Love & Liberation with Olivia Clementine

In this conversation, we sit down in Pharping Nepal with Josh Kinney, a western practitioner who spent over two decades immersed in the living meditation traditions of Nangchen in Eastern Tibet training under some of its most extraordinary masters, including the force of nature Yogi Pema Dorje, and the renowned Lhagen Pema Drimed. You will hear stories of cave retreats, Tibetan yogas, dark retreat practice, and what it means to enter this remotely held lineage as an outsider with devotion and a willingness to keep showing up.
Time notes:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:39 First steps into dharma
00:03:24 Eastern Tibet
00:04:12 Putting on robes
00:05:54 Adeu Rinpoche
000:9:58 Meeting Yogi Pema Dorje
00:12:27 Cave retreats and ngondro
00:14:59 Five Buddha family teachings
00:19:13 Sealed retreats with Pema Dorje
00:25:13 Tibetan yogas
00:27:15 Dark retreat
00:30:22 Pema Dorje's early life and tests
00:36:40 Naked yogi tales
00:39:08 Retreat training style
00:43:23 Lhagen Pema Drimed
00:49:57 Guided retreat stories
00:53:53 Chudlen essence practice
00:58:24 Dark retreat with friends
01:03:00 Peter Galambos as an example
01:04:43 Outer, inner and secret retreat
01:07:00 3-year retreat and serendipity as the way
 
Links:
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0mVOZmJ5bg
 
Josh Kinney:
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/joshua.kinney.524
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mcguru29
 
Support building a dark retreat hermitage at Gebchak:
In response to Tsogyal Rinpoche and senior Gebchak female practitioners asking Josh to advise and direct the building of this future dark retreat center at the mother nunnery of Gebchak, in Eastern Tibet, Josh is currently requesting support to make this vision come to fruition. This space will be able to hold 15 practitioners at a time and will include bathrooms and a communal kitchen.
You can make an offering here, and Josh will send you a receipt for your gift:
paypal.me/gebchakyogis
For questions, you can write Josh: mcreynolds290 (at) gmail (dot) com
 
Suggested Episode Series:
On the Gebchak Yoginis, a 3 Part Series with Elizabeth McDougal:
Part One: https://oliviaclementine.com/elizabeth-mcdougal-the-gebchak-yoginis-part-one/
 
Love & Liberation podcast website & transcripts
https://oliviaclementine.com/podcasts

Time notes:
[00:07:45] - Lakota and intuition
[00:10:29] - The highest intelligence  
[00:16:03] - The spiritual umbilical cord 
[00:21:20] -33 intelligences
[00:27:51] - Relationship with time and timelessness
[00:31:37] - Morning ritual of perception
[00:34:48] - Innocence
[00:40:42] - The elder at the creek
[00:46:16] - Language of grief
[00:54:16] - Using energy wisely
Music included is from Tiokasin called 'Butterfly Against the Wind'
This conversation originally aired on February 22, 2022
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Links:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse and First Voices Indigenous Radio
https://firstvoicesindigenousradio.org/production/tiokasin-ghosthorse
 
Podcast website & transcripts
https://oliviaclementine.com/podcasts
 
Post-Listen suggested episode with Kunzang Choden
https://oliviaclementine.com/kunzang-choden-bhutanese-heritage-dorji-linga-part-one/

Dr. Andrea Loseries is a scholar, professor, and yogic practitioner. You'll hear about Andrea's more than 50 years of research and spiritual practice that includes incredible accounts of risk, discernment, and devotion on her path of transformation.
Time notes:
00:01:06 - Journeying to the Himalayas to study with yogic masters
00:07:38 - Taking the Karmapa as her teacher
00:12:28 - From village girl to lady in 6 months
00:16:05 - Ancient Bon religion and bone ritual objects
00:20:34 - The confiscated skull 
00:23:53 - The legendary Snow Lion Expedition
00:35:56 - Guidance on choosing malas and ritual objects
00:38:51 - Learning chod practice with Chatral Rinpoche
00:49:19 - On purity and impurity at the cremation ground
00:55:02 - Being a woman at the cremation ground
01:04:30 - Using oil from burning bodies for a Mahakala lamp
This conversation originally aired on March 14, 2023
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Podcast website & transcripts
https://oliviaclementine.com/podcasts
 
Post-listen episode with Kulavadhuta Satpurananda:
https://oliviaclementine.com/kulavadhuta-satpurananda-the-path-of-a-yogi-gone-beyond/

Christina Monson spent decades studying with the meditation master Chatral Rinpoche in the mountains of Nepal and translating and practicing the teachings of Sera Khandro. But it was facing stage four cancer that revealed whether decades of practice could meet the greatest pain with the greatest teaching. This conversation, recorded less than a year before Christina's passing, offers a window into what it means to follow one's heart all the way through, free of regrets.
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Time notes:
[00:00:00] Introduction
[00:02:18] Meeting Chatral Rinpoche
[00:08:48] Seeing Her Ego Up Close
[00:14:10] A Nomad's Temperament
[00:17:57] Mountain Retreat
[00:25:08] Discovering Sera Khandro
[00:27:30] The Rhythm of Retreat
[00:28:48] No Sessions, No Breaks
[00:32:09] About Sera Khandro
[00:36:37] Grief and Terminal Diagnosis
[00:43:47] Everything as a Test of Practice
[00:47:45] Natural Process of Illness
[00:49:04] Precious moments
[00:51:18] Sera Khandro's Song of Severance
[00:58:58] The Power of Her Realization
[01:01:02] Chatral Rinpoche's Prayer
[01:05:19] The Impossibility of Translation
[01:10:40] Following One's Heart, No Regrets
This conversation originally aired on Dec 21, 2022
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Christina Monson was a Buddhist practitioner and teacher, and Tibetan language translator, and interpreter with over 30 years of study, translation, and practice experience in Buddhism.
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Links:
A Dakini's Counsel: Sera Khandro's Spiritual Advice and Dzogchen Instructions
By Sera Khandro and translated by Christina Monson
https://www.shambhala.com/a-dakini-s-counsel.html?srsltid=AfmBOoryRwpUExBE8808dsuCtSMUzURCGSXpNh6n5hr1l10NsLOcG0DO
 
A Song of Amazement Inspired by Practice Experience
by Sera Khandro
https://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-masters/sera-khandro/song-of-amazement
 
Spontaneous Advice Connected with a Prayer
by Kyabje Chatral Rinpoche
https://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-masters/chatral-rinpoche/spontaneous-advice-connected-with-prayer
 
Post-Listen Episode with Sally Kempton
https://oliviaclementine.com/sally-kempton-on-tantra-divinity-shakti-the-subtle-influences/

This is a conversation revisited with philosopher, writer, and professor Bayo Akomolafe. 
Time notes:
00:00:29 - 00:07:50 The Sporulation of the Slave Ship
00:07:50 - 00:16:11 Beyond the Human - Blackness as Becoming
00:16:11 - 00:19:48 Entanglement and the Agency of the World
00:19:48 - 00:27:09 Language Beyond Vocality
00:27:09 - 00:34:32 Poetry as Prophecy and the Loss of Precision
00:34:32 - 00:41:12 - Learning from Children's Agency
00:41:12 - 00:47:20The Tortoise's Drum - Cracks and Openings 
(This conversation originally aired July 2022)
 
Links:
Bayo Akomolafe:
https://www.bayoakomolafe.net/
 
Post-listen episode with Francis Weller:
https://oliviaclementine.com/francis-weller-the-medicine-you-carry-suturing-the-inevitable-tears/
 
Podcast website & transcripts
https://oliviaclementine.com/podcasts