His Knowledge and experience is stunning. I practiced 12 years with a siddha kundalini master who introduced us to Kashmir Shaivism and then after his death went to Bhutan and ordained in Tibetan tradition. Unusual to find someone so knowledge and experienced with all traditions. More please!
The 2 interviews you have with Ian are stunning. His books and material on youtube are amazing, but you lead him to talk in depth about things he hasn't publicly before. I would love to hear more about his experiences with Chatral Rinpoche, as there is very little out there about him for such a giant of a teacher and practitioner.
22:26 We are not liberated within a state of renunciation but we are liberated within a state of engagement and expansion. Wah! We only need the songs of spiritual realisation of the 84 Mahasiddhas. Interesting. So fascinating! 1:41:40 I am curious about uhmmm much of that. I think we all are. 😁 Would absolutely love a third interview.
It is a sheer delight to listen to Mr. Baker expound upon various topics that Mr. Viking cleverly asks. I’ve gleaned a lot from these 2 interviews on what is a relatively new subject for me that I’ve gathered can be a difficult topic to research (and is in my limited experience). Bravo! …and standing O…(pun not intended :)
as someone interested in both of the main traditions discussed here, this was just incredible and answered/reinforced so many little hunches and questions i’ve had for awhile and…it was also just awesome! looking forward to a third installment!
Man, these interviews are incredible.. So dense in interesting Information, filling in the knowledge gaps I didn't even know I had in the first place. If it was a 10h video I would watch it with just as much interest
This is a fantastic series. I was trying to think where I had seen Ian Baker before, and then it came to me, the movie Decrypting the Dakini Code. So great to find out more about him.
Hello Ian, I'm a student of Lama Tharchin Rinpoche and Lopon Rinpoche (Chatral Sangye Dorje's student). I read Heart of the World many years ago. You're discussing some of my core questions here, in the Indian tantric roots and Shaivism and Kaula Tantra - Hard to find! What you shared about Kaula tantra's idea of doing "internal" mantra, jives with some things I've suspected for quite sometime.
Fantastic. I’d love to hear next time what he’s writing and working on at the moment and when it will be released. I think he teases another book in his last release. Thanks again.
Guru Viking (or anyone who knows)- at the end 1:53:20 where Ian mentions female scholars, I got Miranda Shaw, but not the other 2 names. Would you be able to list them?
Hi Gigi, there are even more details of Dr Ian's life and spiritual training in our previous interview here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-csI01ksmUXw.html
Great inspiring talk Do you think we are in a Buddhist Kali Yuga? With monastic monks on meth, high lamas going to live sex assault/ abuse...? While working building a monastery, Milarepa's song, "beware of worldly monks attached to monasteries ! " I wondered if money would corrupt the Dharma like it does nearly everything . the answer is resounding yes it has. Not completely but profoundly. Karma Zangpo
My years of research point to migrations of women from Ethiopia to India. These women brought the teachings of the WSR(Osiris) traditions of Africa. All written texts were actually transcribed by studying pre-literate shamanic groups who could neither read nor write. Their spirituality was very similar to The Dreaming culture of australian aborigines. Literacy actually makes it more difficult to "see" the concepts with your right brain since you default to left brain once you become literate.
It was a Zoom glitch. The full quote I read from Dr Baker's book 'Heart of the World' is: 'Over the past year, my study of alchemical elixirs in the Tibetan Tantras had brought exotic substances into my kitchen larder. Concoctions of lotus seeds and wild honey, sautéed caterpillar fungus (Cordyceps sinensis), Indian snake-root (Rauwolfia serpentina), and preparations made from purified mercury, silver, and gold became a regular part of my and Hamid’s diet.'
You really beat up a lot on the Tibetan "bias toward renunciation," but it's only when that renunciation of attachment to unrealistic objects has been achieved that one is actually able to experience the bliss that transcends ordinary desire. Without it, you just have a whole bunch of ordinary samsaric suffering. So that's why first having trained as a renunciate--at least in the mind if not as a monastic--is seen as a requirement of tantric practice in Buddhism. But you know that, Ian. So do a better job distilling your point for next time.
