Does the Khon Vajrakila not have completion stage with cakras, nadis..etc.?Namdrol wrote:Actually, we have eleventh century Nyingma masters complaining about all this new-fangled stuff with cakras, and nadis and so on that was a Hindu corruption of Buddhism. They reacted quite negatively to Hevajra, Kalacakra, Cakrasamvara and so on at first.
Naropa, Marpa, Milarepa Contradiction that Bothers Me
Re: Naropa, Marpa, Milarepa Contradiction that Bothers Me
- How foolish you are,
grasping the letter of the text and ignoring its intention!
- Vasubandhu
Re: Naropa, Marpa, Milarepa Contradiction that Bothers Me
No, there is no real completion stage with characteristics for the Khon Kilaya, AFAIK, apart from Dzogchen. Even if there were one, it would be hard to tell when it entered the practice. Of course there are kilaya tantras that have these things, but from a text critical point of view, their date of composition is difficult to ascertain.mr. gordo wrote:Does the Khon Vajrakila not have completion stage with cakras, nadis..etc.?Namdrol wrote:Actually, we have eleventh century Nyingma masters complaining about all this new-fangled stuff with cakras, and nadis and so on that was a Hindu corruption of Buddhism. They reacted quite negatively to Hevajra, Kalacakra, Cakrasamvara and so on at first.
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Interesting, thanks.
Due to this lack of the use of nadis, cakras, etc., can we still classify practices that don't possess these characteristics as tantra? Is it because they require initiation allow us to still classify practices lacking completion stage as tantra?
Due to this lack of the use of nadis, cakras, etc., can we still classify practices that don't possess these characteristics as tantra? Is it because they require initiation allow us to still classify practices lacking completion stage as tantra?
- How foolish you are,
grasping the letter of the text and ignoring its intention!
- Vasubandhu
Re: Naropa, Marpa, Milarepa Contradiction that Bothers Me
What about it?conebeckham wrote:
Well, what about the completion stage of Yangdak?
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mr. gordo wrote:Interesting, thanks.
Due to this lack of the use of nadis, cakras, etc., can we still classify practices that don't possess these characteristics as tantra? Is it because they require initiation allow us to still classify practices lacking completion stage as tantra?
Sure.
Re: Naropa, Marpa, Milarepa Contradiction that Bothers Me
So which masters exactly manifested full and complete buddhahood not at death but in life? As far as I can tell it was Tilopa, Naropa and Milarepa. I'm not sure about Marpa. I'm not sure about Gampopa or Phagmo Drupa, but Drikung people say Jigten Sumgon manifested the topknot, the swirly eyebrow, the penis in the sheath and was a fully realized buddha after he overcame leprosy with his bodhichitta meditation. What they don't say is that they have methods for doing the same thing. Anyone who manifests buddhahood in life, according to them, is because of past life karma, being a bodhisattva in a previous life, and all that.
On the Dzogchen side, Garab Dorje and Padmasambhava were born nirmanakayas. The rest manifested buddhahood at death. If anyone can correct me here that would be delightful.
On the Dzogchen side, Garab Dorje and Padmasambhava were born nirmanakayas. The rest manifested buddhahood at death. If anyone can correct me here that would be delightful.
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adinatha wrote:So which masters exactly manifested full and complete buddhahood not at death but in life? As far as I can tell it was Tilopa, Naropa and Milarepa. I'm not sure about Marpa. I'm not sure about Gampopa or Phagmo Drupa, but Drikung people say Jigten Sumgon manifested the topknot, the swirly eyebrow, the penis in the sheath and was a fully realized buddha after he overcame leprosy with his bodhichitta meditation. What they don't say is that they have methods for doing the same thing. Anyone who manifests buddhahood in life, according to them, is because of past life karma, being a bodhisattva in a previous life, and all that.
On the Dzogchen side, Garab Dorje and Padmasambhava were born nirmanakayas. The rest manifested buddhahood at death. If anyone can correct me here that would be delightful.
Countless Dzogchen masters realized full awakening in this body.
Rongzom states that the atiyoga path is so swift, that these relative signs manifested by Sapan, etc., don't appear on the body, but when the shell of the body breaks at death, these fully developed qualities are evident at that time.
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Chestun Senge Wangchug, Khyentse Wangpo, Longchenpa, many others.adinatha wrote:So which masters exactly manifested full and complete buddhahood not at death but in life? As far as I can tell it was Tilopa, Naropa and Milarepa.
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I thought these were rainbow bodies not of great transference, but manifesting at the time of death. In the case of Longchenpa, full manifest buddhahood at time of death with the earthquakes, "hurr" sound and other signs. I'm referring to well in advance of death with years and years of dharma dispensation to go.Namdrol wrote:Chestun Senge Wangchug, Khyentse Wangpo, Longchenpa, many others.adinatha wrote:So which masters exactly manifested full and complete buddhahood not at death but in life? As far as I can tell it was Tilopa, Naropa and Milarepa.
CAW!
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I can accept this. This makes a lot of sense.Namdrol wrote:Rongzom states that the atiyoga path is so swift, that these relative signs manifested by Sapan, etc., don't appear on the body, but when the shell of the body breaks at death, these fully developed qualities are evident at that time.
