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by maybay
Sun Nov 20, 2016 6:09 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: I declined the AirBnB commitment
Replies: 9
Views: 3042

Re: I declined the AirBnB commitment

Malcolm wrote:
maybay wrote:
Malcolm wrote: Identity politics did win this election, they just happened to be white identity politics.
Make up your mind already. Did Trump win or did Clinton lose?
Neither. One got a job that the other should have had the good sense to avoid.
:offtopic:
by maybay
Sun Nov 20, 2016 6:04 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: what is whiteness? what is it to be "white" in the USA?
Replies: 417
Views: 70867

Re: what is whiteness? what is it to be "white" in the USA?

[Mod-note: Edit.] maybay, recalling & talking about atrocities is legitimising their actions? I work with a conservative mormon white guy who has given me that speech repeatedly. He does not believe in human caused climate change or that racism exists in amerika and on and on..... He says parap...
by maybay
Sun Nov 20, 2016 5:53 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: I declined the AirBnB commitment
Replies: 9
Views: 3042

Re: I declined the AirBnB commitment

We need a post-identity liberalism, and it should draw from the past successes of pre-identity liberalism. Such a liberalism would concentrate on widening its base by appealing to Americans as Americans and emphasizing the issues that affect a vast majority of them. It would speak to the nation as ...
by maybay
Sun Nov 20, 2016 5:50 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: I declined the AirBnB commitment
Replies: 9
Views: 3042

Re: I declined the AirBnB commitment

maybay, howdy. You might find this NY Times editorial interesting: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/opinion/sunday/the-end-of-identity-liberalism.html?ref=opinion&_r=1&mtrref=undefined&gwh=748B62E21A471016468BC6B75A276C8A&gwt=pay&assetType=opinion rachMiel The author is quite w...
by maybay
Sat Nov 19, 2016 9:46 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: I declined the AirBnB commitment
Replies: 9
Views: 3042

I declined the AirBnB commitment

We welcome your feedback about your decision to decline. I wanted to cancel anyway. But since you ask, the commitment basically usurps my prerogative to judge who I would let into my house, and replaces it with a technocratic solution I do not trust, i.e. algorithms and wisdom of the crowd etc. I w...
by maybay
Tue Nov 15, 2016 11:04 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: what is whiteness? what is it to be "white" in the USA?
Replies: 417
Views: 70867

Re: what is whiteness? what is it to be "white" in the USA?

More likely a cold hell.
by maybay
Tue Nov 01, 2016 6:53 pm
Forum: Kagyu
Topic: The Meaning of “Kagyu”
Replies: 7
Views: 2950

Re: The Meaning of “Kagyu”

:thumbsup:
by maybay
Sat Oct 29, 2016 8:27 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: comparing paths, uniting paths, and practicing a path
Replies: 201
Views: 33442

Re: comparing paths, uniting paths, and practicing a path

I can't find any mention of promulgating the Dharma in MSL. What reasons and what contradictions? "because the (vehicles) began together..."; pg.7, Thurman translation. I don't think it helps to assume the beginning of a vehicle and the turning of a wheel are one and the same thing. Here'...
by maybay
Sat Oct 29, 2016 5:55 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: comparing paths, uniting paths, and practicing a path
Replies: 201
Views: 33442

Re: comparing paths, uniting paths, and practicing a path

No, this is false. Why? For example, the Mahāyāna Sutrālaṃkara explains that the three turnings were turned at the same time. To interpret the three turnings as temporal in sequence is an error, they occurred at one and the same time. If that is true then there is no basis for calling them first, s...
by maybay
Fri Oct 28, 2016 10:10 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: comparing paths, uniting paths, and practicing a path
Replies: 201
Views: 33442

Re: comparing paths, uniting paths, and practicing a path

No one is playing what if games here. The simple fact is this is the order in which it occurred, and now, like it or not , later teachings, traditions and teachers all make these earlier teachings the basis of their own. No, this is false. Why? For example, the Mahāyāna Sutrālaṃkara explains that t...
by maybay
Fri Oct 28, 2016 9:23 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Is Trekchod a form of wrathful practice?
Replies: 56
Views: 12209

Re: Is Trekchod a form of wrathful practice?

