Erik Pema Kunsang: Changing Karmic Patterns, Studying Reality & Being a Decent Human

Love & Liberation with Olivia Clementine

Erik Pema Kunsang is a dharma teacher, practitioner, and one of the most prolific translators of Buddhist texts and teachings.

Some of what Erik shares:

00:01:00 On serving and translating for Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, clairvoyance and what is needed for liberation.

00:04:00 Dzogchen person versus a dzogchen teaching from Trulshik Rinpoche

00:08:00 Styles of teachers and busy not doing anything.

00:11:00 Misunderstanding the nature of superficial reality and dharma bums

00:14:00 Bodhi Training

00:16:00 Describing reality

00:17:00 Using the mind as the tool. Moving towards certainty and out of vagueness. The benefits buddhist meditation rather than science.

00:19:00 About fruitful intimate relationships as part of the path of being a decent human being, not breaking trust and learning to live together.

00:23:00 The yanas including Manushayana and Devayana

00:28:00 Split between real world and spiritual world

00:29:00 Using our meditation and spiritual practice time well. Changing karmic patterns

00:32:00 What it really means to be civilized

00:34:00 Essentials for translating genuinely

00:35:00 Leaving nature to itself and no-dig gardening.

00:37:00 Closing statements on landing timeless value systems of the Buddhas

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Erik Pema Kunsang has studied and practiced the Buddha dharma and especially the teachings of Padmasambhava. He has been trained by many masters. including the Dzogchen master, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, as well as his son, Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche. Erik helped bring about Rangjung Yeshe Institute and publications for both study and translation of Dharma. He has translated and published over 60 volumes, including his freely available Tibetan English dictionary. Erik is also the founder of Bodhi Training and is currently the resident teacher at Rangjung Yeshe Gomde Retreat Center.

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Links:

Bodhi Training

https://bodhitraining.com/

Gomde Denmark

https://gomde.dk/

Podcast

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