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.
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.