james

Hey All these vids are from 'Message of the Tibetans' filmed in 1966 by a french crew, you can still get this on dvd i think its 2 one hour discs, do yourself a favour and check it out its awesome full of amazing Tibetan masters alot of whom aren't even alive any more- Dilgo Khyetse Rinpoche, Dudjom Rinpoche, the Karmarpa and others that i cant remember, makes you want to visit Nepal, incidently the dorje that the two masters are handling in the youtube vid was supposedly Milarepas own!

Id definately recommend Atishas Seven Point Mind Training, the guide to it that i really love is called Enlightened Courage by the late Nyingma master Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, you really cant get enough of this kind of stuff,i would definately recommend Enlightened Courage, actually I think im due to read it again, if youve got a bit of a temper or can be selfish or negative like i know i can be bodhichitta is like a breath of fresh air beautiful, easy to practice no compicated visualisation or energy work all you have to do is remember the teachings and slogans and apply them to your everyday life, its something really concrete you can work with.

i know this isnt the quotes thread but heres a quote that people might find helpful: " Contempt prior to complete investigation will enslave the soul to ignorance." Anonymous

hey all heres one of my favorites my good friend Theodore Roosevelt: "Its not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again because threre is no effort without error and shortcomings, who knows the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows in the end the high achievement of triumph and who at worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows his place shall never be with those timid and cold souls who know neither victory nor defeat."

Hi there everyone, my name is james and i live in australia, ive been lurking around for a while checking out different threads ect, this is a great resource, much thanks to everyone. I originally found this website after googling David Verdesis name as a friend of mine is interested in training with him, so i thought id do a little research.... oh man those are some heated threads! really interesting though, so then i was like whats all this stuff about Kunlun? so i checked out all those threads... whoa! really interesting its definately a cool forum kind of a fun but sincere look at things of this nature. I checked out the Kunlun website and there was a little vid of Lama Max Christensen where he is introduced as having studied under Chatral Rinpoche, this reminded me of a amusing story i was told concerning Chatral Rinpoche that kind of fits well with the crazy threads ive been reading...anyways Chatral Rinpoche is a very high lama within the Nyingma school and is a bit eccentric and definately non conformist- he is one of the only Tibetan masters who is vegetarian, he is quite old now i think somewhere around ninety, anyway this story happened sometime in the seventies, at that time there was a young american guy who came from a quite a wealthy family and had money at his disposal and was going around with lots of money asking masters for their highest teachings, so he goes to see Chatral Rinpoche with his money and his translator and starts asking for the high teachings,Chatral Rinpoche looks at him smiles and then speaks thru the translator who starts to look a bit embarrased, but translates the message - "yes you can have the teachings but i wont give them to you unless you eat my shit" needless to say the rich guy got quite offended and didnt end up with any teachings from Chatral Rinpoche. Anyways thought that was a pretty funny story and quite timely so thanks again james.