Experienced help with chöd method and meditation
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Re: Experienced help with chöd method and meditation
What subconscious?
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Re: Experienced help with chöd method and meditation
mahabuddha: was that a question directed at me?
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Re: Experienced help with chöd method and meditation
The gods and demons are none other than your own mind.
Re: Experienced help with chöd method and meditation
Chogyal Namkhai Norbu advised that a person should never engage with spirits of the 8 Classes (even Dharmapalas) without first self-generating as a deity.
This would imply that the 'Feeding You Demons' practice is therapy rather than actually engaging as above.
In turn, this should mean there is little danger, but ChNN was wise, knowing as other experienced practitioners do, that uninvited guests can appear when the party is to their liking.
Ouija board, anyone?
This would imply that the 'Feeding You Demons' practice is therapy rather than actually engaging as above.
In turn, this should mean there is little danger, but ChNN was wise, knowing as other experienced practitioners do, that uninvited guests can appear when the party is to their liking.
Ouija board, anyone?
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Re: Experienced help with chöd method and meditation
To the original poster, chod is just a condensed practice of all mahayana contemplations on our attachments and ideas of self and others, demons just refer to objects of our senses, how we accept and reject, pleasure and pain, pride ego and so on.
Demons used in language here is just Romantic flowery poetry to describe things that block us from equanimity.
Plus demons in Asian cultures don't exist, they are more like mischievous naughty kids, only modern western culture and modern movies make demons into evil monsters. Maybe that's a block for chod as well?
If you feel passionate about chod practice, find a teacher who knows the real meaning of it, reading a book about it is just more stuff to leave behind later.
Regards
Demons used in language here is just Romantic flowery poetry to describe things that block us from equanimity.
Plus demons in Asian cultures don't exist, they are more like mischievous naughty kids, only modern western culture and modern movies make demons into evil monsters. Maybe that's a block for chod as well?
If you feel passionate about chod practice, find a teacher who knows the real meaning of it, reading a book about it is just more stuff to leave behind later.
Regards