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Individual wrote:Bodhisattvas in their lives certainly have wives.

Individual wrote: But when they become Buddhas, they have to chuck them aside and the girl doesn't like that. Right?

Individual wrote: What's that I remember hearing about how a bodhisattva is taunted by a female spirit, or something along those lines? How does that work?

Individual wrote: Is it possible for one's Buddhahood to be realized through a relationship, sex, marriage, and children? Why or why not?

Individual wrote: If a bodhisattva, such as Gautama, had forsaken Buddhahood for his wife and became a wheel-turning monarch, what would his destination be in the next life? How many eons would it set him back before he could try for Buddhahood again?

mr. gordo wrote:Guru Padmasambhava did not leave Mandarava or Yeshe Tsyogyal in his practice and achieved realization.

Several monks, hearing about it, went to the monk Ari.t.tha, formerly of the vulture killers, and asked him: "Is it true, friend Ari.t.tha, that you have conceived this pernicious view: "There are things called (obstructions) by the Blessed One. As I understand his teaching, those things are not necessarily obstructive for one who pursues them'?"

"Yes, indeed, friends, (I do hold that view)."

Then those monks, wishing to dissuade Ari.t.tha from that pernicious view, urged, admonished, questioned and exhorted him thus: "Do not say so, friend Ari.t.tha, do not say so! Do not misrepresent the Blessed One! It is not right to misrepresent him. Never would the Blessed One speak like that. For in many ways, indeed, has the Blessed One said of those obstructive things that they are obstructions, indeed, and that they necessarily obstruct him who pursues them. Sense desires, so he has said, bring little enjoyment and much suffering and disappointment. The perils in them are greater. Sense desires are like bare bones, has the Blessed One said; they are like a lump of flesh, like a torch of straw, like a pit of burning coals, like a dream, like borrowed goods, like a fruit-bearing tree, like a slaughter house, like a stake of swords, like a snake's head, are sense desires, has the Blessed One said.[2] They bring little enjoyment, and much suffering and disappointment. The perils in them are greater."

Individual wrote:

mr. gordo wrote:Guru Padmasambhava did not leave Mandarava or Yeshe Tsyogyal in his practice and achieved realization.

How did Padmasambhava understand this:

Individual wrote:Dharmas are not more or less skillful for a sentient being merely because they are called "monk" or "Padmasambhava", or "sutra" and "tantra."

TMingyur wrote:He wasn't a monk.

It seems as if there is a tendency to mix up everything in the "Mahayana section": Lays, monks, sutra, tantra

Kind regards

Individual wrote:Dharmas are not more or less skillful for a sentient being merely because they are called "monk" or "Padmasambhava", or "sutra" and "tantra."