User:Ozayrinpoche

Lineage Chogyam Trungpa

Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s attendant and student, Venerable Seonaidh Perks, lived with Trungpa for seven years. During this time they traveled extensively throughout the world. Out of this relationship, working and living together, grew Celtic Buddhism. This relationship is described in the book The Mahasiddha and His Idiot Servant.

Chögyam Trungpa felt that a culture needed to deal with its own history, mythology, and social structure in its relationship with Buddhism. He felt that these cultural aspects were difficult to see due to their transparency to the participant in that culture, but that through investigation one could come to understand his or her cultural biases and their illusory nature. In Seonaidh Perks’ travels with Trungpa, particularly in Ireland, they had many long discussions about the early, nature-based Celtic religion and also the Celtic Christian Church. Before Rinpoche’s death in 1987, he told Seonaidh that he should go out on his own and start a lineage.

Ozay Rinpoche and Ahiranta were recognized as lineage holders of Celtic Buddhism in September 2010, following a vision given to Ven. Seonaidh Perks. Ozay Rinpoche

Ozay Rinpoche is a well-known personage on the Internet, where he works as an ego slaughterer. Before “slaughtering egos,” Ozay spent some time in prison, where he subjected himself to a vigorous discipline of Bible-reading and meditation practice. This process allowed Ozay to escape his imprisonment — not from the cell he was in, but from the imprisonment of the mind. He reached enlightenment in 1982. Ozay then gave this non-experience the words “I have completely realized myself.” Ozay remembers many lifetimes and recognizes many people around him from those former lives. As Gurdjieff, he always wanted to come and stay in England but was refused entrance into the UK on many occasions. This unfulfilled desire manifested in this lifetime by Ozay’s being born in London, around the corner from J.G.Bennett, a life-long pupil of Gurdjieff.

While he was growing up in Wales, Ozay suffered his father dying when Ozay was aged eighteen months. During the first three years of his life, Ozay never spoke a single word, preferring to remain in silence. From his Welsh-Celtic father and Spartan-Greek-Cypriot mother, Ozay inherited a strong determination and developed a deep love for the outdoors and physical endurance. He was not interested in being intellectually educated, and he subsequently left school at a very young age.

Ozay Rinpoche and his wife, Ahiranta, divide their time between Sweden, England, and Wales. They are building a retreat center in Sweden, and they also have a piece of land in Wales on which a future spiritual center might be built. Ozay presently explains to others the process of escaping their inner captivity. Ozay Rinpoche’s story is told in his first book, Freedom! Escaping the Prison of the Mind.

http://www.amazon.com/Freedom-Escaping-Prison-Mind-Rinpoche/dp/0980081726

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKs6oyym6b8

Ahiranta

Ahiranta was born into a Catholic family of eight in a small Dutch village. Upon remembering her former life, she clearly experienced feelings of being born in the wrong place. She has memories that go back to a very young age and former lifetimes. Around the age of six, she had a vision in which she saw a man who cradled an ill Ahiranta in his strong arms, taking her with him. This vision became reality when Ahiranta met Ozay Rinpoche. He was the man she had seen in that vision so many years ago. Ahiranta and Ozay Rinpoche shared a mutual recognition of each other. They had experienced many lifetimes together in different roles: husband and wife, brother and sister, as friends and as enemies.

Ahiranta did her inner work under the guidance of Ozay Rinpoche through the process of reasoning, self-observation, contemplation, and meditation. Ahiranta shares her experiences and insights through the Internet and her writings.

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