Dharma Wheel

They are the gatekeepers and the conduit to the teacher, and frequently, the main practical source of the teachings. Sometime problematic gatekeeping doesn’t even involve a cult. Sometimes the teacher is fantastic but a few bad students slip through the cracks. Sometimes power corrupts and then it’...

Danny wrote: ↑Thu Oct 07, 2021 7:54 pm The sugar cubes?

I took home some office appliances today from work because I need it at home. If I use it for a while and return it at some point, have I stolen it? Also that stuff is company property, it has no single owner. The whole thing seems complicated. It is a serious question I have, not a joke. How would...

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Karma Dorje wrote: ↑Mon Sep 27, 2021 9:38 pm The real question is who one trusts.

Yeah. Not looking so good.

Why would I start a thread on this if there was any hint of it being humor? It wasn’t obvious one way or another in the original post. I find it strange how so many posters are fixated on whether or not she was joking. The important point to the original post was obviously can you convert someone t...

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Maybe Rinpoche saw how the community couldn’t collaborate well and he was okay with things dying out over time. 🤷🏼‍♀️ He actually said it would be like Buddha's original sangha of monks, which broke into eighteen divisions. And that division was foretold by a dream of King Kṛkin, during the time of...

Perhaps that should answer the question! Oh wait, no. That wouldn’t make sense come to think of it. Because why would she be in competition with the receiver of the email? They weren’t in a coven. Ah well. Anyway, question answered. You don’t convert people to dzogchen. Impossible. Thanks for the r...

That was precisely what I was going to suggest; that perhaps several people she had talked to had developed an interest in Dzogchen and she connected them with a teacher. If it had spend a few times it could, potentially, be a running joke “oh! Converted another one! 😂 “ No, that wasn’t it. I read ...

I would … not take that person as an authority, providing they were even serious. They were quite serious by the context of the email. As a matter of fact, she bragged how she was able to convert more than one person. :shrug: She almost made it sound like a competition; as if she was doing well and...

I would … not take that person as an authority, providing they were even serious. They were quite serious by the context of the email. As a matter of fact, she bragged how she was able to convert more than one person. :shrug: She almost made it sound like a competition; as if she was doing well and...

I was thinking of this earlier and thought I’d ask here what it means, since I am unable to ask the original source. I once read an email where a dzogchen practitioner said, “I’ve converted another one.” What does that even mean? I’m assuming she was referring to dzogchen, and was implying that she ...

What do you mean by this? Transmission is not intransitive in Dzogchen, so it should a transmission of... Are you referring to direct introduction? https://www.dzamlinggar.net/en/dzogchen/direct-transmission Sadly, this history is completely wrong. Just working with the information I (and the rest ...

and still did not receive transmission What do you mean by this? Transmission is not intransitive in Dzogchen, so it should a transmission of... Are you referring to direct introduction? https://www.dzamlinggar.net/en/dzogchen/direct-transmission DIRECT TRANSMISSION The starting point for the pract...

If someone claims that they have received a Transmission / permission from ChNN how can anyone say that they did not. Sorry, but who is to say that they actually did? I mean, with all due respect, you have a very naive idea of who is going to rush in to take advantage of the situation... I can alre...

Hate caffeine; makes me want to jump out of my skin. ... The less you have, the more sensitive to it you become. That's true of lots of things we consume - garlic, alcohol, salt and sugar just being the first to come to mind. And you can become habituated, so you feel 'normal' with a certain amount...