#Rinpoche

[dreamingkatie]

The truth about who we really are, beyond all appearances, is knowledge worth seeking.

[jareckiworld]

Ewa Ciepielewska — Tenga Rinpoche (oil on canvas, 1989)

[husadareiki]

A daily reiki practice

Though energy work in Reiki is simple, but to maintain and strengthened Reiki flow within us, we need to dedicate an hour or two to do some Reiki exercise.

The question is, Reiki has been developed into so many style with a lot of techniques and symbols, so what Reiki style and techniques to be practiced?

Many Reiki masters has its own answers, but to me, we need to go back to what Reiki is in the first place which is a technique to connect our soul to the heart of the universe through meditative state of mind.

Therefore, we need to eliminate unnecessary techniques every time and enter into deep meditative practice in the end.

To do so, i offer a simple guideline to practice Reiki daily

1. To do self healing          whether you are already pass level 1 or shoden in Reiki, you still need to practice self healing to yourself, because self healing soften the muscle and bring clarity to your physic quickly, this is an important step before any further exercise. 2. Cakra cleansing method          In Gendai Reiki ho we use Cakra Kassei kokyuho technique but you can use any technique to cleanse cakras in your own Reiki styles. Clean cakra help you feel balance and fresh. Bring clarity to the mind 3. Light breathing exercise        This technique put our consciousness to Tan tien and at the same time deliver Reiki energy to whole body area, you will feel a heat sensation and your cakra get more active. 4. Gasho meditation        At last, the last menu in this exercise. It is purely a meditation practice aiming to melt our consciousness with Reiki consciousness. Gasho means, that in original Reiki tradition this meditation was conducted in Gasho position, both hand in prayer position in front of the chest ( namaste position).

Where is the symbols? well symbol can be used just before start the entire practice, it use is to assist you in your practice. Don’t think that the symbol is sacred, it is only a helping tool, the most sacred in the end is your connection with the Most Highest within you.

Peace and prosper

[dorothypickens]

[manmetaphysical]

Chögyam Trungpa Born March 5th in 1939

(from an article written in 2021)

The Crazy Wisdom Rinpoche

Some teachers of Buddhism are destined to stand out from the rest but get labelled ‘crazy’ so their achievements can unfortunately be easily dismissed. Also born a Pisces, on March 5th 1939 was Chögyam Trungpa, a Tibetan Buddhist monk who studied English at Oxford and gained status as a spiritual meditation teacher and master for all those in the counter culture of the late sixties and early seventies. He was lauded even by poet Allen Ginsberg who had the Moon and Ascendant in Pisces and who was his friend.

Trungpa had Sun conjunct Jupiter in Pisces so did everything on a grand scale, by way of largesse, all the while beaming from a moon-like face. He made many gnomic pronouncements like the one about the sky being like a blue pancake falling on your head. He talked of being aware of the space in between objects as sometimes more important than the objects themselves. He used a little metal mirror to prophesy the future. He saw in that mirror that he would go to the USA and become immersed in western culture, even to become more hippie than the hippies. And he accomplished all that seemingly with ease.

Yet he was sharp as a razor, super articulate and challenging as the 'so-called' crazy-wisdom guru. People approaching him could be terrified as he would peel away the layers of people's false self. He said as soon as you name or claim enlightenment then you have already lost it to egomania. Also, he said that to follow your own intelligence was the way, to not rely on anyone or anything external including him. And to allow a bit of craziness into your life.

The craziness in his chart is Uranus marking his Ascendant on his South Node, so eccentricity came naturally as well as being matter of fact about unconventional married life- even his wife called him ‘unfathomable’ after many years of knowing him. Trungpa loved misfits, the marginalized, artists and creatives of all types. He loved jokes and could make people laugh to ‘shock’ people into awareness of their neurotic tendencies. For a guru he was the iconoclast.