In fact, the final empowerment of the Rinchen Terzon contains an empowerment from Sangye Lingpa's cycles of termas called the "Poti Lung Wang." Not only does this empowerment contain an empowerment into the nine yānas, it also includes a section which grants one the empowerment for all te...
by maybay
Fri Oct 28, 2016 8:27 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Is Trekchod a form of wrathful practice?
Replies: 56
Views: 12209

Re: Is Trekchod a form of wrathful practice?

Except the Creepy Crawly pool cleaner. That's a classic.
by maybay
Fri Oct 28, 2016 8:22 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Is Trekchod a form of wrathful practice?
Replies: 56
Views: 12209

Re: Is Trekchod a form of wrathful practice?

In fact, the final empowerment of the Rinchen Terzon contains an empowerment from Sangye Lingpa's cycles of termas called the "Poti Lung Wang." Not only does this empowerment contain an empowerment into the nine yānas, it also includes a section which grants one the empowerment for all te...
by maybay
Fri Oct 28, 2016 7:52 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: comparing paths, uniting paths, and practicing a path
Replies: 201
Views: 33442

Re: comparing paths, uniting paths, and practicing a path

But it is not a common ground at all. Or, rather, because of the history of Buddhist Studies in the West, there has come to be a mirage of commonality which every one chases, but somehow, no one can quite reach. What are u talking about? Western academics and their contrived problems? I am pointing...
by maybay
Fri Oct 28, 2016 5:32 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: comparing paths, uniting paths, and practicing a path
Replies: 201
Views: 33442

Re: comparing paths, uniting paths, and practicing a path

Sorry, Charlie. Each vehicle is independent and does not depend on the others for either sense or context. We were talking about turnings not vehicles. The first turning of the Wheel of Dharma by Buddha Śakyamuni is not the first turning of the wheel of Dharma. The first turning of the wheel of Dha...
by maybay
Fri Oct 28, 2016 5:31 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: comparing paths, uniting paths, and practicing a path
Replies: 201
Views: 33442

Re: comparing paths, uniting paths, and practicing a path

The Dharma taught by the Buddha in the First Turning is palliative, not fundamental; provisional and not definitive. It is still the only common ground among all Buddhists, regardless of how individual schools interpret it. And that makes it fundamental, the basis for everyone. But it is not a comm...
by maybay
Fri Oct 28, 2016 3:44 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Is Trekchod a form of wrathful practice?
Replies: 56
Views: 12209

Re: Is Trekchod a form of wrathful practice?

Perhaps the question is really how to distinguish wrath from the other types of practice, peaceful, enriching, magnetizing. I don't think u can make that distinction in trekchod. It could be any.
by maybay
Fri Oct 28, 2016 3:32 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: comparing paths, uniting paths, and practicing a path
Replies: 201
Views: 33442

Re: comparing paths, uniting paths, and practicing a path

Here, sir, you are absolutely mistaken. One cannot help others while one is still bound oneself. While I can agree with you that liberation as an end in it and of itself is a limited motivation; but to claim that liberation is not goal of Dzogchen practitioners is frankly absurd. Recently I was bei...
by maybay
Fri Oct 28, 2016 3:23 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: comparing paths, uniting paths, and practicing a path
Replies: 201
Views: 33442

Re: comparing paths, uniting paths, and practicing a path

The Dharma taught by the Buddha in the First Turning is palliative, not fundamental; provisional and not definitive. It is fundamental in that it is, or was, essential. Without it we would not know what to make of higher teachings. Sorry, Charlie. Each vehicle is independent and does not depend on ...

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