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by Merely Labeled
Mon Feb 20, 2012 4:43 am
Forum: Asia/Pacific
Topic: Nine Yanas Retreat with Phakchok Rinpoche Mar 17-23
Replies: 1
Views: 1567

Re: Nine Yanas Retreat with Phakchok Rinpoche Mar 17-23

The costs were reduced according to http://www.cglf.org/news-a-events/foundation-events/97-nine-yanas-retreat-2012-nepal.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; The Nine Yana Retreat is at Nagi Gompa, the hermitage of late Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, a lovely place overlooking the K...
by Merely Labeled
Tue Jan 31, 2012 12:46 am
Forum: Nyingma
Topic: Seeing the Guru as Perfect
Replies: 29
Views: 6643

Re: Seeing the Guru as Perfect

Interesting point.
Those hugs certainly stopped me in my tracks for a few moments :)

M.L.
by Merely Labeled
Mon Jan 30, 2012 8:31 am
Forum: Nyingma
Topic: Seeing the Guru as Perfect
Replies: 29
Views: 6643

Re: Seeing the Guru as Perfect

Hello heart/magnus,

Thank you for your good words. In the meantime I discovered that postponing pointing out instructions with a `later, later` holds a myriad of great opportunities. I am continuing on the path and work towards a next meeting with my teacher.

M.L.
by Merely Labeled
Tue Jan 24, 2012 1:38 am
Forum: Nyingma
Topic: Seeing the Guru as Perfect
Replies: 29
Views: 6643

Re: Seeing the Guru as Perfect

:bow: I have chosen a teacher in 2010, I have taken the Vajrayana commitments with him, I have no difficulty to see him as perfect and to see all his worldly/conventional situation he is in at the same time, I manage to see him every few months and I saw him just 18 hours ago. When I ask him for poi...
by Merely Labeled
Mon Jan 23, 2012 1:26 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Unseen Beings in Tibetan Buddhism
Replies: 32
Views: 8842

Re: Unseen Beings in Tibetan Buddhism

O.k., another questions comes to my mind: The beings, we are talking about in the thread, are part of one of the six realms, like hungry ghosts and so forth ? I read about beings trapped in the bardo of becoming. For some reason they cannot take rebirth and wander around as `ghosts` and might troubl...
by Merely Labeled
Sun Jan 22, 2012 12:31 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Unseen Beings in Tibetan Buddhism
Replies: 32
Views: 8842

Re: Unseen Beings in Tibetan Buddhism

Thank you for the link MrDistracted. I am at the Bodnath Stupa a lot these days and it is good to know Guru Rinpoche`s prophecies. Ng. Drolma, please do not mind my direct asking you, but how do you know that it was a `negative entity` bothering you ? We are bothered by something all the time and on...
by Merely Labeled
Sat Jan 21, 2012 9:16 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Unseen Beings in Tibetan Buddhism
Replies: 32
Views: 8842

Re: Unseen Beings in Tibetan Buddhism

Huseng, what do you mean by `This is mentioned in one of the Padmasambhava prophecies regarding the Boudhanath Stupa in Kathmandu during the age of kaliyuga` ?

What are the prophecies regarding the Bodnath Stupa ?

Thanks,

M.L.
by Merely Labeled
Sat Jan 07, 2012 1:36 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: The Journey
Replies: 5
Views: 1579

Re: The Journey

Interesting question :popcorn:

I would say we are never alone in the way we think we are but ultimately the responsibility for what is happening in and with our so-called mind is out choice a l o n e .

M.L.
by Merely Labeled
Thu Dec 01, 2011 1:41 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Primordial stains ?
Replies: 27
Views: 4505

Re: Primordial stains ?

O.k., once again: Knowing the energy of the svābhavakāya as their own appearance produced buddhas; being mistaken about their own appearance produced sentient beings. We do not know what caused the chain reaction of being mistaken about our own appearance. I`ll try to include the topic into the 4 im...
by Merely Labeled
Wed Nov 30, 2011 4:11 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Primordial stains ?
Replies: 27
Views: 4505

Re: Primordial stains ?

Impressive. I am reading this thread with great interest and this is my question too:

is there any cause for the subsequent reaction of ignorance/knowledge?

