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- Wed Mar 27, 2024 10:58 pm
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Wall Gazing
- Replies: 52
- Views: 25103
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: 25103
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: 25103
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: 25103
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: 1110
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: 1110
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: 1110
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: 1110
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: 15
- Views: 476
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: 5063
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: 296
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: 296
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: 296
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: 331
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: 331
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: 43
- Views: 1191
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: 1260
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...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:11 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Poll (ANONYMOUS): Are you Male / Female / Other?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 932
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...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:55 pm
- Forum: Discovering Mahayana Buddhism
- Topic: Love
- Replies: 8
- Views: 794
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...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:35 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Poll (ANONYMOUS): Are you Male / Female / Other?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 932
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...