YouTube Video Teachings: Lama Tsultrim's Channel

Tara Mandala is excited to join the YouTube revolution with six current videos, and many more to come, of Lama Tsultrim speaking on various subjects.

Video Interview

"About Fear", an interview with Lama Tsultrim and New York University neuroscientist Joseph Le Doux.  Recorded live at the Rubin Museum of Art, New York City, April 23, 2008. Length: 1:22:00

Teleteaching with Lama Tsultrim Allione

Contents:
• Raising Bodhicitta
• Welcome
• News from Tara Mandala
• Easter: The Ancient Origins and Contemporary Meanings
• Meditation on Rebirth
• Sangha Questions:

1. What is the relationship between our spiritual practice and politics?
2. How to stay grounded in the body during the Feeding Your Demon process and how to work with disassociation in the body as a result of trauma.
3. Questions for the Catalyst School of Homeopathy: The similarities in the transformational aspects in Vajrayana and Homeopathy. Why should I be concerned with holistic healing as a Buddhist?
4. Prayer in the Buddhist Tradition

• Closing and Dedication of Merit

Long Life Prayer for Jetsun Kushok:
Karma Tsültrim Chödrön

Composed by Lama Wangdu in spring, 2008. Sung in Tibetan by Lama Wangdu, Khenpo Sonam, and sangha. Recorded live at Tara Mandala.

Downloadable texts in Tibetan, English, or German

Tibetan and English (PDF)
Tibetan, English, and German (PDF)

Recorded live: Spring 2008
Length: 1:24
Size: 1.9 MB
File Type: MP3
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“The Consort Relationship and Termas on the Tantric Path”

This short talk was excerpted from Lama Tsultrim’s Teleteaching, recorded live March 1, 2009.

Recorded live: March 1, 2009
Length: 5:10
Size: 3.6 MB
File Type: MP3
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Teleteaching with Lama Tsultrim Allione

Contents:
• Raising Bodhicitta
• Welcome
• News from Tara Mandala
• Sangha Questions:

1. What is the focus during mantra recitation?
2. What is the ideal time of day to practice? How to do a short weekend retreat.
3. Tulkus: What are they and why do we need them? The difference between Tulkus and Tertons.
4. Open eye meditation (Prajña Paramita) and closed eye meditation (Vipassana): Increasing concentration with the open-eye practice.
5. What is the relationship between Machig Labdrön, Yeshe Tsogyel, and Tara? Including: the Consort relationship in the Tantric tradition and Machig’s lineages.
6. What to do about a difficult relationship with a mother.
7. If we feed out demons, are new demons constantly entering our consciousness (in the context of a fear of cancer returning)?

• Closing

Recorded live: March 1, 2009
Length: 53:05
Size: 48.7 MB
File Type: MP3
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Guided Meditation with Lama Tsultrim Allione

Lama Tsultrim reads 'Machig's Last Instructions' as a guided meditation. Recorded live at the Open Center in New York City on April 6, 2008.

(From Jerome Edou's book, Machig Labdrön and the Foundations of Chöd [Snow Lion Publications, 1996, pp. 165-170].)

Session Two of the 2007 Teleteachings

In November 2007, Lama Tsultrim Allione began to offer free monthly teleteachings for the extended sangha. Five of the six teleteachings from this first season were recorded and we are now able to offer them to you for free downloading.

Contents: welcome and generation of Bodhicitta; teaching Chöd, Prajñaparamita, mindfulness, and Feeding Your Demon practices to children; review of the five-step Feeding Your Demon process; Machig’s practices and her relationship with Tara and Prajñaparamita; creation stage practices, deity yoga, and mantra recitation; how to integrate Vipasana into the FYD process; Hydras; Nature of Mind and Shine practices; Gate Gate mantra practice and visualization; Sahajayogini Cinta and great bliss (sukhasiddhi), the holiday season.