Crystal Stories
Ken's Notes
- 28Feb (Sun) : Magic. [No notes].
- 10Mar (Wed) : Padmasambhava Day - 2nd stage of Milarepa wongkur. [No Notes]
Documents
A Crystal Collection: BIBLIOGRAPHY
(Draft 3, 15 Oct 2009) Please see Request for recommended books
"Except as ye become as little children, you cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Even to exist,...
The VISION
Alan Wilkie (New Zealand)
Near the end of the extended New Zealand retreat in 1973, Milton Carmen wrote a proposal for a new Dharma community, signed and approved by Rinpoche. I remember...
Contributed Stories
Rab Wilkie
It was a very good year, 1971. Earlier, during the previous autumn, Rinpoche announced that he was travelling to India in the spring and would anyone like to accompany him?
Was there was...
(Early Days, Palmerston Boulevard)
Henri van Bentum
This story takes place in the late 1960’s when I used to spend most of the morning at Rinpoche’s house, arriving there with him after the...
Peter Boag (Mexico 1973)
We were the lucky four, at least we started out thinking so. Chosen from the whole group to ride with Rinpoche up the coast from Mexico to Vancouver, we were indeed...
Brian McLeod (Nov 11, 2007)
After a Manjusri wongkur in Wupperthal, Germany, one of Rinpoche's English students asked, "What shall we do with the sword?"
Rinpoche replied, "Typical! Show a...
Gerry Kopelow
(Lama Gyurme Dorje)
MY POTENTIAL
During a retreat at the Dharma Centre of Canada, Rinpoche got into a psychotherapeutic mode. One morning in class he instructed us to compress the...
Prue Vosper
I was a student who from the first meeting with Rinpoche would ask questions. They would pop out of my mouth spontaneously, with no fear or hesitation. Somehow his presence released...
ARTS And FLOWERS
Henri van Bentum
This took place during one of the public talks given by Ananda Bodhi in the late 1960's at the Theosophical Society in Toronto. The class was well-attended.
The...
Gerry Kopelow
A few years ago my Dharma group assisted Rinpoche's first teacher, the Sayadaw U Thila Wunta, in the construction of a 21ft pagoda at the St. Norbert's Arts and Cultural Centre on the...
Dave Pooch
Auckland, New Zealand
In 1982 Rinpoche was leading a retreat at Yoshino, a mountain village close to Nara in southern Japan. At the time I was on a business trip to Japan and had told...
Peter Boag
The problem with clinging is that until you let it go, either you cling to it or it clings to you. Either way is suffering. Here's a story of my own clinging that spans more than twenty...
CLARIFICATION
For the record, here below is the first part of a biography of Namgyal Rinpoche by Lama Sonam Gyatso, his student and first attendant, from early years in Britain to later in...
Alan Wilkie (New Zealand)
Since your reference to 'The Bead Game' in Crystal Collection #1^, various memories have come back to me. (Incidentally, 'The Glass Bead Game' - literal translation of...
Roslyn Langdon (England)
1974
"If you want to learn to practise meditation come to Canada in the Summer for a three week's meditation course at the Dharma Centre."
These were the words of Namgyal...
Sonia Moriceau
“Long before I was to meet the Venerable Namgyal Rinpoche I heard of a tall Canadian monk from my first teacher, John Garrie Roshi, through a story which impressed me a lot at the...
Dear David and Rab
I have wanted to support your project but as I reflected on my long journey with Rinpoché, I realised that I mostly remembered the outflows and implications of interactions...
Steven Gellman
While driving Namgyal Rinpoche between Lake Taupo and Lake Rotoiti, I became quite concerned about my level of faith and trust in the Teacher and I voiced it to him, "Sir, I have...
Gail Angevine [BC]
I was not intending to write a story. But the process of reading the stories of others must have raised the question in the depth, because the following story emerged one day...
Michael Brine (Yukon)
To tell my story I need to go back before I met the Venerable Ananda Bodhi - as he was known in 1967.
In 1966 I was spending a few days in Malta with my greatest friend Peter...
Elizabeth Berry
I first met Namgyal Rinpoche at a two-week retreat which he named "Trance or Transcendence", (summer 1993?). Being new to this school, and not a regular practitioner of Tibetan...
Matt Wright
Once upon a time whilst Rinpoche and Terry were visiting Anne-Marie and I in
South Florida, we decided to take a drive to the Everglades. Once there, and
after quite a humorous "short"...
Mala Sikka
In October 2003 Rinpoche gave his last teaching in Britain. He taught the “Three Points That Strike To The Vital Essence”: recognition, confidence, and application or putting it into...
Le Gourou Faramineux1
Jangchoub Reid (France)
Le Grand Maître Namgyal Rinpoché is, at once a fantastical2 guru and also a very human being. I deliberately use the present tense because he lives...
Jacques Varian
You asked:
"What is the dance of of the World Serpent?"
Well, first, you should know that during our six weeks in Paleohora, Rinpoche taught many things, but when he tried to teach...
Lisa Elander - (1976?)
In Cuzco, which was one of the sites for a six-week retreat in Peru, Rinpoche
came to the house each morning when he was in that city. (The other site was in
the Urubamba...
