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Redesigning the DharmaHow Does The Erotic Impact Your Spiritual Practice? with Sarah KokernotEpisode 24 with Redesigning The Dharma by Sahaja Soma features a conversation with fiction writer and essayist, Sarah Kokernot. Sarah, who has practiced Tibetan Buddhism for 20 years, shares insights from her writing on Dharma practice and the creative process. Their dialogue begins with an overview of Sarah's spiritual journey and the profound impact of Dzogchen on her life. They explore the themes of Eros, love, and devotion in contemplative practice, highlighting the intersection of the erotic and spiritual fulfillment. Sarah also recommends resources for those interested in deepening their understanding of Dharma, including her Substack, Your Wild and Radiant Mind...
2025-09-1125 min
Guru Viking PodcastEp315: Religious Psychosis & Dark Retreat - Dr Caroline van Damme & Lama Justin von BujdossIn this episode I host a dialogue between Dr Caroline van Damme and Lama Justin von Bujdoss.
Dr Caroline Van Damme is an adult psychiatrist and family and systemic psychotherapist specialising in chronic psychotic disorders, and co-teacher of Buddhist guru and Sowa Rigpa doctor Nida Chenagtsang.
Lama Justin von Bujdoss is an American Buddhist teacher, dark retreat yogi, founder and spiritual director of Yangti Yoga Retreat Center in Buckland Massachusetts, and author of ‘Modern Tantric Buddhism’.
Caroline and Justin discuss the risk of psychosis during extreme religious practices, consider the rewards and dangers of dark retreat, and describe the different forms...
2025-07-111h 45
Guru Viking PodcastEp307: Modern Vajrayana Buddhism - Lama Justin von Bujdoss & Charlie MorleyIn this episode I host a dialogue between Lama Justin von Bujdoss and Charlie Morley.
Justin and Charlie share their extensive experience as modern teachers of Vajrayana, compare notes on the state of Tantra in the West, and reflect on the responsibility of openly teaching previously restricted, esoteric practices.
Justin and Charlie wrestle with the tension between conserving traditional religious forms and innovating to meet today’s moral sensibilities and technological currents. They suggest changes they would like to see in both Asian Buddhist cultures and Western society, consider the pros and cons of long meditation retreats in today’s worl...
2025-05-231h 56
Love & Liberation with Olivia ClementineLama Justin von Bujdoss: The Beginnings of a Dark Retreat Center & Finding Your Heart PracticeVision version of today's conversation: https://youtu.be/gXWcorUoTnc 00:01:40 Introduction to the retreat place and intentions 00:05:56 Visions in dark retreat 00:15:00 Fear, trust, confidence and endless potential 00:21:00 Not being the only doing the work in one's practice 00:29:00 Having the correct context of deconditioning the mind 00:32:00 Chogyam Trungpa, Dilgo Khyentse and tummo practice 00:36:00 Being a Buddha and distraction of science 00:40:00 Gaining confidence through felt experience and mastering a practice 00:50:00 Following death, experiencing the bardo 00:56:00 Bardo practice suggestion
2024-08-091h 43
Listen To The Full Audiobook That Keeps Book-Lovers Hooked.Modern Tantric Buddhism by Justin von Bujdoss, Lama Rod Owens - forewordPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/161708to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Modern Tantric Buddhism
Author: Justin von Bujdoss, Lama Rod Owens - foreword
Narrator: A'rese Emokpae
Format: mp3
Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
Release date: 06-04-24
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 2 ratings
Genres: Eastern
Publisher's Summary:
Today, a new generation of Buddhists searches for ways to adopt Vajrayana while staying true to its historical legacy. Modern Tantric Buddhism unpacks the principles and applications of this esoteric practice in an accessible and meaningful manner, connecting its roots to a socially engaged, modern-day dharma. Von Bujdoss challenges assumptions about what it means to...
2024-06-042h 57
The UNcivilized Podcast with Traver Boehm49 Days In The Pitch DarkIn this episode I sit down with Lama Justin von Bujdoss and talk about many things. Namely, his experience in a 49 day dark retreat, his time working in hospice, as well as his career as a prison chaplain.
The man has seen and experienced beauty and loss on a grand scale. This is a fabulous interview where he talks about how we can all deal with the darker pieces of our lives and the potential challenges we will all inevitably face.
Enjoy.
Please do share this with one person in your life, or twenty.