CAW!
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So it seems to me, that according to your philosophy even Buddha Shakyamuni didnt achieve complete buddhahood, cos he has a physical body, he suffered from illness and at the end he even died!Enochian wrote:Something that bothers me.
Did Naropa, Marpa, Milarepa have physical bodies after Buddhahood?
If so that contradicts Vajrayana itself. After Buddhahood is obtained, one should no longer have a physical body.
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Could you please explain this further?adinatha wrote:S. . . Jigten Sumgon manifested the topknot, the swirly eyebrow, the penis in the sheath and was a fully realized buddha after he overcame leprosy with his bodhichitta meditation. What they don't say is that they have methods for doing the same thing. . ."
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The penis in the sheath thing has always bothered me. It sounds more like a disease if taken literally. I have a problem with it in a guru yoga text for example. Perhaps it is meant more methaphoically in the sense that nirmanakayas have truly overcome desire so the penis is sheathed in that sense.adinatha wrote: the penis in the sheath ...
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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: Naropa, Marpa, Milarepa Contradiction that Bothers Me
That he manifested the 32 major and minor marks of nirmanakaya Buddha.dakini_boi wrote:Could you please explain this further?adinatha wrote:S. . . Jigten Sumgon manifested the topknot, the swirly eyebrow, the penis in the sheath and was a fully realized buddha after he overcame leprosy with his bodhichitta meditation. What they don't say is that they have methods for doing the same thing. . ."
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No they mean a nirmanakaya's penis goes into a sheath like a horse. It means it retracts into the body cavity.kirtu wrote:The penis in the sheath thing has always bothered me. It sounds more like a disease if taken literally. I have a problem with it in a guru yoga text for example. Perhaps it is meant more methaphoically in the sense that nirmanakayas have truly overcome desire so the penis is sheathed in that sense.adinatha wrote: the penis in the sheath ...
Kirt
CAW!
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Yeah I know what the traditional explaination is. It makes no sense at all and just seems to be a reflection of a fear of sex.adinatha wrote:No they mean a nirmanakaya's penis goes into a sheath like a horse. It means it retracts into the body cavity.kirtu wrote:The penis in the sheath thing has always bothered me. It sounds more like a disease if taken literally. I have a problem with it in a guru yoga text for example. Perhaps it is meant more methaphoically in the sense that nirmanakayas have truly overcome desire so the penis is sheathed in that sense.adinatha wrote: the penis in the sheath ...
Kirt
Retracting the sex organs into the body also seems gruesome to modern people. However the intention behind the image seems clear - the nirnanakaya has definitely overcome desire.
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
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Re: Naropa, Marpa, Milarepa Contradiction that Bothers Me
Well, the Heruka Gyalpo Tantra that it's based on shares characteristics with these so-called "sarma innovations," does it not? The Upper Door and Lower Door practices, Four Joys, Melting, etc......Namdrol wrote:What about it?conebeckham wrote:
Well, what about the completion stage of Yangdak?
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: Naropa, Marpa, Milarepa Contradiction that Bothers Me
Gyalpo wrote:So it seems to me, that according to your philosophy even Buddha Shakyamuni didnt achieve complete buddhahood, cos he has a physical body, he suffered from illness and at the end he even died!Enochian wrote:Something that bothers me.
Did Naropa, Marpa, Milarepa have physical bodies after Buddhahood?
If so that contradicts Vajrayana itself. After Buddhahood is obtained, one should no longer have a physical body.
Don't put words in my mouth.
I know that Shakyamuni was a Supreme Nirmankaya demonstrating an arhat's awakening.
There is an ever-present freedom from grasping the mind.
Mind being defined as the thing always on the Three Times.
Mind being defined as the thing always on the Three Times.
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He wasn't. He was simply extending the argument that was presented.Enochian wrote:Gyalpo wrote:So it seems to me, that according to your philosophy even Buddha Shakyamuni didnt achieve complete buddhahood, cos he has a physical body, he suffered from illness and at the end he even died!Enochian wrote:Something that bothers me.
Did Naropa, Marpa, Milarepa have physical bodies after Buddhahood?
If so that contradicts Vajrayana itself. After Buddhahood is obtained, one should no longer have a physical body.
Don't put words in my mouth.
I know that Shakyamuni was a Supreme Nirmankaya demonstrating an arhat's awakening.
"Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise." --Surangama Sutra
Phenomenon, vast as space, dharmata is your base, arising and falling like ocean tide cycles, why do i cling to your illusion of unceasing changlessness?
Phenomenon, vast as space, dharmata is your base, arising and falling like ocean tide cycles, why do i cling to your illusion of unceasing changlessness?
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It's cause and effect, simple as that. When one does extended retreats, and doesn't lay down, it will happen. Something like what happens when you jump into freezing water. The pranas enter the central channel and that inward trajectory causes the penis to retract.kirtu wrote:Yeah I know what the traditional explaination is. It makes no sense at all and just seems to be a reflection of a fear of sex.
Retracting the sex organs into the body also seems gruesome to modern people. However the intention behind the image seems clear - the nirnanakaya has definitely overcome desire.
Kirt
CAW!