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- 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 ...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 12:01 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Personal account of Shine
- Replies: 48
- Views: 1520
- 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, ...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 1:10 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Personal account of Shine
- Replies: 48
- Views: 1520
Re: Personal account of Shine
Like I said: I did not expect an answer. You did not let down my expectation.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.
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 12:17 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Personal account of Shine
- Replies: 48
- Views: 1520
Re: Personal account of Shine
That does not answer my question, but I did not expect an answer, nor do I particularly want one. My question was largely rhetorical.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.
- 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
Two to three years? You lucky bastard! I wish it had taken that long!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.
- 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...
- 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...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 8:21 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Is it ok to practice Vajrasattva mantra meditation without oral transmission
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1204
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 7:41 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Personal account of Shine
- Replies: 48
- Views: 1520
Re: Personal account of Shine
Who told you that atiyoga cannot be embarked upon as a gradual approach?jet.urgyen wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 7:36 pmthat doesn't make it atiyoga, that's the gradual way of doing things.
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 1:31 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Personal account of Shine
- Replies: 48
- Views: 1520
- 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 ...
- 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...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 9:26 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Personal account of Shine
- Replies: 48
- Views: 1520
Re: Personal account of Shine
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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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! ...
- 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...
- 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! ...