Intermediate Dzogchen - Lama Lena in the Caves of Tso Pema

Dzogchen is about perceiving the mind directly, right here, right now. In this trilogy of videos, filmed over 3 days from her cave in Tso Pema, Lama Lena teaches this profound practice to three groups of practitioners at varying levels of experience, making it accessible to students at beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels.
Please note, Lama Lena strongly advises that you first receive these teachings in person with a qualified teacher, then use these videos to support, clarify, and enhance your practice after the initial "Pointing Out Instructions" (Read more about this advice here: lamalenateachi...)
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[@shortsdeliveries]

1:14:30 this is something i tought about quite a lot. Tibetans and Bhutanese pretty much have have their own common sense (which is permiated by Dharma culture already) ingrained into their Dharma pratice, then even if they try to explain the Dharma as best as they can they will still miss explaining something, there's always a missing piece in your pratice. Then I have to keep trying to put this puzzle together and barely make it work just enough and have very small results or even bad results. There are hints scattered all around tough, but its pretty much a second job gathering all pieces and putting them together. That's why people like Lama Lene are so important we need more people who can put the pieces together and present the Dharma as one whole piece without the flaw of having assumed that the pratitioner would have "common sense". The Dharma is not part of Western culture, so we need all the pieces because our common sense over here was never permiated by the Dharma

[@funat50]

“Don’t rely on the teacher, rely on the words. Don’t rely on the words, rely on the meaning. Don’t rely on the meaning, rely on the essence.” (Citation requested)

[@dawid_dahl]

I've never seen anyone who is actually living the reality of the Avatamsaka Sutra before. The pickle example proved it. Very cool, so happy I found this KZbin-channel!

[@davidmickles5012]

Everytime I run across this teacher I want to trash her as a phony.. but when I stick around long enough she starts to make good sense ☺🙏

[@BhavaniRyan]

Incredible. I have tried to find peace from the internal, relentless nattering and abusive dialogue - the comparing, contrasting, measuring, categorizing, applying and tying it all to this tiny sense of me- making time and living in the past or the future, but never comfortable here and now...and then I had a glimpse of the space. The space before the perception of thoughts and feeling and phenomena is what I am. Through mediation, the space went from a pinpoint, to a 360 degree mountain view. I realized we have already arrived. We already transcended - we’re there. Now we can find space and joy here while being there. No mind. What a gift of peace in this world. Thank you 🙏🏻

[@heididettwiler9863]

Thank you so much for this significant dharma talk ❤

[@Rangshyin]

So clear, deep and helpful, Thank you so much, my you live long, precious teacher

[@panithera2552]

What a perfect teaching! I bow to the master. This is a great blessing.

[@aejaying]

Thank you Lama Lena, for helping this western white woman truly gain some perspective on sometimes tricky interpretations that don’t have any meaning or substance for me. Super grateful for your frank and clear breakdowns!

[@erichwebb8312]

Thank you for the share Master Lama Lena ...... much appreciate your wisdom and your kind words . Be well and keep the faith sister🌹

[@justinsmcleod]

Amazing talks. Thank you so much for posting these

[@dimopetrov4982]

Thanks so much for the great videos, really appreciate it! That was great imagining an object in your mind,brings you right into the vast open awareness. I don't have a teacher, doing meditation on my own so your videos teach me a lot,thanks!

[@BrokenSofa]

Finally starting to get this teaching after a couple of years of practice

[@katiguerra9955]

Many many thanks.

[@richardprice9730]

Wow intuitively I have studied briefly Chi and spent many hours trying to decipher Iyengar and patanjali and Eric Schiffman stuff and I didn't really get it before NOW THE ENERGY BODY and PERCEPTUAL_INTERPRETIVE and how movement and breathe work play into this , so we get a sense of needing to do , or exploring in a certain direction or in psychoanalysis which has helped me greatly the very early childhood mental emotional constrictions how they affect each other and the rainbow body this is fascinating, sadly there is still alot of guilt throwing , of controlling , of endless rituals which do not help or accelerate the development of the unique "person " so thank you

[@garlandilluviel3650]

I misheard 4th wong as "4th wall" (a theater and film term), and it still makes sense. ❤

[@ThuNguyen-dz3mw]

My gratitude!

