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TALKS By NAMGYAL RINPOCHE
Toronto 1971
Rab Wilkie (Editor)
Kennedy Long (Scribe)
13Jan71 Wednesday
Toronto
Dialogue can occasionally be a conflict, or an augmentation. The dialogue is between the...
TALKS By NAMGYAL RINPOCHE
Toronto 1971
Rab Wilkie (Editor)
Kennedy Long (Scribe)
18Jan71 (evening) Toronto
We need to maintain a balance between serenity and thrust (exploration). Consciousness...
E-Post #3, Jan 20/08.
Welcome to our third newsletter. Over the next few months we will have more notes from Rinpoche's classes, some stories collected from readers, and news about our book...
TALKS By NAMGYAL RINPOCHE
Toronto 1971
Rab Wilkie (Editor)
Kennedy Long (Scribe)
24Jan71 (Sunday afternoon)
Magic is purported to rest on higher knowledge, an insight into higher laws, passed...
TALKS By NAMGYAL RINPOCHE
Toronto 1971
Rab Wilkie (Editor)
Kennedy Long (Scribe)
25 January (Monday morning)
Books to read: "The Ultimate Flower" - Miguel Serrano, "Mount Analogue" - Rene Daumal,...
TALKS By NAMGYAL RINPOCHE
Toronto 1971
Rab Wilkie (Editor)
Kennedy Long (Scribe)
27Jan71 (Wednesday evening)
There are four types or levels of...
TALKS By NAMGYAL RINPOCHE
Toronto 1971
Rab Wilkie (Editor)
Kennedy Long (Scribe)
28Jan (Thursday evening)
Theosophical Society
The first breath is important. Prana comes in, then leaves. [But the...
TALKS By NAMGYAL RINPOCHE
Toronto 1971
Rab Wilkie (Editor)
Kennedy Long (Scribe)
01Feb71
Monday evening
An exercise to come through to a knowledge of reincarnation: 'solassakaya', the exercise...
TALKS By NAMGYAL RINPOCHE
Toronto 1971
Rab Wilkie (Editor)
Kennedy Long (Scribe)
02Feb71
Evening
'Ti Lakkhana': Contemplation On The Three Characteristics of Existence.
Atta [Sanskrit] ~ divine...
TALKS By NAMGYAL RINPOCHE
Toronto 1971
Rab Wilkie (Editor)
Kennedy Long (Scribe)
03Feb71 (Evening)
Theosophical Society
(Text: The Luscher Colour Test - Max Luscher)
After the introverted phase...
TALKS By NAMGYAL RINPOCHE
Toronto 1971
Rab Wilkie (Editor)
Kennedy Long (Scribe)
04Feb71 (evening)
Theosophical Society
In the after-death 'bardo' state the being to be born is interlinking its...
TALKS By NAMGYAL RINPOCHE
Toronto 1971
Rab Wilkie (Editor)
Kennedy Long (Scribe)
07 Feb 1971 (2pm)
PHILOSOPHY: The MYSTERY SCHOOLS
Philosophy is the main study of the Mystery Schools. This...
TALKS By NAMGYAL RINPOCHE
Toronto 1971
Rab Wilkie (Editor)
Kennedy Long (Scribe)
14 Feb 1971 (afternoon)
MAGIC
"And the Sons of Light came down and married with the Daughters of Man".
It is said...
TALKS By NAMGYAL RINPOCHE
Toronto 1971
Rab Wilkie (Editor)
Kennedy Long (Scribe)
15 Feb 1971 (evening)
HEAT YOGA (Dumo)
Take a day or a week off (or longer) for ANY kind of mind development...
TALKS By NAMGYAL RINPOCHE
Toronto 1971
Rab Wilkie (Editor)
Kennedy Long (Scribe)
18Feb71 (Evening)
Theosophical Society
Meditation on the Diamond Light, the 'Sixteen Buddha Bodies' practice, can...
TALKS By NAMGYAL RINPOCHE
Toronto 1971
Rab Wilkie (Editor)
Kennedy Long (Scribe)
24Feb71
KASINA MEDITATION (Fire)
24Feb71
Focus on one kasina for a time and only when more proficient go on to...
