You’re really the best interviewer out there on these subjects. You ask intelligent questions and keep quiet for the answer unlike others that I won’t name. I wish that you can get as many quality guests as these bad interviewers get.
The look on Ian's face when asked about meeting Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche...was worth a million rupees! Then ...once he explained what was asked of him, the look took on different meeting! LOL I've never heard better questions in an interview EVER on any subject by ANYBODY! Well prepared (not easy!) and brilliant! Kudos! That was great to hear about Kyabje Chatral Rinpoche being so open, and even getting up and dancing. Wow what karma you have Ian, and I'm grateful for your courage, as all too often it is not present with so many advanced Western practitioners. I daresay I have it, and had I been able to be diligent enough, and avoid really stupid life decisions...I would have tried to do many of the things you have done. But, sadly, courage alone isn't enough. You have that rare combination of discipline, and "60's Adventurer" mindset. I am grateful that there is someone who did many of the things I dream of which require IMHO "long walks through dangerous neighborhoods of the mind". I got mugged in those neighborhoods.
Thankyou so much Mr. Guru Viking for this intervieew with Ian Baker , who is indeed a MOST fortunate man of great good karma to have met a great teacher and to know the most direct path to Buddha mind . Many thanks to you both for making this knowledge available ! ! !
This is one of the most remarkable interviews I have ever found on the net. Fascinating subjects, great questions, and a wonderfully gifted communicator with very uncommon experiences in his pocket. Thank you!
30:36 This is a significant revelation for my own personal experience of this phenomenon, both the scientific and metaphysical components mentioned. Serious gratitude
Wow this is an absolute godsend. Not only is it just mind blowing info for me as a rather eclectic practitioner it is just so helpful as boost to my getting back into Tsa Lung again after being too worried about maybe over doing. Tha kind of worry just became too much of an obstacle to me, though I was really getting some huge boosts to my practice from it. Yes, I have been taught by qualified teachers and have very good texts to refer to, I feel so incredibly fortunate to hav had the opportunity but couldn't do anything with it. This video is saying yes you can! Thank you Viking Guru and Ian Baker, just a phenomenal interview!
Yes, there seems to be a green goddess energy in the ether. About 1am with 1/2 closed eyes I visually encountered her for about 15 seconds near the end of a spontaneous meditation while sitting at night by my little fire (near the east tip of big island Hawaii)...on the lava with a strong swell crashing/splashing on to me... - A few days later i met her in human form and i asked her: "was that you? the only difference between you and her is that who i saw was green". She said: "of course... my name is Maile..It means the energy of the green of the forrest".
I have the greatest fortune to have teachers like Namkai Norbu Rimpoche, Alan Wallace, Ian Baker ( just finished Part FOUR of Ian’s presentation on THE HIDDEN LANDS OF THE BAYUL PResented by SBI and CNN...fascinating presentAtion....I am in love with Ian’s CLARITY and sense of ADVENTURE l
We did ask the lamas about this thing of teaching everybody who shows up, instead of the practiced and ready few as in the past. They said quite frankly, "This is a very dangerous time for the Dharma. We don't know what will survive or not since the world is in such turmoil and wars are everywhere and innocent people are killed everywhere. So we are teaching everyone, hoping that what people seek and find most useful and helpful and transforming will survive for the welfare of all." THat was quite frightening to hear from people who have direct insight into the future.
WOW this is just an an amazing interview! The flood of information and insights and revelations are just astounding!!! Guru Viking you are sincerely a great interviewer!!!! please keep it up. This knowledge is priceless !!! thank you 🙏 🙏🙏
That was a beautiful interjection - to clarify the 5th and 6th Dalai Lamas - as difficult as it is to interrupt the brilliant Ian Baker. His knowledge is pretty mind-boggling.
Fascinating; the problem is that we have the Tibetan tradition , but we know too little about the Indian tradition behind it, and the relationship the latter had with Shaivism, for example.
