I was born Trapani, Sicily, which for me was not a nice place to stay, but it’s a very nice place to visit.”If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change,” said Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. It was not a good place for me. I was 18 years old when my family moved to Florence.
At Dzamling Gar, the first graduations and authorizations of Yantra Yoga First Level Instructors and Khaita Dancers on April 20, 2024, since the passing of our Master, Chögyal Namkhai Norbu.
In 1984 the Longsal Mandarava practice was revealed to Chögyal Namkhai Norbu while he was practicing in the Eight Heruka Cave in Maratika, Nepal.
Early days of Rinpoche’s life in Naples and his first teachings in the 1970s before the Dzogchen Community was established in Tuscany.
At this time, lacking the nirmanakaya form of our precious Master Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, many doubts, questions and reflections arise in our minds.
There are so many aspects of the relationship between a Master and disciple. Eventually the example of the Master will manifest in the disciple. Then, that is what I feel, Teacher and student really meet.
At the end of 2019, when the project “Working with the words and texts of Master Chögyal Namkhai Norbu and Tibetan Buddhism” was launched in the Library, no one could have imagined how much more complicated everything would be in the year to come.
BE ANGRY is a pocket size manual of accessible and terse instructions, perspectives and affirmations easily referenced as we navigate the tsunami of injustice and imbalance we face.
On request of The Mirror, some SMS-instructors would like to share with you some thoughts and reflections regarding newcomers and existing members of the Community, after the passing of our beloved Master.
If I tell my story from the present time, I sometimes wonder if I am a musician or a sound artist. I feel more like a sculptor that shapes sound molding time in space. It makes sense, my last name Nakkach means artisan, and if I separate the N-from the akkach, it sounds like akash, meaning ‘clear space’, ‘sky’ in Indian Cosmology.
October 30. Dzamling Gar, Tenerife – Opening speech by Steven Landsberg, President of the IG
It’s not easy to sum up the results of this year as most of our plans were cancelled or re-scheduled, nevertheless life goes on despite the unstable situation in the world.