[@davidstrevens9170]

Where the teacher is pointing? He's pointing to the Pub.

[@harriehoutman5154]

gracias.

[@Spectre2434]

Many many Tashi Deleks 🙏🙏🙏

[@GigiAzmy]

Thank you

[@funderbee]

I am going to say this for anyone who may need to see it. With out a face to face(zoom to zoom etc), to reach a point in personal life, practice, thought stream, took nearly 20 years to understand the depth. That will take a couple years or 12, to do the same, with someone who can see who you are as you are. Also, will save lots of reading, since unlike looking through a hay stack for a pin, and pricking oneself to find the pin, is far better to prevent, with a teacher who knows to use a magnet . Oh and last thing. Have sympathy for yourself. Dust yourself off and try again. But never beat oneself up. Things go wrong and can be issues, they only become problems, through focus. Even thinking, “i wish this would stop” is focusing on whatever it is.

[@user-cu9xf6om3r]

Ema! I have found someone to add to my staple diet. Very tasty! Thank you.

[@robmanzanares]

Thank you.

[@Ndefinitely]

Having an Interpretation of sense phenomena. Is an interpretation different than a reaction?

[@omnpresentevidence]

Perhaps she has built her Buddhist temple on the remains of an old testiment church of hell and brimstone good/bad. The residues seeping through her strict sermons. I appreciate that this is an aspect of her personality’s liking for the power of belief. My limited understanding of Dzogchen is that though it is under the umbrella of Buddhism it is in fact a direct path to see the truth of ones non existence as an independent separate entity. I also know that paradox is inherent in all direct paths but I just think this aspect of needing to follow rules or do practises out of fear of the consequences for the individuals just taps into the whole ideation of a separate self. It’s not dissimilar to the way that powerful people coral people into fearful beliefs in order to manipulate them. Spiritually is in My experience about liberating oneself from the idea of oneself. But hey if people find it motivating to be kinder through fear then so be it.

[@user-ic4ce8xb5v]

She did note that personality is transparent. I think her perspective is to acknowledge personality but not cling to it.

[@omnpresentevidence]

@@user-ic4ce8xb5v Yes I’m sure that’s true

[@Dorje17]

Interesting..........Kali Mesukiel Aketeriel Mahakala Bala Bala Hehehe Capalatmika Kalabhairava

[@Spectre2434]

🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@cezarinagarcia3039]

Thanks for sharing 🙏💜☯️📈🙋💡💐🌟🔥🇧🇷

[@chrishna987]

20 seconds in Must be telepathic

[@djdcano479]

Hi !! i would love to watch your videos but they are so long.. can you make 15/20 minutes videos pls have a good day

[@28105wsking]

The last time I saw you, you were so tiny and skinny that this just makes me laugh! You always were a fantastic cook!

[@hunterbear-ian8663]

Thanks for letting me be angry and prone to violence 💛🙏

[@richardprice9730]

