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- Sat May 31, 2014 7:03 pm
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Am awareness itself meditation
- Replies: 55
- Views: 11605
Re: Am awareness itself meditation
I have to agree with Greg on this one (regarding the OP, not Oushi). What the OP suggests really makes little sense, at least regarding the description given by Longchenpa. These vivid descriptions of the Dzogchen view are nice to read, but really have little value unless one has received pointing-o...
- Sat May 31, 2014 2:08 pm
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Am awareness itself meditation
- Replies: 55
- Views: 11605
Re: Am awareness itself meditation
What Longchenpa is describing can never be an object of observation.
- Sat May 10, 2014 11:54 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: White Ah and Thigle
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7095
Re: White Ah and Thigle
My guess would be that the meaning of the symbol would have little effect on the function of the practice because the state of instant presence does not merely represent the teacher, but is the actual union with the teacher. The ability to recognize that state rests on the transmission and the intro...
- Sat May 10, 2014 11:16 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: White Ah and Thigle
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7095
Re: White Ah and Thigle
Hi Mike, Welcome to the party! The white A and thigle is not an object of meditation used to hold your attention. It is a symbol, symbolizing your primordial nature (sound, light and rays specifically). At this point it would be best for you to view it as the essence of all of your teachers and the ...
- Thu Jun 13, 2013 7:02 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: newbie trying to understand the nature of transmission
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6129
Re: newbie trying to understand the nature of transmission
Sorry, something weird just happened. The important thing is to work with the transmissions that you have received. Any practice that you have received a lung for will work for you because you have received that transmission. The transmission is connected not only to the realization of the teacher b...
- Thu Jun 13, 2013 6:53 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: newbie trying to understand the nature of transmission
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6129
Re: newbie trying to understand the nature of transmission
It really depends on what type of practice you are doing. Some practices require only a lung (reading transmission), other practices require empowerment, lung, and the liberating instructions. Most of the practices that ChNN gives are connected with his main transmission of direct introduction. Afte...
- Wed Jun 12, 2013 5:28 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Dealing With Desire
- Replies: 302
- Views: 48118
Re: Dealing With Desire
Well said, Greg.
- Tue Jun 11, 2013 4:46 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: self-generation as stand alone shamatha practice
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3414
Re: self-generation as stand alone shamatha practice
I think it may be a good idea to do this to when you are learning a sadhana. Meditation is familiarization, right? So it would be good practice to get familiar with the visualization. As long as you don't ignore the other aspects of the sadhana and just focus on shamatha using the deity as an object...
- Mon Jun 10, 2013 5:14 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: self-generation as stand alone shamatha practice
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3414
Re: self-generation as stand alone shamatha practice
Are you asking about using self-generation of the deity as an object of shamata, or are you talking about using self-generation in post-meditation? I would have to agree with Cone, that self-generation and shamata go together. You need stable shamata to be effective at self-generation, while at the ...
- Fri Jun 07, 2013 3:51 am
- Forum: Nyingma
- Topic: Most recent terma?
- Replies: 75
- Views: 18417
Re: Most recent terma?
What about Kunzang Dechen Lingpa?
- Wed Jun 05, 2013 9:23 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Let's Send Greg To His Retreat This Year
- Replies: 53
- Views: 14448
Re: Let's Send Greg To His Retreat This Year
I'm in. I don't have much to offer, but I will give what I can.
- Fri May 24, 2013 6:08 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Question about "location of mind"
- Replies: 192
- Views: 39756
Re: Question about "location of mind"
You should also aspire to getting a proper introduction from a guru. The kusulu meditation is not a technique, but is more of sustaining the recognition of what was pointed out to you by the master. I am not saying that you can't derive benefit from what you are doing, but this type of thing usually...
- Fri May 17, 2013 9:05 pm
- Forum: Chod
- Topic: Chod empowerments
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6948
Re: Chod empowerments
Yes, this was Nuden Dorje's Rainbow Body empowerment.
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- Fri May 17, 2013 7:31 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Do you know who this monk is?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1268
Re: Do you know who this monk is?
That would be the Drikung lama Konchog Gyaltsen Rinpoche.
- Thu May 16, 2013 4:09 pm
- Forum: Chod
- Topic: Chod empowerments
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6948
Chod empowerments
Hello all, I am rather new to chod and recently received a chod empowerment in Vermont with Lamchen Gyalpo Rinpoche. Without going into detail, I will say that this was a very extensive and profound empowerment to a practice that combines the lineages of Machig with the terma revalations of the Drik...
- Thu May 16, 2013 2:54 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Historical reasons for secrecy in Vajrayana?
- Replies: 138
- Views: 28105
Re: Historical reasons for secrecy in Vajrayana?
Deity practice is not a "regional tradition" from Tibet. The Vajrayana originated and flourished in India. It was then lost and preserved in Tibet. Some people seem to think that yidam practice is a mixing of ancient Tibetan shamanism with Buddhism, but with the exception of some local pro...
- Tue May 14, 2013 7:12 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dzogchen, karma and ultimate truth
- Replies: 158
- Views: 29641
Re: Dzogchen, karma and ultimate truth
Well said, sir.
- Tue May 14, 2013 5:28 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dzogchen, karma and ultimate truth
- Replies: 158
- Views: 29641
Re: Dzogchen, karma and ultimate truth
Buddhahood Without Meditation, also known as the Nang-jang is not a restricted text. Anyone can purchase it from Amazon or any other bookstore. Whether this should be restricted is another matter. I did mention the Yeshe Lama which is restricted, but I did not quote from it. I think I did quote from...
- Thu May 09, 2013 6:11 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dzogchen, karma and ultimate truth
- Replies: 158
- Views: 29641
Re: Dzogchen, karma and ultimate truth
He also emphasizes being present, though doesn't he? Being present is working with your circumstances when you are not in the natural state which is paying respect to cause and effect. This is the point that I have been emphasizing, and what all of the quotes that I posted were pointing to. I never ...
- Thu May 09, 2013 2:35 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dzogchen, karma and ultimate truth
- Replies: 158
- Views: 29641
Re: Dzogchen, karma and ultimate truth
Ummm.... Again, I think it was you who was theorizing about the nature of karma and causality. I was just making a point that all of the dzogchen masters, including Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche emphasize how important it is not to overlook your actions and results. If you really think that I must be a low...