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by kirtu
Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:18 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Hawai‘i’s Japanese Buddhist Temples Are Struggling to Keep Ancient Traditions Alive
Replies: 15
Views: 1238

Re: Hawai‘i’s Japanese Buddhist Temples Are Struggling to Keep Ancient Traditions Alive

Scott - this is Queequeg Since the official recognition of Buddhism in the 6th c. until the post WWII Constitution, Buddhism had a legal status as part of the state. Much of the history of Japanese Buddhism has been about recognition of various lineages by the state and the tension between state and...
by kirtu
Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:20 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Do you get rid of suffering for good with Dzogchen ?
Replies: 6
Views: 316

Re: Do you get rid of suffering for good with Dzogchen ?

This is not really a Dzogchen question per se. I have a question. In the Dzogchen model, at what point or stage does suffering totally disappears ... When one attains Buddhahood However you radically restrict the scope of suffering: ... or greatly reduce with no possibility of regression even if one...
by kirtu
Sun Mar 17, 2024 6:19 pm
Forum: Engaged Buddhism
Topic: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
Replies: 68
Views: 2501

Re: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?

BUDDHISM AND ANARCHISM – REFLECTIONS ON THE ECO-ANARCHISM OF GARY SNYDER , Brian Morris, 2020-11-10 Again, not a recommendation or even a comment as I have not read completely through the article, but a possible discussion point. There is no simple or direct relationship, as I have long emphasized,...
by kirtu
Sun Mar 17, 2024 6:12 pm
Forum: Engaged Buddhism
Topic: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
Replies: 68
Views: 2501

Re: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?

Navigating Extinction: Zen Buddhism and Eco-Anarchism , Kevin J. Holohan I'm not recommending this article, I haven't read through it yet, but am posting it as a possible discussion point. Abstract What can esoteric knowledge and spiritual practices from the East teach us about the deep psychologic...
by kirtu
Sun Mar 17, 2024 5:45 pm
Forum: Asia/Pacific
Topic: HH Drikung Kyabgon Eight Places Pilgrimage
Replies: 0
Views: 84

HH Drikung Kyabgon Eight Places Pilgrimage

HH Drikung Kyabgon Eight Places Pilgrimage Feb 2025
HH Drikung Kyabgon Eight Places Pilgrimage Feb 2025
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by kirtu
Sun Mar 17, 2024 4:41 pm
Forum: North America (USA & Canada)
Topic: Vajrakilaya Empowerment And Teachings, Walden, NY June 25 - July 4 2024
Replies: 0
Views: 91

Vajrakilaya Empowerment And Teachings, Walden, NY June 25 - July 4 2024

Vajrakilaya Empowerment And Teachings Program At Tsechen Kunchab Ling , Walden, NY, June 25- July 4 2024 Khenpo Kalsang Gyaltsen is delighted to announce that His Holiness the Sakya Trichen has consented to bestow a ten-day series of very important Dharma teachings, including the Vajrakilaya empowe...
by kirtu
Sun Mar 17, 2024 4:14 pm
Forum: Sūtra Studies
Topic: 84000.co Siṃha’s Questions
Replies: 0
Views: 73

84000.co Siṃha’s Questions

Siṃha’s Questions , Siṃha­pari­pṛcchā, སེང་གེས་ཞུས་པ། , seng ges zhus pa 1.­1 Homage to all buddhas and bodhisattvas! Thus did I hear at one time. The Blessed One was dwelling in Rājagṛha on Vulture Peak, together with a great saṅgha of 1,250 monks and a great saṅgha of bodhisattvas.8 1.­2 Knowing ...
by kirtu
Sun Mar 17, 2024 4:00 pm
Forum: Sūtra Studies
Topic: 84000.co The Chapter Teaching the Purification of Boundless Gateways
Replies: 0
Views: 28

84000.co The Chapter Teaching the Purification of Boundless Gateways

The Chapter Teaching the Purification of Boundless Gateways , Ananta­mukhapariśo­dhana­nirdeśaparivarta, སྒོ་མཐའ་ཡས་པ་རྣམ་པར་སྦྱོང་བ་བསྟན་པའི་ལེའུ། , sgo mtha’ yas pa rnam par sbyong ba bstan pa’i le’u 1.1 Homage to all buddhas and bodhisattvas. 1.­2 Thus did I hear at one time. The Blessed One was...
by kirtu
Sun Mar 17, 2024 2:44 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Enlightenment
Replies: 33
Views: 6318

