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by Hazel
Wed Oct 25, 2023 5:54 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: om ah hung shre?
Replies: 2
Views: 331

Re: om ah hung shre?

ThreeVows wrote: Wed Oct 25, 2023 4:25 pm Hrih is often pronounced shri. Hrih is the seed syllable of the lotus family, associated with Amitabha. It's not particularly uncommon to put it at the end of Om Ah Hung.
Thank you! This is a very satisfying answer!
by Hazel
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...
by Hazel
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...
by Hazel
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...
by Hazel
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...
by Hazel
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...
by Hazel
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!
by Hazel
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.
by Hazel
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...
by Hazel
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...
by Hazel
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...
by Hazel
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...
by Hazel
Fri Sep 30, 2022 12:19 am
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Greetings from germany :^)
Replies: 6
Views: 546

Re: Greetings from germany :^)

Welcome!
by Hazel
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.
by Hazel
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!
by Hazel
Mon Aug 29, 2022 3:22 pm
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Greetings from Argentina
Replies: 3
Views: 412

Re: Greetings from Argentina

Welcome!
by Hazel
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 :-)
by Hazel
Thu Jul 28, 2022 11:42 pm
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Hello
Replies: 4
Views: 459

Re: Hello

Welcome!!!
by Hazel
Sat Jul 23, 2022 2:12 pm
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Hi everyone
Replies: 4
Views: 429

Re: Hi everyone

Welcome!
by Hazel
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.

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