Vajrapani and Vajrakilaya
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Re: Vajrapani vs Vajrakilaya
Yep!
ARe you familiar with the Zung recitations for these two? Often done first thing in the morning, after sitting down on one's cushion, during group practice....
ARe you familiar with the Zung recitations for these two? Often done first thing in the morning, after sitting down on one's cushion, during group practice....
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: Vajrapani vs Vajrakilaya
I appreciate everyone providing input to my questions, didn't expect so many people to reply. I understand that one enlightened deity encompasses all other deities. Vajrakilaya to me is an enlightened deity just like Vajrapani. So it seems they are similar in their activities of subjugating demons, which are both internal and external.
Is it right to assume that Vajrakilaya gives tough love and really cuts through the mind of a person that might be hard pill to swallow for some. While Vajrapani might take things little slower and make it easier for some to handle?
Is it right to assume that Vajrakilaya gives tough love and really cuts through the mind of a person that might be hard pill to swallow for some. While Vajrapani might take things little slower and make it easier for some to handle?
Re: Vajrapani vs Vajrakilaya
For most Nyingmapas, don't leave home without him.
Dzogchen masters I know say: 1)Buddhist religion essence is Dzogchen 2)Religions are positive by intent/fruit 3)Any method's OK unless: breaking Dzogchen vows, mixed as syncretic (Milanese Soup) 4)Don't join mandalas of opponents of Dalai Lama/Padmasambhava: False Deity inventors by encouraging victims 5)Don't debate Ati with others 6)Don't discuss Ati practices online 7) A master told his old disciple: no one's to discuss his teaching with some others on a former forum nor mention him. Publicity's OK, questions are asked from masters/set teachers in person/email/non-public forums~Best wishes
Re: Vajrapani vs Vajrakilaya
Many people.adinatha wrote:Anyone here actually uses Vajrakilaya as deity?
Re: Vajrapani vs Vajrakilaya
CoolNamdrol wrote:Many people.adinatha wrote:Anyone here actually uses Vajrakilaya as deity?
CAW!
Re: Vajrapani vs Vajrakilaya
many people see no vajrapani vs vajrakilaya, if one knows what i mean.
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Re: Vajrapani vs Vajrakilaya
As an interesting side note, Vajrapani in his wrathful form as a protector is also highly revered at the Shaolin temple
"But if you know how to observe yourself, you will discover your real nature, the primordial state, the state of Guruyoga, and then all will become clear because you will have discovered everything"-Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche
Re: Vajrapani vs Vajrakilaya
Of course.adinatha wrote:Anyone here actually uses Vajrakilaya as deity?
/magnus
"We are all here to help each other go through this thing, whatever it is."
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"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)
Re: Vajrapani vs Vajrakilaya
Must stop these coincidences. One does as one has had a book by one's bedside for a while explaining just that! But then beyond being trapped in a collector's mindset or even without spelling it out ... for people without various empowerments or even lungs of either, suffices: Om-Ah-HungHeruka wrote:many people see no vajrapani vs vajrakilaya, if one knows what i mean.
Dzogchen masters I know say: 1)Buddhist religion essence is Dzogchen 2)Religions are positive by intent/fruit 3)Any method's OK unless: breaking Dzogchen vows, mixed as syncretic (Milanese Soup) 4)Don't join mandalas of opponents of Dalai Lama/Padmasambhava: False Deity inventors by encouraging victims 5)Don't debate Ati with others 6)Don't discuss Ati practices online 7) A master told his old disciple: no one's to discuss his teaching with some others on a former forum nor mention him. Publicity's OK, questions are asked from masters/set teachers in person/email/non-public forums~Best wishes
Re: Vajrapani and Vajrakilaya
Sorry I didn't mean to put VS as to say which one better but rather for comparison, so I deleted VS from my subject. I meant to say as just like asking a mother to describe her two sons.Heruka wrote:many people see no vajrapani vs vajrakilaya, if one knows what i mean.
Re: Vajrapani and Vajrakilaya
many mothers on surface would say i love my two sons equally, yet in the heart, secretly loves the first born more....udyan wrote:Sorry I didn't mean to put VS as to say which one better but rather for comparison, so I deleted VS from my subject. I meant to say as just like asking a mother to describe her two sons.Heruka wrote:many people see no vajrapani vs vajrakilaya, if one knows what i mean.
Re: Vajrapani and Vajrakilaya
Best to take it easy here, serious stuff, not just for us here but for many types of beings.
Dzogchen masters I know say: 1)Buddhist religion essence is Dzogchen 2)Religions are positive by intent/fruit 3)Any method's OK unless: breaking Dzogchen vows, mixed as syncretic (Milanese Soup) 4)Don't join mandalas of opponents of Dalai Lama/Padmasambhava: False Deity inventors by encouraging victims 5)Don't debate Ati with others 6)Don't discuss Ati practices online 7) A master told his old disciple: no one's to discuss his teaching with some others on a former forum nor mention him. Publicity's OK, questions are asked from masters/set teachers in person/email/non-public forums~Best wishes
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Re: Vajrapani vs Vajrakilaya
That is quite interesting!Fa Dao wrote:As an interesting side note, Vajrapani in his wrathful form as a protector is also highly revered at the Shaolin temple
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Detachment is the final happiness. ~Sri Saraha
Re: Vajrapani and Vajrakilaya
Talk about your zombie thread....
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?