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- Sun Jun 17, 2012 2:44 am
- Forum: Alternative Health
- Topic: Real Marijuana as Herbal Medicine?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 26319
Re: Real Marijuana as Herbal Medicine?
MANY YEARS after the high? Now you REALLY can't be serious. :rolling: Guess someone's a light-weight? Yes, I am a light-weight. My family lived in a commune when I was a boy, and so I grew up within a culture of marijuana use. I gave it up as a teenager mainly because I wanted to rebel. So I became...
- Sun Jun 17, 2012 2:15 am
- Forum: Language
- Topic: Tibetan transliteration pronunciation guides
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4826
Re: Tibetan transliteration pronunciation guides
so you think the tibetans were wrong to translate the sanskrit names into tibetan? I have been talking only about the translation of Tibetan into other languages. I advocate transcription rather than translation, and support the standardisation of a phonetically-based transcription system for writi...
- Sun Jun 17, 2012 2:05 am
- Forum: Language
- Topic: Tibetan transliteration pronunciation guides
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4826
Re: Tibetan transliteration pronunciation guides
I can see how the misunderstanding came about. It would have been clearer if I had said "These are better not translated."dharmagoat wrote:What about proper nouns, like place names and people's names? These can't be translated.
- Sun Jun 17, 2012 1:48 am
- Forum: Language
- Topic: Tibetan transliteration pronunciation guides
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4826
Re: Tibetan transliteration pronunciation guides
wtf? vajrayogini= dorjenaljorma, hevajra=kyedorje ive seen english translations of names too like "diamond sow" for vajravarahi How would you translate "ཆོས་རྒྱལ་ནམ་མཁའི་ནོར་བུ་" (chos rgyal nam mkha'i nor bu)? Dharma King Sky Jewel but why would you want to translate his name? My point exactly.
- Sun Jun 17, 2012 1:37 am
- Forum: Language
- Topic: Tibetan transliteration pronunciation guides
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4826
Re: Tibetan transliteration pronunciation guides
How would you translate "ཆོས་རྒྱལ་ནམ་མཁའི་ནོར་བུ་" (chos rgyal nam mkha'i nor bu)?gad rgyangs wrote:wtf? vajrayogini= dorjenaljorma, hevajra=kyedorje ive seen english translations of names too like "diamond sow" for vajravarahi
- Sun Jun 17, 2012 12:20 am
- Forum: Language
- Topic: Tibetan transliteration pronunciation guides
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4826
Re: Tibetan transliteration pronunciation guides
if you cant understand the tibetan you should probably just use english (or whatever ones native language is) except for the mantras. after all, the tibetans themselves translated everything into their own language, just keeping the mantras in sanskrit. I don't agree. And what about proper nouns, l...
- Sat Jun 16, 2012 11:12 pm
- Forum: Language
- Topic: Tibetan transliteration pronunciation guides
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4826
Re: Tibetan transliteration pronunciation guides
yes, I learned that one when I studied with Nicolas Tournadre at UVa one summer, but even then we didn't really use it at all: we learned to pronounce Tibetan correctly from day one., learning the traditional spelling da-ra-ta-tra-kigu-tri (see you cant even really put that phonetically correctly i...
- Sat Jun 16, 2012 9:54 pm
- Forum: Language
- Topic: Tibetan transliteration pronunciation guides
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4826
Re: Tibetan transliteration pronunciation guides
everybody and their mother have their own phonetic transliteration system, none of which are very good. easier to just learn how to pronounce tibetan. I agree. But some are better than others. The THL Simplified Phonetic Transcription of Standard Tibetan is an attempt to standardise a phonetically-...
- Sat Jun 16, 2012 9:00 am
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Howdy from Yudron
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3121
Re: Howdy from Yudron
Hello Yudron!
- Sat Jun 16, 2012 8:44 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Morning Practice: How do YOU start?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5744
Re: Morning Practice: How do YOU start?
Morning practice: how do YOU start? Sleepily. When I am practicing properly, I wake up at 4:30 and do 25 minutes of śamatha mediation right away (my cushion is 1 metre from my bed). I will then return to my meditation at regular intervals throughout the day. I find that my meditation in the early a...
