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Really great post's and quotes here. Just wanted to thank you all.

Nop. I didnt know it was necessary. Thank you

Hi. Im very fond of this prayer and i only have it in spanish. Is there an online resource where i can find the tibetan phonetics so i can chant it in its original language? Thanks

Thank you for you answer. Im about to start ngondro, so i guess that i have a few years of ngondro ahead XD. Thanks.

Hi. Sorry about my ignorance. I dont know if this has been asked here before.

Whats the usual gradual path in the kagyu linage? Im talking in general terms. Just curious to know what ill be spending my time in my future years XD

Hi. I have just came back from a goenka retreat while being a kagyu student. It worked very well with me. The technique is really well explained and the silence and rules make it more intense and serious. It was very helpfull. It helped me to see how difficult this path really is and it was a great ...

I've been pondering this thread, because the question is a delicate one, IMO. Went back and reviewed some notes, in fact, and had a "think" about it for a while...so, here's the result. Objectless Samatha is about undistractedness. One maintains awareness of "now," and doesn't allow oneself to get ...

I cannot recommend strongly enough the book "Creation and Completion: Essential Points of Tantric Meditation" by Jamgon Kongtrul, translated by Sarah Harding, if you are engaged in deity visualization. A quote: "The clear form of the deity is the luminous appearance of your own mind, and the unclea...

There is nothing at all wrong with wanting to make your life a little better! Just extend the feeling to want to make the lives of others a little better as well, knowing that all beings are looking to do the same thing but most of the time don't know what will make them truly happy. Compassion is ...

Im getting a little confused with this to meditations. Is it shine without object the same method as resting in the emptiness of mind like the mahamudra teachings explain?. I understand that the experience is different. One leads to a samadhi state while the other while already having the mind calm ...

Grief or depression could make it difficult. Compassion begins at home. Maybe it sounded worst than it is. It was a small problem but i thought it was a good opportunity to start my compassion meditation again. I had the same problem with my tonglen practice, in the beginning it was strong and vibr...

Recently i decided to go back to my compassion meditation because if thought it might help with some attachment problems that i was having. I find out that its getting kind of hard generating compassion although my shine is stronger than before. Before de compassion feel was very strong and now is k...

What does your teacher think, TaTa, if you have one? I do but unfortunately i wont be able to see him for a couple of months because he went on reatreat and the activites in my local center are suspended in summer, and i also go on a 1 or 2 month trips now. (here in buenos aires in january nobody i...

I try to meditate. Thoughts 'ambush' me, catch myself, sigh, return to breath. Repeat, repeat, repeat. It feels like I am going in circles. Does this even have any benefit? I am not sure what I must do for a breakthrough. If you do it every day it does have a benefit. In my humble opinion there is ...

The only samaya i have is to recite sangye menla's mantra 7 times a day. Does it count if i do it mentaly? Or maybe i can break the silence in the reatret for that porpuse only hehe

I'm analyzing the possibility of going to a goenka retreat although im really interested in tibetan buddhism. I would like to know how i would response to a retreat like that and im thinking that maybe it would be a nice base before going into more "complex" vajrayana practices. What do you think fe...

From my experience I can say that an understanding of emptiness is the minimum requirement to have any success with Tantra at all. Shinay and Bodhicitta will improve your practice but mastery isn't required, just a good grasp. You can master them in Tantra. I guess that you are talking about an int...

Hi Pema Rigdzin. Im currently finishing my first year at dharma. The last 4 months going to a kagyu center where i met "my lama". Ive talk to him a few times in private and i think he sees that im sincere in my desires to advance in my practice but i would not say that i have a "relationship" with h...

Am i the only one that finds funny that when you post a picture it says "attachments"?