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Caer ~ Sidi     |     The Ysland of Crystal

   

Tibetan~Mongolian & Keltic Roots Shamanic Healing & Divination 

 

 

 

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Willian  Rene  Leon

 Dev  Lama  

Namgyel Rimpoche 

Lama Jinpa USA

Dr. Marco Paret  

Valcros Raven Retreat 2008  - 2009   

 

 

 

Sacred Journeys  to the  Island of Crystal (R)

 

14~21 Days Pilgrimages to Keltic & Cathares Powerplaces in South-France,

with William R. Leon,  Lopon Tenzin Namgyel, Lama Pema, Julie Switaj & other Cairn experts team

 

 

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Another  Keltic vision of   the Dharma  with people from the Keltic Realms

 

 

 

Dev Lama

Pascal Chardome

Aconcha & Marc

John&Julie

Denyse

Alan Booth

Aconcha

   Compo&Editing

 Artistic Director

Cuban Music & Orisha

Arts&Therapy

Concerts

 Bass&Studio

Valcros

 

 

 

 

 

Just another  Keltic vision of   the  Dharma   with people from the  Keltic Realms

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Tibetan & Keltic Shamanic  Roots Embodiment

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Caer Sidi  ChOd  Healing & Rituals : A Trilogy

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Chod is the essence of all Dharma,
It is the summit of all spiritual paths
It is the quintessence of sutra and tantra condensed into one.
It is the dharma that liberates the 4 demons on their own ground.
It is the supreme method to directly dispel the 5 poisons.
It is the axe that cuts the  tree of self-clinging at its root.
— MaChik Labdrön, founder of the practice of Chod. (Lama Jinpa 2012)-

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 Welcome! 

 

 

Caer Sidi ChOd Healing & Rituals Music is a creative group of visionary musicians, gNak-pas (lamas) multimedia artists, academic researchers and NGOs partners, all working from the strategic site of Bauddha Stupa (KTM, Nepal), thus being right at the centre of Nepal current humanitarian crisis and therefore being intimately related to the inner substance of an ever expanding new vision of artistic, musical and spiritual consciousness production, as it appears to enfold quite naturally and surprisingly over there...

The inspiration, influences and visionary lyrics being found in our MP3 samples and video clips are directly related to experience gathered from the practices of Tsa-rLung, Tantras and Termas, being merged with the Grail Quest and Keltic Archetypes, who/which manifest spontaneously themselves in real life events...

Tantras in daily life are here leading to inspiration. The vision is deeply Nepalese in its magical, emotional and archetypal substance. Modern youth rock culture in Bauddha Kathmandu is just wild and booming. While the country itself is in anarchy, it it such that it leads also to good music. Local recording studios showed us how to blend Rock Fusion tunes with Tibetan Chod & Tsa-rLung Rituals music, this quite easily from the avenues being traced in situ of using digital tools to sample traditional instruments and athmospheres. Therefore tapping into the Tibetan Nyingmas legendary dakinis and protectors and blending them deeply within the Keltic Grail, is not only a synergy emerging naturally by osmosis, but it abides to any Quest for Termas within Keltic realms. Music creation itself, based on such a profound influences, actually aims first to convey a spiritual vision to the Bauddha youth, because music (if well done and inspired) can be a major social, spiritual and political impact on society. And so, in short, such involvements we are dancing on the rope of tantric dakinis embodiment in the real daily life. Well: hum... why not, indeed?

 

Sacred Rock-Shamanic Fusion

Would it be called: Fusion Music, Jazz, Soft Rock, Shamanic Rock, what counts here is that the inspiration, influences and visionary lyrics (as found in our MP3 samples and video clips), are directly related to daily experiences gathered both in Nepal and in the Verdon from the practices of Tsa-rLung, Tantras and Termas, which are culturally being merged within the Grail Quest and Keltic Archetypes, who/which  then do! manifest themselves in real life events...

The substance is thereupon gained is conceptualized within the musical and artistic expression of both the Vajrayana and Keltic traditions, biographically inherited either from transmissions given by reputed Nyingma Lamas Gurus (Khyentse, Dudjom, Tarab Tulku, etc...), Shamanic Teachers (Zeberio) and the Grail Quest Egregore spiritual embodiment.