It's interesting I used to practice Tibetan Buddhism and one time I went to a event and I tried to speak to some very powerful and popular lamas about the similarities of Taoist Qigong and Tibetan Buddhist tumo and they laughed at me and they didn't even want to talk about it they mocked me for even trying to find similarities. Later I met with a Tibetan doctor who acknowledged the similarities and other practitioners and lamas actually confessed that the Chinese practices were Superior in energetics but the Tibetan practices were Superior in understanding emptiness and the nature of phenomenon and mind
Re Wim Hof, as would be expected with such powerful breathing exercises, some have reported anxiety attacks and psychosis, and then there’s the many deaths from combining the techniques with water. Journalist Scott Carney wrote extensively about this.
This was great; I would like to note regarding opening up tantra to lay practitioners and tantric monks that the current 17th Karmapa is married and Diamond Way Buddhism has done a lot to open up the system while maintaining traditional developmental preliminary practices. Hoping that this develops further.
Very enlightening... certainly challenging a lot of the patronizing lip service to "secret traditions" and subsequent creation of conceptual thinking which is anathema to the essence of the original teachings. Thanks Ian and Guru. Keep em coming
I feel I found the answer of my quest in Ian's lineage of multi-dimensionality... my heart was pounding with each of his word of experience and profound wisdom... I am just wondering how should I get connected with him at physical level too....
I haven't watched many interviews with Ian Baker but I'm interested to know whether great compassion has been awakened in Ian, or whether compassion has not been a focus. I appreciate the amazing journey Ian is taking , still it seems focus on ways of awakening without first having universal compassion, may be a barrier in the journey.
I am so pleased to hear Ian Baker talk about it not being on to create little bubbles of practice/philosophy. I don't like that kind of spiritual elitism and am always trying to think of ways to broaden practice and its benefits. I went to the Wellcome exhibition and I think I met Baker and had a brief chat with him but not totally sure it was him I was talking to. Great talk, thank you :) ps: Green Dakini became Green Tara? I've chanted her mantra every day for over seven years, wonderful practice. Also fascinated to hear the reference to Dionysus - The Tryumbakam mantra links to Dionysus via the word 'triumph' which my etymological dictionary says was a word of praise to Dionysus, and was of pre-Hellenic origin.
What benefit do you get from chanting? Specifically green Tara? Anything that would inspire me to give it a try? I've never found it to be my thing but maybe if I gave it more of a try or you could tell me more about it I may be more inclined?
@@user-fg3fv9hl3b I don't know, naturally, how it would affect you, but for me the mantra has made me feel clearer, happier, more confident, calmer, friendlier, less naive, less moody, more measured, kinder - I could go on! I knew nothing about it when I started, but I found it so helpful I simply kept going, now it's nearly 9 years. No permission, learning or authority is required to chant it. I can only recommend the practice :)
I am not a Buddhist (I do, however, practice traditional yoga), and appreciate Ian´s work tremendously, but it is a fact, as far as I am aware, that several people have died practicing the Wim hof method. Hope someone will make Ian aware of this circumstance.
Wasn't Saraha.....Dudjom? Or, the other-way-around? Of course the b body IS the Path, as embodiment itself is the nature of Samsara. (Staying away from the "unity" of Samsara and Nirvana, of course) Finally, someone has dug into this issue of Tantra....in and out od a monastic setting. I really need to chat with Ian. This is a fantastic channel! Am I picking up the traces of a Scottish accent in Ian's speech?
I appreciate your channel and normally I don’t leave comments but here goes… In spite of the fact that Tibetan Buddhism has given him so much, he spends much of the time dowangradeing it. he took most spicy and marketable parts of the tradition to make a career out of while criticizing the way things were done and secrets were kept for one thousand year. I regret that I bought his book.
