A new book of Buddhist teachings by Gendun Rinpoche has recently been published in English entitled “Heart Advice from a Mahamudra Master”.
Archive for December, 2010
Heart Advice from a Mahamudra Master
Wednesday, December 29th, 2010Seasons Greetings and round-up of 2010
Saturday, December 25th, 2010The Diamond Way Buddhism UK Blog would like to wish all our readers a very happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year.
Naropa’s prophecy to Marpa
Thursday, December 16th, 2010
During his third and final visit to India to meet Naropa, his teacher, Marpa asked Naropa to prophesise the way the Kagyu lineage would expand and flourish:
Although in this life, your family lineage will be interrupted, your dharma lineage will flow on like a wide river as long as the teachings of the Buddha remain. In the view of some impure ordinary men, you will appear to gratify yourself in this life with sense pleasures. Your desires will seem unchanging, like a carving in rock, so solid and so great. On the other hand, since you yourself have seen dharmata, samsara will be self-liberated, like a snake uncoiling. All the future students of the lineage will be like the children of lions and garudas, and each generation will be better than the last.
– Naropa (1016-1100)
From “The Rain of Wisdom” by the Nalanda Translation Committee (Shambhala, 1980)
Lama Ole Nydahl on Crazy Wisdom
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010The following text is an interview with Lama Ole Nydahl made by Artur Przybyslawski in the bus from Katowice to Warsaw on 15th of April 2003. It forms the introduction to the Polish edition of Divine Madman. The Sublime Life and Songs of Drukpa Kunley, “Szalony Jogin Drukpa Kunlej“. Enjoy!