Caer Sidi Music is a World Music Fusion of traditional acoustic and synthesizer instruments, blending harmoniously old Rock Music songs of the Arjuna group (70s-80s) with Tamang, Tibetan and Nepalese Traditional dance, music, pujas and rituals, all in one musical performance.

It is in short the Living Path, the expression of yogas practices performed naturally on a very daily basis in the powerplace : Bauddha Stupa.

It is the vibrant musical expression of KTM local youth, musicians and lamas, all gathering in this Nepalese current revolutionary syncretism where multi- cultural, multi-media, Ipad, Iphone, Facebook, Rock Music, Arts, Rituals and Politics, all merge and emerge in a yet unknown new society creativity... These activities and visions encompass a wide range of creative, social and spiritual purposes...

Wrathful Mothers and Caer-sidi are the names of this global collection of individuals seeking to unite the blessing stream and enlightened potential of Tibetan sacred and shamanic music, with the dynamic, fresh and creative power of modern rock fusion…. (ref-  Lama Jinpa - USA - Creative and Rituals Director - KTM 2010-12)

 

Musical Creation

Music comes in an incredible array of genre, styles, periods and possibilities. From within this broad spectrum, Wrathful Mothers takes its inspiration from several distinct sources:

  • the best of contemporary rock, with an emphasis on European developments

  • Tibetan spiritual music, as epitomized by the shamanic and tantric traditions of Vajrayana Buddhism

  • Celtic music, and its connection to ancient Mongolian shamanic traditions in France.

Experimenting with the fusion of these elements, the creative process goes beyond musical inventiveness. The whole is infused with spiritual essence, and the purpose is to bring about a deep change in consciousness.

 

Integrating Mundane and Sublime

The whole purpose of the spiritual path is simple: to bridge the gap between our everyday, humdrum lives, full of stress and striving, with the pure, underlying stratum of enlightened energy that is the basis of all. Unfortunately, many spiritual traditions have only widened that gap, cloistered away in monastic environments. And music and art, no matter how good, has no consistent, meaningful way of connected with the divine. Dharma music and Shamanic Rock, integrating ancient spiritual technology with current, advanced Western music, is the ideal vehicle to bring these two forces closer together.

 

Transformation

Music can entertain, uplift, inform. It draws us in, forms a background to our lives, and is the milieu of the most special moments in our memories. But music can be the vehicle for a much deeper purpose. Rather than just musical wallpaper or a pleasant experience, music can be the vehicle of profound and lasting inner change. However, this doesn’t happen by accidentally. Transformation is as much as “art” as music, literature or painting. And it is as much a science as physics or biochemistry. To bring music to its epitome, mainstream rock can be infused with spiritual blessings and sacred connections. This is the fulfilment of the promise of the music we love, were born with and is in our bloods. The scintillating brilliance of the Tibetan masters, and the heritage they maintain, can also be fulfilled. The transformative power of Vajrayana can find a home in the very streams of sound that come out of our radios, our ipods. Music and technology can finally be the handmaiden of sacred music and sacred technology.

 

Cultural Shift

Not least, the vision is to change the direction of culture, beyond the decadence and darkness of these last decades. Especially for the global youth, the lost generations that are now being inducted into the violence and aimlessness of the modern world, Sacred Dharma Music Shamanic Rock offers a possibility. Music that might merely be a protest or an escape, can become a pathway, and conduit for real change in the values and meaning of lives. By generating compassion, wisdom, integrity and fearlessness in the young, in men and women of every race, creed or walk of life, society itself can be redeemed to a new level. We uphold those standards and seek to fulfil the dreams of a worse gone sane and a time of peace and brother-sisterhood. (c) Lama Jinpa Jan2010 KTM

 

 

Caer Sidi ChOd Healing & Rituals  Music

Chod is a  spiritual path that “cuts through” obstacles, negativity and self-delusion, while relying on Feminine Wisdom energy to purify body, mind and spirit. Combining all the elements of Tibetan Buddhism in a single practice, it brings about a direct experience of one’s inner brilliance and original wisdom. The practice of Chod cultivates fearlessness, certainty and unrelenting compassion, connecting us to our deepest core.

The unique combination of sacred song, ritual instruments, visualization and supreme generosity creates a rich tapestry that reweaves our everyday experience and redefines our limited sense of self.

