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- Thu Mar 07, 2013 4:52 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Are Dzogchen and Terma exclusively Nyingma?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4719
Re: Tulpas
we "Nyingmapas" understand full well that termas and Dzogchen can only be said to belong to those from whom their transmission originally flowed and those who've received their transmission.. but certainly not to some school. schools can be distinguished by for instance the object of guru...
- Thu Mar 07, 2013 5:00 am
- Forum: Nyingma
- Topic: Contemporary tertons of Eastern Tibet
- Replies: 116
- Views: 32012
Re: Contemporary tertons of Eastern Tibet
Only you know the answer to this question... untrue if it is any consolation I am sure that most, if not all, of the members periodically ask themselves the same thing. wakening, benefits from dharma study dharma study, benefits from informed guidance informed guidance, can appear with peer discuss...
- Wed Mar 06, 2013 6:59 pm
- Forum: Nyingma
- Topic: Contemporary tertons of Eastern Tibet
- Replies: 116
- Views: 32012
Re: Contemporary tertons of Eastern Tibet
why waste time on an internet forumNamgyal wrote:immediately pressed his palms together in the gesture of supplication and begged for the power and realization of every quality of perfect insight.'
- Tue Mar 05, 2013 6:38 am
- Forum: Nyingma
- Topic: Contemporary tertons of Eastern Tibet
- Replies: 116
- Views: 32012
Re: Contemporary tertons of Eastern Tibet
Careful with the definition of bodhisattvas. In the Vajrayana view, they are already realized beings who are irreversibly on the path to buddhahood. 8th bhumi Still, according to your view, if you can accumulate good merit without being a buddhist, you can eventually reach buddhahood "by chanc...
- Tue Feb 26, 2013 6:13 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Public Relations for Buddhist Masters?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3101
Re: Public Relations for Buddhist Masters?
we have to wonder how it has come to pass that the remote and esoteric traditions of Buddhist tantra have become the perfect expression of the logic of Adam Smith? buddha-dharma has repeatedly flourished under the patronage of elites in this time merchants are the elites setting the broader agenda ...
- Tue Feb 26, 2013 4:57 am
- Forum: Nyingma
- Topic: Contemporary tertons of Eastern Tibet
- Replies: 116
- Views: 32012
Re: Contemporary tertons of Eastern Tibet
The only requirement is that they hear the teachings of a buddha in one life. Since there will be no buddha in the kalpa he is reborn, he will not be a buddhist to the extent that bodhicitta generated with the hearing is thrown and received consistently, shaped by a buddhist view, that sattva is a ...
- Sun Feb 24, 2013 8:36 pm
- Forum: Nyingma
- Topic: Contemporary tertons of Eastern Tibet
- Replies: 116
- Views: 32012
Re: Contemporary tertons of Eastern Tibet
According to the Madhyamika, it is possible to achieve liberation without buddhism. Pratyekabuddhas actually manage it in a kalpa where no buddha has been born. They are not full buddhas, though, as they do have relatively limited compassion and are not omniscient. not completely accurate http://ww...
- Sat Feb 23, 2013 9:05 pm
- Forum: Nyingma
- Topic: Contemporary tertons of Eastern Tibet
- Replies: 116
- Views: 32012
Re: Contemporary tertons of Eastern Tibet
if you have a buddhist view and methods, you can wake up if you do not have a buddhist view and method, you can not wake up it does not matter what title you give this view, its methods, or wakefulness vajrayana buddhist views and methods require a valid unbroken lineage of transmission a teacher wh...
- Sat Feb 23, 2013 5:40 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: A & Thigle in Dzogchen
- Replies: 32
- Views: 13176
Re: A & Thigle in Dzogchen
shhhhhhhhhhhhhIsh wrote:Hahahah. The ogre and monkey interrupting the zhine is a BLESSING not a curse!!
rgyal.ba dgongs brgyud secrets of the rdo.rje 'dzin cannot be revealed before unprepared persons
such information might be hazardous to their spiritual health
- Fri Feb 22, 2013 5:56 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Rainbow body
- Replies: 53
- Views: 14388
Re: Rainbow body
What happens to the rainbow body if it is not actively maintained? Is it something that can be lost? when you wake up, your body of results, your fabricated physicality, remains and continues until the breakdown of its constituent parts. when via method the body of results reverts to the five color...
Re: Search.
Thank you all for the comments.I now feel the need to communicate with someone who could teach me. Community that exists in Ukraine intuitively I do not like. I would like a personal communication and training. But rather it is a lot of things, because today any Buddhism - a wide market that does n...
Re: Illusion
any particular thingkalden yungdrung wrote:So it is very interesting to know your suggestions what would be illusion for you.
- Fri Feb 22, 2013 3:30 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: A & Thigle in Dzogchen
- Replies: 32
- Views: 13176
Re: A & Thigle in Dzogchen
With regards to the visualization of the white A in the rainbow thigle, Can one use the short A stroke (used in Tummo) instead of the full Tibetan A? From the perspective of Chogyal Namkhai Norbu's Guru Yoga. Thanks it is said, however, that if you perform a dzogchen guru yoga incorrectly even once...
- Tue Sep 11, 2012 4:20 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Direct Teaching
- Replies: 84
- Views: 16204
Re: Direct Teaching
Because doubt is coming over and over again. method is not the result of doubt, method is the result of view View is always doubt based, as there is nothing solid to build it upon. solidity does not prevent doubt, view is based on this with that, and on this then that In other words, no view will g...
- Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:35 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Direct Teaching
- Replies: 84
- Views: 16204
Re: Direct Teaching
naked wakefulness is not dependent on the activity of gamma-aminobutyric acid
- Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:10 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Direct Teaching
- Replies: 84
- Views: 16204
Re: Direct Teaching
This.oushi wrote:So, what is existence?
Suffering of ignorance.Why then say "you"?
- Mon Sep 10, 2012 8:39 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Direct Teaching
- Replies: 84
- Views: 16204
Re: Direct Teaching
If nothing exist, nonexistence is nonsense. Your statement contradicts itself. I have proposed neither existence nor non-existence, there has not been some thing to contradict. Everything is awake. Suffering appears. Start talking. I am not Samantabhadra any more or less than you are. Samantabhadra...
- Mon Sep 10, 2012 8:12 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Direct Teaching
- Replies: 84
- Views: 16204
Re: Direct Teaching
And who is he? What is he? Where is he now? http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an04/an04.036.than.html Awake. Gone-thus. If you can find one thing that would exist without him existing, there is duality. Not even tathata exists. For Samantabhadra, wakefulness. For Vajrasattva, Vajrasattva. ...
- Mon Sep 10, 2012 7:45 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Buddha nature misunderstood as atman.
- Replies: 50
- Views: 17411
Re: Buddha nature misunderstood as atman.
Concepts shape the views from which traditions extract appropriate methods, which seem to produce results. And what doesn't produce results? Even dog shit produces results, so your statement is meaningless. When suffering has ended, no more results are obtained. Which concepts is absolutely solid, ...
- Mon Sep 10, 2012 7:28 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Direct Teaching
- Replies: 84
- Views: 16204
Re: Direct Teaching
Samantabhadra woke up. Samantabhadra waking up did not wake you up.oushi wrote:"He" is always in play, nonjudgmental, like water flowing down the hills.