Re: Enlightenment

By gathering the collections of merit and wisdom (punya sambhara and jñana sambhara) for innumerable lifetimes and for several or many kalpas (world cycles). This is how you attain enlightenment - however you also purify the mind and purify karma as Shakyamuni Buddha did over three kalpas. So a bri...
by kirtu
Sat Mar 16, 2024 12:54 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Avalokitesvara Boddhisatva mahasatva
Replies: 5
Views: 306

Re: Avalokitesvara Boddhisatva mahasatva

Hi everyone, I would just like to ask if you believe in Avalokitesvara bodisattva ... but I never got help from him. How do you know? Because things didn't go your way? Well, there is karma and it can't be reasoned with or begged or whatever. It can however be purified and accumulated ("good&q...
by kirtu
Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:41 pm
Forum: Media
Topic: Music time
Replies: 5271
Views: 879550

Re: Music time

by kirtu
Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:54 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
Replies: 126
Views: 5585

Re: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching

Regarding pilgrimage, it largely depends on individuals I guess. On one side of the spectrum, there are individuals who argue that since according to higher teaching like anuyoga and hyt, taught that all biological equivalences of the holy sities are constantly present in our vajra body, why is eve...
by kirtu
Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:45 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: My last will and testament
Replies: 16
Views: 612

Re: My last will and testament

Yep, time to rewrite it. The actuarial tables give me an expectancy of 12 more years. So you never know of course but you probably have a good deal more time, although Yama always appears unexpectedly. Now my wife is not a Buddhist, but is very sympathetic, and I trust her to deal with my dharma st...
by kirtu
Wed Mar 13, 2024 12:20 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Is it ok to practice Vajrasattva mantra meditation without oral transmission
Replies: 26
Views: 1279

Re: Is it ok to practice Vajrasattva mantra meditation without oral transmission

It would be better to purify strictly using. TB sutric method for now like practicing the Thirty-Five Confession Buddhas. On Lama Yeshe's website, he advises, before doing the Thirty-Five Confession Buddhas, to recite this mantra and do prostrations (prostrations I don't really know how to do yet) ...
by kirtu
Sat Mar 09, 2024 2:38 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Is life a illusion?
Replies: 22
Views: 757

Re: Is life a illusion?

No. He says its a dream, an illusion, a mirage. A long time ago my first question to my main Zen teacher concerned this exact quote: "Is life a dream." Daido Roshi responded with "No, life is like a dream" and then expanded upon this with what was in effect a concise teaching on...
by kirtu
Sat Mar 09, 2024 1:22 am
Forum: Mahamudra
Topic: Machig Labdron Wisdom from an Old Lady
Replies: 10
Views: 6558

Re: Machig Labdron Wisdom from an Old Lady

This is wonderful! It seems to be a condensed version of Machig's Last Instructions. As it happens, I was just reading that text earlier today in the Jérôme Edou book Machig Labdrön and the Foundations of Chöd . Yes, that is correct although I have no idea where I got a condensed version from. For ...
by kirtu
Sat Mar 09, 2024 1:18 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Is life a illusion?
Replies: 22
Views: 757

Re: Is life a illusion?

This is a classic misunderstanding. Stick your hand into a fire and you will find out that there is a big difference between an intellectual grasp of the concept of non-substantiality and the reality you experience. Anyway, Buddhism has never said that life IS an illusion (compared to what?), but r...
by kirtu
Sat Mar 09, 2024 1:08 am
Forum: Engaged Buddhism
Topic: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
Replies: 68
Views: 2501

Re: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?

You (all) might like to think about where anyone in Central or South America could go to get away from starvation, death squads, etc. Starvation in Central and South America: The UN claims that approx. 1/3rd of the population suffers from food insecurity. ~43.2 M people suffer from hunger (much of ...
by kirtu
Sat Mar 09, 2024 12:12 am
Forum: Engaged Buddhism
Topic: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
Replies: 68
Views: 2501

Re: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?

You (all) might like to think about where anyone in Central or South America could go to get away from starvation, death squads, etc. Starvation and death squads are much less common in Central or South America than they were in the 80's and before. I don't have immediate statistics but for example...
by kirtu
Fri Mar 08, 2024 11:11 pm
Forum: Engaged Buddhism
Topic: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
Replies: 68
Views: 2501

Re: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?

Maybe Buddhists should warn the millions of people risking everything trying to move here (to the United States) before it’s too late. Because their own homelands have been plundered, exploited and destabilized to the point of utter squalor by the US-centralized empire? Ah yes, that certainly speak...

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