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by SilenceMonkey
Sun Mar 03, 2024 1:00 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Politics in dharma center - article
Replies: 202
Views: 8147

Re: Politics in dharma center - article

I was just explaining the words in Tibetan. True Reality and Ultimate Reality are just my translations of ཡང་དག་པའི་གནས་ལུགས་ from the dictionary definition I provided. The technical translation would be: The authentic mode of abiding [of phenomena]. And what is the authentic mode of abiding [of ph...
by SilenceMonkey
Sat Mar 02, 2024 3:52 pm
Forum: Language
Topic: Name of Bumpa Feathers
Replies: 3
Views: 389

Re: Name of Bumpa Feathers

pemachophel wrote: Thu Feb 29, 2024 11:07 pm What is the Tibetan name for the feathers and/or sheaves which go in the bumpa vase?
Maybe a more colloquial form would be:

སྒྲོ་ tro (feather)
རྨ་བྱའི་སྒྲོ་ mab cha yi tro (peacock feather)

བུམ་པ་ pumba (vase)
by SilenceMonkey
Sat Mar 02, 2024 1:06 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Politics in dharma center - article
Replies: 202
Views: 8147

Re: Politics in dharma center - article

Lol, you’re arguing with the dictionary. I know! :) True reality is referring to the ultimate reality, which ordinary beings can’t perceive with our senses because they are obscured. No. True reality is the realisation that all phenomena are empty of essence. The phenomena are still there, you just...
by SilenceMonkey
Sat Mar 02, 2024 2:45 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Politics in dharma center - article
Replies: 202
Views: 8147

Re: Politics in dharma center - article

Johnny Dangerous wrote: Sat Mar 02, 2024 2:34 am
We have to learn to deal effectively with our own afflictions to contribute to alleviating the suffering of others, at least sometimes. Especially if we are Mahayana practitioners. Sometimes playing it safe is the least ethical choice.
It’s all relative.
by SilenceMonkey
Sat Mar 02, 2024 2:29 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Politics in dharma center - article
Replies: 202
Views: 8147

Re: Politics in dharma center - article

The manager isn’t the one accumulating the capital. You keep mixing stuff. That is the third straw man in a row. Keep up the bad work. You’re the one who brought in the manager. Seems like a lot of these disagreements are founded on miscommunication and misunderstanding. I think it would be more us...
by SilenceMonkey
Sat Mar 02, 2024 2:00 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Politics in dharma center - article
Replies: 202
Views: 8147

Re: Politics in dharma center - article

No, but both involve use of the conceptual mind. So, the position you are taking is basically to be calmer? Calm… clear… simple… happy… (We don’t need to theorize about doing the laundry.) Conceptualization is always afflicted, sure there are areas with more likelihood of extreme emotion than other...
by SilenceMonkey
Sat Mar 02, 2024 1:40 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Politics in dharma center - article
Replies: 202
Views: 8147

Re: Politics in dharma center - article

Johnny Dangerous wrote: Sat Mar 02, 2024 1:38 am
No, but both involve use of the conceptual mind. So, the position you are taking is basically to be calmer?
Calm… clear… simple… happy…

(We don’t need to theorize about doing the laundry.)
by SilenceMonkey
Sat Mar 02, 2024 1:34 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Politics in dharma center - article
Replies: 202
Views: 8147

Re: Politics in dharma center - article

I think we can make merit and do virtuous actions without involving so much Namdok. Namdok/too many thoughts will actually harm the merit we are creating with our virtuous actions. We can see this directly in meditation and the rituals we’re performing. When we’re distracted, there won’t be much me...
by SilenceMonkey
Sat Mar 02, 2024 12:42 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Politics in dharma center - article
Replies: 202
Views: 8147

Re: Politics in dharma center - article

I don't quite agree with that. I would state it this way: The question of correct or incorrect relative truth is about whether or not that "truth" conducts to bodhi, or not. I suppose in a broad sense, it "can be 'true' within the pardigm of relative truth" but that "paradi...
by SilenceMonkey
Fri Mar 01, 2024 5:16 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Politics in dharma center - article
Replies: 202
Views: 8147

