, t.k. discusses meaningfulness again, touching upon various types of meaning, the history of meaning in modern times with regard to humanism and existentialism, and how ultimate / divine meaning is discovered and exactly what that is and is not...We are truly blessed to have yet another sublime teaching delivered via podcast, and we're very grateful to receive it.Please enjoy!
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Nothingness
In this recording, Traktung Rinpoche graciously discusses nothingness as the essence of reality.We are blessed to have yet another sublime teaching to enlighten our minds. Enjoy!One way that we approach the understanding of nothingness from a Western religious context is the conversion of St. Paul on the road to Damascus where he fell down and was blinded by brilliant light. Meister Eckhart’s description of this gives us some crucial insight into this Divine mystery: "Paul rose from the ground and with open eyes saw nothing. I think this text has a fourfold sense. One is that when he rose up from the ground with open eyes, he saw Nothing, and the Nothing was God; for when he saw God, he calls that Nothing. The second: when he got up, he saw nothing but God. The third: in all things he saw nothing but God. The fourth: when he saw God, he saw all things as nothing."[1] These four statements about what St. Paul meant are all correct and true simultaneously. This is what is meant and understood by Divine nothingness.[1] Meister Eckhart, The Complete Mystical Works of Meister Eckhart, trans. Maurice O’C. Walshe (New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 2009), 137.
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Identity & Language
We are so grateful to be blessed with another episode of The Freedom Place Podcast in which Traktung Rinpoche graciously discusses identity and language.Identity, while functional, is, in the light of truth, itself is a mistake. Language, while efficacious for navigating our mundane existence, is rooted in duality and, therefore, not sufficient to accurately describe reality.Please enjoy!
The Freedom Place podcast is a platform for distributing the teachings of Traktung Khepa. Spiritual adept, visionary, poet, farmer, Traktung Khepa is an American-born sage who has taught students in America, Europe, and Cuba since 1990. For 30 years he has guided Tsogyelgar, a contemplative community outside Ann Arbor, Michigan. Equally able to explore the most esoteric aspects and methods of the Tantric path or discuss Existentialism, Santeria, Alchemy, Political Philosophy, or Art History, t.k.’s style of teaching is immediate and relevant. As a child, t.k. traveled with his parents from Marrakesh to Istanbul exploring modern and ancient cultures, museums, churches, whirling dervishes, gypsy caves, healers in the Black Forest, and mysteries of Greek ruins. As a teen he had encounters with spiritual aspirants and adepts of every sort from Jesuit priests and Franciscan monks to Krishnamurti, 32nd degree Freemasons, Sufi and Zen masters and more. At the same time he picnicked on the White House lawn with Reagan and joked with Nixon and Kissinger as they played Happy Birthday for his mother on the piano. t.k’s lifelong passion for exploring spiritual traditions and life’s meaning has seamlessly melded with his profound realization accomplished through the non-monastic Tantric path. The Adept Thinley Norbu Rinpoche repeatedly encouraged him share his wisdom and realization to, “Help Westerners clarify the inner meanings of Tantra without distortions.”
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