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by dorjeshonnu
Thu Mar 07, 2013 4:52 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Are Dzogchen and Terma exclusively Nyingma?
Replies: 17
Views: 4711

Re: Tulpas

we "Nyingmapas" understand full well that termas and Dzogchen can only be said to belong to those from whom their transmission originally flowed and those who've received their transmission.. but certainly not to some school. schools can be distinguished by for instance the object of guru...
by dorjeshonnu
Thu Mar 07, 2013 5:00 am
Forum: Nyingma
Topic: Contemporary tertons of Eastern Tibet
Replies: 116
Views: 31971

Re: Contemporary tertons of Eastern Tibet

Only you know the answer to this question... untrue if it is any consolation I am sure that most, if not all, of the members periodically ask themselves the same thing. wakening, benefits from dharma study dharma study, benefits from informed guidance informed guidance, can appear with peer discuss...
by dorjeshonnu
Wed Mar 06, 2013 6:59 pm
Forum: Nyingma
Topic: Contemporary tertons of Eastern Tibet
Replies: 116
Views: 31971

Re: Contemporary tertons of Eastern Tibet

Namgyal wrote:immediately pressed his palms together in the gesture of supplication and begged for the power and realization of every quality of perfect insight.'
why waste time on an internet forum
by dorjeshonnu
Tue Mar 05, 2013 6:38 am
Forum: Nyingma
Topic: Contemporary tertons of Eastern Tibet
Replies: 116
Views: 31971

Re: Contemporary tertons of Eastern Tibet

Careful with the definition of bodhisattvas. In the Vajrayana view, they are already realized beings who are irreversibly on the path to buddhahood. 8th bhumi Still, according to your view, if you can accumulate good merit without being a buddhist, you can eventually reach buddhahood "by chanc...
by dorjeshonnu
Tue Feb 26, 2013 6:13 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Public Relations for Buddhist Masters?
Replies: 13
Views: 3094

Re: Public Relations for Buddhist Masters?

we have to wonder how it has come to pass that the remote and esoteric traditions of Buddhist tantra have become the perfect expression of the logic of Adam Smith? buddha-dharma has repeatedly flourished under the patronage of elites in this time merchants are the elites setting the broader agenda ...
by dorjeshonnu
Tue Feb 26, 2013 4:57 am
Forum: Nyingma
Topic: Contemporary tertons of Eastern Tibet
Replies: 116
Views: 31971

Re: Contemporary tertons of Eastern Tibet

The only requirement is that they hear the teachings of a buddha in one life. Since there will be no buddha in the kalpa he is reborn, he will not be a buddhist to the extent that bodhicitta generated with the hearing is thrown and received consistently, shaped by a buddhist view, that sattva is a ...
by dorjeshonnu
Sun Feb 24, 2013 8:36 pm
Forum: Nyingma
Topic: Contemporary tertons of Eastern Tibet
Replies: 116
Views: 31971

Re: Contemporary tertons of Eastern Tibet

According to the Madhyamika, it is possible to achieve liberation without buddhism. Pratyekabuddhas actually manage it in a kalpa where no buddha has been born. They are not full buddhas, though, as they do have relatively limited compassion and are not omniscient. not completely accurate http://ww...
by dorjeshonnu
Sat Feb 23, 2013 9:05 pm
Forum: Nyingma
Topic: Contemporary tertons of Eastern Tibet
Replies: 116
Views: 31971

Re: Contemporary tertons of Eastern Tibet

if you have a buddhist view and methods, you can wake up if you do not have a buddhist view and method, you can not wake up it does not matter what title you give this view, its methods, or wakefulness vajrayana buddhist views and methods require a valid unbroken lineage of transmission a teacher wh...
by dorjeshonnu
Sat Feb 23, 2013 5:40 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: A & Thigle in Dzogchen
Replies: 32
Views: 13152

