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Crazywisdom wrote: ↑Fri Jul 06, 2018 6:02 pm Just an example by the way. My point is to get creative and make time and money can create ones own auspicious conditions.

Dude, you should totally set up a day trading school for tantrikas.

Crazywisdom wrote: ↑Thu Jul 05, 2018 9:28 pm

dzogchungpa wrote: ↑Thu Jul 05, 2018 9:27 pm

Crazywisdom wrote: ↑Thu Jul 05, 2018 9:25 pm The man had many good qualities once you get past the laundry issue.

I just don't think they knew about separating whites and colors in Tibet.

What’s wrong with Pink?

Crazywisdom wrote: ↑Thu Jul 05, 2018 9:25 pm The man had many good qualities once you get past the laundry issue.

I just don't think they knew about separating whites and colors in Tibet. Anyway, really a great teacher, huge effect on me.

Rinpoche offering a mandala to the Dudjom Yangsi last month at Pema Osel Ling:

Not to minimize what seems to be a disturbing situation, but I have heard that there is actually not a vow. Apparently, Shambhala students are just told that studying with other teachers will simply be too much of a time commitment, and accordingly, Shambhala teachers discourage it. This informatio...

You might find this interesting: https://www.dhammatalks.org/Archive/Writings/TheBuddhaSmiles151017.pdf Thank you for the link. I guess an academic book about the Buddha’s humor was destined to be humorless. The Introduction argues that the suttas are not without humor, that the fault is with the t...

Now that I think about it, I also saw Adzom Paylo Rinpoche teach at the Berkeley Shambhala Center, but that would have been a fairly long time ago.

Also, there's this:
http://andreamwinn.com/andreas-last-words/

Well, I'll have to look into this a little, but I don't know if it's as simple as what Lama Tsultrim said. E.g., I believe that Pema Chodron is part of the Shambhala org and for sure Dzigar Kongtrul is her main teacher now. Also, I saw Tsoknyi Rinpoche teach at the Berkeley Shambhala center not all ...

Here it is in Wylie: smra bsam brjod med shes rab pha rol phyin/_/ma skyes mi 'gag nam mkha'i ngo bo nyid/_/so sor rang rig ye shes spyod yul ba/_dus gsum rgyal ba'i yum la phyag 'tshal lo/ I got that by copying the Tibetan above and pasting it into the thingy here: http://www.thlib.org/reference/t...

It's a famous prayer found in lots of chod texts. སྨྲ་བསམ་བརྗོད་མེད་ཤེས་རབ་ཕ་རོལ་ཕྱིན། །མ་སྐྱེས་མི་འགག་ནམ་མཁའི་ངོ་བོ་ཉིད། །སོ་སོར་རང་རིག་ཡེ་ཤེས་སྤྱོད་ཡུལ་བ། དུས་གསུམ་རྒྱལ་བའི་ཡུམ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། Thanks, can you point me to a text that might have a romanization of the Tibetan as well? Here it is in Wy...

KRB80 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 05, 2018 6:14 am

smcj wrote: ↑Thu Jul 05, 2018 5:38 am So Shambhala makes people take a vow so that they won’t have any other teachers? Now that is messed up!

I was thinking the same thing when I heard that.

#metoo

clyde wrote: ↑Thu Jul 05, 2018 3:21 am I’ve read a fair number of suttas and sutras, but I’ve not read any that describe the Buddha as laughing. Did the Buddha have a sense of humor?

You might find this interesting:
https://www.dhammatalks.org/Archive/Wri ... 151017.pdf

Well, one thing Vajrayana definitely does not abandon is argumentativeness.

One of the best methods is to spend time with a realized teacher.

I did a bit of digging and found some good info taken from Karma Chagme's Mountain Dharma. It is all quite traditional but helpful. Can you please post the relevant quotes here, or provide us with the citations of the appropriate page numbers? I'm guessing you're referring to the translation by KTD...

Recall Milarepa’s comment on the fox and the lion. He was referring there to living the life of a householder - and saying that he wasn’t up to it. Um, Milarepa may not have been "up to it" but many contemporary well respected lamas seem to be, ChNN for example, so I guess they all have greater cap...

Let's not forget Drukpa Kunley . He was known for his crazy methods of enlightening other beings, mostly women, which earned him the title "The Saint of 5,000 Women". Among other things, women would seek his blessing in the form of sex. That part kind of reminds me of an amusing story about one of ...

Malcolm wrote: ↑Tue Jul 03, 2018 2:28 am

dzogchungpa wrote: ↑Mon Jul 02, 2018 9:14 pm So even "monks" sometimes treat others like cum dumps. smh

One cannot dismiss lightly the nonvirtue of one person by invoking the nonvirtue of another.

Duly noted.

Yes, but a separate issue from scandals in Western Dharma centers. CHNN has often spoke openly about sexual predation that he witnessed at his monastery as a young tulku. So even "monks" sometimes treat others like cum dumps. smh The habits doesn't makes the monk/nun, but his/her conduct. The same ...

Shocking... https://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/06/what-lies-beneath-the-robes-are-buddhist-monasteries-suitable-places-for-children-adele-wilde-blavatsky/ Yes, but a separate issue from scandals in Western Dharma centers. CHNN has often spoke openly about sexual predation that he witnessed at his...