2024-01-291h 15
Redesigning the DharmaUnlocking Life's Potential With The Enlightening Lama Justin Von BujdossEpisode 4 of Redesigning The Dharma by Sahaja Soma features a conversation with Lama Justin von Bujdoss from Yangti Yoga. Justin is an American Buddhist teacher and chaplain ordained in the Karma Kamtsang tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Deeply invested in the preservation and adaptation of Tantric Buddhist tradition in the West, Justin shares his experiences as an ordained Repa, a position emphasizing householder tradition. He discusses his past work at the New York City Department of Corrections, the use of plant medicines in spiritual practice, and the importance of integrating meditation into everyday life. Justin also talks about his efforts...
2024-01-241h 06
Guru Viking PodcastEp228: Dzogchen & Dark Retreat - Dr Nida Chenagtsang & Justin Von BujdossIn this interview I am joined by Buddhist teacher and doctor of Tibetan Medicine Dr Nida Chenagtsang and author and Buddhist teacher Justin Von Bujdoss.
Dr Nida and Justin discuss the esoteric Dzogchen practices of trekchö and tögal, and comment on their application to inner emotional disturbance and to times of external conflict and war.
Dr Nida and Justin extensively discuss the mysterious practice of dark retreat, in which the retreatant seals himself in complete darkness for days or weeks at a time, triggering powerful hallucinations which can be worked with using special techniques for spiritual advancement.
Dr Nida an...
2023-11-172h 26
Prison MindfulnessEp.21 Shadow Sides of Working in Prisons with Lama Justin von BujdossIn this episode, Lama Justin von Bujdoss talks with Vita Pires about his experiences working as a chaplain for the New York City Department of Corrections.
Shadow sides of working in prisons
Limitations of mindfulness work for highly traumatized populations (the incarcerated and correctional staff)
How to do this work in a culturally sensitive and authentic manner
JUSTIN VON BUJDOSS Lama Justin von Bujdoss is an American vajrayana Buddhist teacher, writer, and the is a co-founder of Bhumisparsha an experimental Buddhist sangha along with Lama Rod Owens. He is the author of Modern Tantric Buddhism: Authenticity and Emb...
2023-08-3150 minPrison MindfulnessEp.21 Shadow Sides of Working in Prisons with Lama Justin von BujdossIn this episode, Lama Justin von Bujdoss talks with Vita Pires about his experiences working as a chaplain for the New York City Department of Corrections.
Shadow sides of working in prisons
Limitations of mindfulness work for highly traumatized populations (the incarcerated and correctional staff)
How to do this work in a culturally sensitive and authentic manner
JUSTIN VON BUJDOSS Lama Justin von Bujdoss is an American vajrayana Buddhist teacher, writer, and the is a co-founder of Bhumisparsha an experimental Buddhist sangha along with Lama Rod Owens. He is the author of Modern Tantric Buddhism: Authenticity and Emb...
2023-08-3150 min
Wisdom Keeper PodcastChristiana Polites & Justin von Bujdoss: Tenderness, Resilience, and Self-Actualization | Ep. 16In this unique episode of the Wisdom Keeper Podcast I’m joined by Tibetan medical practitioner Christiana Polites and Vajrayana teacher and author Lama Justin von Bujdoss as we reminisce on our shared experience as students on the Antioch Buddhist Studies Program in Bodhgaya, India during our early twenties, and the ensuing impact it had on our lives and careers. Sit back and enjoy this intimate three-way conversation filled with stories of tenderness, synchronicity, resilience, and self-actualization as we trace how the Dharma seeds of those early days ripened for each of us during the global pandemic and beyond. No...
2023-08-262h 08
Guru Viking PodcastEp205: My 49 Day Dark Retreat - Justin Von Bujdoss 2In this episode I am once joined by Justin Von Bujdoss, American Buddhist teacher, chaplain, and author of ‘Modern Tantric Buddhism’.
Justin describes his powerfully transformative dark retreat practice in which he embarked on multiple 7-day and 49-day meditation retreats in complete darkness under the guidance of Dr Nida Chenagtsang.
Justin recalls his life-changing encounter with the rarefied religious experience of rigpa, and details his visions of spiritual beings, animals, elements, and Bardo deities.
Justin recounts his first meeting with Dr Nida, how he became his student, and explains the significance of Dr Nida’s endorsement of Justin as both a Dzog...
2023-06-091h 32
Guru Viking PodcastEp196: Modern Tantric Buddhism - Justin Von BujdossIn this episode I am joined by Justin Von Bujdoss, an American Buddhist teacher and chaplain.
Justin recalls his upbringing in Soho, Manhattan as the son of a multi-generational family of painters, immersed in the New York art scene, attending a specialist high school, and engaging in study abroad programs across Europe and Asia.
