Sitting with a Tibetan Monk On The Spiritual Journey

What is it like experiencing the energy of a Tibetan Monk – someone who intentionally works on clearing suffering?

Sitting with a Tibetan Monk – My Experience

I recently had the opportunity to sit with a Tibetan monk, and the experience was both transformational and deeply peaceful.

It was beautiful and a little overwhelming. It was also quietly profound.

If you are consciously walking a spiritual path and ever have the chance to spend time sitting with a Tibetan monk, I would wholeheartedly encourage you to do so.

Lama Tashi Dondup

I attended a weekend workshop in Wichita at Innerworks Holistic Health Center, where Lama Tashi Dondup spoke over two days about the nature of death and dying.

I realize this may not sound like everyone’s ideal weekend activity. As someone who has studied energetics for nearly 16 years, this area is of great interest to me.

Also, I experienced my mother’s passing last year, along with several energetic phenomena surrounding her passing. At this moment, this subject feels especially relevant to my own spiritual journey.

So I chose to spend the weekend sitting with a Tibetan monk.

Innerworks Event Organized by Wichita KTC

The event at Innerworks was organised by Wichita KTC. From their website:

Karma Thegsum Choling (KTC) Wichita was founded in 1996 to create an authentic Tibetan Buddhist practice community in the Wichita area. KTC Wichita provides a place to study and practice the authentic Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.

“Sitting” as Meditation With a Tibetan Monk

Before and after each lecture, we were invited to “sit,” which is a form of meditative practice. Although I meditate regularly, I hadn’t previously experienced Tibetan Buddhist meditation with a Tibetan Monk.

We were free to sit in whatever position felt comfortable and remain present for about thirty minutes at a time. I expected this to feel challenging, but the time passed very quickly.

The lectures themselves were thoughtful and aligned with many of the beliefs and experiences I already hold around death and consciousness—though expressed through a different cultural and spiritual lens.

Sometimes, I felt myself nodding off into sleep because of the deep relaxation that being near this person seemed to bring.

Resource: Tibetan Monk Chants, Meditation Music, Incantations, Buddhist Chants of the Dalai Lama (For Deep Sleep

Tibetan Monks Bring Lightness and Joy Through Presence

What stood out most for me, however, was the lightness of energy and joy that a Tibetan monk brings.

This was particularly noticeable during a prayer or chant Lama Tashi offered toward the end of the workshop.

Lama Tashi is a charming, grounded, and very human presence. He laughs often and carries a lightness that feels completely natural.

Before each lecture, he bowed to his deities (similar, in essence, to asking for divine strength in the Christian tradition), then laughed—because he was bowing to images projected on a screen and his shadow kept getting in the way. We all laughed with him.

I have since had the opportunity to sit with another Tibetan Monk, and also had the experience of spontaneously nodding off. I’ve also talked to people who sit in front of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and they report the same.

The Power of Chant and Presence

The chants offered by Tibetan lamas carry hundreds of years of tradition. Even though I didn’t understand the words, they felt powerful—almost as if they were encoded with energy and intention beyond language.

During the prayer, I felt, saw, and sensed experiences that stayed with me long after the workshop ended. Since then, I’ve felt subtly but noticeably uplifted and changed in several ways.

Sitting with a Tibetan monk reminded me that profound spiritual experiences don’t always arrive with force or drama.

Sometimes they arrive quietly, through presence, tradition, and the simple act of sitting.

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