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- Wed Apr 10, 2024 5:03 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Vajrayana practice without empowerment
- Replies: 50
- Views: 3292
Re: Vajrayana practice without empowerment
Since you'll probably ask, "but how...?" again, I will leave it to someone else to answer. I am not a scholar on the intricacies of interdependent origination or tendrel, so this is pretty much all I got lol. Maybe Tsele Natsok Rangdrol's text will be helpful. From memory (because I can't...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:14 pm
- Forum: Media
- Topic: Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
- Replies: 0
- Views: 50
Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Crazy Wisdom, the long rumored movie whose existence seemed to be mostly a vapor, although there was always a hint that something was being produced (as tantalizing clips were sometimes viewable), has finally (finally, how long really?) made it's public appearance. On YT in this case. Crazy Wisdom: ...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 8:19 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Vajrayana practice without empowerment
- Replies: 50
- Views: 3292
Re: Vajrayana practice without empowerment
And, in Nyingma and Kagyu, one is routinely allowed to start ngondro accumulations without having received an initiation. I can't speak for other Nyingma (even though I have Nyingma teachers from another lineage) but in Palyul empowerment is required before starting ngondro accumulations. The way t...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 8:15 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Vajrayana practice without empowerment
- Replies: 50
- Views: 3292
Re: Vajrayana practice without empowerment
And, in Nyingma and Kagyu, one is routinely allowed to start ngondro accumulations without having received an initiation. I can't speak for other Nyingma (even though I have Nyingma teachers from another lineage) but in Palyul empowerment is required before starting ngondro accumulations. The way t...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 8:05 am
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: Original source of "So you should view this fleeting world...." (Diamond Sutra Gatha)??
- Replies: 15
- Views: 278
Re: Original source of "So you should view this fleeting world...." (Diamond Sutra Gatha)??
There is a popular English "translation" of the famous four verse Diamond Sutra Gatha that goes like this: "So you should view this fleeting world A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning in a summer cloud A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream." According to...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 7:53 am
- Forum: Media
- Topic: Unveiling Bodhgaya : The Ultimate Destination For Meditation & Reflection
- Replies: 0
- Views: 20
Unveiling Bodhgaya : The Ultimate Destination For Meditation & Reflection
All in Tibetan but the video offers a different perspective on getting around Bodhgaya
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 6:53 am
- Forum: Media
- Topic: Arapachana Manjushri Sculpture Masterworks
- Replies: 0
- Views: 24
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 5:58 am
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: Original source of "So you should view this fleeting world...." (Diamond Sutra Gatha)??
- Replies: 15
- Views: 278
Re: Original source of "So you should view this fleeting world...." (Diamond Sutra Gatha)??
There is a popular English "translation" of the famous four verse Diamond Sutra Gatha that goes like this: "So you should view this fleeting world A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning in a summer cloud A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream." According to...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 4:27 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Vajrayana practice without empowerment
- Replies: 50
- Views: 3292
Re: Vajrayana practice without empowerment
It’s not universal, one public Sakya practices involves self-generation. I’m sure more stringent instructions exist for people without the empowerment in some instances, with some teachers but there is a large public practice involving a liturgy with self-generation. What exactly are you thinking o...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 2:13 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Vajrayana practice without empowerment
- Replies: 50
- Views: 3292
Re: Vajrayana practice without empowerment
It’s not universal, one public Sakya practices involves self-generation. I’m sure more stringent instructions exist for people without the empowerment in some instances, with some teachers but there is a large public practice involving a liturgy with self-generation. What exactly are you thinking o...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 1:46 am
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Don't know mind
- Replies: 15
- Views: 415
Re: Don't know mind
Brad Warner on Seung Sahn Sunim's Don't Know Mind
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 1:42 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Divination for better health
- Replies: 2
- Views: 191
Re: Divination for better health
As far as I can tell this is the only legitimate organization with a legitimate lama associated with them that offer Mo divination online: https://www.ripaladrang.org/donate/divinations/ Mahasiddha.org also offers extensive prayers but no Mo divination as far as I have seen. Having said that, you co...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 9:55 pm
- Forum: Media
- Topic: Music time
- Replies: 5294
- Views: 889044
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 9:16 pm
- Forum: Language
- Topic: Similarities Between Sanskrit and Lithuanian - YouTube
- Replies: 0
- Views: 132
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 3:32 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Vajrayana practice without empowerment
- Replies: 50
- Views: 3292
Re: Vajrayana practice without empowerment
An overview and explanation of TB empowerment from Samye Institute: Empowerment There is no engagement in Vajrayana practice without empowerment. It is true that usually outer Vajrayana practices (Kriya/Upa/Yogatantra) are kind of permitted as long as one doesn't visualize oneself as the deity (one ...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 4:14 am
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Don't know mind
- Replies: 15
- Views: 415
Re: Don't know mind
"Why Has Bodhi Dharma Left for the East", 1989
The non-dialog sections are cogent to the OP's question.
The non-dialog sections are cogent to the OP's question.
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 4:09 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dzogchen Historiography
- Replies: 62
- Views: 3691
Re: Dzogchen Historiography
Mutsuk, if you know Jean-Luc and he has any updated thoughts since his seminal 1999 work on the Śaiva-Dzogchen connections, I'd very much love to hear them! I corresponded with JLA on this last year, and he said that he has not been able to date the Saivite sources he used to suggest a connection w...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 2:09 am
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Modern, advanced books on Zen
- Replies: 46
- Views: 3108
Re: Modern, advanced books on Zen
Tending the Fire: An Introspective Guide to Zen Awakening But it's a non-Zen, Zen book, so maybe it's not apropiate, it's more like a new deep approach to zen, I think it's an interesting read for people who already is clear about Zen, but who knows? The authors were students of Katagiri Roshi. The...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 12:53 am
- Forum: Dharma Events
- Topic: Buddha Day April 8 in Japanese Buddhist Traditions
- Replies: 1
- Views: 173
Re: Buddha Day April 8 in Japanese Buddhist Traditions
This will also be celebrated at some Zen places, including non-Japanese Zen places, around the same time. April 8 has been recognized widely across many traditions as International Buddha Day. It is of course based on the Japanese Buddhist celebration of the Birthday of Shakyamuni Buddha, also known...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 12:48 am
- Forum: Dharma Events
- Topic: Buddha Day April 8 in Japanese Buddhist Traditions
- Replies: 1
- Views: 173
Buddha Day April 8 in Japanese Buddhist Traditions
Honpa Hongwanji Hawaii Aloha kākou! April 8 is Buddha Day, when we commemorate the birth of Siddhartha Gautama in Lumbini Garden. He became the historical Buddha, Sakyamuni, and was the manifestation of Amida, the Buddha of Infinite Wisdom and Compassion. Buddha Day services are held on Sundays near...