Also.. check out the book: 'Twilight Goddess' by Thomas Cleary and Sataz Aziz about the power of Zen women monks in Japan in history... With a picture of a green goddess on its cover. - I believe this green goddess is everywhere if we can surrender in the right way with no desire to see her... she will reveal. patience weed hoppers ; )
Too much talk about patriarchy!! Its a bit self contradictory when Ian says advanced practices can be practiced by anyone and later when he says the 3 year long retreats causes psychatric problem for monks in Burma. May be thats why you have the rules and distinction between basic practices and advanced, secretive practices
What is it about discussion of the patriarchal nature of certain cultures that causes you to respond in this way? Ian's explanations make quite clear that the downplaying of the feminine aspect in culture is detrimental and removes the sacred importance of the male/female polarity. I suspect your objections are down to the modern usage of the word "patriarchy" by those who seek to divide, rather than unite. Re. psychiatric issues that can arise post-long-term retreat: Ian explains much here about the detachment, depersonalization and inability to reintegrate with society that can follow extended retreats for some. It's not necessarily down to "illness of prana" or "lung", although that may well be the case for some. It's not that the practices themselves cause psychiatric problems (although they certainly could given that psycho-energetic practices can and will perturb consciousness), it's more about "returning to the marketplace", so to speak. Re. basic/advanced practices: The secrecy was essential at the time and so allegory, metaphor, etc had to be used to encode the teachings. For a more Western model of similar codification, just look at alchemy: Encoded spiritual practices, disguised as mundane science so as to avoid the wrath of the Inquisition. This is not unusual and you'll find similar encoding in everything from Thelema to Taoism, albeit not necessarily for the same purposes. Sure, there's something to be said for not engaging in 'advanced' practices without appropriate teaching and support since it's entirely possible, as a friend of mine puts it, to "discover lethality" due to getting deeply involved with ones circulatory and hormonal systems via these energetic practices. The fact is that very few could engage in these types of practice to a degree where such an issue would arise, but its down to the individual to ascertain whether or not the risks are worth the effort. Practice well.
This could have been so interesting but this guy is just way too intellectual in his delivery and it's a real strain to listen to him. He's exhausting.
Interesting that you say that the Dalai Lama’s earlier to the 5th were his teachers and not predecessors. Given that they had all passed on before the 5th was born. Though it is technically true 😊
I'm sorry, but the taoist master that he speaks of, seems like a total and obvious charlatan. All the tricks he displays, are KNOWN parlor tricks. I can't understand why everyone falls for this dude.
You’re really the best interviewer out there on these subjects. You ask intelligent questions and keep quiet for the answer unlike others that I won’t name. I wish that you can get as many quality guests as these bad interviewers get.
Thanks a lot Jonathan, I appreciate this! :-)
Is there anyone in particular who you'd like to see me interview?
Guru Viking You’ve already interviewed my favourites. I don’t know maybe Shinzen or Loch Kelly. Those two are very interesting.
@@jonathannadeau6218 Thank you, these are excellent suggestions!
Yongey Mingyur Rinponche
The look on Ian's face when asked about meeting Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche...was worth a million rupees! Then ...once he explained what was asked of him, the look took on different meeting! LOL
I've never heard better questions in an interview EVER on any subject by ANYBODY! Well prepared (not easy!) and brilliant! Kudos!
That was great to hear about Kyabje Chatral Rinpoche being so open, and even getting up and dancing. Wow what karma you have Ian, and I'm grateful for your courage, as all too often it is not present with so many advanced Western practitioners. I daresay I have it, and had I been able to be diligent enough, and avoid really stupid life decisions...I would have tried to do many of the things you have done.
But, sadly, courage alone isn't enough. You have that rare combination of discipline, and "60's Adventurer" mindset. I am grateful that there is someone who did many of the things I dream of which require IMHO "long walks through dangerous neighborhoods of the mind". I got mugged in those neighborhoods.
Million rupies😂😂😂😂
Absolutely Love How Ian A Baker integrates and pulls from traditional teachers, that this is for everyone.
Thankyou so much Mr. Guru Viking for this intervieew with Ian Baker , who is indeed a MOST fortunate man of great good karma to have met a great teacher and to know the most direct path to Buddha mind . Many thanks to you both for making this knowledge available ! ! !
This guy... telling it how it is. Damn. Such a great talk.
This is one of the most remarkable interviews I have ever found on the net. Fascinating subjects, great questions, and a wonderfully gifted communicator with very uncommon experiences in his pocket.