Music comes in an incredible array of genre, styles, periods and possibilities. From within this broad spectrum, Caer-Sidi takes its inspiration from several distinct sources.

The relationship between shamans and different elements in nature has been portrayed throughout Europe from a far back as 40,000 years during the Upper Palaeolithic era. This is seen in the cave paintings of Lascaux in France, and Altimira in Spain. Another well known art are phenomenon which has drawn many parallels to the cave art in France and Spain, has been the San cave art in South Africa, which is estimated to be 3,000 years old. It is almost certain that rock and cave art is related to Sympathetic Magic with reference to hunting and animal ceremonialism. The painted images and rock carvings found throughout the world, represent different forms of communication taking place, where communication and visions from both the physical and spiritual worlds, are portrayed by shamans after communication has been encountered.

Animism is an academic term used to describe the world of spirits, and nature, and the relationship between the two. Animism is described as a basis upon which the practice of shamanism takes place, whereby everything in the universe is connected together as a whole, via strands and forms of energy that are intricately woven between the earth, the cosmos, trees, stones, the stars, the sun, the moon, humans, animals, plants and the dead. All these different elements are combined together producing what Chief Seattle called: The Web of Life. Moreover, animism has been a part of Northern Identity from a far back as the very first hunters-gatherers, who relied on nature for their food, clothes, medicines, shelter and their spirituality.

The rock art which has been discovered in Finland since the beginning of the twentieth century and in the circumpolar regions of Northern countries has been primarily linked to animal ceremonialism because of high presence of painted hunting scenes depicted on the surfaces of large stone panels. Rock paintings in Finland have been dated between 2-5,000 years old approximately. There appears to be two different types of rock paintings, namely those painted by the hunter and the ones painted by the shaman.

 

Valcros/Verdon Retreat & Worhop(s)l

Current workshops and retreat focus upon :

  • the best of the Bauddha Stupa KTM current CDs release in terms of newly recorded CDs Pujas and/or blend of Tamang & Tibetan contemporary rock inspiration, with an emphasis on real Dakinis embodiment technics,

  • Tibetan spiritual music, as epitomized by the Tamang/Np shamans and tantric traditions of Vajrayana Buddhism and released lately on CDs using digital recording and performing devises of modern studio and stages,

  • Keltic music, and its connection to the ancient Mongolian / Tamang shamanic traditions,  which are then rehearsed in situ in S-France.

Experimenting with the fusion of these elements, the creative process goes beyond musical inventiveness. The whole is infused with spiritual essence, and the purpose is to bring about a deep change in consciousness.

Caer-Sidi is the name of the global collection of individuals seeking to unite the blessing stream and enlightened potential of sacred and shamanic music, with the dynamic, fresh and creative power found in KTM modern rock fusion….

The experiential substance thereupon gained is reconvene within the musical and artistic expression of both the Vajrayana and Keltic traditions, biographically inherited either from osmosis or formal transmissions (rLung, Wang, Puja) given by reputed Nyingma Lamas Gurus (Khyentse, Dudjom, Tarab Tulku, etc...), Shamanic Teachers (Zeberio) or Grail Quest Egregore spiritual embodiment itself.

Caer Sidi Music is a World Music Fusion of traditional acoustic and synthesizer instruments, blending harmoniously old Rock Music songs of the Arjuna group (70s-80s) with Tamang, Tibetan and Nepalese Traditional dance, music, pujas and rituals, all in one musical performance.

It is in short the Living Path, the expression of yogas practices performed naturally on a very daily basis in the powerplace : Bauddha Stupa.

It is the vibrant music magical expression of local youth, musicians and lamas, all gathering in the Cyberlinked multi dimensional new world music, emerging from their creativity...

