We were so honored to host Tenzin Wangyal Rimpoche at OM yoga Center on Friday night.  100 people were there to receive his teachings.  

My friend, Patty Gift, who is also a dedicated student of Rimpoche’s, and I, met him as he arrived.  We gave him and the friends that were with him a brief tour of OM and then we hung out in my office for about half an hour.  He is very gracious and also, quite luminous.  I look at him and think, “I’ll have what he’s having!”  He talked about how some people like to take a lot of teachings but it is important to actually DO the practice.
Here we are after his talk.  He gave a brilliant talk about the impermanent pain body and how we get stuck there.  How we get stuck sitting on our karma cushions but we don’t have to.  We can actually change it right now — snap!  Then he taught us some practices for doing that.  They are part of Tsa Lung, which is Tibetan Pranayama, but the breath work has to be connected with understanding of “I” as the pain body (also known as emptiness), and faith in the practice.  The crown chakra is the body, throat chakra is speech and heart chakra is mind.  So first you locate the pain or confusion, then you do certain movements coordinated with a certain way of breathing and exhaling.  Then, speech or thought in the throat , then feeling in the heart chakra, then navel chakra which is ripening and secret chakra which is action.  He led us in a powerful practice.  You will have to study with him to learn it.  I am not eligible to give that transmission.  It is not appropriate to just go teach anything you learn after one time — although, of course, many people do that.  But I am trained in the Buddhist path and you must receive permission from your teacher to do that.

Rimpoche kindly made himself available for group questions as well as individual connections after the talk.

This is another rimpoche that came with Tenzin.  He also teaches in Tenzin Wangyal’s sangha.  Check out their website at www.ligmincha.org.  I formally invited Tenzin Wangyal Rimpoche to return to OM yoga and give us another teaching, so hopefully that will happen again soon!

posted on Sunday, June 13th, 2010 at 8:08 am.