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by Johnny Dangerous
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: 35
Views: 978

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...
by Johnny Dangerous
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: 35
Views: 978

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...
by Johnny Dangerous
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: 35
Views: 978

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 "...
by Johnny Dangerous
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: 35
Views: 978

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...
by Johnny Dangerous
Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:38 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Favourite Professional Sports
Replies: 14
Views: 395

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.
by Johnny Dangerous
Sun Mar 24, 2024 6:58 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Was karmamudra part of ganachakra in the ancient India?
Replies: 147
Views: 4983

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...
by Johnny Dangerous
Sun Mar 24, 2024 3:11 am
Forum: Bön
Topic: Tapihritsa Guruyoga
Replies: 6
Views: 274

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...
by Johnny Dangerous
Sat Mar 23, 2024 10:05 pm
Forum: Bön
Topic: Tapihritsa Guruyoga
Replies: 6
Views: 274

Re: Tapihritsa Guruyoga

So, what then is a “standard” GY of Tapihritsa practice?
by Johnny Dangerous
Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:16 pm
Forum: Bön
Topic: Tapihritsa Guruyoga
Replies: 6
Views: 274

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...
by Johnny Dangerous
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: 328

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...
by Johnny Dangerous
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: 328

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...
by Johnny Dangerous
Wed Mar 20, 2024 4:49 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Emptiness as "insignificance" and as "spatial vacuity"
Replies: 39
Views: 1047

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.
by Johnny Dangerous
Tue Mar 19, 2024 4:06 am
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Rigpa vs. Alaya (continued)
Replies: 18
Views: 1253

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...
by Johnny Dangerous
Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:11 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Poll (ANONYMOUS): Are you Male / Female / Other?
Replies: 19
Views: 925

Re: Poll (ANONYMOUS): Are you Male / Female / Other?

Very interesting. That seems pretty reasonable based on my experience, although like I said, that is very limited. I'm doing a research methods class at the moment (just undergrad stuff, not too much real research); I'm tempted to start thinking about how one might really research this. Seems diffi...
by Johnny Dangerous
Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:55 pm
Forum: Discovering Mahayana Buddhism
Topic: Love
Replies: 8
Views: 792

Re: Love

love in buddhism is unconditional love. as HHDL put it: "love is the absence of judgement". it is very important and IMHO hugely underestimated my western students who mostly concentrate on the nature of mind teachings/wisdom side of buddhism, omitting the compassionate/love side. i beliv...
by Johnny Dangerous
Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:35 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Poll (ANONYMOUS): Are you Male / Female / Other?
Replies: 19
Views: 925

Re: Poll (ANONYMOUS): Are you Male / Female / Other?

Yeah, why so many dudes? Or, alternatively, why so few ladies? This came up on another Buddhist group I'm on, mostly men, which does not seem to reflect irl buddhism (so I hear, tbh I don't interact with buddhist groups irl much, but I do participate online, ...I don't know if that is related or no...
by Johnny Dangerous
Fri Mar 15, 2024 4:57 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Personal account of Shine
Replies: 55
Views: 2356

Re: Personal account of Shine

Dzogchen is….provisionally gradual, except when it’s not, lol.
by Johnny Dangerous
Fri Mar 15, 2024 4:49 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Vajrayana in the spectrum
Replies: 41
Views: 2966

Re: Vajrayana in the spectrum

...ergo neutotypical individuals, can only know about it indirectly due to obvious reasons. I have been working as a psychologist for 30 years (with really serious cases too) and during that time and my time in society I have yet to meet a person that is "neurotypical". I have yet to meet...
by Johnny Dangerous
Thu Mar 14, 2024 6:32 pm
Forum: Zen
Topic: My family worries that some Zen Buddhism feels like a “cult”
Replies: 12
Views: 776

Re: My family worries that some Zen Buddhism feels like a “cult”

People with no spiritual practice often think anything involving devotion and discipline “looks like a cult.” Yes, it could be something like this. If they are not familiar with spiritual practice or eastern religions, they might find something simple as chanting as being "cultish" which ...
by Johnny Dangerous
Thu Mar 14, 2024 5:19 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Rigpa vs. Alaya (continued)
Replies: 18
Views: 1253

Re: Rigpa vs. Alaya (continued)

A good clarification here would be whether or not rigpa is synonymous with the -purified-alaya, such as is described in the Lankavatara.

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