You know your a Tibetan Buddhist when,...
You know your a Tibetan Buddhist when,...
You don't mind if your neighbors smoke pot, but when a whiff of tobacco smoke comes across your deck you close all the windows and go inside.
What other strange things do we do and no longer notice?
What other strange things do we do and no longer notice?
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You know you're a Tibetan Buddhist when you reflexively jam your left ring finger into all food and drink and flick it in the air.
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when you avoid ice water like it's burning gasoline.
Re: You know your a Tibetan Buddhist when,...
ya start playing dramas with lamas instead of learning Dharma...
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You feel qualified to argue enthusiastically about the superiority of your lineage ... while your own practice sucks.
Dualism is the real root of our suffering and all of our conflicts.
Namkhai Norbu
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You don't have any decent clothing anymore because you've spent all your yearly funds and more on expensive incense, books, tsok offerings, dharmapala offerings, lama offerings, commissioned pujas, divinations, kataks, more dharma gear, and endless teachings and wangs.
Contentment is the ultimate wealth;
Detachment is the final happiness. ~Sri Saraha
Detachment is the final happiness. ~Sri Saraha
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You make your own butter tea at home and actually enjoy drinking it.
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You don't have enough money for your daily expenses coz you spent it all on wealth vases and Dzambala pujas.
"My religion is not deceiving myself."
Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."
The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."
The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
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You live in the west and eat tsampa regularly.
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you're constantly feeding rice to birds and mice without actually intending to. . .
Contentment is the ultimate wealth;
Detachment is the final happiness. ~Sri Saraha
Detachment is the final happiness. ~Sri Saraha
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the Jehovah's Witnesses stop coming to your house, and you invited them in for tea and everything!
Sergeant Schultz knew everything there was to know.
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your life sucks and you love it but fail to notice that you love it....
when you fail to notice how many years have past in trying to become a beginner....
when you fail to notice how many years have past in trying to become a beginner....
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when a wind is blowing at the diner table and you happely look from where it come.
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You are happy when things go horribly wrong but suspicious and hestitant when things are going well.
"My religion is not deceiving myself."
Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."
The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."
The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
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At a certain time every morning your backyard looks like a soup kitchen for squirrels and crows because they have figured out your pudga schedule.
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Your house constantly smells like burnt lawn clippings.
"My religion is not deceiving myself."
Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."
The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."
The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
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Re: You know your a Tibetan Buddhist when,...
Your other buddhist friends who don't follow tibetan tradition think doing Ngondro prostrations are crazy, you say you enjoy them and then they think you are an ascetic.
I don't know where we are going but it will be nice when we get there
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You salivate when you say Tonpa Lame Sangye Rinpoche,...
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A good oneNemo wrote:At a certain time every morning your backyard looks like a soup kitchen for squirrels and crows because they have figured out your pudga schedule.
/magnus
"We are all here to help each other go through this thing, whatever it is."
~Kurt Vonnegut
"The principal practice is Guruyoga. But we need to understand that any secondary practice combined with Guruyoga becomes a principal practice." ChNNR (Teachings on Thun and Ganapuja)
~Kurt Vonnegut
"The principal practice is Guruyoga. But we need to understand that any secondary practice combined with Guruyoga becomes a principal practice." ChNNR (Teachings on Thun and Ganapuja)
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What's a Tibetan Buddhist?
"All phenomena of samsara depend on the mind, so when the essence of mind is purified, samsara is purified. Since the phenomena of nirvana depend on the pristine consciousness of vidyā, because one remains in the immediacy of vidyā, buddhahood arises on its own. All critical points are summarized with those two." - Longchenpa