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- Mon Sep 24, 2012 11:46 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Is Dzogchen really beyond cause and effect?
- Replies: 114
- Views: 32619
Re: Is Dzogchen really beyond cause and effect?
Samsara is characterized by cause and effect. So living in samsara, how can one rely on the methods that are beyond cause and effect? In Samsara, according to my understand, being practice Dharma, to attain a goal. So the goal and practice are causally related. In what way, then, is Dzogchen, beyond...
- Mon Sep 24, 2012 11:41 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Is Dzogchen really beyond cause and effect?
- Replies: 114
- Views: 32619
Is Dzogchen really beyond cause and effect?
"Guru" and "practice" are causes here, and "self-emergence" is result. :rolling: lol so you think that adding together a guru plus practice produces buddhahood? Because that is the absurd statement your words are conveying here. Maybe you want to rethink this angle... ...
- Mon Sep 24, 2012 11:38 am
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: Hwa Yen Sect of Chinese Buddhism
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2428
Hwa Yen Sect of Chinese Buddhism
Firstly, why is there no separate subforum for the Hwa Yen sect of Chinese Buddhism? As far as I know, it was a historical school which was quite comparable to Pure Land and other sects in popularity. However, I am not sure if it still exists in the Sinosphere and other parts of East Asia. Or probab...
- Mon Sep 24, 2012 8:23 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Yogacara and dzogchen
- Replies: 394
- Views: 73770
Re: Yogacara and dzogchen
"Guru" and "practice" are causes here, and "self-emergence" is result. :rolling: lol so you think that adding together a guru plus practice produces buddhahood? Because that is the absurd statement your words are conveying here. Maybe you want to rethink this angle... ...
- Sat Sep 22, 2012 6:28 pm
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Best meditation for my circumstance? Maybe someone can help?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4683
Re: Best meditation for my circumstance? Maybe someone can help?
Sorry for suggesting a Theravada method in a Mahayana forum, but Metta meditation would not only be easy for you to do but also reap benefits faster. If you shower kindness towards every being that you encounter (human, animal, bird, insect etc) while walking by the street, then your mind will be fi...
- Fri Sep 21, 2012 9:31 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Brahmayana Buddhism?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2294
Re: Brahmayana Buddhism?
Brahmins have the history of plagiarizing on other traditions and philosophies and claiming them to be theirs. Just to give some examples, Shankara learned much of his metaphysics from his Guru, who's own Guru admittedly was influenced by Nagarjuna's works, and at the end it is Shankara who calls Bu...
- Thu Sep 20, 2012 1:25 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Difference between Sutras and Tantras
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6018
Re: Difference between Sutras and Tantras
Here, Malcolm, this is the Translator's not of Vajra-Suchi, that I was referring to, which shows that Brahmins usually were prejudiced heavily against Buddhism. A few days since my learned old Bauddha friend brought me a little tract in Sanscrit, with such an evident air of pride and pleasure, that ...
- Thu Sep 20, 2012 12:22 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Difference between Sutras and Tantras
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6018
Re: Difference between Sutras and Tantras
Malcolm,
Your post shows more similarities between Tantras and Sutras than differences. Why were the Tantras called "Tantras" instead of "Sutras"? Their format is similar to the Sutras and they contain discussions on Dharma, practices, moral discussions etc just as Sutras do.
Your post shows more similarities between Tantras and Sutras than differences. Why were the Tantras called "Tantras" instead of "Sutras"? Their format is similar to the Sutras and they contain discussions on Dharma, practices, moral discussions etc just as Sutras do.
- Thu Sep 20, 2012 12:13 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Difference between Sutras and Tantras
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6018
Re: Difference between Sutras and Tantras
Why were the western academic scholars biased against Hinduism alone, not Buddhism? I will have to search sacred-texts website again, but I read in the preface of a translation that the English scholar had done the translation while seeking help of a Pandit from Benaras, the sacred city of the Hindu...
- Mon Sep 17, 2012 8:15 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Difference between Sutras and Tantras
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6018
Difference between Sutras and Tantras
I am familiar with Sutras (and Suttas), but not much with the Tantras. In what way are both different from each other? 1. Are Tantras exclusively like training manuals of various Yogic and ritual practices unlike Sutras which contain both practices as well as metaphysical, moral and general discussi...
