Tibetan yoga: practices and principles 

This happened to me. Still dealing w the psychotic symptoms 3 years on. Seeking help

@@sn1000k you lucky b..............

Define Guru pls.

You can not.

I believe he was saying that for certain kinds of modern yoga (he gave the example of Iyengar who is said to learnt this in the north of India in Tibet at Mt.Kailash, from Yogi Rama Mohan Brahmachari at Lake Manasarovar). With the unfortunate past of both invasion and later colonisation in India, a lot of practices (like yoga) didn’t survive in continuity, but were preserved elsewhere. While figures like Motilal Nehru reconnected with their cultural heritage through the very orientalist Theosophical society (as did a lot of the so-called Hindu revivalists), there’s certainly some warping of ideas through reinterpretation of the European gaze. However, while India’s cultural heritage of Buddhadharma was mostly destroyed internally in India (beginning in the 9th til 12th centuries), the early oral traditions of the Buddha in Prakrit survived temporarily in countries like Gandhara up until today in countries South East of India in the “Lingua Franca” language of Pali while being taught and applied in local languages. The Buddhist Philosophical tradition of Nalanda University survived with its last Buddhist scholar going to Tibet to establish the Buddhadharma there. If it wasn’t for that spread to Tibet and to China (and from the latter to Japan, Korea, etc), the heritage of the Mahayana texts and the philosophical commentaries might not have survived. As time went on, especially in Tibet, India became seen as the “holy land”, and the source of textural authority (the same for Chinese Buddhists like Xuanzang). Any Tibetan Buddhist practice would always present itself as the teachings coming from an Indian source (those of the Kashmiri yogini Niguma, or the rituals from Silamanju of Nepal, or the Doha’s of the Begali Saraha), so much so that Tibet has never stopped using Sanskrit. In some senses you’re correct, there was a strong overlap and shared practices between the Sáiva practitioners and early Tantric Buddhist ones. It’s seems very hard to seperate which one produced the first texts, there was a lot of borrowing back and forth. While Tantric Buddhists and Tantric Sáivite practitioners might have different “views” in regards to ātman and non-duality, they certainly both shared transcendence of societal norms with shifted ideas of purity. The Tantras emerged in a time of political instability, and there were a lot of new movements (like the Mahasiddhas). However, while Tantric Buddhist art and ideas may seem to have come from Tantric Sáivism (especially with the similarities in the Kashmiri depictions and with the features of deities from what has become known as Hinduism), it’s a little more ‘melting pot’ than that. For example: the art of the Gupta period was steeped in the Gandharan style (an important place for Buddhism, with a strong Hellenic influence), and the Gupta style was then in turn an influence for the Pala dynasty art which is the basis a lot of original Tantric deity art. Anyway, if you check out Ian Baker’s guru, Kyabje Chatral Rinpoche, you’ll find he was very open minded and inclusive to the Shaiva practices.

@@DanielMByron One, I dont agree with this statement of his. Two, what I think doesnt matter. Any yoga is only tool to liberation. If ur are not liberated or heading towards liberation, then its just a useless fancy physical exercise.

Let it go !

"Shiva is imaginary character buddha is real human" This fact should be Enough for any rationale person to understand who copied whom. 😜😜

​​@@dreamadventure8220Buddha never taught about all these Gods and tantra. It's all stolen from Hinduism.

The 6 yogas of naropa are widely taught and practiced in the 3 year retreats of the Kagyu tradition

Wow what an arrogant attitude. Perhaps unsurprising from one with your name.

@@user-ns3vi4xs5x do you refer to gil robison or to me? IF the lecturer in this video had profound knowledge of one of the 6 yogas, so he should demonstrate us his ability to perform DUMO ... all what he is doing is speculating using his logic derived from studying scripts and books ... anyone could do this

@@heinzwurzer2345 Ian Baker has been in Nepal and Bhutan over the last year 30 years. His teachers were great yogic masters of the Nyingma lineage such as Chatral Rinpoche and Dudjom Rinpoche. He's not just an academic scholar. Do your proper research...the only dumo here is you.

@@Supz112 hi there ... dumo is one of the 6 yogas of naropa, I assume you mean dumbo (idiot) ... if I study for 3 months the tibetan scripts (secret doctrines and teachings etc... ) I can give a lecture like this ... by the way "great" is a term used by materialists looking up to people in higher levels ... the term shoud be "oceanlike or mirrorlike guru" or "holder of the dorje" which are other terms for a buddha with all siddhis ... listening to a genuine guru does not mean one has accomplished any mystical powers ... a person can meditate for 1000 years and does not accomplish any spirituel development but can talk very wise out of books ..... why do I write this? because in these days tons of books and videos about yoga or buddhism appear nowadays ... creating confusion and obfuscation is the invisible and successful work of Maro (if you know what kind of force this is)