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- Fri Mar 29, 2024 12:18 am
- Forum: Suggestion Box
- Topic: Moderation, bias, etc.
- Replies: 19
- Views: 158
Re: Why are DharmaWheel and DhammaWheel separated?
It’s really best to deal with complaints like this individually and directly. We do, in fact, listen to criticism and debate how to approach things as a team. The perception above is based in spectacle though, and exclusively through the lens of a certain perspective - a right wing one, with some s...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:47 pm
- Forum: Suggestion Box
- Topic: Moderation, bias, etc.
- Replies: 19
- Views: 158
Re: Why are DharmaWheel and DhammaWheel separated?
Moderators and moderation aren't perfect, Sure, and that's not what most of us are asking here, rather leaving their political proliferations and priviledged statements at home would certainly make things less heated sometimes. Those “buddhists” who post to ridiculize other people's political belie...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:49 pm
- Forum: Suggestion Box
- Topic: Why are DharmaWheel and DhammaWheel separated?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 463
Re: Why are DharmaWheel and DhammaWheel separated?
I understand that one is for Theravada and the other one is for Mahayana (including Vajrayana), that is clear to me. But why not have them as part of one forum, just separated into the sub-forums like here is done with Mahayana, East-asian buddhism, etc? Is it because some people from these 2 group...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 10:58 pm
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Wall Gazing
- Replies: 52
- Views: 25210
Re: Wall Gazing
The purpose of this kind of meditation is look directly and nakedly, the wall is just an object used. There are lots of other things that can happen, that is exactly why it's best to have a consistent teaching, meditation, and system with common vocabulary, progression - a map, basically. Trying to ...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:05 pm
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Wall Gazing
- Replies: 52
- Views: 25210
Re: Wall Gazing
You should seek out a teacher, lineage, etc. just randomly messing around with meditation techniques probably is not the best idea. Of course there are various books on Zen/Chan you could read. Getting to this point in meditation- where you struggle to find vocabulary for experiences, etc. - is the...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 6:40 pm
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Wall Gazing
- Replies: 52
- Views: 25210
Re: Wall Gazing
There are experiences resembling “hallucinations” one can have in deep meditation. Generally the advice is to let them be. They are not a sought after thing, but often a sign of sorts about what is needed. However, this is one reason among many to seek out and develop a relationship of trust with a...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:57 pm
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Wall Gazing
- Replies: 52
- Views: 25210
Re: Wall Gazing
Hello! I bring forth this old discussion! For years, I've been practicing a meditation where I stare at the wall, but only today have I learned of this practice of "wall gazing". I don't know if what I'm doing qualifies as "wall gazing", but I'm also unsure of how to describe wh...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:17 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: POLL: What type of mango-practitioner are you (as per "Letter to a friend" verse 20)?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 1132
Re: POLL: What type of mango-practitioner are you (as per "Letter to a friend" verse 20)?
It is not possible to judge others' minds, fully agree. Which is what Nagarjuna alludes to when saying that practitioners may look ripe but be unripe, or be unripe but look ripe, etc. You never know since you cannot see / perceive what is inside others' minds. It is however possible to judge onesel...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:26 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: POLL: What type of mango-practitioner are you (as per "Letter to a friend" verse 20)?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 1132
Re: POLL: What type of mango-practitioner are you (as per "Letter to a friend" verse 20)?
Thank you, those are very wise and good points. How Khandro Rinpoche defined these categories (which I did not include because then not many people could vote) was: - Some appear ripe but are unripe -> One is supposedly doing everything that is good, seemingly ripe – shaved head, robes, prostrating...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 5:05 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: POLL: What type of mango-practitioner are you (as per "Letter to a friend" verse 20)?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 1132
Re: POLL: What type of mango-practitioner are you (as per "Letter to a friend" verse 20)?
