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- Wed Apr 17, 2024 2:41 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Faking it
- Replies: 15
- Views: 430
Re: Faking it
I mean, that site is not really therapy either. It’s self-help basically, that draws from a bunch of different things and (near as I can tell) claims no professional credentials. As to the note about emotions, creating emotions at will is not some amazing thing to me. Movies and TV do this all the t...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:29 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Faking it
- Replies: 15
- Views: 430
Re: Faking it
Looking at the site, I question the assumption that the way to be happy is by “cleaning out” “unconscious areas of the mind.” He claims to do this, but also says he helps people identify negative beliefs - presumably bringing them to conscious awareness. To me it is a confusing jumble of ideas, but ...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:03 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Faking it
- Replies: 15
- Views: 430
Re: Faking it
I am going to make some generalizations here, based on years of real-life observations. I guess it also takes a bit of ‘street smarts’ which you probably either learn growing up, or you don’t. That means being able to know right away when the person isn’t on the level. It’s the same as knowing when...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:36 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Faking it
- Replies: 15
- Views: 430
Re: Faking it
Yeah the guy I was talking with didn’t really listen to what I was saying. I felt like he was trying to fit my stuff into his box and even distorting it to make it fit. I lost a lot of respect when he invented trauma I didn’t have just to have an explanation for what’s going on To me the second bit...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:19 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Faking it
- Replies: 15
- Views: 430
Re: Faking it
I go by authenticity, personally. It’s a thing that can vary some by culture for sure, but if someone is always wearing a mask, it’s just another layer of delusion and will probably obscure whatever wisdom they want to share. My only caveat here is that with Buddhist teachers they have to operate at...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 11:18 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: How to play the game of self
- Replies: 4
- Views: 208
Re: How to play the game of self
Do you know this situations where you meet a new person, and they start creating a story of their self and who they are? What should you do in such situations? The same? Especially when they want to play the game of status, figuring out where they are on the imaginary social hierarchy. I never know...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 1:51 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Enlightenment (continued)
- Replies: 51
- Views: 1690
Re: Enlightenment (continued)
As it is said in Dharmapada 14:183 "Do good, don't do evil, purify your mind." This is the Buddha's defitinion. I put my sign under it. Not blowing to the wind. :popcorn: Obviously you ignored or simply dismissed the fact I shared with you already, which is that this quote from the Dhamma...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 8:59 pm
- Forum: Sakya
- Topic: Where can I acquire a lung (text) for Ngondro Sakya?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 148
Re: Where can I acquire a lung (text) for Ngondro Sakya?
Hi everyone, I've recently decided to begin practicing Ngondro. The closest Tibetan center to me has a resident tulku with a Sakya lineage background (having studied for over 10 years at the Sakya Trizin academy in Nepal). When I inquired about receiving the Ngondro lung from him, he mentioned find...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 3:29 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Vajrayana practice without empowerment
- Replies: 62
- Views: 4265
Re: Vajrayana practice without empowerment
It’s not universal, one public Sakya practices involves self-generation. I’m sure more stringent instructions exist for people without the empowerment in some instances, with some teachers but there is a large public practice involving a liturgy with self-generation. What exactly are you thinking o...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 8:50 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Vajrayana practice without empowerment
- Replies: 62
- Views: 4265
Re: Vajrayana practice without empowerment
It’s not universal, one public Sakya practices involves self-generation. I’m sure more stringent instructions exist for people without the empowerment in some instances, with some teachers but there is a large public practice involving a liturgy with self-generation. The idea that there is some stri...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 7:18 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Vajrayana practice without empowerment
- Replies: 62
- Views: 4265
Re: Vajrayana practice without empowerment
My Sakya teachers have thought it was fine for some people to attend pujas of some practices without empowerment, peaceful practices mostly, and simple Guru yogas. I think who the student is matters too. I'm sure there's no harm in sitting in a room while someone does a puja. But they can't do the ...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 2:27 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Vajrayana practice without empowerment
- Replies: 62
- Views: 4265
Re: Vajrayana practice without empowerment
My Sakya teachers have thought it was fine for some people to attend pujas of some practices without empowerment, peaceful practices mostly, and simple Guru yogas. I think who the student is matters too. They all were emphatic that serious tantric practices began with and flows from empowerment thou...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 5:22 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Vajrayana practice without empowerment
- Replies: 62
- Views: 4265
Re: Vajrayana practice without empowerment
Ah yes the “things are how I want them to be because emptiness” argument. A true staple of Buddhist forms.
Trying to practice Vajrayana or Dzogchen without empowerment is just playing games with a map, without introduction or empowerment you will never go anywhere, you don’t even have a compass.
Trying to practice Vajrayana or Dzogchen without empowerment is just playing games with a map, without introduction or empowerment you will never go anywhere, you don’t even have a compass.
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 1:38 am
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Don't know mind
- Replies: 15
- Views: 504
Re: Don't know mind
Since no one knows it, I guess not.master of puppets wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 6:07 pm Don't know mind
Anyone knows what is it like?
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- Sat Apr 06, 2024 2:07 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: The concept of a root guru
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1144
Re: The concept of a root guru
Yes of course, however the relationship one has to a Guru is exceptional, in a way in Vajrayana and Dzogchen it is sort of everything, they are (hopefully) the relative exemplar of the highest spiritual qualities we can conceive of, however imperfectly. We are not in the relationship to scrutinize t...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 9:44 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: 21 st century
- Replies: 7
- Views: 348
Re: 21 st century
The Dalai Lama wrote an entire book on this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Wisdom,_Modern_World It’s a relatively simple message, but you notice we haven’t really taken it on board, samsara and whatnot. Since you actually mentioned him by name, perhaps take look at the huge amount HHDL has...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 7:44 pm
- Forum: Discovering Mahayana Buddhism
- Topic: the idea of a essential thing moving is silly.essentiality is no essential.so beauty and ugliness are non existant?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 369
Re: the idea of a essential thing moving is silly.essentiality is no essential.so beauty and ugliness are non existant?
Relative reality and judgements (such as beauty and ugliness) are not “non existent”, there is no such state as “non existent”…they are not inherently existent, and thus do not exist in the reflexive way they appear to us.
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 6:33 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Shingon?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6605
Re: Shingon?
After having a number of conversations with a Khenpo and Geshe trying to clarify what actual sadhanas and practices were what classification of Tantra, I concluded that in terms of practice this classification is ad-hoc, and plenty of practices could be said to occupy multiple positions in the schem...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 9:01 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Why does shantideva say the self,if permanent must be inert?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 800
Re: Why does shantideva say the self,if permanent must be inert?
Because a thing which is not part of a chain of cause and effect is by definition cut off from everything else, and this inert.Artziebetter1 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:48 am is it because a permanent thing has to be unconditioned,and thus since it has no qualities,it cannot have knowledge or consciousness?
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 4:41 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: What advice would you give yourself 10-20 years ago?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 726
Re: What advice would you give yourself 10-20 years ago?
Stop worrying about others perceptions so much, find what matters to you and do it. Take Dharma practice more seriously.