DBH.....this..."There are lineages where no one has died during retreat in 1000 years, which means ever. "
Since some in Tibetan
buddhism engage in lifelong retreats ...did you mean perhaps none has died in 3 year retreats?
I
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- Fri May 04, 2012 11:08 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Death at Tibetan Buddhist meditation retreat in Arizona
- Replies: 433
- Views: 93271
- Fri May 04, 2012 10:12 pm
- Forum: Alternative Health
- Topic: arthritis, disc disease
- Replies: 20
- Views: 9789
Re: arthritis, disc disease
To be clear..SME I reference taking(only after checking with your doc) is S-Adenosyl-L Methionine, or SAMe available in vegetarian form at health food stores or on the internet.
It assists joints.
It assists joints.
- Fri May 04, 2012 9:58 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Death at Tibetan Buddhist meditation retreat in Arizona
- Replies: 433
- Views: 93271
Re: Death at Tibetan Buddhist meditation retreat in Arizona
No charges of any sort were preferred in this incident of death it seems. Water was to be tested to determine if it contained some bad things. As no reports were forthcoming I'd suppose nothing untoward was found. His woman companion was treated for dehydration and released. Food and water were pres...
- Fri May 04, 2012 9:31 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Finding a teacher when you dislike interaction
- Replies: 97
- Views: 20878
Re: Finding a teacher when you dislike interaction
Yes...if this is a retreat center also... just dropping in may not be preferred. So I would call...if they do not want to be bothered they will have it on call forwarding or answering machine. This is less obtrusive then just dropping in. Then ask them when may I drop by. Emails...yes they may not c...
- Fri May 04, 2012 9:24 pm
- Forum: Nyingma
- Topic: Dharma practice is a placebo.
- Replies: 90
- Views: 24156
Re: Dharma practice is a placebo.
Also exists the possibility that so long and extended has been our sickness that we now even forget what exactly a presenting state of health may be.... mistaking all sorts of illnesses of me, delusions of grandeur leading us to think spiritual accomplishment of the greatest sorts....karma no longer...
- Fri May 04, 2012 8:53 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Is My Job Wrong Livelihood?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 7925
Re: Is My Job Wrong Livelihood?
Agreeing with that comment above.... the question always is....is it wrong for us. It is always person, who exactly is doing this living attached to live/li/hood. To ask the question, If I would so ask the question would be the answer enough for me......why did I ask the question if it right for me?...
- Fri May 04, 2012 8:31 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Death at Tibetan Buddhist meditation retreat in Arizona
- Replies: 433
- Views: 93271
Re: Death at Tibetan Buddhist meditation retreat in Arizona
This teacher, guessing from the comments here....sounds pretty suspect. I don't of course know this person who died nor the teacher. Fair I'd say to critique his teachings and all the rest. The death? People die all the time for all sorts of reasons to include karmic predisposition which is very ver...
- Fri May 04, 2012 7:56 pm
- Forum: Alternative Health
- Topic: arthritis, disc disease
- Replies: 20
- Views: 9789
Re: arthritis, disc disease
All of these suggestion seem good and I would not contradict any of them. My advice to add to those excellent suggestions.....meditation. Calm mind meditation successfully endeavored to my personal experience and attested to by varying sources found in buddhist literature(I could produce them but it...
- Fri Jan 13, 2012 7:50 pm
- Forum: Creative Writing
- Topic: My context
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1945
Re: My context
He walked in the forest and this he found: All those things Anger desire, all those actively felt emotions they being the flavor of things as they are apprehended a color it is the depth of it a touch it is the fineness of it a smell it is the differentiation of it Finding the ability to stay in thi...
- Fri Jan 06, 2012 10:08 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Hell in Tibetan Buddhism
- Replies: 69
- Views: 15729
Re: Hell in Tibetan Buddhism
I look at it this way....and don't think a strictly approach of scholorship with this thing works. We have in tibetan buddhism a play such as in association with liberation through hearing, stateing hell as a real concrete place. This play being performed for the general tibetan public, at group gat...