Thank you!
Really fabulous interview. Ian is great! And his knowledge and wisdom far reaching. Thank you.
You're welcome!
Thanks to your interview with Ian I recently 'discovered' him and bought two of his wonderful books. Appreciate it.
You're very welcome!
This is my favorite of your many excellent interviews!
Ian as a long time Dharma student. He is a vessel that is so deep and so rare. Thanks karma zangpo
30:36 This is a significant revelation for my own personal experience of this phenomenon, both the scientific and metaphysical components mentioned. Serious gratitude
A great bridge between western wisdom and eastern wisdom combined into investigation of something usefull for all. ThankYou
Wow this is an absolute godsend. Not only is it just mind blowing info for me as a rather eclectic practitioner it is just so helpful as boost to my getting back into Tsa Lung again after being too worried about maybe over doing. Tha kind of worry just became too much of an obstacle to me, though I was really getting some huge boosts to my practice from it. Yes, I have been taught by qualified teachers and have very good texts to refer to, I feel so incredibly fortunate to hav had the opportunity but couldn't do anything with it. This video is saying yes you can! Thank you Viking Guru and Ian Baker, just a phenomenal interview!
Yes, there seems to be a green goddess energy in the ether. About 1am with 1/2 closed eyes I visually encountered her for about 15 seconds near the end of a spontaneous meditation while sitting at night by my little fire (near the east tip of big island Hawaii)...on the lava with a strong swell crashing/splashing on to me... - A few days later i met her in human form and i asked her: "was that you? the only difference between you and her is that who i saw was green". She said: "of course... my name is Maile..It means the energy of the green of the forrest".
I have the greatest fortune to have teachers like Namkai Norbu Rimpoche, Alan Wallace, Ian Baker ( just finished Part FOUR of Ian’s presentation on THE HIDDEN LANDS OF THE BAYUL
PResented by SBI and CNN...fascinating presentAtion....I am in love with Ian’s CLARITY and sense of ADVENTURE
l
We did ask the lamas about this thing of teaching everybody who shows up, instead of the practiced and ready few as in the past. They said quite frankly, "This is a very dangerous time for the Dharma. We don't know what will survive or not since the world is in such turmoil and wars are everywhere and innocent people are killed everywhere. So we are teaching everyone, hoping that what people seek and find most useful and helpful and transforming will survive for the welfare of all." THat was quite frightening to hear from people who have direct insight into the future.
WOW this is just an an amazing interview! The flood of information and insights and revelations are just astounding!!! Guru Viking you are sincerely a great interviewer!!!!
please keep it up. This knowledge is priceless !!! thank you 🙏 🙏🙏
Thank you so much! This was an awesome interview.
That was a beautiful interjection - to clarify the 5th and 6th Dalai Lamas - as difficult as it is to interrupt the brilliant Ian Baker. His knowledge is pretty mind-boggling.
Thanks it’s a great pleasure to listen
How is he 63 years old at the time of interview???? :0
Really? Is he?
What an inspiration seem very humble great for Sunday am inner church
Such an inspiring interview and happy to discover Ian and his fascinating life. Thank you 🙏
I thought this was a wonderful interview, the best Ive seen yet. Very informative and interesting.
Fascinating; the problem is that we have the Tibetan tradition , but we know too little about the Indian tradition behind it, and the relationship the latter had with Shaivism, for example.
Seems like a really excellent guy.
Wonderful interview. Thanks for the introduction to Ian. Subscribed!
It's interesting I used to practice Tibetan Buddhism and one time I went to a event and I tried to speak to some very powerful and popular lamas about the similarities of Taoist Qigong and Tibetan Buddhist tumo and they laughed at me and they didn't even want to talk about it they mocked me for even trying to find similarities.
Later I met with a Tibetan doctor who acknowledged the similarities and other practitioners and lamas actually confessed that the Chinese practices were Superior in energetics but the Tibetan practices were Superior in understanding emptiness and the nature of phenomenon and mind
Re Wim Hof, as would be expected with such powerful breathing exercises, some have reported anxiety attacks and psychosis, and then there’s the many deaths from combining the techniques with water. Journalist Scott Carney wrote extensively about this.
