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- Tue Feb 03, 2015 9:17 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Understanding of karma
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7864
Re: Understanding of karma
Part of the problem with the teaching of karma in the west is that is has been subtly linked with reward and punishment. Inevitable given the wests connection to judeo/christian thought. However, I try to look at it and explain it to others as being not really any different than say, the law of gra...
- Tue Feb 03, 2015 8:30 am
- Forum: Media
- Topic: Music time
- Replies: 5282
- Views: 884018
Re: Music time
I don't have Facebook, but from what I remember, Dave Mustaine of Megadeath is a Born Again Christian and after checking wikipedia, he was born a Jehovah's Witness.odysseus wrote:Hi, I believe Megadeth are some kind of Buddhists. *dead cool*
https://www.facebook.com/aigurung/posts ... 5673715520
- Sat Jan 10, 2015 7:15 am
- Forum: Media
- Topic: Music time
- Replies: 5282
- Views: 884018
- Sat Jan 10, 2015 6:12 am
- Forum: Media
- Topic: Music time
- Replies: 5282
- Views: 884018
Re: Music time
on a completely different note…
for the matriarchs out there/on here ha1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM0XDSkFLYg
for the matriarchs out there/on here ha1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM0XDSkFLYg
- Sat Jan 10, 2015 5:40 am
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: just sayin' hi, from N. Ontario
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2240
Re: just sayin' hi, from N. Ontario
just thought i'd say hi again.
been away for what looks like 2 years now. Finally got a hard copy of the wei shi lun by wei tat and doing other things in life.
been away for what looks like 2 years now. Finally got a hard copy of the wei shi lun by wei tat and doing other things in life.
- Sat Jan 10, 2015 4:38 am
- Forum: Media
- Topic: Music time
- Replies: 5282
- Views: 884018
Re: Music time
The video function is alright again, but since I have many songs I'll post them the old-fashioned way. :tongue: There is a small town in northern Germany called "Leer" which is "empty" in English. They can be happy there: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0kHa39dWN4 Youtube is ful...
- Wed Jan 07, 2015 6:51 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Is Dzogchen only accidentally Buddhist?
- Replies: 166
- Views: 36052
Re: Is Dzogchen only accidentally Buddhist?
accident buddha?
dzogcen is only being
the yogis prove it!
- Fri Sep 28, 2012 5:22 am
- Forum: Media
- Topic: Music time
- Replies: 5282
- Views: 884018
Re: Music time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gZ1U56-uDg why do i post these? i don't know, but i must admit that i was saddened that Oasis was unable to perform in China after BJork's performance. i could provide links about how the destruction of the environment has created such animosity regarding political s...
- Fri Sep 28, 2012 2:22 am
- Forum: Media
- Topic: Music time
- Replies: 5282
- Views: 884018
Re: Music time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aas1sQLJL8A
"my karma just ran over your dogma, i can feel your pain." david lee roth
"my karma just ran over your dogma, i can feel your pain." david lee roth
- Thu Sep 27, 2012 9:11 pm
- Forum: Media
- Topic: Music time
- Replies: 5282
- Views: 884018
Re: Music time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HHQ11HOZwM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSHo6TjL1J8&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPbZEEZme6Y hopes and wishes for Eddy Van Halen p.s. sorry i don't know how to post the actual vid, i'm on dial up, and can't stand the wait for the image/link to...
- Thu Sep 27, 2012 6:49 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Yogacara and dzogchen
- Replies: 394
- Views: 74175
Re: Yogacara and dzogchen
The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism: It's Fundamentals and History by Dudjom Rinpoche & Jikdrel Yeshe Dorje Chapter 8 The Superiority of Atiyoga, the Great Perfection Thirdly, [following Mahayoga and Anuyoga,] there is the explanation of the definitive order of Atiyoga, the Great Perfection, ...
- Wed Sep 26, 2012 8:59 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Yogacara and dzogchen
- Replies: 394
- Views: 74175
Re: Yogacara and dzogchen
funny you mention that, in some ways, this does seem like a tortoise and hare debate about where or more appropriately, what, the end is, and who'll get there first!byamspa wrote:Energizer bunny thread...it keeps going and going and going....
- Fri Sep 21, 2012 8:09 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Six Types Of Mindfulness in Dzogchen?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5121
Re: Six Types Of Mindfulness in Dzogchen?
http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Sixteen_bhumis" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Sixteen bhumis (Wyl. sa bcu drug) — Perfect Joy (Skt. pramuditābhūmi; Tib. rabtu gawa; Wyl. rab tu dga’ ba) Immaculate / Stainless (Skt. vimalābhūmi; Tib. drima mepa; Wyl. dri ma med pa)...
- Wed Sep 19, 2012 6:04 pm
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: Record of Pointing at the Moon
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1631
Re: Record of Pointing at the Moon
Hi, I probably went looking for them once, and didn't have any luck. There may be store in taiwan or hong kong though, that have chinese versions. I have spent some time over the last 15 years trying to collect english translations of the book Master Nan mentions in Working Towards Enlightenment, as...
- Wed Sep 19, 2012 4:10 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Yogacara and dzogchen
- Replies: 394
- Views: 74175
Re: Yogacara and dzogchen
From CH'ENG WEI-SHIH LUN The Doctrine of Mere-Consciousness By Hsuan Tsang translated by Wei Tat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheng_Weishi_Lun" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; (pdf link at the bottom of the page) page 671, The Two Barriers 1. Avaranas The barrier of vexing pa...
- Sat Jun 09, 2012 7:52 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Institutional Buddhism
- Replies: 650
- Views: 100193
Re: Institutional Buddhism
asunthatneversets wrote:All concepts are linear.uan wrote:
really? very linear concept. I guess we only have this one life then the flame goes out forever.
concepts are of mind,
as we move through precious time.
what's back there, is fine.
breath well.
- Tue Jun 05, 2012 11:29 pm
- Forum: Sūtra Studies
- Topic: Avatamsaka Sutra
- Replies: 152
- Views: 63855
Re: Avatamsaka Sutra
http://www.4shared.com/office/s4vxWvxr/the_flower_ornament_sutra_tran.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; stumbled on it the other day, after noticing a few links in the thread were dead. it's nice to find since i bought Cleary's Vol. 1 a couple years ago and haven't yet re...
- Sat Jun 02, 2012 7:42 pm
- Forum: Sūtra Studies
- Topic: A Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra translation project?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13395
Re: A Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra translation project?
How different is this from Buddhist Phenomenology: A Philosophical Investigation of Yogacara Buddhism and the Ch'eng Wei-shih Lun (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism) [Paperback] by Dan Lusthaus? That had 5 translations of each verse with background. :thanks: it does look similar, the main diff...
- Sat Jun 02, 2012 5:50 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dzogchen and the Two Stages
- Replies: 101
- Views: 24338
Re: Dzogchen and the Two Stages
Accumulating merit or using conceptual methods is like making a candle, while the Dzogchen pointing-out instruction is like lighting the candle. You must have both - the candle and a match - to illuminate the darkness. With inadequate merit, you can pehraps recognize mind essence, but the recogniti...
- Fri Jun 01, 2012 7:12 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dzogchen, Buddhism and culture
- Replies: 46
- Views: 12289
Re: Institutional Buddhism
ChNNR said today using other cultures/religions as secondary support material is OK but not as the main (dominant) point of view and that mixing up things into a(n ecclectic) mix is like the famous "Milanese Soup" where you throw in whatever ideology into the pot which he said is not his ...