What are common mistakes that beginners make?
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Wesley1982
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What are common mistakes that beginners make?
What are common mistakes that beginners make?
Re: What are common mistakes that beginners make?
To try to take on too many practices or studies at the same time.
Shaun
Shaun
Re: What are common mistakes that beginners make?
Expecting instant results.
Re: What are common mistakes that beginners make?
Not relaxing.
- How foolish you are,
grasping the letter of the text and ignoring its intention!
- Vasubandhu
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conebeckham
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Re: What are common mistakes that beginners make?
For those not raised in Buddhist culture, being too quick to see Dharma through the lens of of their own faith or metaphysics.
Inevitable, to some degree, perhaps, but nevertheless it's a good idea to try to take things on their own terms, or resist the urge to simplify by seeking correspondences with what one knows.
Inevitable, to some degree, perhaps, but nevertheless it's a good idea to try to take things on their own terms, or resist the urge to simplify by seeking correspondences with what one knows.
དམ་པའི་དོན་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ཆེ་བ་དང་།
རྟོག་གེའི་ཡུལ་མིན་བླ་མའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།
སྐལ་ལྡན་ལས་འཕྲོ་ཅན་གྱིས་རྟོགས་པ་སྟེ།
དེ་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་ནི་ལོ་རྟོག་སེལ།།
"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom,
It is realized through the blessing grace of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential.
Like this, mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
- (Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, from his summary of "The Ocean of Definitive Meaning")
རྟོག་གེའི་ཡུལ་མིན་བླ་མའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།
སྐལ་ལྡན་ལས་འཕྲོ་ཅན་གྱིས་རྟོགས་པ་སྟེ།
དེ་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་ནི་ལོ་རྟོག་སེལ།།
"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom,
It is realized through the blessing grace of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential.
Like this, mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
- (Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, from his summary of "The Ocean of Definitive Meaning")
Re: What are common mistakes that beginners make?
Thinking they're enlightened.
Kirt
Kirt
“Where do atomic bombs come from?”
Zen Master Seung Sahn said, “That’s simple. Atomic bombs come from the mind that likes this and doesn’t like that.”
"Even if you practice only for an hour a day with faith and inspiration, good qualities will steadily increase. Regular practice makes it easy to transform your mind. From seeing only relative truth, you will eventually reach a profound certainty in the meaning of absolute truth."
Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.
"Only you can make your mind beautiful."
HH Chetsang Rinpoche
Zen Master Seung Sahn said, “That’s simple. Atomic bombs come from the mind that likes this and doesn’t like that.”
"Even if you practice only for an hour a day with faith and inspiration, good qualities will steadily increase. Regular practice makes it easy to transform your mind. From seeing only relative truth, you will eventually reach a profound certainty in the meaning of absolute truth."
Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.
"Only you can make your mind beautiful."
HH Chetsang Rinpoche
Re: What are common mistakes that beginners make?
Placing too much significance on random stuff that happens when they meditate. Their left toe twitches and they think it's shaktipat.
"It's as plain as the nose on your face!" Dottie Primrose
Re: What are common mistakes that beginners make?
Wanting to become part of an organization.
The Blessed One said:
"What is the All? Simply the eye & forms, ear & sounds, nose & aromas, tongue & flavors, body & tactile sensations, intellect & ideas. This, monks, is called the All. Anyone who would say, 'Repudiating this All, I will describe another,' if questioned on what exactly might be the grounds for his statement, would be unable to explain, and furthermore, would be put to grief. Why? Because it lies beyond range." Sabba Sutta.
"What is the All? Simply the eye & forms, ear & sounds, nose & aromas, tongue & flavors, body & tactile sensations, intellect & ideas. This, monks, is called the All. Anyone who would say, 'Repudiating this All, I will describe another,' if questioned on what exactly might be the grounds for his statement, would be unable to explain, and furthermore, would be put to grief. Why? Because it lies beyond range." Sabba Sutta.
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conebeckham
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Re: What are common mistakes that beginners make?
Ha Ha, Andrew! Good one, and true.
Conversely, "Not wanting to become part of an organization" can be a mistake too!
(You take my meaning?)
Conversely, "Not wanting to become part of an organization" can be a mistake too!
(You take my meaning?)
