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- Mon Dec 18, 2023 2:41 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Mahayana teachings from the Dzogchen point of view
- Replies: 6
- Views: 691
Re: Mahayana teachings from the Dzogchen point of view
I know it's more complicated than that and from how I write it may seem that I have only a superficial understanding of these texts, but it's difficult for me to put it into words without knowing the technical terms most of you know. Can you help me clarifying some of these doubts? Unfortunately, n...
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 7:31 am
- Forum: Buddhist Tantra Talk
- Topic: Ratna Lingpa Red Chenrezig (Avalokitesvara Guyhasamaja)
- Replies: 0
- Views: 728
Ratna Lingpa Red Chenrezig (Avalokitesvara Guyhasamaja)
If anyone is familiar with this practice I would appreciate it if you could message me. (I have the empowerment.)
- Sat Dec 16, 2023 9:48 am
- Forum: Creative Writing
- Topic: The Physicalist
- Replies: 3
- Views: 492
Re: The Physicalist
This is a very curious strawman. I don't know anyone who describes themselves as a physicalist. But let's suppose someone does. Presumably this means that they only believe in what they can observe with their senses (or through instruments that can be observed with their senses). So they're not defi...
- Sat Dec 16, 2023 8:41 am
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: Avici hell karma
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1206
Re: Avici hell karma
The highlighted section is slightly mistranslated, what he says is actually more extreme: 如果你所表演的是負面的,你引導眾生造殺盜淫妄的,這是惡業,造作的是惡業,惡業你引導社會這麼多大眾,你的果報不是畜生、不是餓鬼,肯定是地獄。你就想到這個事情多麼可怕,這個世間行業這麼多,為什麼幹這行?佛家裡面講墮阿鼻地獄、墮無間地獄,這個行業的人最多。 If what you perform is negative, you lead sentient beings to commit acts like killin...
- Wed Dec 13, 2023 3:46 am
- Forum: Kagyu
- Topic: new platform of ex-Diamondway found in Germany
- Replies: 55
- Views: 3531
Re: new platform of ex-Diamondway found in Germany
--along with Trungpa. Thread descends into chaos in 3...2...1... If it’s of any interest, Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche on Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche After the Twenty-fifth Rigden has ruled Shambhala and propagated the teachings for 97 years, there will come a time when it will be very difficult for...
- Wed Dec 13, 2023 3:39 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Is Dharma Bhodi / aka Kol Martens a credible teacher?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1472
Re: Is Dharma Bhodi / aka Kol Martens a credible teacher?
OP, what you should be looking for in a Dharma teacher (as a starting point, this alone isn't enough) should be the following: 1. Studied for a significant period with known and respected teachers 2. Was asked to teach by those teachers, and that relationship/request is verifiable 3. Teaches what he...
- Wed Dec 13, 2023 2:29 am
- Forum: Kagyu
- Topic: new platform of ex-Diamondway found in Germany
- Replies: 55
- Views: 3531
Re: new platform of ex-Diamondway found in Germany
Thread descends into chaos in 3...2...1...
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 5:11 am
- Forum: Dying and Death
- Topic: Reincarnation cases not following the Buddhist model
- Replies: 230
- Views: 13676
Re: Reincarnation cases not following the Buddhist model
The Buddha was very explicit that we cannot and should not try to understand the specific workings of Karma, because it is sufficiently complex that it would simply drive us mad. (Acintita Sutta, and I think a few others.) So, if we're trying to create tests that demonstrate reincarnation through th...
- Mon Dec 11, 2023 10:15 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: “My mind isn’t like that”
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1739
Re: “My mind isn’t like that”
They aren’t unsolicited conversations. I am almost a “secret Buddhist” in fact, I hardly mention it to anyone, much less try to convince them of things. So the context is either family/friends that actively ask about things - usually meditation, or people I’ve worked with as a counselor. Funnily en...
- Mon Dec 11, 2023 10:00 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche Quote
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1111
Re: Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche Quote
If the quote is real, in order to understand it, you'll need to know from the Dzogchen 11 topics how sentient being have fallen into ignorance while Samantabhadra achieved liberation, etc. But circle jerking about such quotes in the absence of knowledge is what muppets who are into spirituality lik...