- Sat Jun 16, 2012 2:41 am
- Forum: Alternative Health
- Topic: Real Marijuana as Herbal Medicine?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 26319
Re: Real Marijuana as Herbal Medicine?
Oh yes, and if you smoke dope, even to celebrate a friend's success, you will be sent to a hell realm where you will be deprived of your genitalia and have nasty black-skinned, orange-eyed demons thrust red-hot iron rods into your lungs, roasting you from the inside out...
- Sat Jun 16, 2012 2:16 am
- Forum: Alternative Health
- Topic: Real Marijuana as Herbal Medicine?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 26319
Re: Real Marijuana as Herbal Medicine?
Marijuana seems to enhance the "special effects" one can experience in meditation. Because buddhist meditation generally dismisses such experiences as distracting side-effects, marijuana serves no useful purpose in buddhism. If anything, its effects interfere with proper meditation practice, and the...
- Sat Jun 16, 2012 2:02 am
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Baloney! and Jundo Cohen
- Replies: 172
- Views: 36235
Re: Baloney! and Jundo Cohen
They are often quoted in support of a view that 'really there is nothing to be learned, no discipline to be mastered, there is no real distinction between the wise and the foolish, everything is right just as it is ('bodhi and nirvana are hitching posts for donkeys'). So it always seems to let you ...
- Fri Jun 15, 2012 9:31 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: How can Buddhists be so sure of themselves?
- Replies: 240
- Views: 34132
Re: How can Buddhists be so sure of themselves?
The transformative power of that experience is much more important than the experience itself. If you gain a lot from it, if it helps you greatly, does it really matter if it was a hallucination? Does it really matter if it was your mind playing tricks on you? Or what really matters is how that exp...
- Fri Jun 15, 2012 9:23 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: I thought Buddhism wasn't about threatening people with Hell
- Replies: 209
- Views: 38563
Re: I thought Buddhism wasn't about threatening people with Hell
Maybe I am wrong, but what I am seeing here is basically the argument "the sutras weren't written down for centuries after the Buddha died anyway, so I don't accept them as true." Which to me seems like a largely irrelevant opinion to offer on a Buddhist forum. This issue is highly relevant. Is the...
- Thu Jun 14, 2012 10:45 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: 'the root of samsara'
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2710
Re: 'the root of samsara'
Wesley - you don't have to see the teacher every week or every month. Maybe a couple of weeks a year would be good. Best wishes. Andrew Having a teacher that you meet regularly is very important if you decide to take up buddhist practice. If at this stage you are simply wanting to ask questions, I ...
- Thu Jun 14, 2012 9:47 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: How can Buddhists be so sure of themselves?
- Replies: 240
- Views: 34132
Re: How can Buddhists be so sure of themselves?
No,well the point is i have trouble fully believing in one thing,one day you might think it is true owing to the "evidence",but if another day a bigger ,even stronger "evidence" might appear for let's say another faction,then how do I keep my faith? No matter how much evidence we have of something,...
- Thu Jun 14, 2012 9:16 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: I thought Buddhism wasn't about threatening people with Hell
- Replies: 209
- Views: 38563
Re: I thought Buddhism wasn't about threatening people with Hell
Ikkyu, I am with you on this one. That video was quite clearly an attempt to manipulate the gullible by instilling fear. If that represents skillful means as taught by the Buddha, the I too have to question the value of the original teachings. These days people are educated in the ways that certain ...
- Thu Jun 14, 2012 8:52 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: I thought Buddhism wasn't about threatening people with Hell
- Replies: 209
- Views: 38563
Re: I thought Buddhism wasn't about threatening people with Hell
What a despicable video. This is not the buddhism that I know.
- Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:19 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Website to help maintain a regular practice
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1480
Re: Website to help maintain a regular practice
I'm not sure the comment line (unlike the rest of it) supports good habits. I don't think it's a good idea to step back and judge one's meditation. Often the days that I think things were going well, I wasn't doing as well as I thought, and days when I thought it was going poorly, I could look back...