The Double Dorje: Modern Vajrayana Buddhism.28 Elo 2024

The Four Revolting Thoughts

More often called the "Four Thoughts to Turn the Mind": precious human birth, impermanence, karma and suffering.

Something to think about

Approximate text at the Blue Sky blog

Words or phrases you might want to look up:

Gampopa
Milarepa
Rechungpa
Kagyu
Vajrayana
Tsong Khapa
Khenpo Konchog Gyaltsen
Herbert v. Guenther
Jewel Ornament of Liberation
Lam Rim

In the early weeks of this podcast I included an approximate script, not particularly well edited, on a blog page. For the episode dropped on 4 September entitled “Bad gurus, tosh gurus and good gurus” and for episodes due to be dropped from 18 September onwards, starting with “Jyekundo / Yushu: travelling in East Tibet” there is a transcript file which is much closer to the actual words used.

Note that other distribution platforms do not necessarily pass this on, and if you want to read it you may need to listen on podbean. YouTube has been making its own transcript, which was an unholy mess. I think I have now deleted all of these "auto-generated" scripts, but it will not be possible to retrospectively add properly edited transcripts to episodes prior to September 2024.

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