Crazy wisdom as a concept comes from the words yeshe and chölwa ཡེ་ཤེས་འཆོལ་བ, which equates to ‘wisdom gone wild’. But what he meant by it was to be ‘fresh, sparkling and completely awake’ and to allow situations themselves to be the guru that guides you. If he was alcoholic then gulps of whisky didn’t affect his ability to teach and that in itself defied labels. He expressed even more of this Piscean nature: he loved Handel’s Water Music and taught dharma art which was to not actively create but to ‘receive’ images and treat every single step in the processes of life as sacred. He was an accomplished poet, calligrapher, photographer and a flower arranger, Japanese style. He said neuroses are like manure enriching the soil of the self; and he spoke of tenderness and compassion as strengths not weaknesses. He was often late but died way too soon aged 47, so his time was brief.

“The realm of cults is fuzziness" according to cult analyst Hassan-but astrologers already knew this, which is like hearing Neptune speak; the boundaries become unclear; where one thing ends and the other begins. Wherever the hierarchy of guru and worshipful students exists there is potential for abuse. But it is also true that if you happen to be a guru you are held to a higher standard. What everyone else does without thinking, the guru will be maligned for it- like smoke, drink and have sex. Gurus are not allowed to be human- seems also you can be condemned for not wearing the official Tibetan robes as if the costume itself carried the wisdom. Trungpa wore a suit instead to deconstruct that impression. For a guru to drink, smoke and have sex becomes a stain on their assumed perfection- even if they renounced their monk’s vows as Trungpa did.

He never hid anything according to his friends, except perhaps the cocaine use. While revered as a Tulku (living incarnation) in Tibet, Chögyam Trungpa used the conventions of Western social life to make his point. He was said to drink whisky and even gave lectures drunk. Perhaps the words flowed better? The ultimate spiritual wateriness is the norm for a Pisces as they have few boundaries- that might include the boundary between teacher and student. Did anybody notice Dionysus, god of the grape, talking through him and how many times have we done this in the pub? The archetype of Dionysus is linked to Pisces.

But if you claim a lineage from Tibet, a strand of Buddhist practice then the chain of Bodhisattvas has its reputation tarnished. Not much can be fully confirmed but his close friends said he had a cocaine habit.

Joni Mitchell even wrote a song about her meeting with Chögyam Trungpa:

"I pulled off into a forest, crickets clicking in the ferns

Like a wheel of fortune I heard my fate turn, turn turn

And I went running down a white sand road

I was running like a white-assed deer

Running to lose the blues

To the innocence in here

These are the clouds of Michelangelo

Muscular with gods and sungold

Shine on your witness in the refuge of the roads”

Joni Mitchell

It is interesting that Michaelangelo gets in there as he was also a Pisces born on March 6th. Mitchell claims that she kicked her own cocaine addiction because of Trungpa Rinpoche.

If you include the North Node Trungpa’s chart actually has a ‘Mystic’ Rectangle. Some might say this is not so important as the North Node is not a planet, or at the very least they would take out the word ‘mystic’ but it’s a tight rectangle configuration said to confer harmony among the planetary energies involved. But I’d say in the chart of a reincarnated ‘Tulku’ a rectangle is just that- mystical -especially in a Pisces native. It would heighten the spiritual impact of receiving downloads from the universe and hinting at a continuous 'chain' of being.

A mystic rectangle appears in the chart of Krishnamurti on the day of his enlightenment under a Pepper tree. There's something about transcendence here. The rectangle links four points in the chart two sextiles and two trines, creating two crossed oppositions. So here we have Jupiter is sextile to Uranus and the Moon is sextile the North Node. Uranus is trine the Moon and the North node is trine to Jupiter/the Sun. This blesses the chart with a radiance and originality of being and feeling. Most who came into contact with him declared they felt this energy immediately-some spiritual aura -where love and compassion were present and directly felt by those around. This happened especially as a young man where his qualities were recognized by his elders. He always had time for people and would give advice freely to much older people.

