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- Thu Aug 02, 2012 8:04 pm
- Forum: Gelug
- Topic: Renunciation
- Replies: 46
- Views: 9709
Re: Renunciation
For dealing with the passions, we can use the example of a poisonous plant. According to the Sutra interpretation, the plant must be destroyed, because there is no other way to resolve the problem of its poison. The Sutra practitioner renounces all the passions. According to the Tantric system, the...
- Thu Jul 05, 2012 6:09 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: ChNN's terminology
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5372
Re: ChNN's terminology
What about released shine? Is it equal with instant presence?
- Mon Jul 02, 2012 9:00 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Lojongs, Rushens, and Semdzins
- Replies: 86
- Views: 19664
Re: Lojongs, Rushens, and Semdzins
Are there some online instructions for these practices, or which books should I look for?
- Sun May 27, 2012 6:38 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dzogchen Community of Chogyal Namkhai Norbu
- Replies: 8214
- Views: 1656601
Re: Dzogchen Community of Chogyal Namkhai Norbu
Thank youMalcolm wrote:here you go...
- Sun May 27, 2012 6:02 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dzogchen Community of Chogyal Namkhai Norbu
- Replies: 8214
- Views: 1656601
Re: Dzogchen Community of Chogyal Namkhai Norbu
Is it possible to find online the picture of aum in thigle that CNN showed today?
- Sun May 20, 2012 4:04 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: buddhahood that reverts to the basis
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5185
buddhahood that reverts to the basis
...According to Garab Dorje, prior to the arising of the basis which is latent during the dark eon interval, nevertheless there are traces of affliction and action remaining from the previous eon. Because of these traces, the basis is stirred, the five lights appear and so on (this is why the Dzogc...
- Thu May 17, 2012 7:59 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: protection from lower realms
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4199
Re: protection from lower realms
Is Guru Yoga sufficient for protection?
- Thu May 17, 2012 7:30 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: mind/matter dichotomy
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2412
Re: mind/matter dichotomy
While we're at it... A more important contradiction between sutra, tantra and Dzogchen is that the latter is a vehicle beyond cause and result, whereas both sutra and tantra are vehicles of cause and result. Could you please explain this a bit more? It has something to do with accumulating merit and...
- Sat Apr 28, 2012 8:06 pm
- Forum: Bön
- Topic: Understanding of the Natural State
- Replies: 67
- Views: 16311
Re: Understanding of the Natural State
This phrase "The mind looking at itself is the same mind as the mind that is being looked at" The mind looking (A) is the same as the mind being looked at (B) A=B or, more accurately, B doesn't exist whatsoever except as a reflexive property (deviation) of A looking for itself, which can ...
- Sat Apr 28, 2012 7:08 pm
- Forum: Bön
- Topic: Understanding of the Natural State
- Replies: 67
- Views: 16311
Re: Understanding of the Natural State
And if nothing else, gives a hell of a headachealpha wrote:The mind looking at itself is the same mind as the mind that is being looked at.
- Sat Apr 28, 2012 4:05 pm
- Forum: Bön
- Topic: Understanding of the Natural State
- Replies: 67
- Views: 16311
Re: Understanding of the Natural State
But you have to agree that this is how lots of teachers instruct their students by giving them directions of how the knowledge can turn on itself. I have never heard my teachers (ChNN, Kunzang Dechen Lingpa) say anything like this ever. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QHms8p0xfXw/S_ImbFRaRRI/AAAAAAAACyk/...
- Fri Apr 27, 2012 5:29 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: What is the concept of "reality" in Buddhism?
- Replies: 229
- Views: 36376
Re: What is the concept of "reality" in Buddhism?
Reminds me of Chandrakirti milking the painting of a cowcloudburst wrote:mustn't advise sentient beings that drinking mirage milk and actual milk are same
- Sun Apr 22, 2012 9:25 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: What is the concept of "reality" in Buddhism?
- Replies: 229
- Views: 36376
Re: What is the concept of "reality" in Buddhism?
The "illusion-like" view is standard Gelugpa teaching. Thanks. I've found this in "The Gelug/Kagyü Tradition of Mahamudra" by H. H. The Dalai Lama and Alexander Berzin: "Our illusion-like mind, however, generates our problems and can realize liberation from them, whereas an...
- Sat Apr 21, 2012 12:15 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: What is the concept of "reality" in Buddhism?
- Replies: 229
- Views: 36376
Re: What is the concept of "reality" in Buddhism?
But with 'see things like an illusion' it seems like the parent is speaking. Not everything is explained - as a parent would do - and so its something we need to have a little faith. But if we can find that faith somewhere, somehow, then it actually becomes very simple. Maybe your parents told you ...
- Thu Apr 19, 2012 7:21 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: What is the concept of "reality" in Buddhism?
- Replies: 229
- Views: 36376
Re: What is the concept of "reality" in Buddhism?
Illusion is something that gives a false impression. Is it true that all appearances give false impression of being inherently existent? It is not true. Who sees the suchness of appearances does not see the imaginary, imputed, and false impression of them being inherently existent. Why would that m...
- Thu Apr 19, 2012 1:08 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: What is the concept of "reality" in Buddhism?
- Replies: 229
- Views: 36376
Re: What is the concept of "reality" in Buddhism?
Illusion is something that gives a false impression. Is it true that all appearances give false impression of being inherently existent? If yes, then why is it not correct to say that appearances are illusions?
- Wed Apr 18, 2012 6:51 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: What is the concept of "reality" in Buddhism?
- Replies: 229
- Views: 36376
Re: What is the concept of "reality" in Buddhism?
Your "like" version is now exactly the definition of illusion (object exaggerated with mistaken impressions). no, because its not the cakes fault that there is exaggeration. the exaggeration comes from the apprehending mind... All illusions are exactly like that, aren't they? The illusion...
- Wed Apr 18, 2012 8:10 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: What is the concept of "reality" in Buddhism?
- Replies: 229
- Views: 36376
Re: What is the concept of "reality" in Buddhism?
What's wrong with "producing a misleading impression"? are you trying to get rid of mistaken impressions about the cake, or the cake? the cake is like an illusion means the cake is exaggerated with mistaken impressions , such as permanence or true existence. the cake being an illusion mea...
- Wed Apr 18, 2012 6:17 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: What is the concept of "reality" in Buddhism?
- Replies: 229
- Views: 36376
Re: What is the concept of "reality" in Buddhism?
Illusion is something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression. Real cannot be found on analysis, but most people have the impression that it can be found. Therefore it fulfills the definition of illusion. thats the only sense in which existing things are an illusion: things them...
- Tue Apr 17, 2012 10:01 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: What is the concept of "reality" in Buddhism?
- Replies: 229
- Views: 36376
Re: What is the concept of "reality" in Buddhism?
Time to unleash Namdrol