It is called going beyond the "human condition" which when correctly seen is pathetic like a crippled , regressed -limited .....God it's unbearable isn't it ? BEFORE GETTING UP ( from sleep ) SUGGESTIONS on Ways forward : A quick summation : All that arises in consciousness could be said to arise out of movement of the mind and this energy field or matrix further differentiated or substantiated by the senses and the mind then mis perceiving and misunderstanding amalgamates thus re constructing a version of reality we call normal or existential . This IS best see first thing in the morning upon waking keeping the eyes closed reentering a semi lucid state and the energy of being is there but also faintly the I identified not with it and the sense of clearer sublime just witnessing field and the energy of being as separate from this "energetic matrix" and then thoughts and desires which can be cleraly seen as the progenitors to action thus in this lucid state we can see more of our true nature and the differentiation , solidification , identifying process , this is "world" and thus i am living in a world I mis understand as separate from i body-mind this is the confusion the normal existential sense of being lands us in , and the realmm of science , subject -object , causality and so called reality , factual things ! The getting up and into our unique behavioural patterns we often feel proud of or not and " identified with supposed body-mind" exiting then habit formations and inertial movemnet and things we do every morning and so on like sequences ! Here it all is As Hunmag po stated to come back to this just seeing and seeing ourselves fundamentally as different from it IS the essence of spirituality or as I call it moving beyond mind . Then the Question to ask is Does this apparent "physical object" have reality is substance , is solidity , is space - time -energy . Whe does it appear most real , what is going on then ? Do we feel identified with certain thoughts and emotional patterns and what are thses about etc especially in terms of projections ( Kleine projective identification ) that is split off at a level prior to awareness the unthinkable within becomes the without , the enemy within manifests as the block without , someone else has or is neurotic etc NOT "me" , someone else hates not me , moralizing , distorting we all do it but what is going on further cementing the subtle i unique "me" sense , the sense of having strong opinions , being emotional , tendency to react we have fallen way down into what Buddhists call the hell realm ( still an illusion ?) . GO BEYOND ( meditation is supremely use-full here ) so 30 mins in your take is --- Very similar to tarthang tulkus ground breaking work brilliant my only reservation is it takes an off road a tangential path to the direct Huan gPo method of thoughtless raod gateway to the real , our early mind sets and emotionally laden repressed blocked thoughts and incidents which we quickly forgot are best dealt with through direct access to the absolute and then develop IMAGINATION,neurotics Over imagine that IS their problem , oh I have a life threatening e illness i'm going to die ,l I can't , I couldn't possibly , its not allowed etc . Yes brilliant tenet first things yes dolphins are alot better naturally telpathic , cephalopods are bettter at coulour chnaging symbol-music feeling deciphering painting etc . Great point species limitation ! ANTS are a lot less naturally un egoic able to be obedient like the Borg behaave collectively in a supremely enlightened way etc BUT .....Butterflies more subtle in thier perceptions and so on and , then the "mix" evolves into a specific direction i guesss towards greater self awareness consciousness and bliss potential pure raw unadulterated imaginal -----beyond. Homo sapien sapien . SO GO BEYOND ! Thoughts on one level are SO POWER FULL but as you say transparent yet clouding like smoke or like colour visors makign the world appear AS ....x, y, z . 41 :00 Assumption al clumps , congregational , constructions or mixes from different perceptual fields added in the mind to CREATE the world appearance . 49:00 I would say with my love of Jung self perfecting synchronicity of apparent ineterbeing ness quickly fading or morphing into pure being One-ness ,where there is NO desire to lay claim to "it", I did this , I solved that or came up with ( ego >pride) but just unravel and explain and develop it further , instantaneous multi level faceted understanding arising as if from nowhere , like a succession of intuitive leaps one after another , happening spontaneously , the analogy might be in a nuclear reactor where fuel rods produce more heat , yes there is the danger of explosion similar to mental illness , deep level splitting , getting caught up in some block and then all this energy going down one tramelled route ( dare i use the word sin and disaster ! ) but we MUST experiment because it is beyond the I-am , to become stabilized in the destination is the purposeless purpose so to speak a very crude oxymoron. 51 :00 Notice the thoughts and feeling s you really don't like and work with them ! Where IS the need ? if the thoughts were really transparent their would be no such fictitious attitude would there ? 57:00 Analyze the F..outa feelings as much as you can come back to it see it's development thoughts ----feelings ( tone --inertia--- value )---energized areas or sensations localized as intense spots where we originally constricted defended somatic ally , open it up ( Yoga Qi Gong , body movemnet breathe ) de construct ! Be Ok with them ANGER in particular .

[@albertmiller3082]

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[@kbgirel6965]

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