The Double Dorje: Looking at Modern Vajrayana Buddhism.
Cut and chop, cut and chop! Yes, it's Chöd.
Wed, 25 Sep 2024
Chöd - a vast stream of Buddhist practice! Here is a taste. Chöd Chödpa - (images of) Jamgön Kongtrül Treasury of Knowledge Rimé Sakya Kadampa Kagyu (Marpa and Shangpa) Nyingma Kalachakra Machig Labdrön - Machik’s Complete Explanation Phadampa Sangye Dakini Damaru Karma Kagyu Dudjom Tersar Yeshe Dorje (Rainmaker) #Buddhism #Vajrayana #Tibet #DoubleDorje #chöd #mantra #meditation #nyingma #kagyu In the early weeks of this podcast I included an approximate script, not particularly well edited, on a blog page. For the episode dropped on 4 September entitled “Bad gurus, tosh gurus and good gurus” and for episodes due to be dropped from 18 September onwards, starting with “Jyekundo / Yushu: travelling in East Tibet” there is a transcript file which is much closer to the actual words used. Note that other distribution platforms do not necessarily pass this on, and if you want to read it you may need to listen on podbean. YouTube has been making its own transcript, which was an unholy mess. I think I have now deleted all of these "auto-generated" scripts, but it will not be possible to retrospectively add properly edited transcripts to episodes prior to September 2024.
Full Episode
Hello, and a warm, warm welcome again to this Double Dorje podcast. Come in, sit down, have a cup of tea, and let's talk about chud. A week ago I had a rare but welcome visit from members of my family. None of them are Buddhists, but they are naturally curious about some of the things I get up to, and it came into conversation that churd is one of my regular practices.
Let me say straight away that I'm not a great practitioner, but I have been doing it for quite a lot of years now. Inevitably, one of my visitors, my niece as it happens, asked me just what this churd practice is. I gave her a bit of an explanation, but it was muddled and it was unclear. So I made the excuse that because I haven't done a podcast about it yet, I haven't got my thoughts into order.
So here we are doing just that. Before we get started, I want to encourage you to take a moment to like this episode, subscribe to the podcast, tell your friends in whatever way is appropriate for the channel you're listening on. At the time of first publishing, the podcast is hosted on Podbean, but it's very likely that you're listening somewhere else.
If you want to see the brief comments, but they don't appear in your channel, you will find them on Podbean. So, picture yourself now, if you will, in some kind of primitive guesthouse in remote, well, where? Maybe Nepal, or Tibet, or Sikkim, or even Scotland. We do have practicing Buddhists and Buddhist centres in the West, after all, as well as haunted houses and haunted graveyards.
It's night-time, and the room is dark, lit only by a couple of candles. The conversation It is witty, but you find you just do have to go outside for a leak. It does happen. Not wanting to pollute the ground right next to the inn, you walk 50 yards up the path. It's not difficult. There is a quarter moon hanging low in the west, giving enough light.
As you arrange your clothing again after relieving yourself, you hear something in the distance. Bop, bop, bop, bop, along with ting, ting, ting, ting. You strain your ears.
Aaaaaah! Aaaaaah!
The blare of what is in fact a human thigh bone being used as a trumpet. Whoa! Back in the double dorge, because this guest house that we are picturing is an emanation of the real virtual double dorge restaurant, you tell your companions what you heard. Ooh, they say, so we have a chur par in the neighbourhood, do we? Let's check him out.
Do you suppose he's up at the old cemetery, the one that got too full of bodies? See if we can scare him, see if he's the real deal. You troop out and head that way, staying very close to one another. If by daylight you wonder whether the place is haunted by ghouls and ghosts, at this time of night you have very few doubts indeed. Twenty minutes later, you're getting close.
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