Abortion. Buddhism & The Right to Choose

In this episode, join Lama Tsultrim as she shares the profound sitting meditation technique taught by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche in 1973. The session begins with a guided practice of the nine purification breaths, as detailed in Episode 20. Lama Tsultrim then addresses frequently asked questions about meditation, offering valuable insights and clarifications for both new and experienced practitioners. BIO: Lama Tsultrim Allione is the bestselling author of Women of Wisdom (1984), Feeding Your Demons (2008), and Wisdom Rising - Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine (2018). Over 55 years of practice as a monastic and a laywoman, Lama Tsultrim has fully embraced the arc of Buddhism coming to the West as well as fully embracing her experience as a woman emerging from a patriarchal structure into a — of empowerment and agency.  She founded the first Western Buddhist center dedicated to the Sacred Feminine in the Buddhist tradition, and leads several long term practice paths including, Magyu, the mother lineage.  She emphasizes the need for emotional development to accompany spiritual practice, leading a vibrant international community with over forty groups around the world. Connect and Continue to Experience your own Wisdom RisingFollow Lama Tsultrim Allione on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.Join the Lama Live! webcast with Lama Tsultrim Allione on YouTube.Learn more about Lama Tsultrim.

In this potent episode, Lama Tsultrim offers a heartfelt response to the conflict in Gaza, advocating for an immediate ceasefire and the restoration of peace. She guides listeners in a meditative visualization, embodying Green Tara and her mantra, to channel and send blessings of peace, safety, and relief to those affected by the turmoil in the Middle East and beyond. This episode is a powerful call for compassion and healing in times of global distress.BIO: Lama Tsultrim Allione is the bestselling author of Women of Wisdom (1984), Feeding Your Demons (2008), and Wisdom Rising - Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine (2018). Over 55 years of practice as a monastic and a laywoman, Lama Tsultrim has fully embraced the arc of Buddhism coming to the West as well as fully embracing her experience as a woman emerging from a patriarchal structure into a — of empowerment and agency.  She founded the first Western Buddhist center dedicated to the Sacred Feminine in the Buddhist tradition, and leads several long term practice paths including, Magyu, the mother lineage.  She emphasizes the need for emotional development to accompany spiritual practice, leading a vibrant international community with over forty groups around the world. Connect and Continue to Experience your own Wisdom RisingFollow Lama Tsultrim Allione on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.Join the Lama Live! webcast with Lama Tsultrim Allione on YouTube.Learn more about Lama Tsultrim.

Enjoy this deeply meditative episode and listen as Lama Tsultrim Allione invites us all to meditate on our true nature, the natural world around us, and these pith instructions on non-dualism from the Semde lineage. Lama Tsultrim integrates meditative instruction on the five elements from the profound teachings on non-dualism.  Journey as she takes us back to Oddiyana, the birthplace of this tantra, to ponder the fundamental scripture of the Semde, or “Nature of Mind”. While doing so, "Meditate on these teachings and sit with them, walk with them, talk with them, cook with them. Just be there."BIO: Lama Tsultrim Allione is the bestselling author of Women of Wisdom (1984), Feeding Your Demons (2008), and Wisdom Rising - Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine (2018). Over 55 years of practice as a monastic and a laywoman, Lama Tsultrim has fully embraced the arc of Buddhism coming to the West as well as fully embracing her experience as a woman emerging from a patriarchal structure into a — of empowerment and agency.  She founded the first Western Buddhist center dedicated to the Sacred Feminine in the Buddhist tradition, and leads several long term practice paths including, Magyu, the mother lineage.  She emphasizes the need for emotional development to accompany spiritual practice, leading a vibrant international community with over forty groups around the world. Connect and Continue to Experience your own Wisdom Rising

For this week's Wisdom Rising podcast, Lama Tsultrim Allione guides us on a meditative examination of the Great Mother and her manifestation around us. “The Great Mother is the ground of being itself, the pure potential from which everything arises.”Within this short meditation, Lama invites you to explore the dimensions of the sacred feminine, the three kayas, and joyfully reflect on all of the dakinis, or women, in our lives. Connect with other female energies and the Sambhogakaya aspect of the feminine, which is in the dimension of luminosity; for it is in the Sambhogakaya that we have the dakinis: the embodiments of wisdom.BIO: Lama Tsultrim Allione is the bestselling author of Women of Wisdom (1984), Feeding Your Demons (2008), and Wisdom Rising - Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine (2018). Over 55 years of practice as a monastic and a laywoman, Lama Tsultrim has fully embraced the arc of Buddhism coming to the West as well as fully embracing her experience as a woman emerging from a patriarchal structure into a — of empowerment and agency.  She founded the first Western Buddhist center dedicated to the Sacred Feminine in the Buddhist tradition, and leads several long term practice paths including, Magyu, the mother lineage.  She emphasizes the need for emotional development to accompany spiritual practice, leading a vibrant international community with over forty groups around the world. Connect and Continue to Experience your own Wisdom RisingFollow Lama Tsultrim Allione on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.Join the Lama Live! webcast with Lama Tsultrim Allione on YouTube.Learn more about Lama Tsultrim.