 

St Andre

 Nyima Dzong Stupa (Soleil)

 

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St Thyrs - Robion

 

St Thyrs - Altar

 

  Caer-Sidi Chod Healing Trilogy Modules

 
  Module One : from 01 to 05 September , 2012 (Valcros, Verdon)

       Comparative Study of  Keltic & Tibetan Chod Roots Shamanic Practices

 
  Module Two : from 07 to 17 September , 2012 (Nice, Aix, Toulon)

       Roots Shamanic Healing Practices found in Chod & Tsa-rLung

 
  Module Three : from 18 to 21 September , 2012 (Nice, Paris)

       Chod Pujas Arts&Therapy in Tibetan,and Keltic Shamanic Music (Fusion)

 
  Options
 
 

 Other  Optional  Quest&Tours :  

(tailored pilgrimage and itineraries created for you, upon request) :

- The Troubadours Lore

 (Templars and Cathares Grail Lore, in Wolfram Von Eschenbach)

-  Mary  Magdalene  Pilgrimage

(Pilgrimage and Tradition of Black Madonna(s) in South ~France)

- Archetypal Roots in Shamanic Rituals & Music

(as in  Keltic Grail Lore and Tibetan/Tamang Chod Embodiment)

 

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  Short Retreat or Stay at the Chateau Valcros (upon request only)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The ChOd Connection

 

 

The Great Mother

The Great Mother

ChOd is a unique method of rapid spiritual development, healing and environmental transformation. It shares the  core understandings of Vajrayana Tibetan spirituality, such as the knowledge of the Five Buddha Families, Three Buddha Bodies (see explanation further on), Ultimate and Relative meaning and so on. But there are striking difference too, as we shall see.

 

 

  • Developed by an enlightened woman, ChOd relies on Feminine Wisdom Energy  ”the Dakini”  expressed in perfect archetypal form, as the white, red or black Yogini.
  • ChOd is based on the ultimate generosity of offering our entire self, our body, mind, our biography and life force, to help others.
  • This offering is made to the whole of reality, from the highest spiritual forces to the lowest hells, from gods to demons.
  • ChOd rapidly clears karmic debts and negative energies.
  • There is a built-in system for healing sickness, helping the after-death passage, healing the land, and for demonic exorcism.
  • ChOd has a unique system of sacred melody, mantra and instrumentation based on revelations from Wisdom Mind.

 

 

Modules & Options

The agenda will comprises three modules, with Lamas and Musicians due to arrive from Nepal, Tibet and/or India, while the Canadian, USofA European participants will already be in situ, either in Nice or the Verdon area, per se.

 

Transforming the Body

Though the practice of ChOd can be intricate and complex, the underlying principles are clear and simple.

With a background drone of drum, bell and human thighbone trumpet, the meditator visualizes leaving their body and taking on the form and mind-state of the Dakini. In a complex alchemical process, one corpse is then transformed into an inexhaustible ocean of nectar, which is none other than the purified five elements and Five Wisdoms. This is then offered to the Four Classes of Guests, representing the full scope of possibilities for life in this world realm.

 

The World as Guest (-Lama Jinpa, 2012)

1. Higher Guests are the enlightened Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Yidams (Meditational Deities), Dakinis and realized sages, teachers and yogis, in both male and female form.

2. Guests of Quality are fierce beings who uncompromisingly protect the Dharma and its practitioners. Some are pure emanations of enlightened mind; Others are powerful worldly spirits who are oath-bound guardians of the spiritual path.

3. Guests of Compassion are all sentient beings existing within the Six Realms: humans, animals, hungry ghosts, hell beings, demigods and gods. Whether high or low, living beings reincarnate endlessly in a cycle of intractable suffering until they realize their true nature.

4. Lower Guests include all beings to whom we owe a karmic debt, as well as demonic forces, harm-givers and the whole pantheon of negative spirits and entities who are linked to us and seek specific retribution. Only through our generosity can they be pacified.

 

Relentless Generosity

Higher Guests are offered things of great beauty, value and richness. Guests of Quality are offered attributes, objects and residences as befitting their nature and kind. Beings of the Six Realms receive whatever they lack, such as food, shelter, possessions, happiness, companionship, love, health, fulfilment or simply release from pain, suffering and torment. Lower Guests are repaid whatever has been taken from them, or eases their suffering. This may also take the form of our flesh, organs and bones whatever demonic beings may desire. All offerings are multiplied infinitely, in vast quantities, so that all are completely satiated and made joyful.

Through these actions, the practitioner receives positive blessings and clears negative karma. And by cutting away attachment to the body, status and possessions, he is brought face to face with his true nature and ultimate being. Gaining a sense of fearlessness and freedom, the yogi learns to live in this dense world, while still holding to Sacred View and Sacred Experience.