Re: Politics in dharma center - article

LOL I feel like I'm often banging my head against a wall arguing with people here who seem to hold the view that all relative is false. Indeed, Nagarjuna talked about the necessity of relative truth as a means to insight, making that relative truth actually true - if it advances us to bodhi . This ...
by SilenceMonkey
Thu Feb 29, 2024 10:03 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Politics in dharma center - article
Replies: 202
Views: 8147

Re: Politics in dharma center - article

Okay, I spoke with some geshes and khenpos and realize that I was mistaken, so I need to apologize and clarify. I thought incorrect relative truth corresponded to cittamatra’s Kuntag (imputations, imagined phenomena) and that correct relative truth corresponds to Shenwang (dependent nature). Now I r...
by SilenceMonkey
Thu Feb 29, 2024 2:36 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Politics in dharma center - article
Replies: 202
Views: 8147

Re: Politics in dharma center - article

1) You’re missing the point again, in the same way as before. I’m not arguing for or against Marxism or any other philosophies or ideologies. What I’m saying is that the fact of being a philosophy puts it in the category of incorrect relative truth. All theories, philosophies, opinions and view (ie...
by SilenceMonkey
Wed Feb 28, 2024 7:26 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Politics in dharma center - article
Replies: 202
Views: 8147

Re: Politics in dharma center - article

For example, you are presenting Marxism as “correct relative truth.” It’s not. It’s just an opinion written down and systematized by Marxist thinkers. Like all history and philosophy, social science, etc... I did not say that, but your straw man is a tempting target, so I will shoot it down: 1. Mar...
by SilenceMonkey
Wed Feb 28, 2024 10:32 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Politics in dharma center - article
Replies: 202
Views: 8147

Re: Politics in dharma center - article

Hmm… that’s not how relative truth works actually. Relative truth is not relative truth because it is compassionate and wise. It’s relative truth because it’s deceptive and obscuring the nature of ultimate reality. Really? So what you are saying is that relative compassion and wisdom are an obstacl...
by SilenceMonkey
Tue Feb 27, 2024 10:02 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Politics in dharma center - article
Replies: 202
Views: 8147

Re: Politics in dharma center - article

You could make the same “relative truth” argument about all ideologies that you believe are true. Yes, you could. You could also say that political ideologies that align with relative concepts of wisdom and compassion are relatively correct, and those that don't align ... are relatively incorrect. ...
by SilenceMonkey
Tue Feb 27, 2024 7:38 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Politics in dharma center - article
Replies: 202
Views: 8147

Re: Politics in dharma center - article

I don't understand how Buddhism and orthodox Marxist theory would be compatible when the latter is foundationally materialist, but if anyone would like to inform me on how the two might be reconcilable, I would be more than happy to consider such explanation with an open mind. Relative and ultimate...
by SilenceMonkey
Thu Feb 22, 2024 5:12 am
Forum: Language
Topic: Learning from Good Khenpos
Replies: 0
Views: 184

Learning from Good Khenpos

I’m wondering if there is anyone in our community who has good enough Tibetan and is interested in receiving private teachings online with good khenpos and lamas in Tibetan. I know some khenpos here in India and Nepal who would be happy to share their knowledge. I’m mostly studying in the Nyingma tr...
by SilenceMonkey
Wed Feb 21, 2024 5:35 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Politics in dharma center - article
Replies: 202
Views: 8147

Re: Politics in dharma center - article

The real intention of saying “everything is political” is to have people see the politics underlying our world. So issues of bad logic aside, I think the real question is: Is it really so important to analyze the political dynamics behind all of our relationships, institutions and society at large? ...
by SilenceMonkey
Wed Feb 21, 2024 3:53 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Politics in dharma center - article
Replies: 202
Views: 8147

Re: Politics in dharma center - article

Are you saying that everybody is looking at everything politically? Yes, everybody sees everything through the prism of politics. Now whether one is aware of this or not, is a different story. Everyone also sees through the prism of astrology. And romance. Psychology, psychoanalysis. Technology. Mo...

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