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by Lingpupa
Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:22 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Was karmamudra part of ganachakra in the ancient India?
Replies: 147
Views: 5080

Re: Was karmamudra part of ganachakra in the ancient India?

As we fall about laughing, I find myself in need of clarification here.
User natan used to call himself crazywisdom on this forum. It was said, and afaik not denied, that he is https://gurunatan.org/en/about/ Is that true?
by Lingpupa
Fri Mar 15, 2024 5:38 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: My last will and testament
Replies: 20
Views: 1002

Re: My last will and testament

Thanks for the suggestions so far. Kirtu, as for the groups, the people I'm mostly connected to are lone wolves like myself. The centre I was first attached to (for many years) is a bit sleepy, tbh, and I fear the books would either just be left lying around the tea-room or stuffed into a corner of ...
by Lingpupa
Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:10 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: My last will and testament
Replies: 20
Views: 1002

My last will and testament

Yep, time to rewrite it. The actuarial tables give me an expectancy of 12 more years. Now my wife is not a Buddhist, but is very sympathetic, and I trust her to deal with my dharma stuff responsibly. The statistical expectation is that she will outlast me. But I might outlast her, and I want to see ...
by Lingpupa
Sun Mar 10, 2024 5:15 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: characteristics of outer, inner and secret guru yogas
Replies: 9
Views: 718

Re: characteristics of outer, inner and secret guru yogas

Terms vary between systems. IMHO that link is a fine presentation applicable to many Guru Yogas. However, confusion is possible. The Konchog Chidu indeed has outer, inner, secret and extremely secret sections, but the meaning is not at all the same. The first two both involve the peaceful manifestat...
by Lingpupa
Sun Feb 25, 2024 12:46 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Amitabha Phowa and faith
Replies: 9
Views: 472

Re: Amitabha Phowa and faith

I have to wonder where you got your phowa teachings/transmissions from. I'm fortunate to have received phowa from a number of sources, and faith was emphasised every time.
by Lingpupa
Sun Feb 25, 2024 8:26 am
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Dream Yoga struggles
Replies: 26
Views: 2261

Re: Dream Yoga struggles

Ösel / hod-gsal and milam - both do they concern yoga of sleep(osel) and dreaming(milam) or milam is a term for practice of sleep and dreaming and osel is something completely different, more related to guruyoga? Milam is about dreams and their continuity with waking. The TERM osel has a wider usag...
by Lingpupa
Sun Feb 18, 2024 8:51 am
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Dzogchen Historiography
Replies: 31
Views: 1893

Re: Dzogchen Historiography

For light diversion, how about this: for an accomplished generation phase practitioner, to be born in a back shed to a servant girl *IS* to be born from a beautiful lotus in the centre of a lake of milk.
by Lingpupa
Fri Feb 16, 2024 11:16 am
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Lung oral transmission
Replies: 82
Views: 5139

Re: Lung oral transmission

laowhining wrote: Fri Feb 16, 2024 10:54 am
I'll be thrilled if Khyentse Yeshi starts giving transmission, but his public opinion seems to be that people can receive it from a recording, something his father repeated ad nauseam is not possible.
Idle curiosity here - when did he become "Khyentse"?
by Lingpupa
Tue Feb 06, 2024 6:31 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Dzogchen Historiography
Replies: 31
Views: 1893

Re: Dzogchen Historicity

BTW guys, you have been talking about the historicity of Dzogchen's origin narrative, not the historiography. Words matter, otherwise what are we doing here?
by Lingpupa
Tue Feb 06, 2024 9:05 am
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Dzogchen Practice and the Nada Sound Current
Replies: 11
Views: 919

Re: Dzogchen Practice and the Nada Sound Current

Can anybody tell the rest of us what this "sound current" is? And where it is taught? It's a new one on me.
by Lingpupa
Thu Feb 01, 2024 8:58 am
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Dzogchen and thoughts
Replies: 109
Views: 7427