- Mon Sep 10, 2012 12:15 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Yogacara and dzogchen
- Replies: 394
- Views: 73770
Re: Yogacara and dzogchen
Emptiness used in Madyamika is different than used in Dzogchen. Only the conceptualization or expression of it based on concepts and words is different. I am afraid, the emptiness is same for both. Emptiness is not mere a negation of something Nor is it in Madhyamika. Please update yourself about B...
- Sun Sep 09, 2012 6:58 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Yogacara and dzogchen
- Replies: 394
- Views: 73770
Re: Yogacara and dzogchen
... point of view, or tawa, is developed by looking at an object. You consider that this is good, that is bad, judging as though you were looking at an object. Your senses are pointed at an object, and you do an analysis and form a judgment. In that way, maybe, you can develop some type of intellec...
- Sun Sep 09, 2012 6:38 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: How can substances alter consciousness?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2574
How can substances alter consciousness?
As far as I know, consciousness is beyond form and substance according to Buddhism. It is like space. And just how if you punch in the air (space) you are not going to affect space or its properties in anyway, shouldn't any material thing also have no affect on consciousness (or mind)? Then why does...
- Thu Sep 06, 2012 7:58 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Yogacara and dzogchen
- Replies: 394
- Views: 73770
Re: Yogacara and dzogchen
Both here (page 2 of this thread), and elsewhere you have claimed that "skillful means" are somehow inferior to "definitve meaning". Isn't it the Dzogchenpa who claim their path to be beyond cause and effect? Skillful means for what in that case? Your vehicle is beyond concepts,...
- Thu Sep 06, 2012 7:41 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Yogacara and dzogchen
- Replies: 394
- Views: 73770
Re: Yogacara and dzogchen
It seems Dzogchenpa's take pride in their vehicle being 'beyond concepts' which is good. But tell me, is Buddhahood a concept even in Hinayana? Leave aside, Buddhahood, do you have conceptualization in the fourth Jhana or beyond? 1. You have a Dzogchenpa who was directly introduced (in a blink of an...
- Wed Sep 05, 2012 6:57 am
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: Hsuan Hua on Homosexuality
- Replies: 119
- Views: 38101
Re: Hsuan Hua on Homosexuality
I would like to add that just because something is a norm doesn't mean it is right (in the sense of Buddhism, as not being unwholesome karma). For example, it is normal to drink human blood among some African tribes, but it is certainly not a wholesome karma. Similarly, it is normal to stone a woman...
- Wed Sep 05, 2012 6:27 am
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: Hsuan Hua on Homosexuality
- Replies: 119
- Views: 38101
Re: Hsuan Hua on Homosexuality
This is true. Nowadays people put their own cravings and own interpretation of the 'dharma' before anything else. You all pick and choose what you want to hear. When you hear something that is harsh and bitter you immediately throw it away, and you chase after the things that satisfies your own sel...
- Sat Sep 01, 2012 6:48 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Why Spiritual Countries have more Suffering/Demons?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3202
Re: Why Spiritual Countries have more Suffering/Demons?
Despite being myself from India, my opinion for the origination of Buddhism in India, of all places, is because of the geography. India is a place which is basically at the center of Asia, with moderate temperature, neither too cold like Europe, nor too hot like African and middle-Eastern countries,...
- Fri Aug 31, 2012 7:51 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Samantabhadra - Bodhisattva or Buddha or AdiBuddha?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2492
Re: Samantabhadra - Bodhisattva or Buddha or AdiBuddha?
AFAIK Bodhisattva Samantabhadra is quite different from Adibuddha Samantabhadra. They are both two different entities. FWIW the Sanskrit dictionary Amarakosha lists the term "Samantrabhadra" as an epithet of Buddha. So as much it can be used to refer any Buddha (in principle) V :good: It ...
- Fri Aug 31, 2012 7:49 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Four Stations of mindfulness
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1258
Re: Four Stations of mindfulness
In the Sutras (and Suttas) it is said that practicing Four Stations of mindfulness will definitely lead to enlightenment and that all the Buddhas of the ten directions have taught the same. So can practicing Four stations of mindfulness be the cause of Samyuksambodhi? I personally believe that this ...