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- Wed Oct 25, 2023 5:54 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: om ah hung shre?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 331
- Wed Oct 25, 2023 4:23 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: om ah hung shre?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 331
om ah hung shre?
Hello all! At some point I learned this mantra, but completely forgetting where or what it is. I think I'm spelling shre wrong, because I would assume it'd come up in a google search, but I'm getting 0 results. Anyone know where it comes from? In my head it's associated with offerings, but I would t...
- Sun Aug 20, 2023 1:57 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Cute story
- Replies: 1
- Views: 791
Cute story
I overhead this on social media. Someone shared a gorgeous photo from a monastery in Thailand. It was a huge ornate prayer room with a larger than life Buddha statue. One of their friends commented that it was sad that there were no people sitting and praying and asked if it wasn't allowed. My frien...
- Thu Mar 16, 2023 4:57 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: I feel hurt by my teacher's advice, not sure whether I am overreacting
- Replies: 44
- Views: 3804
Re: I feel hurt by my teacher's advice, not sure whether I am overreacting
I was once seeking advice of a teacher and after a series of my questions they answered "I already told you that". It took months of me being frustrated and indignant about the answer, assuming they misunderstood, before realizing they actually did answer my question already and I was just...
- Mon Jan 23, 2023 4:02 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Practices for sick animals
- Replies: 4
- Views: 410
Re: Practices for sick animals
One of the most inspiring things I've seen is my Lama teaching seagulls the Mani mantra. He said it in the same way you would teaching a student a mantra for the first time. Another of my teachers said that she recited the Green Tara mantra over a dying animal on the road. If there is a mantra or ve...
- Mon Jan 09, 2023 5:42 am
- Forum: Ethical Conduct
- Topic: Ethics of Launching an OnlyFans
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2193
Re: Ethics of Launching an OnlyFans
Lest we forget that Buddha accepted a rather large endowment of land from a prostitute. I represented a prostitute in my lawyering days who faced a rather life destroying legal quandry involving her kid. I gave her DI and Song of the Vajra and told her to go to Vegas and recite it on stage. She did...
- Fri Oct 21, 2022 6:53 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Returning to practice after 15 years
- Replies: 4
- Views: 502
Re: Returning to practice after 15 years
A beautiful story. Welcome!
- Fri Oct 21, 2022 6:49 pm
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Am I shooting myself in the foot...
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1646
Re: Am I shooting myself in the foot...
Thank you all for the help. I've taken it to heart.
- Mon Oct 17, 2022 4:33 pm
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Am I shooting myself in the foot...
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1646
Am I shooting myself in the foot...
After a scandal involving my teacher a year or so ago my practice and life have crumbled. I found a new teacher and practices, but nothing clicked for very long and I lost the feeling of being on the right path. I have reverted to a practice of simple mindfulness of emotion for worldly benefit of me...
- Fri Sep 30, 2022 2:49 pm
- Forum: Ethical Conduct
- Topic: What should I do if I violated one of the precepts, especially the precept about not harming any being?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 884
Re: What should I do if I violated one of the precepts, especially the precept about not harming any being?
A good starting place that will help you both in life and later when you do purification practices is to learn what teachers mean by regret. My understanding is that it is a determination not to repeat the action (and take the steps to not do so) and not guilt that you did it. Self torture or worryi...
- Fri Sep 30, 2022 12:33 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: What is a daily practice for beginners?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 807
Re: What is a daily practice for beginners?
Gelugpas are super into studying sutra teachings before tantra which is likely more compatible with your circumstances. It requires qualified teachers, but there's no debate about teachings being remote and a lot of it you can read on your own as long as you still receive teachings to keep your imag...
- Fri Sep 30, 2022 12:28 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Will there be no more sentient beings in saṃsāra one day?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 2872
Re: Will there be no more sentient beings in saṃsāra one day?
You can assign each sentient being a unique natural number (1,2,3...). The set of all such numbers is of a size known as "countable infinity". What this means is that each member of such a set can have a 1 to 1 correspondence with members of another countably infinite set. Similarly, you c...
- Fri Sep 30, 2022 12:19 am
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Greetings from germany :^)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 546
Re: Greetings from germany :^)
Welcome!
- Wed Sep 28, 2022 1:34 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: What does practice really look like
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1322
Re: What does practice really look like
Memorize it, then there's no reading. Understand it, then it's not just mindless repetition.
- Fri Sep 23, 2022 5:30 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Scammed out of money, my compassion has been shaken
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1064
Re: Scammed out of money, my compassion has been shaken
These sort of scams are why we must remain compassionate. We have to be compassionate if not for the scammer then for their victims. Samsara isn't gonna empty itself!
- Mon Aug 29, 2022 3:22 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Greetings from Argentina
- Replies: 3
- Views: 412
Re: Greetings from Argentina
Welcome!
- Mon Aug 29, 2022 3:16 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Mod Team - Coming and Going
- Replies: 41
- Views: 39852
Re: Mod Team - Coming and Going
Thank you for the kind words
- Thu Jul 28, 2022 11:42 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Hello
- Replies: 4
- Views: 459
Re: Hello
Welcome!!!
- Sat Jul 23, 2022 2:12 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Hi everyone
- Replies: 4
- Views: 429
Re: Hi everyone
Welcome!
- Thu Jul 21, 2022 2:07 am
- Forum: Prayers and Aspirations
- Topic: Prayers for my Mom
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1406
Re: Prayers for my Mom
May she be without fear.