Lama Tsultrim Allione discusses the ambiguities around a right to choose in today’s world and as Buddhist woman.“From the Buddhist point of view, life begins at conception. Killing is negative karma, however, the circumstances of a pregnancy need to be balanced when thinking about abortion.” In this episode, Lama Tsultrim reflects on her own experience with abortion, and the importance of a woman’s rights in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 turnover of Roe v. Wade. Lama Tsultrim also shares practices to heal and process parenthood, providing tools to better hold ourselves, and all beings, with compassion.BIO: Lama Tsultrim Allione is the bestselling author of Women of Wisdom (1984), Feeding Your Demons (2008), and Wisdom Rising - Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine (2018). Over 55 years of practice as a monastic and a laywoman, Lama Tsultrim has fully embraced the arc of Buddhism coming to the West as well as fully embracing her experience as a woman emerging from a patriarchal structure into a — of empowerment and agency.  She founded the first Western Buddhist center dedicated to the Sacred Feminine in the Buddhist tradition, and leads several long term practice paths including, Magyu, the mother lineage.  She emphasizes the need for emotional development to accompany spiritual practice, leading a vibrant international community with over forty groups around the world. Connect and Continue to Experience your own Wisdom RisingFollow Lama Tsultrim Allione on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.Join the Lama Live! webcast with Lama Tsultrim Allione on YouTube.Learn more about Lama Tsultrim.

Pause. Channel your inner peace and connect with Mother Earth. For this episode, Lama Tsultrim Allione leads us in a short meditation to help ground and connect to the world around us. This meditation is meant to help us compassionately channel our own power to be still, pacify, and transmit this peace to all beings, everywhere, without one exception.BIO: Lama Tsultrim Allione is the bestselling author of Women of Wisdom (1984), Feeding Your Demons (2008), and Wisdom Rising - Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine (2018). Over 55 years of practice as a monastic and a laywoman, Lama Tsultrim has fully embraced the arc of Buddhism coming to the West as well as fully embracing her experience as a woman emerging from a patriarchal structure into a — of empowerment and agency.  She founded the first Western Buddhist center dedicated to the Sacred Feminine in the Buddhist tradition, and leads several long term practice paths including, Magyu, the mother lineage.  She emphasizes the need for emotional development to accompany spiritual practice, leading a vibrant international community with over forty groups around the world. Connect and Continue to Experience your own Wisdom RisingFollow Lama Tsultrim Allione on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.Join the Lama Live! webcast with Lama Tsultrim Allione on YouTube.Learn more about Lama Tsultrim.

In this episode, Lama Tsultrim is joined by Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton to discuss Easton’s new book, Embodying Tara: Twenty-One Manifestations to Awaken Your Innate Wisdom. During this intimate and far-reaching discussion, the Tara Mandala teachers discuss the innate, expansive power of the twenty-one Taras, their experience channeling their wisdom, and how they look to each of the Taras for comfort during difficult times.BIO: Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton is a Dharma teacher, author, and translator of Tibetan Buddhist texts. She serves on Tara Mandala’s Prajna (Teacher) Council, Executive Committee, and Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Council. She develops programs and curricula for Tara Mandala, as well as teaches nationally and internationally.  She is the author of Embodying Tara: Twenty-One Manifestations to Awaken Your Innate Wisdom (2023).BIO: Lama Tsultrim Allione is the bestselling author of Women of Wisdom (1984), Feeding Your Demons (2008), and Wisdom Rising - Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine (2018). Over 55 years of practice as a monastic and a laywoman, Lama Tsultrim has fully embraced the arc of Buddhism coming to the West as well as fully embracing her experience as a woman emerging from a patriarchal structure into a — of empowerment and agency.  She founded the first Western Buddhist center dedicated to the Sacred Feminine in the Buddhist tradition, and leads several long term practice paths including, Magyu, the mother lineage.  She emphasizes the need for emotional development to accompany spiritual practice, leading a vibrant international community with over forty groups around the world. 

