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- Mon Mar 05, 2018 5:51 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Buddhahood in This Life
- Replies: 239
- Views: 64542
Re: Buddhahood in This Life
Will there be an online broadcast of this event? I would be interested if that were possible and would still be happy to pay the donation fee. Thank you! I cannot promise anything, but if you attended the online lung, then I think I can make the recordings available. Thank you Malcolm! I did attend...
- Thu Mar 01, 2018 8:02 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Buddhahood in This Life
- Replies: 239
- Views: 64542
Re: Buddhahood in This Life
Will there be an online broadcast of this event? I would be interested if that were possible and would still be happy to pay the donation fee. Thank you!
- Thu Jan 12, 2017 11:04 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Is Tobacco an obstacle to practice?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 16726
Re: Is Tobacco an obstacle to practice?
Oldbob & Javier,
I am not a Mahasiddha or a Dzogchenpo. At least not at this point . Thank you for sharing your views on this with me. Quite helpful to me.
I am not a Mahasiddha or a Dzogchenpo. At least not at this point . Thank you for sharing your views on this with me. Quite helpful to me.
- Wed Jan 11, 2017 5:51 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Is Tobacco an obstacle to practice?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 16726
Re: Is Tobacco an obstacle to practice?
Please forgive my ignorant question, but it is sincere. Is smoking pipe tobacco an obstacle to realization, in and of itself? I have read a post: http://vajracakra.com/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=3477&hilit=Tobacco. This seems to point to 'yes', Can a senior student of the DC confirm this for me? ...
- Thu Dec 08, 2016 8:05 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Buddhahood in This Life
- Replies: 239
- Views: 64542
Re: Buddhahood in This Life
Thank you Malcom for your work and continuous efforts! I would too be interested in receiving the Lung.
- Sun Sep 04, 2016 2:54 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Is Tobacco an obstacle to practice?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 16726
Re: Is Tobacco an obstacle to practice?
It appears that some people have not understood the original intent of this post, nor did they read what I wrote. I do not smoke cigarettes. I do not inhale pipe tobacco. I smoke a pipe now and again. I do not feel compelled, or owned by it. It is not a habit. It is something I enjoy from time to ti...
- Wed Aug 10, 2016 10:26 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Very clear statements about the Dzogchen path- Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
- Replies: 63
- Views: 15025
Re: Very clear statements about the Dzogchen path- Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Thank you CrazyWisdom. I like this bit: Experience is said to be the adornment of naked knowing, present within all beings. Whoever has mind has this knowing since it is the mind’s essence. The relationship between thinking mind and knowing is this: the thinking mind is like the shadow of one’s hand...
- Fri Aug 05, 2016 5:42 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Is Tobacco an obstacle to practice?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 16726
Re: Is Tobacco an obstacle to practice?
Ha! Yes, I'm so attached that I plan on getting rid of my pipes and pipe tobacco because of the impacts it can have on my practice.kukuripa wrote:As a former smoker ,I can assure you that it harms your winds and channels,and so does weed.
But your attachment to tobacco may be a more serious impediment
- Fri Aug 05, 2016 5:41 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Is Tobacco an obstacle to practice?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 16726
Re: Is Tobacco an obstacle to practice?
Thank you!Ayu wrote:The poison enters the body over the tongue and the mucous membranes as well. People who do not inhale get similarly adicted like those who do inhale.bfaus wrote:Does all this apply if the tobacco smoke is not inhaled (as was stated in my first post)?
- Thu Aug 04, 2016 9:20 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Is Tobacco an obstacle to practice?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 16726
Re: Is Tobacco an obstacle to practice?
Does all this apply if the tobacco smoke is not inhaled (as was stated in my first post)?
- Thu Aug 04, 2016 2:33 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Is Tobacco an obstacle to practice?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 16726
Re: Is Tobacco an obstacle to practice?
I have it on very good Vajra authority that smoking actually blocks one's inner subtle channels and becomes a hindrance to Vajrayana practice as a result. What's more, this causes problems with not only one's own ability to perform Phowa at the time of death, but hinders a powerful Lama's ability t...
- Wed Aug 03, 2016 11:57 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Is Tobacco an obstacle to practice?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 16726
Re: Is Tobacco an obstacle to practice?
Long ago, about one hundred years after lord Buddha had passed into Nirvana, in the land of China there was a girl of the race of demons who having been driven mad by her mind of great lust, spoke these words as she was dying: "With this body of mine, I pray that beings of this earth may be le...
- Wed Aug 03, 2016 11:44 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Is Tobacco an obstacle to practice?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 16726
Re: Is Tobacco an obstacle to practice?
(C) Etitions Padmakara "Smoking begins as a mere sensation and then spirals into addiction. Texts detailing the origins of its harmful effects explain that tobacco is not an ordinary plant. Long ago, a demon king called Karbunchok, together with his queen and ministers, supplicated negative fo...
- Wed Aug 03, 2016 11:38 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Is Tobacco an obstacle to practice?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 16726
Re: Is Tobacco an obstacle to practice?
Smoking causes back pain while I meditate, compared to weeks when I don't smoke, were there doesn't seem to be any pain. Nagas and termas aside, thats clear indication that smoking harms my practice. Thank you for sharing your experience. Can you clarify for me, when you say 'smoking', do you mean ...
- Wed Aug 03, 2016 11:18 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Is Tobacco an obstacle to practice?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 16726
Is Tobacco an obstacle to practice?
Please forgive my ignorant question, but it is sincere. Is smoking pipe tobacco an obstacle to realization, in and of itself? I have read a post: http://vajracakra.com/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=3477&hilit=Tobacco. This seems to point to 'yes', Can a senior student of the DC confirm this for me? N...