M.L.
by Merely Labeled
Mon Nov 28, 2011 6:57 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Primordial stains ?
Replies: 27
Views: 4505

Re: Primordial stains ?

I just read through viewtopic.php?f=66&t=5605, thank you for that hint. There is no answer either. What I wonder about too is: Why didn`t a primordial Buddha (Kuntuzangpo) fall into ignorance ? And then, why shouldn`t this topic be dicussed here ? Many many questions. I am a serious practitioner...
by Merely Labeled
Mon Nov 28, 2011 3:48 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Primordial stains ?
Replies: 27
Views: 4505

Primordial stains ?

Our basic nature is empty and cognizant since beginningless time. How did the obscurations form ? Where do they come from ? How did the stainless Buddha nature become stained, ... or was it never free of stains ? So the 3 poisons/delusions were always part of it ? What was the cause that led to the ...
by Merely Labeled
Mon Oct 24, 2011 4:47 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Killing Insects and Buddhism
Replies: 46
Views: 12471

Re: Killing Insects and Buddhism

Great thread. Last year we had two rats coming each night onto the rooftop. We caught them in cages and put them out in a field nearby. The only thing was that we had to catch them separately. If they were a couple (it looked very much so), they might have lost contact afterwards. :rolling: I suppor...
by Merely Labeled
Thu Jul 21, 2011 1:20 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Lung disease unique to Vajrayana?
Replies: 9
Views: 2505

Re: Lung disease unique to Vajrayana?

Great articles by Tsoknyi Rinpoche.

M.L.,
who recovered from a severe April/May lung completely

:cheers:
by Merely Labeled
Sat Jun 25, 2011 1:10 am
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Dzogchen teaching of Tsongkhapa
Replies: 172
Views: 41689

Re: Dzogchen teaching of Tsongkhapa

Namdrol wrote:
``Tsongkhapa criticized Dzogchen in his commentary on Madhyamaka-avatara for abandoning the two truths.``

Does Dzogchen abandon the two truths ?

M.L.
by Merely Labeled
Thu Jun 02, 2011 5:29 am
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Mind/Rigpa and body relation
Replies: 180
Views: 41651

Re: Mind/Rigpa and body relation

I did not check the topic for a few days. It took an interesting turn :smile: Hayagriva, thank you for the article on lung. I`ll read it. You wrote: ``When learning Dzogchen meditation there is a specific meditation fault that possible, which is fear.`` Yes, definitely. Isn`t it so, that the ego con...
by Merely Labeled
Wed May 25, 2011 3:22 am
Forum: Language
Topic: Tibetan Word of the Day
Replies: 71
Views: 91789

Re: Tibetan Word of the Day

`Increase intellect`.....

This is why I switched from Gelug to Kagyu/Nyingma.
My intellect seemed over-developed for decades and I need retreats to gain insight.

:meditate:

Lobsang Pelgye

M.L.
by Merely Labeled
Wed May 25, 2011 3:17 am
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Mind/Rigpa and body relation
Replies: 180
Views: 41651

Re: Mind/Rigpa and body relation

Am re-reading Reginald Ray`s `Secret of the Vajra World` and came across what I was trying to describe in my posts above: " The lessening of discursiveness (through practice meditation)is usually experienced with great relief. However the growing awareness of the level of chaos in one`s mind is...
by Merely Labeled
Sun May 22, 2011 11:43 am
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Mind/Rigpa and body relation
Replies: 180
Views: 41651

Re: Mind/Rigpa and body relation

I am a physician myself so after having applied various medical evaluation techniques I can say that the heart ache I experience in times of distress is what one calls a psychosomatic disorder. The point is that since I train in the simpliest of Dzogchen practices (I am a beginner in Dzogchen since ...
by Merely Labeled
Sat May 21, 2011 4:59 am
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Mind/Rigpa and body relation
Replies: 180
Views: 41651

Mind/Rigpa and body relation

I have a question concerning (let`s call it ) the process of recognizing Rigpa: Could it be that having recognized Rigpa and training in it has consequences at the physical (body) level which then might be experienced as what is commonly called `illness` or `psychosomatic disorders` ? This would mea...

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