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He wants to prove whether or not there’s an afterlife, and his approach is...an essay contest?

An unkind person might say that there are easier and cheaper ways to test that hypothesis, though I can understand why he doesn’t want to use those

Please tell me what to do when a horrible ocd thought pops up at the time of death. Say a memory from a horror movie that was very terrible. What do I do? I have OCD and it forces one to think bad things at times that are important It seems that your problem isn’t what might happen when you die, bu...

You opined: I have the impression that the Bodhisattvayana is older than the time of Siddhartha Gautama, i.e. it existed in India already at time of his propagation of the doctrine. And I asked: Would be interested to hear who asserts this, and on what textual / archeological / other basis. You furt...

It is synonymous in many people's minds that EBT is Pali Text. But a few questions: What currently are the earliest texts we have? Physically oldest? The Gandharan texts Determined by textualists to be earliest? Depends on which textualist you ask and what assumptions/methodology they apply Gandhar...

There are many strands of knowledge in the world... Sure, but still: would be interested to hear who asserts this, and on what textual / archeological / other basis. Or is it your theory? Also the examples you offer also talk about some sort of eternal soul, which is definitely not the Bodhisattvay...

Someone who has received that empowerment is supposed to carry an image of the Yidam with them at least until they reach the stage of wearing the attire - presumably that would be why they gave you an image, as to the significance of the specific image, hard to say, the footprints are probably an im...

I have the impression that the Bodhisattvayana is older than the time of Siddhartha Gautama, i.e. it existed in India already at time of his propagation of the doctrine. It was called Bodhisattva-gana or something like that, it was not called Sangha. Gautama joined the Bodhisattva-order at some poi...

My primary device for this is Kindle, and that organizes into collections that aren't mutually exclusive - so a book can appear in multiple collections. That generally solves my problem - you can have folders by lineage, by nature of text (sutra, shastra, etc.), by type of practice, by teacher from ...

Soma999 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 20, 2021 10:37 am By the inner experiences, and the results in onés life.

How do you know you have really been initiated during an empowerment ?

You’ve missed my point

Soma999 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 18, 2021 11:17 pm
The point is : it worked without lung, with lung, and with wang.

and you know that how?

You may want to make contact first with a lama in the US that has a connection to somewhere you want to study. Just showing up somewhere with no introduction or background in their lineage is a lot harder than being introduced by a lama of the same lineage who knows you. Sometimes you can just show...

This doesn't seem to be the official position of the Dzogchen Community. The Dzogchen Community, by their own admission, has no authority here. Well, I might be wrong, and if I am, please correct me. But what I've read, and heard many times was that Rinpoche has appointed only his son and daughter ...

It is simply the way Vajrayana works. No tantra proclaims that it must be announced who can transmit something - just that certain criteria are met. Virgo The Dzogchen Community is not following the Tantras then? What a curious situation. Actually, Virgo's answer corresponds to Malcolm's. There is ...

But isn't that the problem here? CNN didn't authorize anyone to transmit his Longsal cycle besides his children, neither of whom want to do that, and so there is really no-one to transmit it? There is no official lineage holder. This does not mean that there are no people who are qualified to give ...

Well. I am also concerned about what we do or fail to do, and I feel we all should be. To ground the talk a bit: lots of pain in here and out there, something which the very notion of clandestine transmission of Longsal lungs testifies to. In any case, I feel I am running around in circles and flog...

Apart from being a test of trust, it is also an exercise in applied hermeneutics: which statement (or combination of statements) of Rinpoche's will one take for the definitive one? Hundreds of typescripts and recordings available, let the battle begin. A discussion based on what he said would be fi...

We should be willing to receive reading transmissions from people we know to be long-term, serious students of ChNNr. If we're not, then why? Do we think that ChNNr and his teachings were unable to lead students to realization? That absolutely nobody in the DC got anywhere in their practice? Apart ...

the person giving it needs to be able to read it in the language it was originally given, and give any associated empowerments and methods of introduction required in order to read it Very reasonable. And, if I understand it correctly (you seem to be saying that in order to transmit Longsal lungs o...

Nagarjuna's Tetralemma can be understood through the concept of latency, manifestation, and Tientai the Great's Mutual Possession of the Ten Worlds and Three Truth Doctrine 1). P; that is being...A single World (being or phenomena) manifestation is equivalent to Tientai's Truth of Temporary Existen...

As we've discussed before, I don't believe that there is no path forward for ChNNr's own termas. But it is important that any subsequent transmission of them is done properly. What does transmitting them properly entail in this context? Well, others will have more detailed explanations, but just by...