དམ་པའི་དོན་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ཆེ་བ་དང་།
རྟོག་གེའི་ཡུལ་མིན་བླ་མའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།
སྐལ་ལྡན་ལས་འཕྲོ་ཅན་གྱིས་རྟོགས་པ་སྟེ།
དེ་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་ནི་ལོ་རྟོག་སེལ།།
"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom,
It is realized through the blessing grace of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential.
Like this, mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
- (Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, from his summary of "The Ocean of Definitive Meaning")
རྟོག་གེའི་ཡུལ་མིན་བླ་མའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།
སྐལ་ལྡན་ལས་འཕྲོ་ཅན་གྱིས་རྟོགས་པ་སྟེ།
དེ་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་ནི་ལོ་རྟོག་སེལ།།
"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom,
It is realized through the blessing grace of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential.
Like this, mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
- (Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, from his summary of "The Ocean of Definitive Meaning")
Re: What are common mistakes that beginners make?
Hi Cone - yep I get it. True I think. It's a fine line.
The Blessed One said:
"What is the All? Simply the eye & forms, ear & sounds, nose & aromas, tongue & flavors, body & tactile sensations, intellect & ideas. This, monks, is called the All. Anyone who would say, 'Repudiating this All, I will describe another,' if questioned on what exactly might be the grounds for his statement, would be unable to explain, and furthermore, would be put to grief. Why? Because it lies beyond range." Sabba Sutta.
"What is the All? Simply the eye & forms, ear & sounds, nose & aromas, tongue & flavors, body & tactile sensations, intellect & ideas. This, monks, is called the All. Anyone who would say, 'Repudiating this All, I will describe another,' if questioned on what exactly might be the grounds for his statement, would be unable to explain, and furthermore, would be put to grief. Why? Because it lies beyond range." Sabba Sutta.
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greentreee
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Re: What are common mistakes that beginners make?
perhaps not so much a mistake, but something that may lead to the cause of mistakes, is having a lack of sincerity.
scratching thick hair'd head,
"if air can be conditioned,
like where's the shampoo?"
"greentreee"
"if air can be conditioned,
like where's the shampoo?"
"greentreee"
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practitioner
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Re: What are common mistakes that beginners make?
Trying to teach their understanding of Buddhism to others.
One should do nothing other than benefit sentient beings either directly or indirectly - Shantideva
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SooYiMongSeng
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Re: What are common mistakes that beginners make?
Practicioner, could you please extrapolate your statement further for me?
I'm not sure what you mean by "teaching?" In my mind, i'm confusing it with sharing experience, preaching, being a false teacher, holding oneself in a high position, etc. I would like to have clarification.
I'm not sure what you mean by "teaching?" In my mind, i'm confusing it with sharing experience, preaching, being a false teacher, holding oneself in a high position, etc. I would like to have clarification.
Re: What are common mistakes that beginners make?
Telling the teacher they are wrong.
Re: What are common mistakes that beginners make?
Start collecting statues, malas, cute mala bags, brocades, books, incense and etc more than one's shelves and drawers can fit...
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dharmagoat
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Re: What are common mistakes that beginners make?
Not a problem, just get more shelves and drawers.plwk wrote:Start collecting statues, malas, cute mala bags, brocades, books, incense and etc more than one's shelves and drawers can fit...
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dharmagoat
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Re: What are common mistakes that beginners make?
I have a common mistake that beginners make: Trying to be Tibetan... or Japanese, or Thai, or Sri Lankan, or Korean... but especially Tibetan.
Re: What are common mistakes that beginners make?
Rejecting even the positives in their cultural heritage and becoming pretend Tibetans/Japanese/Thais/Chinese. ( Or of course pretend westerners. )
" Eating -with- Chopsticks Syndrome " as Chime Rinpoche calls it.
" Eating -with- Chopsticks Syndrome " as Chime Rinpoche calls it.
“You don’t know it. You just know about it. That is not the same thing.”
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche to me.
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche to me.
Re: What are common mistakes that beginners make?
"Great minds think alike " Dharmagoat. 
“You don’t know it. You just know about it. That is not the same thing.”
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche to me.
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche to me.
Re: What are common mistakes that beginners make?
Hey at least one gets to learn the tea ceremony to impress that gal and K Pop is planetary phenomena!I have a common mistake that beginners make: Trying to be Tibetan... or Japanese, or Thai, or Sri Lankan, or Korean... but especially Tibetan.