 

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Main Agenda


Here is the Main Agenda of the main inputs of the integrated agenda with the various subjects  enfolding within Three Modules, from 01 to 21 September, 2012. The itinerary goes back and forth from the Verdon to Nice, then back.

 

 

 Module One : from 01 to 05 September , 2012 (Valcros, Verdon, Nice...)

Comparative Study of  Keltic & Tibetan Chod  Roots Shamanic Practices

 

Saturday 01 September (End of August in Paris CDG or BRU): Arrival in France of the Tibetan, Nepalese, USA, UK and Canada participants (flexible), check-in at Valcros on 01 September (whole day from noon onwards), introduction of the participants to each other, as well as to the site logistics and local partners for defining the final details of the agenda and later programme, this including the foresseen sightseeing(s) and visit to the Valcros Fortress, the Dharma Center of Nyima-Dzong, the Chapelles in Comps, St Thyrs, Ste Anne, the Mary Magadalene related Cave of St Trophime or other local Megalithics, Keltic, Wisigoths or Merovingian sites of interest. Preparation of the logistics and exhibition(S) for the week to come, meetings, etc.

The period between September 01 and 05, 2012, will remain flexible with core inputs being devoted to the related meetings of Gnakpas Lamas and Tibetan / Nepalese Artists and Musicians, with their counterparts being the European / French Lamas and Practitioners, as well as Thangkas Artists and Musicians.

This first meeting, held in the well-know VALCROS/VERDON powerplace, will allow all of them to be in the best position to approach the substance and inspiration of both the ChOd Healing and Divination  practices, as well as the related Arts&Therapy and Shamanic Fusion Music, as it may evolve.

The foreseen Conference, Seminar(s) and Exhibition(s) on ChOd Healing and Divination cum  Thangkas & Artefacts Exhibition will also be prepared, in such a way as to get all aspects ready for the Conference/Workshop(s) to be held on 07-08-09 September, at the Librairie " Le Philosophe " under the coordination of Alan (Druide) and Denyse Lopez in Nice.

The Workshop(s), to be held on 08 and 09 September, will allow consultations and comparative approach of the Keltic and ChOd Roots Shamanic Practices .

The Valcros retreat and Nice Conference/Workshop(s) will focus upon :

  • the fusion musical gathering, rehearsals, jam and recording of samples of the Tibetan, nepalese, French professional musicians and artists meeting with the gNakpas, Lamas and practicioners, aiming to the later testing and release of newly recorded samples CDs of Pujas and/or blend of Tamang & Tibetan contemporary rock inspiration, with an emphasis on real Dakinis embodiment technics,

  • the indepth comparative research and practices of ChOd in selected sites of the Verdon Powerplace, including pujas, prayers, meditation and Tibetan music, as epitomized by the tantric traditions of Vajrayana Buddhism and released lately on CDs by both Lopon namgyel and Lama Pema using digital recording in modern studios based in Boddnath.  

  • Keltic music, and its connection to the ancient Mongolian / Tamang shamanic traditions,  which are then rehearsed in situ in S-France.

Experimenting with the fusion of these elements, the creative process goes beyond musical inventiveness. The whole is infused with spiritual essence, and the purpose is to bring about a deep change in consciousness.

 

 

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Module Two : from 07 to 17 September , 2012 (Nice, Aix, Toulon, Verdon...)

 Tibetan  Shamanic  Healing Practices,  as found in  Chod & Tsa-rLung

 

Introduction Conference to ChOd Healing and Rituals, organized on Friday 07 September (evening 18h00), at the Librairie  " Le Philosophe " in Nice, during which Lopon Namgyel (Dudjom gNakpa lineage), Alan (Druide), Tenzin Maxime (Dudjom gNakpa) and Orgyen Gyaltsen (RWL) will together give a detailed presentation of the following workshop to be organized on 08 and 09 September. The Worshop will offer Pujas, practices, explanation and discussion on the related framework of embodiment, the ChOd archetypes, divination and tantras, as well as diagnosis or healing technics, to be of an experiential nature into the comparative study of both Tibetan / Mongolian and Indo-European / Keltic Roots Shamanic Practices in Healing, Divination and Embodiment.