What this rectangle might hint at is an exceptional inner harmony to render the challenges of the oppositions at least manageable by some inner gifts tied to these energies. The only issue with the rectangle formation is that it tends to lock the energies into that particular circuit. It ties together the Water and Earth elements. But to have the Sun, Jupiter, Uranus and the Moon working together would be a boost to his charisma, popularity, fresh approaches and perhaps a tendency to excess that might need to be reigned in and he would have been aware of that as he experimented a lot and said that "Knowledge must be burned, hammered and beaten like pure gold. Then one can wear it as an ornament."

Trungpa died of cirrhosis of the liver on April 4th 1987. He was in Halifax, Nova Scotia, not caring much about his physical health. On the day of his cremation on May 27th, in Vermont, followers noted happily that strange lights appeared in the sky like fragments of a broken rainbow. There was a halo in the sky. The sun, the moon were conjunct Vesta- the sacred flame, along with Chariklo. Chiron was just ten degrees away, all in Gemini. There was actually a rectangle formation as well with Venus sextile Mars, and Neptune sextile Pluto. Mars was opposed to Neptune and Venus was opposed Pluto. Tibetan lamas are known to choose dates according to astrology so this was not coincidence though I'm aware this makes it sound like hagiography, not astrological observation. But synchronicities like this do occur.

Rainbows and milk had apparently also appeared at his birth and the impression he left was one of a miraculous presence mingled with a prowling hungry tiger, which even if it was too much to handle, could not be erased from the memory. While Pasolini and Trungpa are very different creatures, in worlds alien to each other, they both identified ‘materialism’ as the core problem just in different ways.

© Kieron Devlin, Proteus Astrology, March 5th, 2021.

[ngawangloday]

How Coming to Brazil Led Me to Encounter Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche

Arriving in Brazil in 2015 was a life-altering experience, not only due to the cultural richness of this vast country but also because it set the stage for one of the most significant spiritual encounters of my life. It was here, in São Paulo, that my family and I became deeply involved with the Dzogchen teachings and were ultimately blessed to meet our Guru, Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche…

[storyvoice]

devotion

Sogyal Rinpoche, “Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth. Real devotion is rooted in an awed and reverent gratitude, but one that is lucid, grounded, and intelligent.”  

[thecalminside]

Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.

-Sogyal Rinpoche

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

'Foxes Meeting at Oji' by Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857 :: [Red Pine :: Bill Porter]

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“As Buddha said, “What you are is what you have been, what you will be is what you do now.” Padmasambhava went further: “If you want to know your past life, look into your present condition; if you want to know your future life, look at your present actions.” ― Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

[gqandw]

Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.

— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

[nousrose]

Perhaps the deepest reason why we are afraid of death is because we do not know who we are. We believe in a personal, unique, and separate identity but if we dare to examine it, we find that this identity depends entirely on an endless collection of things to prop it up: our name, our biography, our partners, family, home, job, friends, credit cards. It is on their fragile and transient support that we rely for our security. So when they are all taken away, will we have any idea of who we really are? Without our familiar props, we are faced with just ourselves, a person we do not know, an unnerving stranger with whom we have been living all the time but we never really wanted to meet. Isn't that why we have tried to fill every moment of time with noise and activity, however boring or trivial, to ensure that we are never left in silence with this stranger on our own?

The Tibetan Book Of Living And Dying

Sogyal Rinpoche

[infinitedonut]

"When you are expert at studying your own mind, All that appears becomes your guru ..." - Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche

[mahayanapilgrim]

Kindness is a transformative force that heals both others and yourself. As the Buddha said,

"Radiate boundless love towards the entire world." When you act with kindness through your body, speech, and mind, you not only uplift others but also cultivate inner peace and fulfillment within yourself. Let your actions be guided by compassion and empathy, creating a positive impact on those around you and fostering harmony in the world. - GCDR

[terracemuse]

[mountain-sage]

Once we have realized the nature of our mind, it is no longer necessary to search for the guru outside.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

[kamala-laxman]

Be kind to yourself as you proceed along this journey. This kindness, in itself, is a means of awakening the spark of love within you and helping others to discover that spark within themselves. Tsoknyi Rinpoche