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GrapeLover wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 5:47 pm Are the “o-o” markings meant to indicate that this is a terma?

I'm guessing it is supposed to be jokingly trying to make some point.

But how about the recitation of "Om Mani Padme Hum"? In practice, millions of people say this the world over with no empowerment. Also, some have said that "front generation" sadhana-like practice of beings like Medicine Buddha, Vajrasattva, and Shakyamuni, where one does not imagine oneself as mer...

Hello, I am new to Buddhism and I was wondering if any of you more experienced practicioners could help me. My goal is to realize Mahamudra in the Kagyu lineadge; but I am a newbee so I need to build foundations. I am not a total beginer to spirituality, I have been a translator/interpreter and ass...

A possibility is you are an ant stepped on by a practitioner, Hmm. So just lucky, I guess. :thumbsup: Perhaps this is the answer to Kunzang Pelden in his commentary to Bodhicharyavatara , Nectar of Manjushri's Speech . Regarding chapter 4:20-21, he points out that Shantideva seems to be saying that...

She isn't my fiance yet. This isn't only for appearances as she is expecting me to pray five times per day with her, go to the mosque, fast for ramadan, refrain from alcohol, pork and whatever else. Muslims don't play with religion and these rules are meant to be followed to full extent. I'm not su...

I’ve just been rereading ChNN's Gura Yoga and this sentence caught my eye: Does this mean that only certain beings can ever enter Dzogchen? And if this sentence is to be taken literally, how did those beings come to have a connection in a previous life? Yes, but there are many paths to full awakeni...

Here are a couple other Just By Seeing mantras: https://fpmt.org/edu-news/just-by-seeing-mantras/ My question is, if all of these things are sooo beneficial, why aren't they more widely propagated? Just seeing an image enough to prevent lower rebirths??? What an immense benefit. So I don't understa...

Here are a couple other Just By Seeing mantras: https://fpmt.org/edu-news/just-by-seeing-mantras/ My question is, if all of these things are sooo beneficial, why aren't they more widely propagated? Just seeing an image enough to prevent lower rebirths??? What an immense benefit. So I don't understa...

Because not everyone will extinguish themselves and attain nirvana and not everyone even wants to do that.for them the alaya is a permanent entity. Makes one really wonder why someone like that would be posting on a Buddhist discussion board. The only reason to practice for me is to gain merit,to b...

This thread has actually descended into idle gossip. I feel like Malcolm is probably right and we have pretty much done this to death. Since this is an omnibus thread, I'm gonna ask that everyone just take a bit of a break for now. I feel like everyone (including me) got their say, and we should pr...

Also, I don't think the problem is having wrong view before receiving teachings. The problem is wanting to take teachings then ignore 90% of what you received and practice the surface with the view you already have.

What is the point to receive teachings and then practice something else?

The relevant passage is: Tāranātha explains that all the above-listed teachers were followers of the Nāthapanthi, a Buddhist school of tantra that survived the collapse of monastic Buddhism in India. Yet Tāranātha also acknowledges that not all the teachings Buddhagupta received and practiced durin...

kirtu wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 6:26 pm The bio of Buddhaguptanātha could be instructive.

There is nothing in that biography relevant to the topic.

I recommend the book Sukhavati, by Wong Kiew Kit. On page 36, the author writes about his understanding of a soul. He writes: "Theravadins fail to appreciate that the doctrine of non-soul is an expedient means to help aspirants attain the Cosmic Soul or Nirvana, and not a rigid dogma claiming souls...

The aim of Madhyamaka is at least to some extent similar to the aim of Science. That is to know the nature and essence of the universe, what it is made of? How does it appear? Not really. The aim is to abandon concepts, which are reinforce by misguided ideas of real existence, that one takes for gr...

The Buddhist non-atomists include Vasubandu , -who admittedly is not generally held to be a Madhyamika, but his views on atoms are available in English translation, in Twenty Verses with Commentary (found in Seven Works of Vasubandhu, by Stephen Anacker ). Vasubandhu says that an atom has six sides...

The point is that you cannot go on breaking things in to smaller things ad infinitum , -as the Indian Madhyamikas reasoned when they were 'refuting' the Buddhist atomists. Therefore, in this respect the Madhyamaka has been proven wrong long ago. This is leading nowhere, as long as you make claims w...

According to the Madhyamaka long is long, because there is the short. The size of big or small is always relative to the size of another object. Is that what got out of it? This is not the Madhyamaka, it is a fact of common sense. According to the String theory there comes a limit to how small we c...

According to the Madhyamaka long is long, because there is the short. The size of big or small is always relative to the size of another object. Is that what got out of it? This is not the Madhyamaka, it is a fact of common sense. According to the String theory there comes a limit to how small we c...

Why should a teacher have so many students in the first place that he can no longer follow them all? It remerbers me a story. In the mid-90's, I sat in a large meeting between a famous rinpoche and his students. One of the student, maybe a bit arrogant, asked this question to the rinpoche (about to...