This will be approach from the theory and practices of the Chod and Tsa-rLung Body of Light and Dakinis practices, itself then being conceptualized further in situ using academic tools such as Cultural / Structural Anthropology, Phenomenology and Hermeneutics.

There is indeed a broader aim in such attempt for synthesis that goes more further than only the "feel good" basic motivation that may be found in any marketing niche study blending Shamanism, Yogas and Tibetan practices, per se. Indeed, it is of interest to some of the experienced participants that much of the core behavioral explanations for some ongoing equation, which have arisen in the last 30 years from the merging of Tibetan practices in core Keltic powerplaces,  may be found within a broad and document model of analysis including the biography and social context of such arising.

 

 

 

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Module Three : from 18 to 21 September , 2012 (Nice, Paris)

 

Module Three : ChoD Fusion Praying, Chanting & Dancing Choregraphy

Music comes in an incredible array of genre, styles, periods and possibilities. From within this broad spectrum, Caer-Sidi takes its inspiration from several distinct sources.

The relationship between shamans and different elements in nature has been portrayed throughout Europe from a far back as 40,000 years during the Upper Palaeolithic era. This is seen in the cave paintings of Lascaux in France, and Altimira in Spain. Another well known art are phenomenon which has drawn many parallels to the cave art in France and Spain, has been the San cave art in South Africa, which is estimated to be 3,000 years old. It is almost certain that rock and cave art is related to Sympathetic Magic with reference to hunting and animal ceremonialism. The painted images and rock carvings found throughout the world, represent different forms of communication taking place, where communication and visions from both the physical and spiritual worlds, are portrayed by shamans after communication has been encountered.

Animism is an academic term used to describe the world of spirits, and nature, and the relationship between the two. Animism is described as a basis upon which the practice of shamanism takes place, whereby everything in the universe is connected together as a whole, via strands and forms of energy that are intricately woven between the earth, the cosmos, trees, stones, the stars, the sun, the moon, humans, animals, plants and the dead. All these different elements are combined together producing what Chief Seattle called: The Web of Life. Moreover, animism has been a part of Northern Identity from a far back as the very first hunters-gatherers, who relied on nature for their food, clothes, medicines, shelter and their spirituality.

Experimenting with the fusion of these elements, the creative process goes beyond musical inventiveness. The whole is infused with spiritual essence, and the purpose is to bring about a deep change in consciousness.

Caer-Sidi is the name of the global collection of individuals seeking to unite the blessing stream and enlightened potential of sacred and shamanic music, with the dynamic, fresh and creative power found in KTM modern rock fusion….

 

The  Choregraphy

West

Contemporary Rock, with its complex roots in African rhythms, blues, European and American folk music and gospel, has become a universal vehicle of human communication. With its rich tapestry of story-telling and primal sounds, it reaches deep into our hearts and minds. From the sublime to the ridiculous, and from the frivolous to the profound, it has the power to take us on a journey through the human condition, and potentially beyond. Borrowing the improvisational qualities of jazz and the symphonic elements of European Classical music, it is eclectic and flowing. Like life itself, it is ever re-inventing itself with new and surprising twists of evolution and revolution, where both beauty and the beast struggle to show their face.

East

Eastern music, with its formalized and highly structured melodic and rhythmic systems, is designed to be a container for spiritual values and meanings. If successful, this relatively static approach is not rigid or inhibiting, but instead provides a stable context for a variety of spiritual and shamanic manipulations, including:

  • Allowing a stream of blessing from enlightened lineage masters flowing down through time-space, centuries or milennia.
  • Enacting the four Buddha activities of pacifying, enriching, controlling and destroying, appropriate to the situation.
  • Activating the power of the Dakini, Protector, Yidam and Lama.
  • Generating the energy of healing body and mind, cleansing the land, clearing karma and generating spiritual unfoldment.

Fusion

The union of Western and Eastern paradigms brings the dynamic spiritual power and wisdom preserved in the remote Himalayas into the global mindstream. Thus, the Tibetan Shamanic Rock Opera is conceived in three parts, corresponding to the three levels of spiritual reality in which we exist.

