You’re Not That Sort of Person: New Podcast Episode with Charles Hastings

The KVP podcast “And then..?” continues with Charles Hastings, a senior editor at Khyentse Vision Project since 2021, who completed two traditional three-year retreats under the guidance of some of the greatest Tibetan masters of our time. In this clip, Charles recalls meeting his root guru, Kyabje Kangyur Rinpoche, who from that moment on always teasingly called him “Dzogchenpa.”

The full episode follows Charles from an overland journey to Kathmandu in 1968, when he meditated for the first time on a rock at the Turkey-Iran border, to his years in India and the long years of ordinary work and family life that followed. Charles also explains why there is “no free lunch” once you meet the right teacher.