This was great; I would like to note regarding opening up tantra to lay practitioners and tantric monks that the current 17th Karmapa is married and Diamond Way Buddhism has done a lot to open up the system while maintaining traditional developmental preliminary practices. Hoping that this develops further.
Fascinating interview. It's actually been quite a teaching for me as well as inspiring my practice.
Very enlightening... certainly challenging a lot of the patronizing lip service to "secret traditions" and subsequent creation of conceptual thinking which is anathema to the essence of the original teachings. Thanks Ian and Guru. Keep em coming
I feel I found the answer of my quest in Ian's lineage of multi-dimensionality... my heart was pounding with each of his word of experience and profound wisdom... I am just wondering how should I get connected with him at physical level too....
Hi Kaji, glad you enjoyed the interview! I expect your best bet to contact Ian is to follow the link to his website and email him.
@@GuruViking Thanks a lot!
I haven't watched many interviews with Ian Baker but I'm interested to know whether great compassion has been awakened in Ian, or whether compassion has not been a focus. I appreciate the amazing journey Ian is taking , still it seems focus on ways of awakening without first having universal compassion, may be a barrier in the journey.
Excellent 🙏
Wonderful interview. Thank you so much ☺️
I am so pleased to hear Ian Baker talk about it not being on to create little bubbles of practice/philosophy. I don't like that kind of spiritual elitism and am always trying to think of ways to broaden practice and its benefits. I went to the Wellcome exhibition and I think I met Baker and had a brief chat with him but not totally sure it was him I was talking to. Great talk, thank you :)
ps: Green Dakini became Green Tara? I've chanted her mantra every day for over seven years, wonderful practice.
Also fascinated to hear the reference to Dionysus - The Tryumbakam mantra links to Dionysus via the word 'triumph' which my etymological dictionary says was a word of praise to Dionysus, and was of pre-Hellenic origin.
What benefit do you get from chanting? Specifically green Tara? Anything that would inspire me to give it a try? I've never found it to be my thing but maybe if I gave it more of a try or you could tell me more about it I may be more inclined?
@@user-fg3fv9hl3b I don't know, naturally, how it would affect you, but for me the mantra has made me feel clearer, happier, more confident, calmer, friendlier, less naive, less moody, more measured, kinder - I could go on! I knew nothing about it when I started, but I found it so helpful I simply kept going, now it's nearly 9 years. No permission, learning or authority is required to chant it. I can only recommend the practice :)
Excelent interview!! thank you very much!! Do you think you can gives us more? (smile)
I'll try :-)
Wow so valuable to hear the history
Ian Baker never blinks. 😳
thanks yes, I was struggling to put my finger on it, and sure enough he blinks very little!
Your channel and beard are awesome!!
Haha, thanks!
Great interview and informative talk. I'm addicted to viking guru vids as of late.
simply love this one! third time here
Loved it.
I am not a Buddhist (I do, however, practice traditional yoga), and appreciate Ian´s work tremendously, but it is a fact, as far as I am aware, that several people have died practicing the Wim hof method. Hope someone will make Ian aware of this circumstance.
Curious how people have died doing so? It may be something easy to consider before doing it to be preventable.
@@user-fg3fv9hl3b drowning :-) while doing breathwork.
I'm not quite sure why, but I believe what this guy says.
I have never been able to do the yab/yum nectar vizualizations either. Its just too far out for my Episcopalian mind to grasp.
Wasn't Saraha.....Dudjom? Or, the other-way-around? Of course the b body IS the Path, as embodiment itself is the nature of Samsara. (Staying away from the "unity" of Samsara and Nirvana, of course)
Finally, someone has dug into this issue of Tantra....in and out od a monastic setting. I really need to chat with Ian. This is a fantastic channel!
Am I picking up the traces of a Scottish accent in Ian's speech?
Great inspiration green Tara
Who was the green Dakini to taught the Six Yogas to Tilopa?
It was not a green dakini it was Vajrayogini/Vajravarahi.
