Framed poster - Kalu Rinpoche - Tibetan Buddhism Framed poster, printed on thick, durable, matte paper. The matte black frame that's made from wood from renewable forests. • Alder, semi-hardwood frame • Black .75” thick frame • Acrylite front protector • Lightweight • Hanging hardware included About Kalu Rinpoche:
Video of Kalu Rinpoche on classic Tibetan masters teachings.
He speaks in Tibetan, but there is monk that gives an excellent translation and
subtitles. The talk is about the nature of the mind, and is meant to help us in all
stages of life and places. Very valuable lecture - VERY CLEAR and deep, as he was.
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxUSU8LRYLw
Notes from the author - Raul: I met
Kalu Rinpoche several times while
living at Santa Cruz CA. Once he
gave a meditation session in a small
church. By the time he came it was
packed full. There were many other
monks there as well, all his disciples.
He was to me like the secret jewel
of Tibetan Buddhism - all that knew
him were aware he was a VERY
special monk, incredibly gifted and
humble. He talked very simple and
gave deep lessons with simple stories,
like a toad that was listening to a
smarter toad, praising him, and it got
more and more inflated as his ego
was being fed in a well, then eventually
it exploded...very powerful way of
saying that our egos are just inflated
views of ourselfs - purely imaginary!
The power he manifested there was
simply awesome. His look would
penetrate to the core and even ones
past lives would become visible
(the accumulated karma). It was short,
but near the end a beautiful clear blue
light enveloped all of us and we were
literally floating and time had stopped
flowing, those last 10 minutes were like
10 hours! There was an everlasting
influence that i received then. Like all
such true teaches his humility was the
most impressive trait. --- Kalu Rinpoche
(1905 – May 10, 1989) was a Buddhist
lama, meditation master, scholar and
teacher. He was one of the first Tibetan
masters to teach in the West. When Kalu
Rinpoche was fifteen years old, he was
sent to begin his higher studies at the
monastery of Palpung, the foremost
center of the Karma Kagyu school.
He remained there for more than a
decade, during which time he
mastered the vast body of teaching
that forms the philosophical basis
of Buddhist practice, and completed
two three-year retreats. At about
the age of twenty-five, Rinpoche left
Palpung to pursue the life of a solitary
yogi in the woods of the Khampa
countryside. For nearly fifteen years,
he strove to perfect his realization of
all aspects of the teachings and he
became renowned in the villages and
among the nomads as a representative
of the Bodhisattva path. Teaching
activity in Tibet Kalu Rinpoche returned
to Palpung to receive final teachings
from Drupon Norbu Dondrup, who
entrusted him with the rare transmission
of the teaching of the Shangpa Kagyu.
At the order of Situ Rinpoche, he was
appointed Vajra Master of the great
meditation hall of Palpung Monastery,
where for many years he gave
empowerments and teachings. During
the 1940s, Kalu Rinpoche visited central
Tibet with the party of Situ Rinpoche, and
there he taught extensively. His disciples
included the Reting Rinpoche, regent of
Tibet during the infancy of the Fourteenth
Dalai Lama. Returning to Kham, Kalu
Rinpoche became the abbot of the
meditation center associated with
Palpung and the meditation teacher
of the Sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa.
He remained in that position until
the situation in Tibet forced him
into exile in India.
Continues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalu_Rinpoche
Note: The author feels there is much to
be said about Kalu Rinpoche that is not
covered in the above quoted materials.
