Celtic Buddhism Inspired by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

[leaves1]

Hey kids, look what I stumbled into today - can you get any more on-topic? :)
http://www.celticbuddhism.org

Celtic Buddhism Inspired by Chögyam Trungpa RinpocheChögyam Trungpa Rinpoche was Venerable Seonaidh [John] Perks' root teacher. Seonaidh lived with him for seven years as his

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[ngakmafaery]

...I used to spend time with them in Vermont, and they were fun...good insights into compassion...

oh cool

[leaves1]

It looks like they are in Ireland now, if the website is accurate... supposedly until April - I might have to look them up later. I'm going to have to get John Perks' book now "The Mahasiddha and his Idiot Servant" - that title is too good to pass up. :) (plus I'm almost done with Diana Mukpo's book (Dragon Thunder - My Life with Chögyam Trungpa), so it will be neat to read another somebody's experiences.

I'm still drawn to different aspects of paganism and buddhism... so it was neat to discover this site. This statement specifically thrills me: Seonaidh believes that these energies are actually based on or emanate tremendous compassion which has become overlaid with habitual clingings and fixations. It makes me wonder if the European dieties could serve in the same way that the Tibetan (now-converted-to-Buddhism) dieties serve... I would really like to be able to work with the Germanic/Norse dieties this way. Unfortunately, mose pagans would consider that heresy, I imagine.

Re: oh cool

[ngakmafaery]

...I think you need to have your own relationship with the deities/buddhas/universes, no matter what others say...and frankly, why stick with an idiot form of a deity when you can have the enlightened form of the same deity...? Makes sense to me...

Re: oh cool

[leaves1]

thanks, makes sense to me too!

[totnesmartin]

Excellent stuff! Added to favourites.