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No, he was a layperson, working in a bank in Switzerland, that did a retreat in Parping and came out of it sure of being a Chokling tulku I have been told. If you look at the history on the Rigpa wiki you will find these removed comments: "lived for 23 years at Asura Cave. I was living there f...

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Ngondro is an excellent way to accumulate merit. When merit accumulates, you create circumstances and opportunities to accumulate wisdom, as well. If one has difficulty meditating, ngondro will help you gather the merit to create conducive circumstances to meditate.

I'm a bity shaky on the history, but I don't recall Mahakala needing to be bound. Maybe more akin to the position of Vajrapani? There are many different Mahakalas, but in general they are emanations. For example, Mahakala ChagZhipa, Four-Armed form, is Chakrasamvara. Mahakala Panjaranatha is Hevajr...

Really? I never heard of CJPR, but then Chokling is not my practice lineage.. Did a quick google and rigpa wiki says "Rinpoche’s supreme root teachers, H.H. 16th Gyalwa Karmapa Rangjung Rigpé Dorje, H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (Vajradhara in person), H.H. the 2nd Adzom Drugpa Rinpoche/Thubten...

Thank you both of you, I will follow the Nyingma approach proposed by Adamantine. Regarding "he should be a great master for it is a very secret teaching/empowerment", that is not enough, last year in France came up a similar "Rinpoché". At the last minute the teacher have been ...

pemachophel wrote:I believe they are/were Chagdud Rinpoche's students or somehow otherwise connected with Chagdud Gompa.

I don't buy that. Once you accumulate and dedicate the merit. It can not be last. That may be one tradition or ways of doing Ngondro, but missing a day doesn't mean all your hard work is for nothing. Even if, One could always manage to do 1 or 3 prostrations and call that "ngondro". What'...

If you do the maths it's 444,444 accumulations over 48 days. That's 9,258.25 accumulations per day. Now you don't have to finish prostrations in order to accumulate Vajrasattva mantras or mandla offerings so it's not necessarily 9,258.25 prostrations per day. So 2,500 of each practice per day, star...

You got any more jealousy and negativity you want to wheel out or are you done? :namaste: :roll: :roll: :roll: It is impossible to do a complete Ngondro in that time. Well actually, though pretty difficult, I think it may be possible. By my calculations the practice of Vajrasatva and Prostrations w...

I just read also in Torch of Certainty that when you do Vajrasattva purification practice, if the visualization is not continuous throughout the practice, then it utterly useless, and even if you do the practice forever it will not be successfull. Not true. The mantra is what purifies, not the visu...

I've done 10,000 prostrations in a day....and I've done it a few days in a row....So....11 days of doing that, I suppose, is possible. Brutal, but possible. Brutal? To say the least! Well prostrations are pretty close to an ascetic practice, purification through suffering seems to be part of the eq...

three months to complete ngondro in retreat is the estimate i'm familiar with.. but each ngondro is different, no?

I believe it was Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche who said that around 80% of Togal practitioners of old Tibet went crazy. You have a reference for this ? A quote that can be verified? This sounds BS for westerners... I don't remember where I heard it/ read it. . . I believe it was him. But I'll remove t...

:hi: Dharma farers, This may sound stupid but :shrug: If an over-enthusiastic individual takes a vow in front of :buddha1:, say, to be the vegetarian for the rest of his/her life (HOORAY says the :pig:), what horrible consequences will there be if it's broken (because e.g. the individual has no clu...

When people enter forum and create large numbers of posts which are either insulting to Buddhadharma ............... Hi Yeshe , " Insult" to Buddhadharma ? I had a feeling perhaps one of the "problem" here is me . Is my writing insult to Buddhism or teaching ? Or perhaps thousan...

If there is a difference it is perhaps that the practitioner of Phowa is 'active' in the transference of their own (or another being's consciousness) rather than asking a Buddha to carry it out. Actually supplication is a very important part of Phowa, in my understanding.. so in a way it is a meeti...

I would say do it skillfully. I am doing my part to save all sentient beings by preventing CSEe and Hanzee from slandering the Dharma and creating negative causes and conditions for themselves which they do quite a good job of. I understand your kind intentions here. However, maybe this can be a re...

This American couple say they reached completion of the path of Tögal! Anyone know who their teacher is? http://www.acircleisdrawn.org/index.php/about/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; /magnus There would be no need to announce who their teachers and lineage were if they wer...

From a Vajrayana POV, Buddha Shakyamuni was already enlightened. . . The Vajrayana tantra mentions that before Buddha Shakyamuni manifested his enlightenment in this world, he had already become enlightened in Akanishta pureland in the form of Buddha Vajradhara and then manifested his Nirmanakaya fo...

Thank you both of you, I will follow the Nyingma approach proposed by Adamantine. Regarding "he should be a great master for it is a very secret teaching/empowerment", that is not enough, last year in France came up a similar "Rinpoché". At the last minute the teacher have been ...