Re: A & Thigle in Dzogchen

Ish wrote:Hahahah. The ogre and monkey interrupting the zhine is a BLESSING not a curse!!
shhhhhhhhhhhhh

rgyal.ba dgongs brgyud secrets of the rdo.rje 'dzin cannot be revealed before unprepared persons

such information might be hazardous to their spiritual health
by dorjeshonnu
Fri Feb 22, 2013 5:56 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Rainbow body
Replies: 53
Views: 14365

Re: Rainbow body

What happens to the rainbow body if it is not actively maintained? Is it something that can be lost? when you wake up, your body of results, your fabricated physicality, remains and continues until the breakdown of its constituent parts. when via method the body of results reverts to the five color...
by dorjeshonnu
Fri Feb 22, 2013 4:10 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Search.
Replies: 8
Views: 2731

Re: Search.

Thank you all for the comments.I now feel the need to communicate with someone who could teach me. Community that exists in Ukraine intuitively I do not like. I would like a personal communication and training. But rather it is a lot of things, because today any Buddhism - a wide market that does n...
by dorjeshonnu
Fri Feb 22, 2013 3:45 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Illusion
Replies: 20
Views: 6001

Re: Illusion

kalden yungdrung wrote:So it is very interesting to know your suggestions what would be illusion for you.
any particular thing
by dorjeshonnu
Fri Feb 22, 2013 3:30 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: A & Thigle in Dzogchen
Replies: 32
Views: 13152

Re: A & Thigle in Dzogchen

With regards to the visualization of the white A in the rainbow thigle, Can one use the short A stroke (used in Tummo) instead of the full Tibetan A? From the perspective of Chogyal Namkhai Norbu's Guru Yoga. Thanks it is said, however, that if you perform a dzogchen guru yoga incorrectly even once...
by dorjeshonnu
Tue Sep 11, 2012 4:20 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Direct Teaching
Replies: 84
Views: 16198

Re: Direct Teaching

Because doubt is coming over and over again. method is not the result of doubt, method is the result of view View is always doubt based, as there is nothing solid to build it upon. solidity does not prevent doubt, view is based on this with that, and on this then that In other words, no view will g...
by dorjeshonnu
Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:35 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Direct Teaching
Replies: 84
Views: 16198

Re: Direct Teaching

naked wakefulness is not dependent on the activity of gamma-aminobutyric acid
by dorjeshonnu
Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:10 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Direct Teaching
Replies: 84
Views: 16198

Re: Direct Teaching

oushi wrote:So, what is existence?
This.
Why then say "you"?
Suffering of ignorance.
by dorjeshonnu
Mon Sep 10, 2012 8:39 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Direct Teaching
Replies: 84
Views: 16198

Re: Direct Teaching

If nothing exist, nonexistence is nonsense. Your statement contradicts itself. I have proposed neither existence nor non-existence, there has not been some thing to contradict. Everything is awake. Suffering appears. Start talking. I am not Samantabhadra any more or less than you are. Samantabhadra...
by dorjeshonnu
Mon Sep 10, 2012 8:12 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Direct Teaching
Replies: 84
Views: 16198

Re: Direct Teaching

And who is he? What is he? Where is he now? http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an04/an04.036.than.html Awake. Gone-thus. If you can find one thing that would exist without him existing, there is duality. Not even tathata exists. For Samantabhadra, wakefulness. For Vajrasattva, Vajrasattva. ...
by dorjeshonnu
Mon Sep 10, 2012 7:45 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Buddha nature misunderstood as atman.
Replies: 50
Views: 17401

Re: Buddha nature misunderstood as atman.

Concepts shape the views from which traditions extract appropriate methods, which seem to produce results. And what doesn't produce results? Even dog shit produces results, so your statement is meaningless. When suffering has ended, no more results are obtained. Which concepts is absolutely solid, ...
by dorjeshonnu
Mon Sep 10, 2012 7:28 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Direct Teaching
Replies: 84
Views: 16198

Re: Direct Teaching

oushi wrote:"He" is always in play, nonjudgmental, like water flowing down the hills.
Samantabhadra woke up. Samantabhadra waking up did not wake you up.

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