"Ripe" does not mean ethically unblemished nor particularly wise, it means the mindstream is conditioned and focused well enough through ethics and cognitive changes to progress with meditative practice and is sufficiently unburdened with worldly goals. It's similar to just being a "...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:00 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: POLL: What type of mango-practitioner are you (as per "Letter to a friend" verse 20)?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 1132
Re: POLL: What type of mango-practitioner are you (as per "Letter to a friend" verse 20)?
"Ripe" does not mean ethically unblemished nor particularly wise, it means the mindstream is conditioned and focused well enough through ethics and cognitive changes to progress with meditative practice and is sufficiently unburdened with worldly goals. It's similar to just being a "h...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:38 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Favourite Professional Sports
- Replies: 24
- Views: 636
Re: Favourite Professional Sports
I don’t watch team or ball sports, I’ll generally watch martial arts competitions, I particularly like to watch Judo.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 6:58 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Was karmamudra part of ganachakra in the ancient India?
- Replies: 147
- Views: 5108
Re: Was karmamudra part of ganachakra in the ancient India?
I can't imagine how mutually enjoying prolonged sexual union with another person could possibly be misuse of the Teachings when two consenting adults are involved. Not necessarily misuse but activities that generate strong attachment are, to say the least, somewhat antithetical to the goal of liber...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 3:11 am
- Forum: Bön
- Topic: Tapihritsa Guruyoga
- Replies: 6
- Views: 308
Re: Tapihritsa Guruyoga
Most certainly the one you received but it's something rather new. In A-khrid, Guru-Yoga is centered around Shenlha Ökar, same in ZZNG and Chaktri. Yes, I’ve been studying A khrid with a teacher for a bit and wondered about that, as I remember the GY instruction being Shenlha Okar, thanks for the e...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 10:05 pm
- Forum: Bön
- Topic: Tapihritsa Guruyoga
- Replies: 6
- Views: 308
Re: Tapihritsa Guruyoga
So, what then is a “standard” GY of Tapihritsa practice?
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:16 pm
- Forum: Bön
- Topic: Tapihritsa Guruyoga
- Replies: 6
- Views: 308
Tapihritsa Guruyoga
I attended a teaching for GY of Tapihritsa years ago by TWR. I don’t remember if there was a lung or what. Do people typically get a lung for this practice in Bön, and can one use any practice, such as the one in Vajranathas books? The one I remember was very simple with visualization of the three p...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 5:57 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Is Buddhism compatible with the modern world and modern thinking?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 332
Re: Is Buddhism compatible with the modern world and modern thinking?
it´s kind of embarassing that the modern science, with all its great advancements and breakthroughs, still holds materialism as completely unproblematic They just don’t differentiate between brain activity and that which experiences brain activity. In other words, for the materialist, the brain mer...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 5:21 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Is Buddhism compatible with the modern world and modern thinking?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 332
Re: Is Buddhism compatible with the modern world and modern thinking?
Does it still make sense to practice a religion that is thousands of years old? A religion developed by people before modern science, modern medicine and industrialization? Is it still practical to practice buddhism (traditional buddhism) today? This is not an attack on the dharma. Would like to he...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 4:49 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Emptiness as "insignificance" and as "spatial vacuity"
- Replies: 50
- Views: 1336
Re: Emptiness as "insignificance" and as "spatial vacuity"
What you are calling spatial vacuity is an aspect of emptiness, but as others have said, emptiness is not really grokked through declarative ontological statements anyway.
“Insignificance” strikes me as a a value judgement that doesn’t make much sense in context.
“Insignificance” strikes me as a a value judgement that doesn’t make much sense in context.
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 4:06 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Rigpa vs. Alaya (continued)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1265
Re: Rigpa vs. Alaya (continued)
I’m not sure what the original question was, or where we’ve drifted to in this conversation. I guess my point was - this distinction is a basic Dzogchen praxis point. Everyone should know the attributes of rigpa and how it’s different from the all-basis from a theoretical perspective. From a practi...