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by Grigoris
Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:24 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Was karmamudra part of ganachakra in the ancient India?
Replies: 147
Views: 5073

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

Natan wrote: Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:26 amI trained and initiated a consort a few years ago.
Oh dear...
by Grigoris
Fri Mar 22, 2024 2:55 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Was karmamudra part of ganachakra in the ancient India?
Replies: 147
Views: 5073

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

I really don't think those guys know what their talking about. They look like tech workers. And outer appearances are everything, right? ;) https://youtu.be/cLwtdZSQXSU?feature=shared They get old country harsh sometimes. You are lucky that this isn't happening IRL, 'cause I would have stabbed you ...
by Grigoris
Fri Mar 22, 2024 1:20 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Was karmamudra part of ganachakra in the ancient India?
Replies: 147
Views: 5073

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

Natan wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:46 amWhat truth? What agenda? What issue? You're imagining things. Either drink less or more, friend. Wow, you're a ngakpa, that's so amazing. Many amazing yogis!
Please feel free to stop acting like a knob end. You are not obliged to act like one, you know?
by Grigoris
Thu Mar 21, 2024 1:23 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Was karmamudra part of ganachakra in the ancient India?
Replies: 147
Views: 5073

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

Not saying exclusively, do try to contain your disdain... ngak lineages have always been adjunct to teaching monasteries and there are many ordained in terma lineages where the terton was not ordained. You always are into us vs them and some imagined conflict or imagined special position. The Mahas...
by Grigoris
Wed Mar 20, 2024 6:30 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Was karmamudra part of ganachakra in the ancient India?
Replies: 147
Views: 5073

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

Natan wrote: Wed Mar 20, 2024 6:10 pmVajrayana was always meant for the ordained.
*laughs in Dudjom Tersar*

*chortles in ngakpa/ngakma*
by Grigoris
Wed Mar 20, 2024 6:22 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: My last will and testament
Replies: 20
Views: 1001

Re: My last will and testament

PeterC wrote: Wed Mar 20, 2024 2:30 amAlways thought that line had more potential applications.
Potential applications is what therapy is all about! :smile:
by Grigoris
Wed Mar 20, 2024 6:03 pm
Forum: Pure Land
Topic: Struggling With Lotus Sutra
Replies: 35
Views: 1028

Re: Struggling With Lotus Sutra

Apologies to everyone in this thread for my.......well, snootiness/annoying nature. Part of my internet 'tude stems from real-life stress recently. ANYWAYS I've been looking into this more (just to calm my own mind over the last couple days), and perhaps I've had the wrong take on the The Lotus Sut...
by Grigoris
Wed Mar 20, 2024 11:36 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: How do we know what our individual dharma is in the modern age?
Replies: 10
Views: 547

Re: How do we know what our individual dharma is in the modern age?

PadmaVonSamba wrote: Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:53 amSo, where does “…than to do another’s dharma” fit in?
To follow the rules/example/practices of another caste.

In this specific case Arjuna would be doing another's dharma (a Brahmin's) if he were to (as a Kshatriya) refrain from taking life, which is part of his duty as a warrior king.
by Grigoris
Wed Mar 20, 2024 9:29 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: How do we know what our individual dharma is in the modern age?
Replies: 10
Views: 547

Re: How do we know what our individual dharma is in the modern age?

"It is better to do one’s own dharma, even though imperfectly, than to do another’s dharma, even though perfectly. By doing one’s innate duties, a person does not incur sin." I love this quote, but it's hard for me to understand exactly what my dharma is since the world is different now a...
by Grigoris
Wed Mar 20, 2024 12:36 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: My last will and testament
Replies: 20
Views: 1001

Re: My last will and testament

PeterC wrote: Mon Mar 18, 2024 7:52 am...when I exit stage left pursued by a bear.
I suddenly had a vision of you being pursued by a large hairy man in leather pants and matching leather cap.
by Grigoris
Wed Mar 20, 2024 12:26 am
Forum: Pure Land
Topic: Struggling With Lotus Sutra
Replies: 35
Views: 1028

Re: Struggling With Lotus Sutra

Well first off, it's not Revelation[s]. If you ever meet someone talking about Revelation and they tack 's' to the end, they know so little about it that they mispronounce it.[ First of all, it is not Revelation or Revelations, the title is Η Αποκάλυψη του Ιωάννου (in modern Greek) and/or Ἀποκάλυψι...
by Grigoris
Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:17 pm
Forum: Pure Land
Topic: Struggling With Lotus Sutra
Replies: 35
Views: 1028

Re: Struggling With Lotus Sutra

...is equivalent to my former Christian self reading Revelation when compared to the rest of the New Testament. Just a quick aside: Revelations is an apocryphal text, this means that if you do not know what the symbolism is referencing, you cannot understand it. Once you know the symbolism, then it...
by Grigoris
Mon Mar 18, 2024 8:02 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Was karmamudra part of ganachakra in the ancient India?
Replies: 147
Views: 5073

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

Let us say that it was part of ganachakra, what does that mean to you?

Let us say that it was not part of ganachakra, what does that mean to you?
by Grigoris
Mon Mar 18, 2024 10:58 am
Forum: Engaged Buddhism
Topic: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
Replies: 69
Views: 2991

Re: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?

BUDDHISM AND ANARCHISM – REFLECTIONS ON THE ECO-ANARCHISM OF GARY SNYDER , Brian Morris, 2020-11-10 Again, not a recommendation or even a comment as I have not read completely through the article, but a possible discussion point. It is of interest that the words “anarchism” and “revolution” were bo...
by Grigoris
Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:44 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Personal account of Shine
Replies: 60
Views: 2657

Re: Personal account of Shine

Imagine priding yourself on NOT reading books...
by Grigoris
Fri Mar 15, 2024 8:24 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
Replies: 126
Views: 5972

Re: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching

"Dharma is not just about getting Enlightened. It's about shaping and taming a place for dharma to endure." Excellent point. I was taught never to neglect promoting the Dharma or benefitting sentient beings. Compared to these two, benefitting oneself comes third. If we do not insure the c...
by Grigoris
Fri Mar 15, 2024 3:40 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: My last will and testament
Replies: 20
Views: 1001

Re: 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 Grigoris
Fri Mar 15, 2024 1:53 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
Replies: 126
Views: 5972

Re: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching

Look people, let us not overestimate the efficacy of pilgrimage and offerings. These are beneficial practices, and/but they are not exclusively Buddhist practices. All religions have pilgrimage and offerings as part of their practice. According to some of the "logic" being bandied about ar...
by Grigoris
Fri Mar 15, 2024 12:07 pm
Forum: Suggestion Box
Topic: Poll idea - male / female / other
Replies: 19
Views: 466

Re: Poll idea - male / female / other

I do not know how value is measured in social sciences. But for me, value is simply in the fact that I am interested in that information. So the question is - am I allowed to be interested in that information, without being able to back-up my interest with some fancy-worded justification? Maybe the...
by Grigoris
Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:43 am
Forum: Suggestion Box
Topic: Poll idea - male / female / other
Replies: 19
Views: 466

Re: Poll idea - male / female / other

I would like to compare my experience with real life dharma events with my perception on this forum. And what is the value of that? How is that helpful? I am not saying you have an agenda. I am saying that (in the social sciences) when we take a poll, we do it in order to extract information that w...

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