Act I: The Formless

Damaru EmblemDharmakaya

The Dharmakaya, sometimes translated as the Body of Truth, is the basic ground of luminous awareness that is the matrix of all phenomena. All form, all experience arises from this open dimension. Yet it itself remains a stainless, unperturbed, immovable whole. Synonymous with the God Head, the Source, or Atman of other traditions, it is beyond all polarities of self and other, being or non-being, life or death. Though beyond all form, we need tangible doorways to be able to enter and dwell in this basic ground of Ultimate Reality. For the Tibetans, Yumchenmo, the Great Mother, is one such entry point. Synonymous with the Perfection of Wisdom, she is the start and end point of the mystical journey. Her form, and sonic essence ”her mantra” can bridge the gap between worlds, so that relative and absolute are no longer seen as separate realities.

ChOd

All Vajrayana rituals begin and end with  a reference to the original ground of Dharmakaya. In ChOd, however, we return to it frequently, constantly reminding ourselves that, in spite of the wild or intricate phenomena that arise, that is our real home. The mystic syllable PHAT cuts through discursive thought and catapults the hearer into this open space of Being. This mantra is intertwined through the whole ChOd ritual, with dozens of meanings and actions. The mantra of the Great Mother: Gate Gate Para Gate, Para Samgate Bodhi So Ha also allows us to peer beyond the veil of phenomena and glimpse  the nameless open dimension from which everything arises, and into which everything subsides.

Music

Passages from the Refuge Prayer of Tang Tong Gyalpo ChOd, and the Gatà Mantra of the Shukseb tradition of ChOd.

Bell Emblem

Act II: Rainbow ENERGY

Sambhogakaya

Playfully, the basic ground manifests as pure energy,  archetypal form, mantric sound and blissful experience. It paints each moment with the palate of the Five Wisdom Energies, expressed as the Five Feminine Dakini Powers, perceived as the five pure elements. This dynamic display is the basis of the baroque and ecstatic art of Tibetan Buddhism, which provides a window into this world. This archetypal realm also forms a bridge from our deluded, overwhelmed state, to the streamlined simplicity of the pure energy world. Through connecting with deity forms, mantra, chakras and activities, our own body, speech and mind are purified. We are realigned with original luminosity, which is un-fabricated and un-fathomable.

ChOd

In ChOd, we evoke the Five Wisdom Ladies. Dancing in the space of mind, they display their five colors, five symbolic emblems, and five elemental powers. They express their five wisdom qualities and perform their five activities. Invoking their blessing stream, we receive extraordinary support and release from our intractable karmic shackles, the tangled skein of actions and reactions. We are instantly re-configured into the Pure Realm of the Dancing Dakini. We hear the ancient secret language of our mind echo and reverberate, in each of the flavours of the Five Element rainbow, Warrior, Lover, Creator, Ruler and Guru.

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From the Precious Rosary of Machik Labdron: The Exhorting of the 100,000 Dakinis.

Act III: EMBODIMENT

Kangling EmblemNirmanakaya

The world of embodiment is the world of Samsara: where the illusion of form and personal identity are the most dense, and suffering is the most intense. Here is the endless cycle of birth, aging, sickness and death. Here vast numbers of life forms, including humans, experience a seemingly endless variety of loss, pain and confusion. Whether in a gilded cage or iron chains, it is an interminable prison, from which escape seems remote. Knowing the Openness and Radiance of the first two worlds, how does the tantric adept behave in the world of mundane form? Beyond the polarities of hope and fear, he acts with fearlessness. Beyond limited self-concern, she acts with compassion and generosity. Enlightenment for the sake of others becomes the guiding principle, transforming the limitations of embodiment.

Chö

In ChOd, we enact fearless generosity through infinite offerings. We let go of everything, and give away everything. Turning the physical body into an infinite ocean of nectar, the essence of the purified five elements, it can be transformed into whatever is needed for others. Through offering pleasing sacred objects to Enlightened Beings, they rejoice and grant blessings. Offering beauty and bliss to Dakinis and archetypal Energy Beings, we receive spiritual power. Offering to Guardians, we are given protection. Offering to sentient beings, they are relieved of suffering and we accumulate great positive karma. Offering to demons and the vast horde of our karmic debtors, we purify oceans of negative karma and obstacles. And by giving all away, we come full circle, experiencing our original open and luminous nature.

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Passages from the Body Offering (LuJin) of Dudjom Lingpa.

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