Justin recounts his childhood dreams of saints and spiritual masters, and his early fascination with Ancient Egypt and Western Occultism, which saw him transcribing magickal texts and engaging in rituals of evocation and divination.
Justin explains why his conversion to Buddhism was inevitable, describes his meetings...
2023-04-071h 33Love & Liberation with Olivia ClementineJustin von Bujdoss: Dark Retreat, Formlessness & Returning to Completion00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:28 Background to Dark Retreat 00:05:44 Some experiences that Justin has had in dark retreat and what he learned about himself. 00:13:00 Freeing oneself of narrative of a dharma practitioner looking a certain way 00:16:00 The essentiality of giving oneself to space and formlessness and the fear of space. 00:20:44 How to know if one is qualified to do dark retreat. 00:27:14 Dream yoga in dark retreat 00:31:00 Visionary experiences and tögal in dark retreat and technology of dark retreat. 00:40:00 Manifestation of elements in dark retreat, destabilization and l...
2023-03-2751 min
Love & Liberation with Olivia ClementineLama Justin von Bujdoss: Resting into the Mind Beyond Time & Being Consumed by DharmaSome of what Justin shares includes: Transference of Buddhism from Indian to Tibetan and Nepali culture Maitripa as muse Practitioners needing to go deeper Shamatha, vipassana, ati yoga and dzogchen, comparisons Impact of pedagogic systems on meditation styles Realistic notion of what is needed for realization Potential problem caused by lamrim literature One of the first things his teacher told him to do Relaxing around relationship to time Becoming useless Yidam practice Working with afflictive emotions Vajrayana, intimacy and our culture Narcissist crazy wisdom America's lack of faith. Tantra and the capitalist market place Tantric alchemy and practice bei...
2022-06-211h 09
Francesca Maximé: WiseGirlReRooted 56: Lama Justin Von Budjoss: Modern Tantric Buddhismhttps://justinvonbujdoss.com/
Francesca Maximé – ReRooted – Ep. 56 – Modern Tantric Buddhism with Lama Justin von Bujdoss
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Lama Justin von Bujdoss joins Francesca to share an authentic and embodied conversation around Tantric Buddhism for our Dharma practice in the modern age.
Justin von Bujdoss is an American Buddhist teacher and chaplain ordained as a repa in the Karma Kamstang tradition of Tibetan Buddhism by His Eminence Goshir Gyaltsab Rinpoche. Justin is passion...
2021-10-1746 min
ReRooted with Francesca MaximéEp. 56 – Modern Tantric Buddhism with Lama Justin von BujdossLama Justin von Bujdoss joins Francesca to share an authentic and embodied conversation around Tantric Buddhism for our Dharma practice in the modern age.Justin von Bujdoss is an American Buddhist teacher and chaplain ordained as a repa in the Karma Kamstang tradition of Tibetan Buddhism by His Eminence Goshir Gyaltsab Rinpoche. Justin is passionate about the preservation of the heart-essence of the tantric Buddhist tradition in a way that meets the needs of, and simultaneously challenges, the modern western way of life. Justin has served as the resident-lama and executive director of New York Tsurphu Goshir...
2021-09-2247 min
Love & Liberation with Olivia ClementineLama Justin von Bujdoss: Ati Yoga, Indigenous Western Tantra & the Ministry of DeathSome of what Justin shares includes: His personal retreat this last year Benefits of Ati Yoga in working with anything arising including helping Justin be available to 13,000 people at the NYC Department of Correction How Justin works with crisis situations Bearing witness to pain and suffering Justin's main practice with those who are dying His experience with his teachers when they were dying and afterwards The ministry of death, heartbreak and loss Compassion in action and speaking up to injustice as dharma practice Modern mahasiddhas and indigenous western varjayana buddhism Tibetan refugee trauma impacting how teachings are shared...
2021-09-141h 12
The Reluctant PhoenixEpisode 11: Justin Von BujdossJustin Von Bujdoss is an American Buddhist teacher. As Staff Chaplain for the New York Department of Corrections, Justin was responsible for performing last rites to the hundreds of people who succumbed to COVID and are buried in the potter's field / mass graveyard on Hart Island.
2021-06-1547 min
Master Mind, Body & SpiritModern Tantric Buddhism: Awakening, Awareness & EnlightenmentJustin von Bujdoss is an American Buddhist teacher and chaplain. He was ordained as a repa in the Karma Kagio tradition of Tibetan Buddhism by His Eminence Goshir Gyalt-sab Rinpoche in 2011.
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