Love & Liberation with Olivia Clementine

Today's episode is an interview revisited that originally aired in August of 2022, with the wandering practitioner, Tseyang Pharchen. Tseyang has spent over twelve years retreating in remote and sacred places throughout Bhutan. Time notes: 00:00:00 — Introduction 00:01:15 — What drew Tseyang to mountain retreats 00:01:32 — Nature's effect on the mind 00:04:13 — The first retreat, inner conviction...

Today our guest is Sean Price. Sean is an English monk who has spent decades sitting with some of the greatest living masters and chasing down rare texts before they disappear. As director of Tibetan Publications for the Tsadra Foundation and the oral interpreter for Kyabje Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche, he has devoted himself to making the dharma accessible. In this conversation, Sean speaks about what...

Tashi Dekyid Monet is a Tibetan scholar, writer, and translator who grew up in the Eastern Tibetan Highlands in the rhythms of nomadic and agricultural life, where time is measured by light and shadow, where songs carry cosmological wisdom and where knowing the face of the land means being woven into a web of reciprocal relationships with all four realms of beings. Through explorations of oral tra...

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...

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 T...

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 gi...

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...

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 - 0...

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00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:08 Stages towards authentic devotion 00:09:40 Karmic guru connection 00:12:00 Blessings 00:16:00 Ideal student qualities 00:20:00 Living lineage 00:25:00 Dharma protectors 00:29:00 Samaya 00:33:00 Divisive Speech 00:35:00 Root guru 00:41:00 Dudjom Rinpoche and Lama Dawa Rinpoche 00:43:00 When to fully depend on a teacher 00:44:00 Cult behavior 00:46:00 Student's persona...

Today, our guest is the Balinese high priest,  Ida Pedanda Gede Putra Watulumbang Manuaba also known as Ida Pedanda Watulumbang. We meet at his house and learn about his path to becoming a priest and some of the spiritual beliefs and practices in the Balinese Hindu tradition. Time notes: 00:01:00 Becoming a priest 00:05:00 Ceremonies 00:06:45 Ritual and adornment 00:10:45 Balinese cremation 00:12:...

Erik Pema Kunsang is a dharma teacher, practitioner, and one of the most highly regarded Tibetan translators. Today, we meet in his homeland of Denmark, where Erik shares stories of meditation masters he has spent time with, as well as on some essential aspects of the path and fruit of spiritual realization.   00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:24 Trulshik Adeu Rinpoche 00:04:50 Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche 00:...

Kulavadhuta Satpurananda (Khyapababa) was initiated into the secret oral tradition of the great Indian lineage of Buddhist tantra at the age of five. He then spent decades practicing under great Indian gurus and mystics. Kulavadhuta is an artist, teacher and research guide in Buddhism, Tantra, Sufism, and the Indigenous practices of Mystics of India and Tibet. And at the heart is an Avadhuta, one...

Watch here: https://oliviaclementine.com/kunzang-choden-bhutanese-nobility-museum-temple-tour-part-two/ ~ Kunzang Choden, one of Bhutan's most well-known authors, brings us on a tour of her ancestral home in Bhumtang's Tang Valley, which was turned into museum. This space offers a first-hand view of daily life for Bhutanese religious nobility during the 19th and 20th centuries. We then go to the m...

Kunzang Choden is one of Bhutan's most legendary authors. We meet in Bhutan in the Tang Valley, where Kunzang's family has lived since the 15th century, land that is tied to the Tibetan yogic master Longchenpa and treasure revealer Dorji Linga.  This is part one of two. To watch the video version, you can visit the link below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql8T0ZqtrBM ~ Time notes: 00:00:00 Intr...

Todays conversation takes place at Rinpoche's residence in Bhutan, where she shares advice as well as her experiences being an emanation of Vajravarahi, a treasure revealer, diviner, and a manifester of miracles. Rinpoche spends most of her time in the Zhemgang District at her monastery for nuns and monks that is also a home to orphans, elders, physically unable and terminally ill people who want...

Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo is a bhikṣuṇī, author and founder of the Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery in Himachal Pradesh, India. She also spent twelve years living and practicing in a remote cave in the Himalayas.  Today's timenotes: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:17   8th Khamtrul Rinpoche 00:06:45 Togden and togdenma (yogi and yogini) lineage and history 00:8:05 16th Karmapa and Khampagar 00:09:30 Requests le...

Today's episode is the final part of three parts ~ 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:49 Signs, visions, dreams 00:12:00 Protector land spirits 00:16:00 Tests, conceptual collapse and faith 00:20:00 Meditation boxes 0023:30 Sky burial 00:28:00 Sri Lanka vipassana reform 00:29:30  Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok and Larung Gar 00:32:00 Modernity, realization and tacit knowledge 00:39:00 Old world preservation 00:43...

Today's episode is part two of three parts. ~ Time notes: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:02:15 Subtle body, mind and prana 00:11:30 Yidam and reflections of the universe 00:13:40 Tsa-lung and trulkhor 00:18:51 Modernization influence on dedication, asceticism and health. 00:24:00 Chu Rey, wet sheet ceremony 00:31:00 Tsa-lung lama Jamtsen Chodron 00:33:40 Chudlen retreats 00:37:00 Mundane and sacred, col...

Today's episode is part one of three parts that will be shared over the coming weeks.  Time notes: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:51 Elizabeth's early years at Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo's retreat place, and about the Togdens and Togdenmas 00:07:14 What led Elizabeth to Gebchak gonpa. 00:09:00 The initial meeting between Wandrak Rinpoche and the Gebchak yoginis 00:15:00 How Elizabeth spent her time at Geb...

This is a visual episode that is meant to be watched. You can watch it here: https://oliviaclementine.com/tibetan-handicraft-society-master-carpet-weavers/ ~ Today's episode takes place at the Tibetan Handicraft Society in McCleoud Ganj, in northern India. This Handicraft Society was founded in 1963 to support Tibetan refugees, and Tibetans who have grown up in exile and Tibetan arts and culture....

Maya Khosla is a biologist and writer. She has spent thousands of hours hiking, backpacking, and documenting forests, including post-fire regeneration.   Time notes: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:07 The message of fire 00:02:00 3 types of traditional fire practice in India. 00:03:22 Rebirth after fires 00:08:00 Intimacy and the effect of hand burning versus machine work on land 00:15:00 Main causes...

Watch our conversation and see images of Jetsunma's path here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Mu1fPYtik   Today our guest is Her Eminence Sakya Jetsunma Kunga Trinley Palter. Jetsunma is the granddaughter of His Holiness the 41st Sakya Trizin and the eldest daughter of the 42nd Sakya Trizin and Dagmo Kalden Dunkyi. Jetsunma is also a tulku, the reincarnation of the Nyingma practitioner and trea...

Watch the interview here: https://youtu.be/Yuwtnf8JtrA ~ Today we have a brief conversation at a cafe in Kathmandu about some of the common obstacles and questions that Jetsunma's students often share with her. Jetsunma then shares clarification on meeting these challenges and curiosities. This is part of our new weekly season schedule of publishing shorter conversations in between our more extend...

00:01:30 The mandala principle 00:04:32 Enlightened organizing principle of the universe 00:09:45 Mandalas for practice 00:16:12 Vajrakilaya mandala 00:19:25 Field of blessing 00:21:22 Lama Dawa and Guru Rinpoche Prophecies 00:24:18 Lama Dawa mirror divining the locations for Vajrakilaya mandalas. 00:27:16 Elements as vehicles for blessings 00:31:00 Subtle and physical aspects of elements 00:35:00...