In this episode, Lama Tsultrim Allione interviews special guest, Dr. Dan Siegel, about his book, IntraConnected: MWe (Me + We) as the Integration of Self, Identity, and Belonging.Dr. Siegel defines the term intraconnectedness, which begins a lively and timely discussion on the meaning and its practical applications in our world.Dr. Siegel also speaks about his interactions with His Holiness the Dalai Lama several times on integrating compassion and science, and how HH encouraged Dr. Siegel to do this work. Dr. Siegel beautifully combines ancient wisdom traditions with modern scientific findings, and how they are ultimately pointing to the same thing.Bio: Daniel J. Siegel received his medical degree from Harvard University and completed his postgraduate medical education at UCLA with training in pediatrics and child, adolescent and adult psychiatry.  He served as a National Institute of Mental Health Research Fellow at UCLA, studying family interactions with an emphasis on how attachment experiences influence emotions, behavior, autobiographical memory and narrative.Dr. Siegel is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA. An award-winning educator, he is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and recipient of several honorary fellowships. Dr. Siegel is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational organization, which offers online learning and in-person seminars that focus on how the development of mindsight in individuals, families and communities can be enhanced by examining the interface of human relationships and basic biological processes. His psychotherapy practice includes children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families. He serves as the Medical Director of the LifeSpan Learning Institute and on the Advisory Board of the Blue School in New York City, which has built its curriculum around Dr. Siegel’s Mindsight approach.Connect and Continue to Experience your own Wisdom RisingFollow Lama Tsultrim Allione on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.Join the Lama Live! webcast with Lama Tsultrim Allione on YouTube.Learn more about Lama Tsultrim.BIO: Lama Tsultrim Allione is the bestselling author of Women of Wisdom (1984), Feeding Your Demons (2008), and Wisdom Rising - Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine (2018). Over 55 years of practice as a monastic and a laywoman, Lama Tsultrim has fully embraced the arc of Buddhism coming to the West as well as fully embracing her experience as a woman emerging from a patriarchal...

For the end of the year, Lama Tsultrim Allione guides us in a Feeding Your Demons®  session. Adapted from an 11th-century Buddhist practice, Lama Tsultrim developed this approach for dealing with negative emotions, fears, illness, and self-defeating patterns.Connect and Continue to Experience your own Wisdom RisingFollow Lama Tsultrim Allione on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.Join the Lama Live! webcast with Lama Tsultrim Allione on YouTube.Learn more about Lama Tsultrim.BIO: Lama Tsultrim Allione is the bestselling author of Women of Wisdom (1984), Feeding Your Demons (2008), and Wisdom Rising - Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine (2018). Over 55 years of practice as a monastic and a laywoman, Lama Tsultrim has fully embraced the arc of Buddhism coming to the West as well as fully embracing her experience as a woman emerging from a patriarchal structure into a — of empowerment and agency.  She founded the first Western Buddhist center dedicated to the Sacred Feminine in the Buddhist tradition, and leads several long term practice paths including, Magyu, the mother lineage.  She emphasizes the need for emotional development to accompany spiritual practice, leading a vibrant international community with over forty groups around the world. 

Lama Tsultrim Allione provides practical instructions for accessing and clearing channels to create the foundation for a clear mind and body. Learn the technique of the Nine Purification Breaths and the meditation practice of Shiné (Shamatha, Skrt.) to calm the prana within the body and settle the mind. Connect and Continue to Experience your own Wisdom RisingFollow Lama Tsultrim Allione on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.Join the Lama Live! webcast with Lama Tsultrim Allione on YouTube.Learn more about Lama Tsultrim.BIO: Lama Tsultrim Allione is the bestselling author of Women of Wisdom (1984), Feeding Your Demons (2008), and Wisdom Rising - Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine (2018). Over 55 years of practice as a monastic and a laywoman, Lama Tsultrim has fully embraced the arc of Buddhism coming to the West as well as fully embracing her experience as a woman emerging from a patriarchal structure into a — of empowerment and agency.  She founded the first Western Buddhist center dedicated to the Sacred Feminine in the Buddhist tradition, and leads several long term practice paths including, Magyu, the mother lineage.  She emphasizes the need for emotional development to accompany spiritual practice, leading a vibrant international community with over forty groups around the world.