Re: Dzogchen and thoughts

I'm only a spectator to this discussion, but I do see a problem, at least for ChNNR's followers, in that the theory of remote DI, even using closely synchronised videotape as was done for a while, irrefutably entails something best described as telepathy. For details, see previous thrashings-out.
by Lingpupa
Sun Jan 28, 2024 9:14 am
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Tips for learning the classical Tibetan of Longchenpa
Replies: 4
Views: 601

Re: Tips for learning the classical Tibetan of Longchenpa

Tingdzin is right. I wpuld not say that Richard B "takes liberties" exactly. I feel that in fact he follows the text quite closely,, but clearly declined the impossible task of replacing one word with another, choosing to expand where (often) necessary. The philosophical distance from west...
by Lingpupa
Thu Jan 25, 2024 3:46 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: What is supposed to be kept secret? What isn't?
Replies: 19
Views: 1057

Re: What is supposed to be kept secret? What isn't?

Part of the problem is that the semantic range of "secret" is different from (and broader than) its range in western languages. Bit of a minefield tbh.
by Lingpupa
Sun Jan 14, 2024 12:04 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Rushen or not
Replies: 13
Views: 1259

Re: Rushen or not

Not mutsuk but I had the impression you practiced Konchok Chidu? Kongtruls instructions on that cycle, translated by Nalanda translations, have rushan. Gosh, you have an eagle eye! Well done! You are quite correct there, but I only received the full KC a year and a half ago, and the transmission fo...
by Lingpupa
Sat Jan 13, 2024 6:30 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Rushen or not
Replies: 13
Views: 1259

Re: Rushen or not

So my question, if anyone has broad experience, is this: are the classic rushen exercises largely a Longchen Nyingtig and Yeshe Lama thing? No, they belong to the special preliminaries of Dzogchen and you find them in most Upadesha-cycles of instructions. Thus they are very widespread in the Upades...
by Lingpupa
Sun Dec 31, 2023 10:04 am
Forum: Nyingma
Topic: New Nyingma Head?
Replies: 31
Views: 3706

Re: New Nyingma Head?

Well said, Tree... Good that somone thinks. :good:
by Lingpupa
Sun Dec 31, 2023 10:00 am
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: To recite the seven line prayer together within 3 months from 15th,December,2023
Replies: 2
Views: 452

Re: To recite the seven line prayer together within 3 months from 15th,December,2023

A rough calculation suggesrs that if he has two hundred.thousand followers committed enough to manage ten hours a day on the core recitation of.the seven lines it might just get done in three months.
This does not appear to have been fully thought through.
by Lingpupa
Sat Dec 23, 2023 9:54 am
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: pointing out instruction, direct introduction
Replies: 2
Views: 428

Re: pointing out instruction, direct introduction

Dear dharma friends, if term ngo sprod, is translated as pointing out instruction, where is the "empowerment" aspect of this process? Can one be introduced only by means of pointing out instructions, without dzogchen master giving empowerment of energy of rigpa, (rigpe cel wang)? Technica...
by Lingpupa
Thu Dec 21, 2023 7:00 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Tawa as a stand-alone practice during activity
Replies: 64
Views: 4215

Re: Tawa as a stand-alone practice during activity

This is false. The wall thing is a misunderstanding. He faced his own face, the nature of mind. And you know this because...? Not that chan/zen is either my thing or this forum's thing, but I have to ask. Because he was a Mahasiddha in the Vajrayana tradition. HH Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche told me t...
by Lingpupa
Thu Dec 21, 2023 10:57 am
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Tawa as a stand-alone practice during activity
Replies: 64
Views: 4215

Re: Tawa as a stand-alone practice during activity

Natan wrote: Wed Dec 20, 2023 6:56 pm This is false. The wall thing is a misunderstanding. He faced his own face, the nature of mind.
And you know this because...?
Not that chan/zen is either my thing or this forum's thing, but I have to ask.

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