Lama Live! With Dorje Lopön Charlotte and Lopön Pieter: Skymind: Rest in the Natural State

After a thousand years, Machig Labdrön’s beautiful and piercing teachings continue to strike at the heart, reminding us of our inherent wakefulness, wholeness, and completeness. In this Lama Live! session with Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam and Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen, we explore her deceptively simple yet radical instruction for accessing our innate nature – which is always already free: rest.

In this session, we explore some of Machig’s most potent teachings on what it truly means to rest – in body, heart, and mind – and how this instruction can support us amid the uncertainty and instability of modern life. Through dharma teaching, reflection, and guided meditation, we open into a direct experience of natural awareness and the ground of being.

Timestamps and Section Titles

00:00 – Welcome & Opening Message
01:09 – Tara Mandala’s Inclusivity Commitment
01:36 – Introducing the Teachers
02:01 – Machig’s Teaching: “Rest” as Path
04:39 – Raising Motivation & Bodhicitta
05:36 – Origins of the Skymind Work
06:02 – Mind Training (Lojong) & Everyday Life
08:53 – Machig’s “Rainbow Arrows” – Precision & Dissolving
10:55 – The Ground of Being & Nature of Mind
14:25 – Wave and Ocean Metaphor Explained
19:02 – Meditation as Resting Back into Awareness
22:00 – The Wave, the Cliff & Remembering Our Oceanness
28:04 – Intimacy with Experience: Embodiment of Natural Awareness
32:25 – Verse: “Since there is no path to traverse…”
39:00 – Story of Alexander the Great & Diogenes
45:35 – Introduction to the Skymind Meditation Practice
52:02 – Guided Meditation Begins
1:01:17 – Closing Reflections & Dedication of Merit
1:06:02 – Final Announcements & Upcoming Events

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