🎙 Ian A. Baker on Buddhist energy practices.
A must if you are into this esoteric topic! He doesn’t explain them at all—he assumes knowledge of them.
This is at the meta level: discussing principles, purposes, and especially context.
soundcloud.com/guruviking/ep2…
A must if you are into this esoteric topic! He doesn’t explain them at all—he assumes knowledge of them.
This is at the meta level: discussing principles, purposes, and especially context.
soundcloud.com/guruviking/ep2…
Buddhist practices were profoundly shaped by pre-modern social and cultural contexts that no longer exist. "Buddhist modernism" adapts accordingly.
That process has barely begun for the energy practices. Much work required!
vividness.live/the-making-of-…
That process has barely begun for the energy practices. Much work required!
vividness.live/the-making-of-…
The Tibetan energy practices ("tsa lung," tummo) were adapted from a non-monastic Indian context to Tibetan monasticism, which is the reverse of what's needed in modernity.
Ian Baker's tales of his adventures seeking non-monastic survivals are... vivid vividness.live/sutra-tantra-a…
Ian Baker's tales of his adventures seeking non-monastic survivals are... vivid vividness.live/sutra-tantra-a…
Baker's extraordinary book _The Heart of the World_ recounts the National Geographic-sponsored expedition he led to one of the last unexplored places on earth—which also has great religious significance in non-monastic Tibetan yogic systems. amazon.com/Heart-World-Jo… 
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