TALKS By NAMGYAL RINPOCHE
Toronto 1971
Rab Wilkie (Editor)
Kennedy Long (Scribe)
22Feb71 (Monday evening)
SUNYATA
To increase non-distinction, observe the masculine, feminine, and neutral nature...
TALKS By NAMGYAL RINPOCHE
Toronto 1971
Rab Wilkie (Editor)
Kennedy Long (Scribe)
01Mar71
DREAM YOGA
Dream Yoga is one of the Six Yogas of Naropa.
Recognising that a dream is a dream is the main...
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...
TALKS By NAMGYAL RINPOCHE
Toronto 1971
Rab Wilkie (Editor)
Kennedy Long (Scribe)
(Notes by Pauline Fediow)
Precede meditation with relaxation exercises and deep breathing, coming out gradually,...
TALKS By NAMGYAL RINPOCHE
Toronto 1971
Rab Wilkie (Editor)
Kennedy Long (Scribe)
18Mar71 (Theosophical Society)
The Qabala reveals the Old & New Testament.
There are three levels of the Tree...
TALKS By NAMGYAL RINPOCHE
Toronto 1971
Rab Wilkie (Editor)
Ken Long (Scribe)
23March71
The first three stages in meditation can be called:
1. Propitiation
2. Acquisition
3. Introjection...
TALKS By NAMGYAL RINPOCHE
Toronto 1971
Rab Wilkie (Editor)
Ken Long (Scribe)
Editor's Note: The class notes for these teachings by Rinpoche in 1971 begin to thin out as students and teacher...
TALKS By NAMGYAL RINPOCHE
Toronto 1971
Rab Wilkie (Editor)
Ken Long (Scribe)
05Apr71 (Toronto)
To prepare for wongkur, you can do a puja in the morning, reflecting on the Triple Gem. Upon...
TALKS By NAMGYAL RINPOCHE
Toronto 1971
Rab Wilkie (Editor)
Ken Long (Scribe)
12Apr71, Monday
(fragment)
Saturday night, at 1am and/or between 3-5am, do some purposeful dreaming and record your...
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(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...
SOME TECHNICAL EXPLANATIONS
A key to understanding or remembering what Rinpoche was talking about
By Rab Wilkie
The Sgr/Cap cusp to which Rinpoche refers pertains to the long precessional cycle...
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...
2008-May-08 - Rab Wilkie
Fittingly, I would suggest, with this 22nd newsletter since last January we bring this phase of our project to a close. There are 22 trumps in Tarot, and the class notes...
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...
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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...
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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...
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Ken's Notes
28Feb (Sun) : Magic. [No notes].
10Mar (Wed) : Padmasambhava Day - 2nd stage of Milarepa wongkur. [No Notes]
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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...
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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...
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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
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TALKS By NAMGYAL RINPOCHE
Toronto 1971
Rab Wilkie (Editor)
Ken Long (Scribe)
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...
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2009 Feb 28 - Rab Wilkie
Over the last year we have been gathering and sharing insightful stories about Namgyal Rinpoche (1931-2003), his teachings, and the experiences of students as we prepare...
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,...
2009 Jan 18 - Rab
David is nudging me to wrap this up and get on with the book, but I don't know.. the stories keep coming in and many people like getting this newsletter! (And I enjoy doing it)....
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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...
From The EDITOR
Rab Wilkie
Welcome to our Rinpoche stories. And if this is a surprise, because you weren't expecting more stories or had no idea they were being written in the first place, please...
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...
QUOTES From A DISCOURSE by Ven. Ananda Bodhi
October 16, 1967; Gerard St West, Toronto
Scribe: Henri van Bentum
Negative thinking is the highest form of intelligence.
The Ideal is a marvelous and...
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,...
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,...
2009-Oct-09- Rab
Hello Namgyal story writers & readers ~
As we progress towards publishing our anthology of stories about Namgyal Rinpoche, one item we are perparing to include is a list of...
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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A CRYSTAL COLLECTION
'Visvavajra', Pauline Fediow (1968), Sakya-Namgyal Archives, Heather Rigby donor
The Namgyal Rinpoche Stories Project - 2008
David Berry (Producer), Rab Wilkie (Editor)
If...
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,...
2008 Jan 13 - Rab Wilkie
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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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