Igor Berkhin. Buddhist and Dzogchen perspective on extraordinary states of consciousness.
Channel: Igor Berkhin
Date: 2013-02-14

An interview on extraordinary states of consciousness given to Vladimir Maykov for the forthcoming European Conference on Transpersonal Psychology. July 2011.

Note. When I'm talking about causes for knowledge and good luck it doesn't mean that we encounter the teaching without a cause (that would be a view called murtugpa in Tibetan). "Good luck" refers to our fortune to have connection with somebody who has knowledge. And this connection becomes a cause for meeting the teaching. And there are different ways how such connection can be created. If I'm an insect and somebody just by chance steps on me and kills me, ordinarily we would say that it is a result of my bad karma. But if the one who steps on me is on a sprirtual path and this is the first time I meet something like that then I can say that I was very lucky to be killed this way.:-))))