Post Vajrayana in Kampuchea

While finishing my master degree in English and American Literature in 1975, I took  Buddhist refuge while engaged in a Zen retreat. I attended Chögyam Trungpa’s Naropa Institute in 1976 - 77 and studied Beat Poetry with Allen Ginsberg and Ann Waldman. Moving to New York City late 1977, I met my root Guru, Deshung Rinpoche Kunga Tenpai Nyima and became a founding member of Jetsun Sakya, New York City. Soon, His Holiness Kyabje Sakya Gongma Trichen came to also bless and direct our center. While there, He gave us the Cause Hevajra, Vajrayogini, Sapan Manjushri Guru Yoga, Vajrapani Bhutadamara, and many other tantric initiations and teachings.  Around that time, many luminaries of Tibetan Buddhism, both East and West, visited His Eminence Deshung Rinpoche at Jetsun Sakya. Foremost among them was Tibetan Historian Dr. Shakapa, a young Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche fresh from his studies in London, and  HH Dakshen Rinpoche of the Phuntsok Podrang, and many Western...

  28/8   The most compassionate thing one’s Guru can do is kick you and your ego to the curb as soon as possible. It’s then genuine initiative to gain both compassion and wisdom, for oneself and others, takes root.  pure_reason_99 Follow #atheist #nogod #noreligion #science This experiment demonstrates how herd mentality works in a group of people. abncwikipedia 6d Today I got to know how religion works without asking any questions. Reply Likes 1,514 pure_reason_99 Comment: On both the mundane and profound levels, Amy isn’t paying attention. On the former, she doesn’t get what’s conventionally going on. On the latter, more deeply knowing level, an informed response would to have either left on her own accord, or stayed and conformed—no shame. But instead, knowing almost nothing, she was removed. This is how erasure happens. Many comments reflect a naive sense of this world’s freedom, that one is somehow ‘independent.’ Nothing, conventionally speaking, is independent or ha...