The Freedom Place
The Freedom Place podcast is a platform for distributing the teachings of Traktung Khepa. Spiritual adept, visionary, poet, farmer, Traktung Khepa is an American-born sage who has taught students in America, Europe, and Cuba since 1990. For 30 years he has guided Tsogyelgar, a contemplative community outside Ann Arbor, Michigan. Equally able to explore the most esoteric aspects and methods of the Tantric path or discuss Existentialism, Santeria, Alchemy, Political Philosophy, or Art History, t.k.’s style of teaching is immediate and relevant. As a child, t.k. traveled with his parents from Marrakesh to Istanbul exploring modern and ancient cultures, museums, churches, whirling dervishes, gypsy caves, healers in the Black Forest, and mysteries of Greek ruins. As a teen he had encounters with spiritual aspirants and adepts of every sort from Jesuit priests and Franciscan monks to Krishnamurti, 32nd degree Freemasons, Sufi and Zen masters and more. At the same time he picnicked on the White House lawn with Reagan and joked with Nixon and Kissinger as they played Happy Birthday for his mother on the piano. t.k’s lifelong passion for exploring spiritual traditions and life’s meaning has seamlessly melded with his profound realization accomplished through the non-monastic Tantric path. The Adept Thinley Norbu Rinpoche repeatedly encouraged him share his wisdom and realization to, “Help Westerners clarify the inner meanings of Tantra without distortions.”
Episodes
May we be ever blessed by the Guru's sublime wisdom haranguing!
0:18 Introduction to the Vajrayana Path
4:36 The Start of My Spiritual Search
10:19 Paths and Practices Explored
16:01 Family Influence on Spirituality
23:11 Encountering Vajrayana
23:32 Knowing vs. Realizing
25:44 The Nature of Knowledge
31:22 Subject and Object in...
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0:05 Introduction to Prayer
1:27 Contemplative P...
Topics include:
Finding Strength in Choices
The Nature of Suffering
Transforming Negative Habits
The Friction of Change
Elation vs. Exaltation
Symbols of Spirituality
The Limits of Language
The Paradox of Spiritual Freedom
Starting from Reality
Realization...
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We are truly blessed to have another interview and opportunity to listen to sublime wisdom teachings. With deep and profound gratitude to the spiritual master for sharing wisdom with us, we give thanks. Please enjoy!
The Co...
We are truly blessed to have yet another sublime teaching delivered via podcast, and we're very grateful to receive it.
Please enjoy!
We are blessed to have yet another sublime teaching to enlighten our minds. Enjoy!
One way that we approach the understanding of nothingness from a Western religious context is the conversion of St. Paul on the road to Damascus where he fell down and was blinded by brilliant light. Meister Eckhart’s description of this gives us some cruci...
Identity, while functional, is, in the light of truth, itself is a mistake. Language, while efficacious for navigating our mundane existence, is rooted in duality and, therefore, not sufficient to accurately describe reality.
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"Hail Mary, Mother of God, teach me the heart, and your surrender."
In this interview, t.k. discusses the profound visions of Mary that he was blessed with and the manner in which these visits affected the course of his spiritual ...
In this interview, t.k. answers questions sent in by a listener of the podcast. We love listener questions, so to have t.k. answer your questions in an upcoming episode, please send them to me, Greg Kaminsky, via Facebook Messeng...
In this interview, t.k. discusses breath. How does one work with breathing for spiritual work? What is the human subtle body and how does this process structure relate to breath? What are the inner and secret aspects of air that allow...
In this interview, t.k. discusses magic. What is magic? How is it practiced? What are the differences between wisdom magic and mundane magic? Additional highlights include a consideration of different approaches to practicing magic, w...
In this interview, t.k. discusses meaning. What is meaning? Where can it be found? Does it come from outside us, do we create it, or is it found outside of relationality? In this conversation, t.k. pre...
In this interview, t.k. discusses Socrates' ancient aphorism, "Know Thyself." He describes the way in which delusion arises as a process structure and how this process structure, mistakenly perceived as an individual (a subjective...
In this interview, t.k. discusses the notion of spiritual authority and the value of holding an attitude of questioning. One of the teachings here is that it is the quality and integrity of the spiritual...
In this interview, t.k. answers three questions sent in by a listener of the podcast. We'd love to make listener questions a regular feature, so to have t.k. answer your questions in an upcoming episode,...
This is the second part of an extraordinary interview where t.k. talks about the human quest for ultimate meaning, art history and the development of perspective, the philosophical developments of existentialism and post-modern deconstructionism, and non-duality. In this ...
This is the first part of an extraordinary interview where t.k. talks about the human quest for ultimate meaning, art history and the development of perspective, the philosophical developments of existentialism and post-modern deconstructionism, and non-duality. What he ...
In this extraordinary interview, t.k. talks about the pre-preliminaries of Tantric practice and the way to approach the considerations that are foundational to an esoteric path. He stresses over and over how not contemplating these considerations deeply enough to break thr...
In this extraordinary interview, t.k. answers my questions about alchemy. I've been wanting to do this interview for some time since discovering t.k.'s accomplishment of the alchemical path. If you've ever wondered, as I have, whether it's possible to evolve beyond the hum...
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