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A quick question:

Does anyone know of anyone giving non-Gelug mahamudra teachings in the UK, or any upcoming teachings over here?

Thanks in advance.

Many if not most of my close friends throughout my life have been women. It's perfectly possible, perfectly ordinary, for a man to be friends with a woman without the sexual element arising. I would even stick my neck out and say that people can be in love without there necessarily being a sexual el...

Wesley1982 wrote:What do most Buddhists say about Angels?...

What to angels have to say about the Four Noble Truths and the Four Seals of Dharma? If nothing, why search for them?

How much of our reaction to peak oil should be as 'Buddhists,' though? I'm dubious about environmentalism being considered under the Buddhist rubric a la engaged Buddhism/green Buddhism. That's not to say that our practice shouldn't lead us to concern and engagement in these vital areas, but aren't ...

I meditate outside, sitting on a rock or a log, whatever the weather - all it takes is enough layers of clothing and sometimes (quite often, really) an umbrella. I virtually never have problems with drowsiness except when I meditate indoors, in which case I often begin to nod off. All the difficulti...

It's not Gelug (it is Drikung Kagyu), and it's even further than Madison, but:

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Their lama, Drupon Rinchen Dorjee, is someone I count as a guru, and I live four thousand miles away from Chicago!

That's basically what the religion of progress and the machine promises. Despite reaching ecological limits, people believe technology, driven by humanity's unstoppable progress from the caves to the stars, will be developed just in time to save us from the consequences of our past collective actio...

U.K. bees are having a particularly bad time this year goobers, a cold and wet summer is not helping. But if we provide the means, things will improve . Very true. But the hives I opened today (down here in the south west) were full of life, if not honey. I love beekeeping - I don't have my own hiv...

Deep joy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXZMqtHEMgs (It's good with the music bit as well...)

In our family we say: "We invite all sentient beings to share our feast."

The notion of "toxins" in the body and associated "cleansing" has been much abused. If you do some cleansing cure it might have a beneficial effect, but it's probably unlikely to be due to actual "toxin" removal unless you mean that in a very metaphorical sense. Of course that's a big generalizatio...

Male.

Female.

Clinging.

gregkavarnos wrote:I recommend that those that view the process of sex and birth and everything female as negative and vulgar to go read the Vajrayogini Tantra. It goes a little (that's an understatement) beyond the second turning teachings of the Buddha.

Excellent advice!

I feel very much the same way that you do, but I haven't let it get in the way of my practice too much. Partly because I'm one of those "I wouldn't want to be a member of any club that would want me as a member" type of people, partly because I don't like the social component, partly because I find ...

Qian Zheng Yi wrote:

Thank you, Malcolm.

So why does the sensation arise at the dissolving of the thought?

Thoughts are rlung. When your lung does not move, thoughts do not arise.

Interesting. So why does lung seem to move during shamatha? Or is that some other part of the subtle anatomy?

Fantastic. I love the Drikung.

Something I've found, both in meditation and in everday life is that, when a thought arises and I look at it and let it dissolve, I always experience a physical sensation, either in the area of my heart, my solar plexus or occasionally roughly in my sinuses. The same applies for emotion. This is a s...

"What Makes You Not a Buddhist' by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse would give you a very readable and non-preachy introduction to the basics by a genuine master.

Do what you need to do, but sadly, the forum is the less for it.

I totally agree.