Lama Ole Nydahl
Monday, Jul. 26th, 2010 Good Behavior On The Way To Happiness
Buddha explained out of which kind of behavior a positive feedback results in order to develop more energy and surplus and to use them for the benefit of all beings.
Saturday, Feb. 27th, 2010 Science & Buddhism
See how two of the world's most fruitful traditions for understanding the nature of reality and promoting human well-being – modern science and Buddhism – come together.
Friday, Dec. 4th, 2009 Keeping Buddhism Alive
Lama Ole Nydahl on 30 Years of Dharma Activity in the West
Buddhism Today: For 25 years, you have traveled all over the world as a Buddhist Lama and started Buddhist centers. Who empowered you to do this?
Ole Nydahl: The honor and privilege of doing this work was given to me in slices between the years of 1969 and 1980 by my teacher, the 16th Karmapa. Knowing that he could trust me completely, when he decided I had learned more, he increased my activity both geographically and what concerns the depth of the subjects.
Saturday, Oct. 31th, 2009 How Real is Reality?
Reality as we see it, is always influenced by what we think about reality. Everything we perceive is coloured by our culture, upbringing, experience, education and a lot more. However, what is behind our experiences and who or what is perceiving things?
Tuesday, Oct. 6th, 2009 Death, Rebirth & the Power of Phowa
An interview with Lama Ole Nydahl by Tony Dylan Davis in March 1994 in Calgary, Canada
Tony: One of the greatest fascinations of mankind is death and what survives death. All kinds of religions have been founded upon insurance policies for the afterlife. One of your topics in Calgary was death and rebirth in Tibetan Buddhism and I know it's an enormous subject and we can't hope to cover the whole thing, but perhaps a capsule view for the relatively uninitiated would help.
Ole: It's all based on an understanding of the nature of the mind itself. If we look at mind, it clearly has two sides. There is an experiencer and something which is experienced, an ocean and many waves, a mirror and its pictures. One finds both awareness and that of which one is aware. Mind is both.
Sunday, Oct. 4th, 2009 Happiness
What do Buddhist teachings say concerning happiness? Basically, in Buddhism one makes a separation between conditioned and unconditioned happiness, between a relative and an absolute kind. Relative happiness has to do with experiences, absolute happiness has to do with experiencer itself.
Monday, Jul. 27th, 2009 Buddhism in the West
Buddhism has been in the West for nearly 40 years now. Lama Ole Nydahl has followed the example of the great Marpa Lodragpa and has embedded Buddhism in a new culture.
Saturday, May. 30th, 2009 The Freedom to Choose
Lama Ole Nydahl points out how precious life is in a free society and how we can liberate ourselves from negative emotions. Instead of being prisoners of our thoughts and fears, we can use our potential to transform our lives.
Friday, May. 1st, 2009 The Face of Buddhism Today
In Tibet, there were three possible ways of following Buddhism: one might become a monk, practice as a lay person, or be a yogi. Monks and nuns lived separately in monasteries and nunneries and had strict rules of conduct. The lay people had families, a normal occupation and tried to put the teachings into their everyday lives. The yogis lived unrestricted by social norms, often in various caves with changing partners and focused their entire lives on spiritual development (one example is the well known yogi, Milarepa).
Monday, Apr. 27th, 2009 Death and Rebirth
Lama Ole Nydahl is today the most significant teacher about death and rebirth. He explains how the state of our minds in life affects the nature and quality of our experiences in death and that the our true essence has never been born and can never die. Accessible and authentic as always, he brings to the ancient Buddhist teachings his deep and joyfull understanding of the modern world.
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