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by Grigoris
Fri Mar 15, 2024 12:06 am
Forum: Suggestion Box
Topic: Poll idea - male / female / other
Replies: 10
Views: 198

Re: Poll idea - male / female / other

I dont know how about you, but I (a male) feel like other people are also males, but that is just my stupid assumption / preconception. I think, since I am male, I am more likely to assume the other person with unisex nickname is also a male. This assumption from my side is especially stupid since ...
by Grigoris
Fri Mar 15, 2024 12:01 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Personal account of Shine
Replies: 48
Views: 1520

Re: Personal account of Shine

natusake wrote: Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:30 pm...
Whatever floats your boat.

Just keep in mind that some of the things you say, may (needlessly) rock other peoples' boats.
by Grigoris
Thu Mar 14, 2024 6:57 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Personal account of Shine
Replies: 48
Views: 1520

Re: Personal account of Shine

...Nobody is saying termas can't mix practices of multiple vehicles, the point is to distinguish what one vehicle is from another. Because doing so is necessary to understand what practice of Dzogchen actually means. Because Dzogchen is all about making false distinctions based on relative truths, ...
by Grigoris
Thu Mar 14, 2024 1:10 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Personal account of Shine
Replies: 48
Views: 1520

Re: Personal account of Shine

jet.urgyen wrote: Thu Mar 14, 2024 12:31 pmThey are realized beings Greg. I don't expect them to "mumbling mantra, burning incense, chanting sadhana and throwing serkyem, " from the pov of the path.
Like I said: I did not expect an answer. You did not let down my expectation. :smile:
by Grigoris
Thu Mar 14, 2024 12:17 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Personal account of Shine
Replies: 48
Views: 1520

Re: Personal account of Shine

jet.urgyen wrote: Thu Mar 14, 2024 12:15 pmI do some of the conventional things because i want to. I was never requested nor conditioned to do any of them.
That does not answer my question, but I did not expect an answer, nor do I particularly want one. My question was largely rhetorical.
by Grigoris
Thu Mar 14, 2024 12:07 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
Replies: 110
Views: 4558

Re: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching

Karma Dorje wrote: Wed Mar 13, 2024 10:02 pmIf one doesn’t have access to a guru in person to point out your hidden faults, get married. Your spouse will start pointing these out to you within two to three years. They may not have as much compassion however.
Two to three years? You lucky bastard! I wish it had taken that long! :tongue:
by Grigoris
Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:51 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Personal account of Shine
Replies: 48
Views: 1520

Re: Personal account of Shine

i can’t for the life of me understand Dzogchen adherents have so much gripes with so called “fabricated” state of mind? That is because some "Dzogchen adherents" have fallen prey to a cult like misunderstanding of what Dzogchen entails. As if the true nature of mind is somehow separate to...
by Grigoris
Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:36 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Personal account of Shine
Replies: 48
Views: 1520

Re: Personal account of Shine

that doesn't make it atiyoga, that's the gradual way of doing things. Who told you that atiyoga cannot be embarked upon as a gradual approach? My root guru didn't taught me anything gradual. The ChNN didn't presented atiyoga as gradual. I have no proof for it to be gradual either. On the contrary i...
by Grigoris
Wed Mar 13, 2024 7:41 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Personal account of Shine
Replies: 48
Views: 1520

Re: Personal account of Shine

jet.urgyen wrote: Wed Mar 13, 2024 7:36 pmthat doesn't make it atiyoga, that's the gradual way of doing things.
Who told you that atiyoga cannot be embarked upon as a gradual approach?
by Grigoris
Wed Mar 13, 2024 1:31 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Personal account of Shine
Replies: 48
Views: 1520

Re: Personal account of Shine

PeterC wrote: Wed Mar 13, 2024 11:25 amBut Dzogchen is not shamatha.
Who said that Dzogchen/Mahamudra/Prajnaparamita is shamatha? :shrug:
by Grigoris
Wed Mar 13, 2024 1:27 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
Replies: 110
Views: 4558

Re: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching

For most so-called practitioners this fancy talk feels like a victory. Anyone can fake it online with chains of quotes. Devotion doesn't need a lot of verses. Most often this kind of talk is just masking a lazy practice. I am not saying that I am Saraha, I am merely comparing what the siddhas (the ...
by Grigoris
Wed Mar 13, 2024 9:48 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
Replies: 110
Views: 4558

Re: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching

This may be a quibble, but in one of Gregoris' posts. the quote function (I guess) attributed a statement made by Natan to me. Natan wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:52 pm Most experienced students will spot a phoney Dzogchen teacher, Most experienced students will spot a phoney Dzogchen teacher, Most st...
by Grigoris
Wed Mar 13, 2024 9:26 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Personal account of Shine
Replies: 48
Views: 1520

Re: Personal account of Shine

natusake wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 10:24 pmThus we can understand that mindfulness (smṛti), concentration (śāmatha), and attention (saṃprajanya) are not the same.
I dare you to do any of those without the other. Foot, legs and hips are also not the same thing, good luck with walking if any one of them is missing.
by Grigoris
Tue Mar 12, 2024 9:59 pm
Forum: Discovering Mahayana Buddhism
Topic: The metaphorical character of the Dhamma.
Replies: 8
Views: 481

Re: The metaphorical character of the Dhamma.

Hello everyone, I'm a Brazilian new to this site and I hope to learn a lot from the discussions posted here. Reading the Tripitaka, Gotama implies that the existence of gods or not; and the existence or non-existence of life after death would be irrelevant to the practice of Dhamma, considering tha...
by Grigoris
Tue Mar 12, 2024 9:15 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Personal account of Shine
Replies: 48
Views: 1520

Re: Personal account of Shine

In Dzogchen, we do not have one-pointed focus on an object. The senses are left free. Shine is not a prerequisite for direct introduction. The semdzins do teach concentration, and this is to aid in the discovery of rigpa. But the point is not to maintain a fabricated state of one-pointedness. “To s...
by Grigoris
Tue Mar 12, 2024 3:55 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Vajrayana in the spectrum
Replies: 37
Views: 2215

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 Grigoris
Tue Mar 12, 2024 3:40 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
Replies: 110
Views: 4558

Re: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching

Milarepa called his lineage Kagyu. Yeah, I am sure he did. And he met and debated Bodhidarma too. He also had an aerial battle around Kailash with Shiva, causing Shiva to crash into the mountain. :thinking: I love this time of the year, because the Easter Bunny is going to bring me chocolate eggs! ...
by Grigoris
Tue Mar 12, 2024 1:34 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Personal account of Shine
Replies: 48
Views: 1520

Re: Personal account of Shine

...so the idea that shine has to be practiced first and by its own seems a little misplaced, at least from a Dzogchen perspective. I disagree. I think that mindfulness is really important, because if we cannot one-pointedly focus our attention on the object of practice, then the practice will be us...
by Grigoris
Tue Mar 12, 2024 12:22 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
Replies: 110
Views: 4558

Re: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching

Milarepa called his lineage Kagyu. Yeah, I am sure he did. And he met and debated Bodhidarma too. He also had an aerial battle around Kailash with Shiva, causing Shiva to crash into the mountain. :thinking: I love this time of the year, because the Easter Bunny is going to bring me chocolate eggs! ...

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