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Of course it is alright.

By that definition, Kriya Tantra would not be Vajrayana: but the common categorizations consider it to be. I did not invent this definition, it is from Dudjom Rinpoche's "The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism": This [vehicle] (= Secret Mantra) which makes the result into the path is supe...

Vajrayana means taking the fruit as the path. So yes, according to my view, Dzogchen is part of Vajrayana. Also in the Dzogchen-Tantras there are many references to the other 8 yanas.

KY

heart wrote: ↑Mon Mar 14, 2022 8:36 pm

Konchog Thogme Jampa wrote: ↑Mon Mar 14, 2022 7:08 pm It will be 3pm Berlin CET

EST switched to ET

So 2pm in England

That is correct.

/magnus

Thanks a lot!

Could someone please clarify the schedule?
On the Wisdom page it says that the lung starts on the afternoon on Friday, while the Zoom-Invitation says that all sessions start in morning.

Dear Old Bob,

many of us can do various things, of this I have no doubt.
Question is, how to do it in a way that many people have benefit from it.

I always appreaciate your posts from the bottom of my heart.

Karma Yeshe

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A Garland of Views by Guru Rinpoche (added to the Texts mentioned above).

I think it comes from translating "Dzogrim" as "Vollendungsstufe" and Kyerim as "Erzeugungsstufe". So "Dzog" is translated as "Vollendung", thus Dzogchen (Santi Maha) is translated as "Grosse Vollendung". Since "Maha" means "...

So they put out guidelines that make it impossible to be part of the whole thing and teach any other thing than sutra to newbies: The main characteristic of Public Courses is that everything related to Sutra teachings can be freelytaught in the three aspects of View, Meditation and Behavior, whereas...

:good: People don't seem to understand that when conferring an empowerment, the Guru transmits a method to the student. If the student is not realised during the empowerment, he or she should follow that method afterwards, because otherwise, there is not much sense in giving and receiving the empowe...

If you are a bodhisattva, practice the inner tantras (or anuttarayoga) and have developed a certain capability of doing inner and outer things, you will use your skills naturally when the circumstances demand it. And you will do it without making a big fuss about it. There really is no need to specu...

I really wish the DC all the best for the benefit of all beings but the whole talk by Adriano Clemente seems to come from a state of denial. From the talk: "and some people say that the membership is half of what it was last year and that many problems are arising." I you give such a talk ...

Grigoris wrote: ↑Fri Jul 31, 2020 9:15 pm But these are a part of any HYT empowerment anyway.

Not really. It is more a Sarma-Thing. I received Empowerments with different sets and numbers of vows specific to the practice.

KY

Buddhism is the only religion I ever had, thanks to my parents. I don't see anyone practice even shamata in monotheistic religions so you would have to invent something new even on that level. /magnus You don't see because you choose not to see. Christianity has shamatha, mantra recitation as well ...

My mother was here now 100% on an emotional level. And she was conscious about social interactions. What was damaged was her cognitive thinking. Skills, comprehending and analyzsing were damaged. She never knew how old she was and what was this house she was living in, but she knew very well if a p...

Thank you very much for your answer. You really described the ambiguity of Alzheimer. My step-grandmother had Alzheimer and my wife and me visted her often. She died over 5 years ago but I still have not really gotten what Alzheimer is. Although I am sure that the brain is not the conciousness, Alzh...

To the OP: Lama Henrik Havlat did a few very good translations together with his then consort Lama Waltraud. They translated directly from tibetan into german. They translated only Karma Kamtsang Texts, as far as I know. Usually I read the english first-hand translations from the original texts, but...

Dear community, what is the view of Alzheimer's Disease regarding Sutra (and maybe also Tibetan Medicin)? My understanding is that the brain is damaged and so the skandha of consciosness (विज्ञान vijñāna) is in a way out of order. What are the karmic causes of this damage and how does it affect the ...