PILGRIMAGE 1971 (Part 3)
My Inner Purity
Russell Rolfe
(from part 2) … I was told I would miss an exceedingly rare opportunity to sleep in the presence of hundreds of age-old sacred Tibetan...
Charlene Jones (2006)
Life winds us up and puts us where we need to be, most often it seems when we are not looking.
The Dharma Center of Canada is the 400 acres of land in Kinmount, Ontario...
Lama Mark Webber (19Dec2008)
This morning when I woke up, I especially felt the great blessings of Dharma riches and jewels that were literally pumped into my veins by that great teacher. In fact,...
Linda Rainbird (Wales)
I write this out of respect for all Namgyal Rinpoche taught and gave me in the 33 years with him and the subsequent years still learning from him..
I am sure if Rinpoche were...
Rumtek Monastery 1971
- Russell Rolfe
Pilgrimage Part One is the Darjeeling Demon
At the meeting that night we learned that our permits to enter Sikkim, so generously secured by the Canadian...
Lama Sonam Gyatso
Rinpoche once remarked to me about his students, "With most teachers,
the students all look the same but my students have nothing in common
with each other.. except me!"
(August 5, 1993)
The Dharma Centre of Canada
David Berry
Questioner to Namgyal Rinpoche: "Would you say that.. "
Rinpoche: "Don't accuse me like that."
Questioner: "But you don't know what I am...
Sonam Gyatso
While I was teaching in Toronto, the Bhikkhu was still in Scotland. He had been pushing very hard for us to buy land for a meditation centre, so I went up to Kinmount with Ivo Bischof,...
Monks At Green River (1971)
Rab Wilkie
The air was crisp and cool that evening and the grassy path was covered with fallen leaves as we walked past a large shed towards the house, looming white...
Terry Hagan
I first met Namgyal Rinpoche in my early twenties and was immediately struck by his presence and naturalness. There seemed to be nothing that escaped his awareness and he was completely...
Joanna Estelle
The two months I spent studying with Namgyal Rinpoche were brief, but dramatic. It was the spring of 1971, he was known as Bhikkhu Ananda Bodhi, and he lived in a house on Palmerston...
Graydon Clipperton (Toronto)
I was fifteen. It was springtime in 1969. I was exploring, energized and with lack of direction, found and made up what I could. I knew the realization of mustard seed...
Building a Bridge to Transcendence
Namgyal Rinpoche's Nature Course
Dharma Centre of Canada, July 3, 1996
David Berry
The class sat in silent meditation. We rose to our feet as one as we heard the...
The DARJEELING DEMON
Russell Rolfe
Lightening flashed constantly in the distance as our caravan of pilgrims drove towards the foothills of the Himalayas. We didn't have thunderstorms like this in...
Byron Stevens
Dear Collectors;
There are so many stories where does one start? I have one which may or may not provide benefit, but at least hopefully some mirth. I also apologize in advance for...
The GALAPAGOS SHIPWRECK (1969):
A Not-Too-Enchanted Voyage to the "Enchanted Islands"
[Part One]
Henri van Bentum
Ananda Bodhi asked me to make arrangements to visit the 'Enchanted Islands',...
PART TWO
Henri van Bentum,
Victoria BC, Canada
(read Part One here)
Guyaquil, Ecuador
We all booked into the Humboldt Hotel. The boat that would take us to the Galapagos Islands was the "Cristobal...
Peter Dederichs
Once upon a time there was a little boy and his mother, (the Good Mother), who lived a simple but religious life. The Good Mother used to pray every day and see her spiritual...
Sharon Davison-Fleetwood
It was a wonderful summer day and Rinpoche was offering 21 days of Tara wongkur and teachings at Tseringma House. I was new to the process of coming, sitting and waiting...
Peter Dederichs
I think it was in 1969 when my mother and I went to Mexico with Rinpoche and a group of people. We drove, and I remember very clearly being nine years old at the time, cramped in...
Melodie Massey
Then there was the Sahara trip. Rinpoche decided he was going to learn to drive
the car. Terry took him down to a flat part of the desert where we had spent the
night, so there was...
The RUG MERCHANT'S TAB
Oliver Harte
Trying to do the Lord's work with Rinpoche was like trying to pin a rug dealer on a low price. He would just sidestep wherever you were going. Or as Scott would...
David Berry
As one of two people ordained on September 11 2003, the last ordination that Namgyal Rinpoche performed at the Dharma Centre and perhaps the last in his life as he died 41 days...
(Greece, 1970) - Pamela Hyatt
What a kick to hear about Anna recently.. (sorry kids, I only knew her as Anna, not as Wangchuk)..FABULOSO red hair LEAPT out at me in my mind's eye (wherever the heck...
Daisy Heisler
I was a founding member of the Dharma Centre, a meditation centre in Kinmount, Ontario. In 1966 We bought four hundred acres of beautiful rolling land with forest and a small lake,...
John de Jardin,
interviewed by Stuart Hertzog,
Oct 17, 2004, Victoria, BC.
I met the boat and we all went to Worpswede, and Rinpoche mentioned that he wanted to take a little holiday - to do this...
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