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 7:52 am
- Forum: Dying and Death
- Topic: Reincarnation cases not following the Buddhist model
- Replies: 230
- Views: 13676
Re: Reincarnation cases not following the Buddhist model
Suppose some type of test is designed which prove via empirical data, Stevenson’s assumptions to be accurate. That’s what’s missing from the what is asserted above. Where is the replicable experiment? Until we have that, it’s not science, it’s interesting anecdotes. Interesting anecdotes play a rol...
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 12:41 am
- Forum: Dying and Death
- Topic: Reincarnation cases not following the Buddhist model
- Replies: 230
- Views: 13676
Re: Reincarnation cases not following the Buddhist model
Suppose some type of test is designed which prove via empirical data, Stevenson’s assumptions to be accurate. That’s what’s missing from the what is asserted above. Where is the replicable experiment? Until we have that, it’s not science, it’s interesting anecdotes. Interesting anecdotes play a rol...
- Mon Dec 04, 2023 12:49 pm
- Forum: Dying and Death
- Topic: Reincarnation cases not following the Buddhist model
- Replies: 230
- Views: 13676
Re: Reincarnation cases not following the Buddhist model
... Having trust in a person who has supranormal powers is not different from having faith and trust in the scientists who operate the Hadron collider. i had similar discussion with a travel acquaintance of mine several years back) i was saying that science is as a religion as other religions. it's...
- Thu Nov 30, 2023 4:02 pm
- Forum: Dying and Death
- Topic: Reincarnation cases not following the Buddhist model
- Replies: 230
- Views: 13676
Re: Reincarnation cases not following the Buddhist model
What kind of methodology would, in your opinion, lend credibility to the research on these cases of children who remember past lives? For a start he should have brought on board a co-researcher who thought the whole thing was BS and tried to disprove these cases. If he’s claiming to do science, tha...
- Thu Nov 30, 2023 5:38 am
- Forum: Dying and Death
- Topic: Reincarnation cases not following the Buddhist model
- Replies: 230
- Views: 13676
Re: Reincarnation cases not following the Buddhist model
Stevenson collects stories. What kind of methodology would, in your opinion, lend credibility to the research on these cases of children who remember past lives? For a start he should have brought on board a co-researcher who thought the whole thing was BS and tried to disprove these cases. If he’s...
- Wed Nov 29, 2023 10:57 am
- Forum: Dying and Death
- Topic: Reincarnation cases not following the Buddhist model
- Replies: 230
- Views: 13676
Re: Reincarnation cases not following the Buddhist model
Ian Stevenson's reseach includes observable external evidence: birth marks and birth defects. You could apply this attitude for example to the Large Hadron Collider. How would you show that it's not possible that these stories of "particle collisions" could be explained by a combination o...
- Wed Nov 29, 2023 10:06 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: What role do ritual implements play in Dzogchen?
- Replies: 160
- Views: 6646
Re: What role do ritual implements play in Dzogchen?
Well, I have no major objections to anything you said. I have a problem with using the term "tantra" as a term designating a single perspective, that of "transmutation" as opposed to that of "self-liberation". We all know that there are all kinds of literary works call...
- Wed Nov 29, 2023 9:43 am
- Forum: Dying and Death
- Topic: Reincarnation cases not following the Buddhist model
- Replies: 230
- Views: 13676
Re: Reincarnation cases not following the Buddhist model
Again,nothing wrong with anecdotes, but it puts us in the territory of namthars and inspirational stories. my doctor recently asked me to describe back pain I had been having, and how often I was having it, and what sorts of activities I had been doing. and he laughed when I told him that I didn’t ...
- Wed Nov 29, 2023 4:34 am
- Forum: Dying and Death
- Topic: Reincarnation cases not following the Buddhist model
- Replies: 230
- Views: 13676
Re: Reincarnation cases not following the Buddhist model
No, it's absurd because it's not something that can be proved in that way. The sort of research he's doing produces interesting sociological anecdotes. It's not science. It's entirely likely that *no* research methodology could really *prove* anything in this area. How would you show that it's not ...
- Wed Nov 29, 2023 2:53 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: What role do ritual implements play in Dzogchen?
- Replies: 160
- Views: 6646
Re: What role do ritual implements play in Dzogchen?
We're dangerously close to the 'no true scotsman' fallacy here. This is a much easier question if we distinguish between: 1. The view of Dzogchen, which is different from the views of the different classes of the vehicles of transformation (though some teachers will emphasize that the practices of o...