Great interview! I am wondering who was the Kaula Guru that Ian studied with?
I totally agree with the comment ABOVE
You should interview Lion's Roar Sifu about Tibetan martial arts
It's important that Western Buddhists not get to close minded. Respect institutions but think for yourself.
Wonderful,🙏🌎
fabulous
Wow. Chatral Rinpoche was very allof and hard to meet
Thank you so much!!!!!!!🔥🔥🔥🔱🔱🔱☸️☸️☸️💗
Ian mentions a text between Taoists and the Saiva tradition, does anyone know where this can be found?
I appreciate your channel and normally I don’t leave comments but here goes… In spite of the fact that Tibetan Buddhism has given him so much, he spends much of the time dowangradeing it. he took most spicy and marketable parts of the tradition to make a career out of while criticizing the way things were done and secrets were kept for one thousand year. I regret that I bought his book.
Ian - Isn’t Anupaya or Direct Recognition of “Kashmir Shaivism,” pretty much the same as maha ati or Dzogchen? 💥🔱💥
You may have been unique among DK Rinpoche's students but he, of all Lamas, could certainly relate to your wanting to be in a cave, or alone!
Excellent
Also.. check out the book: 'Twilight Goddess' by Thomas Cleary and Sataz Aziz about the power of Zen women monks in Japan in history... With a picture of a green goddess on its cover. - I believe this green goddess is everywhere if we can surrender in the right way with no desire to see her... she will reveal. patience weed hoppers ; )
Sweet
Thanks!
Must not be a secret if you guys know about it.
Too much talk about patriarchy!!
Its a bit self contradictory when Ian says advanced practices can be practiced by anyone
and later when he says the 3 year long retreats causes psychatric problem for monks in Burma.
May be thats why you have the rules and distinction between basic practices and advanced, secretive practices
What is it about discussion of the patriarchal nature of certain cultures that causes you to respond in this way? Ian's explanations make quite clear that the downplaying of the feminine aspect in culture is detrimental and removes the sacred importance of the male/female polarity. I suspect your objections are down to the modern usage of the word "patriarchy" by those who seek to divide, rather than unite.
Re. psychiatric issues that can arise post-long-term retreat: Ian explains much here about the detachment, depersonalization and inability to reintegrate with society that can follow extended retreats for some. It's not necessarily down to "illness of prana" or "lung", although that may well be the case for some. It's not that the practices themselves cause psychiatric problems (although they certainly could given that psycho-energetic practices can and will perturb consciousness), it's more about "returning to the marketplace", so to speak.
Re. basic/advanced practices: The secrecy was essential at the time and so allegory, metaphor, etc had to be used to encode the teachings. For a more Western model of similar codification, just look at alchemy: Encoded spiritual practices, disguised as mundane science so as to avoid the wrath of the Inquisition. This is not unusual and you'll find similar encoding in everything from Thelema to Taoism, albeit not necessarily for the same purposes.
Sure, there's something to be said for not engaging in 'advanced' practices without appropriate teaching and support since it's entirely possible, as a friend of mine puts it, to "discover lethality" due to getting deeply involved with ones circulatory and hormonal systems via these energetic practices. The fact is that very few could engage in these types of practice to a degree where such an issue would arise, but its down to the individual to ascertain whether or not the risks are worth the effort.
Practice well.
👍
Wasn't this guy in the matrix
1:41:00 dat woord
Ian is the one (Western) guy I want to talk with.
This could have been so interesting but this guy is just way too intellectual in his delivery and it's a real strain to listen to him. He's exhausting.
💐
Interesting that you say that the Dalai Lama’s earlier to the 5th were his teachers and not predecessors. Given that they had all passed on before the 5th was born. Though it is technically true 😊
I am such a slagass yogi
🙏💙🔥🌎
I'm sorry, but the taoist master that he speaks of, seems like a total and obvious charlatan. All the tricks he displays, are KNOWN parlor tricks. I can't understand why everyone falls for this dude.
wow i loved people are ship the danger is living this conventional life
The original sin was the evolution of language. Just saying...