- Fri Jan 06, 2012 9:37 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Hell in Tibetan Buddhism
- Replies: 69
- Views: 15729
Re: Hell in Tibetan Buddhism
C..those at the 8th bhumi have mastery over rebirth and also karma.... two of ten other powers. It is not just mastery over bad karma. If they were only born by result of karma and then subject to those restraints they then, having accumulated very sufficient good karmic result(they are always doing...
- Fri Jan 06, 2012 8:41 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Hell in Tibetan Buddhism
- Replies: 69
- Views: 15729
Re: Hell in Tibetan Buddhism
As for me....if all spiritual means prove ineffective, powah has not worked, I nave noticedl a strange puckering notion in my anal region, my head seems cold with death but my feet feel unnaturally warm, I eventually see visions of a land of darkness redeened and black houses, black roads and black ...
- Fri Jan 06, 2012 8:25 pm
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Huseng's translation published: Buddhist Tales for the Soul
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2866
Re: Huseng's translation published: Buddhist Tales for the Soul
Hi H
Glad to hear that and of your continued efforts in propogation of these things....truly wonderful.
Glad to hear that and of your continued efforts in propogation of these things....truly wonderful.
- Fri Jan 06, 2012 8:17 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Are there any enlightened people in the world today?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6906
Re: Are there any enlightened people in the world today?
Reminding me for some reason of another story....a spiritual adherant who found a half dead dog filled with maggots, carrying around the dead half dog on his shoulders, and actually having to suck the maggots from its body with his mouth so as not to kill the maggots and still save the dog from bein...
- Fri Jan 06, 2012 7:59 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Hell in Tibetan Buddhism
- Replies: 69
- Views: 15729
Re: Hell in Tibetan Buddhism
This...." Logically, the hell realms must be as real as the realm we're in now, or the bodhisattvas wouldn't have the choice of rebirth in hell realms in order to help the beings there" ... is a excelllent point. The exact features of this place I would say may be variable. Perhaps if one ...
- Fri Jan 06, 2012 4:05 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: 1000 to 1500 Chinese spies might be at Bodhgaya Kalacakra
- Replies: 32
- Views: 6028
Re: 1000 to 1500 Chinese spies might be at Bodhgaya Kalacakra
There.... generally there is....not asian religious freedom religions are allowd by their respective governments...that is how it always has been and remains mostly. Any place free now...it is a recent invention, within the last hundred years. ASia....contextually wise a history....a hundred years i...
- Fri Jan 06, 2012 3:51 am
- Forum: Creative Writing
- Topic: My context
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1945
Re: My context
Snow now hard, on top, ice on top dogs walking on top. me falling through. Diamonds all on snow this morning... Thinking do others see these things? Then occurs a clear globe of sorts Light very bright in which all thoughts arise and then dissolve. Not as visualization seemingly but as real thing Th...
- Fri Jan 06, 2012 2:30 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: 1000 to 1500 Chinese spies might be at Bodhgaya Kalacakra
- Replies: 32
- Views: 6028
Re: 1000 to 1500 Chinese spies might be at Bodhgaya Kalacakra
N...the most perposterous things are said about china. Check things said about venezuela, cuba and about any other place that is adverserial to the west and its media thusly. Did you know Yugo Chavez is a heinous dictator that had his peoples shoot innocent civilians protesting.....find it on the tu...
- Fri Jan 06, 2012 2:01 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Hell in Tibetan Buddhism
- Replies: 69
- Views: 15729
Re: Hell in Tibetan Buddhism
Some have said that for all the realms there is a buddha for each realm. AS to liberation through hearing, and associated texts, hell seems to be refered to as a real place of rebirth. I have heard the issue of the hell guardians discussed before but forget the outcome. Could the place be real and t...
- Thu Jan 05, 2012 7:51 pm
- Forum: Language
- Topic: A curious question
- Replies: 0
- Views: 760
A curious question
As language's inception is thought. If one did think in light, (not pictures as animals do)? What would be then the means of communciation? Would it be a touch, a feeling a scent? Or would it be nothing at all? Gods they say some...they speak in song only, as are perhaps, mostly, saying some peoples...