Dharma Wheel

That is different from Gandalf being wise enough to see the suffering Saurons rule would bring. The conduct of a Dzogchen practitioner is based on the view and an understanding of the circumstances of beings. Even Gandalf and Sauron were still caught in the cycle of Samsara. The only one that might...

Well I may be wrong of course - but the impression I get from reading the early days of lineages and the Tibetan/Indian culture and so on - is that the limitations of travel and communication meant that most practitioners had a fairly narrow range of choice in either the sect or individual teacher....

My first question is, as a pure practitioner, how should one consume food? With neither attachment nor aversion - but if one can do that, then you're doing very well. Greg gives very good advice on this. Could I suggest also reading the seven-point mind training text. There is a lot in there about ...

Believe me it is not just a western phenomena Nor is it modern. Well I may be wrong of course - but the impression I get from reading the early days of lineages and the Tibetan/Indian culture and so on - is that the limitations of travel and communication meant that most practitioners had a fairly ...

I read the BBC news site everyday. I find it a valuable resource as it reports on things the US media often doesn't. I don't find it without any merit. However, the idea that there isn't political bias is a little risible though. I don't find much of their reporting to be strongly critical of the U...

I read the BBC news site everyday. I find it a valuable resource as it reports on things the US media often doesn't. I don't find it without any merit. However, the idea that there isn't political bias is a little risible though. I don't find much of their reporting to be strongly critical of the U...

Current and Topical: http://www.bbc.com/news/stories-43754737 "For decades the BBC denied that job applicants were subject to political vetting by MI5. But in fact vetting began in the early days of the BBC and continued until the 1990s. Paul Reynolds, the first journalist to see all the BBC's vett...

Another example: You state that the BBC is a reputable source. The BBC is funded by the UK state. It's executive board reads like a pedigree of English political and economic inbred nepotism. It isn't perfect but it is actually funded by taxpayers who pay a licence fee in order that the organisatio...

Take away all perceived cultural categories and designations an enlightened person just might see the inter-relatedness of all religions, deities, and outer projections of dharmakya. I am an Egyptian Wiccan so I think this is funny. I would like to mix Buddhism with Egyptian deities but they are ho...

We have a free press in the US. CNN, Fox, MSNBC are not the press. A huge problem is... How many people know/don't know this.... Free press doesn't mean much if it's hard to identify. The majority isn't sufficiently educated to distinguish between free press and MSNBC. So CNN, Fox, MSNBC may as wel...

A better world is also without chem trails. Chem trails contain substances which are bad for health. there are many good ideas in this thread so far. however: chemtrails do not exist. They are fiction. I'm interested in this. Not to derail the thread, but I've certainly noticed a difference between...

True, we don't know if she is into the blood sacrificing rituals....but if this is her religion....it's all connected... The only thing that got me so wound up in this discussion was because people were acting so negatively, and thinking she was a scammer/fraud/ignorant.....when there wasn't empiri...

Or the city of Xining, in which I spent many months. Only if you are extremely selective about where you wall around there. Ive been to xining several times since my first visit a few decades ago, and though it is far from my favorite city, its really not that bad I was all over the city, but mainl...

Would you also say that liberalism and conservatism are bullshit because they don't involve an understanding of karma? Oh absolutely. How do you think an understanding of karma should inform an understanding of politics? It seems that we could analyse society in terms of karma, but I'm not sure if ...

In these countries, liquor stores outnumbered grocery stores 30 to 1, similar with the way it is in poorer parts of China today. Why? Drunks are easier to control. Nowhere in China will you find that, apart perhaps from a small district in the village of Maotai. Or the city of Xining, in which I sp...

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Wed Apr 18, 2018 10:58 pm

In these countries, liquor stores outnumbered grocery stores 30 to 1, similar with the way it is in poorer parts of China today. Why? Drunks are easier to control.

Nowhere in China will you find that, apart perhaps from a small district in the village of Maotai.

Perhaps Zhi Lam Drä Bu is a bad German attempt at saying teaching on the Ground, Path, and Fruit according to Dzogchen View? Zhi, base. Lam, path. Drä maybe like "Lam 'bras" path and fruit. To bad no Nyingthik Yabshi! Anybody have 2cents to say about Yumkha Dechen Gyalmo Wang? Any unique features e...

Is anyone familiar with the Zhilam Drasbu?

It's also not very culturally appropriate: why can't they have Russia-specific yidams? If Horus can be repurposed as an Afro-Tibetan yidam, surely there must be Russian equivalents. Bear-headed dakinis? Chenrezig holding a hammer and a sickle seated on a red star? Guru yoga of Rasputin in union wit...

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Wed Apr 18, 2018 5:56 am

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Wed Apr 18, 2018 5:36 am

Bear-headed dakinis?

I think they exist
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Only after ordination...