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by Tlalok
Thu Apr 20, 2023 5:44 pm
Forum: Dharma Events
Topic: The Bardos: Teaching by Phakchok Rinpoche - May 6th and 7th
Replies: 0
Views: 1285

The Bardos: Teaching by Phakchok Rinpoche - May 6th and 7th

It looks like Phakchok Rinpoche will be offering two days of online bardo teachings: https://samyeinstitute.org/event/the-bardos-teaching-by-phakchok-rinpoche/ Samye Institute is happy to announce that Phakchok Rinpoche will teach on the bardos on May 6th and 7th at 5:45 PM, Nepal Time (check your l...
by Tlalok
Tue Oct 26, 2021 9:17 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Children Covid Vaccinations
Replies: 114
Views: 16383

Re: Children Covid Vaccinations

Sigh.. All this peer pressure to conform to a non buddhist establishment. I guess i'm very orthodox. I entrust myself to Medicine Buddha. Me too, that's why I don't fasten my seatbelt or open my eyes while driving. Medicine Buddha will also cure me if I take a nice refreshing swig of wood alcohol.
by Tlalok
Mon Oct 25, 2021 5:22 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Facebook is bad
Replies: 140
Views: 18650

Re: Facebook is bad

It looks like it was a DNS issue that took it down. A relatively minor issue, but compounded by the fact that apparently all of Facebook's internal communication is done through messenger so they shut down completely in the event of it going down. Great infrastructure there! I work with a lot of pe...
by Tlalok
Wed Oct 20, 2021 4:34 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: The boss
Replies: 12
Views: 1056

Re: The boss

If there is a HR dept I would certainly talk to them - or the business owner. Could you talk to your boss himself and ask him quietly not to behave in that manner towards you? Otherwise, I think you're doing all you can. If it were me, I'd keep my head down and start looking out for my next job. No...
by Tlalok
Fri Oct 15, 2021 6:31 pm
Forum: Nyingma
Topic: New Vajrakila Practice Guide by Garchen Rinpoche
Replies: 17
Views: 5638

Re: New Vajrakila Practice Guide by Garchen Rinpoche

That's a huge book, 500 pages!
by Tlalok
Wed Oct 06, 2021 3:50 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Facebook is bad
Replies: 140
Views: 18650

Re: Facebook is bad

It looks like it was a DNS issue that took it down. A relatively minor issue, but compounded by the fact that apparently all of Facebook's internal communication is done through messenger so they shut down completely in the event of it going down. Great infrastructure there! I work with a lot of peo...
by Tlalok
Sun Sep 26, 2021 7:03 pm
Forum: Engaged Buddhism
Topic: Ice is melting on the North Pole
Replies: 23
Views: 11893

Re: Ice is melting on the North Pole

I can't wait to see what the later 21st century is going to be like!
by Tlalok
Wed Sep 22, 2021 3:48 pm
Forum: Mahamudra
Topic: What if seeing a lama as pure was less about lifting a lama up and more about bringing purity
Replies: 36
Views: 19029

Re: What if seeing a lama as pure was less about lifting a lama up and more about bringing purity

In 28 Days Later the Zombies are living humans infected with rabies, they are definitely sentient beings in that case. In the Last of Us the Zombies are living humans taken whose behaviour is controlled by a strain of Cordyceps fungus, they are probably also sentient beings. The George A. Romero Zom...
by Tlalok
Mon Sep 20, 2021 7:38 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Facebook is bad
Replies: 140
Views: 18650

Re: Facebook is bad

Hackers can use Discord to spread malware. I never downloaded it / use it and never plan to. Not safe at all IMHO, especially if you’re going into it believing that it’s relatively safe-ish like FaceBook. This is why your group's security strategy should merely be tied to the application. You gotta...
by Tlalok
Mon Sep 20, 2021 3:29 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Facebook is bad
Replies: 140
Views: 18650

Re: Facebook is bad

The name “Discord” says it all, though, doesn’t it? I’m a member of several Discord servers, and ironically there’s significantly less discord in them than any other platform I’m part of, including here. Discord has way better moderation tools than FB. It's a great app for gathering niche communiti...
by Tlalok
Thu Sep 02, 2021 7:35 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Anam Thubten
Replies: 41
Views: 4924

Re: Anam Thubten

Yes, the Buddha smiles (It’s a significant event in the Zen tradition.), but nowhere is it recorded that he laughs or that he causes others to laugh. Probably because the people who wrote it down, centuries after it happened, lacked as sense of humor. /magnus One of the listed qualities of arhats i...
by Tlalok
Thu Aug 26, 2021 10:03 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Atisha about Padmasambhava?
Replies: 10
Views: 1212

Re: Atisha about Padmasambhava?

On the way, Atisha did not understand who Padmasambhava was, or, on the contrary, understood very well who he was and therefore ignored him deliberately. It is unlikely that Atisha was unaware of Padmasambhava. Atisha was at Samye and expressed astonishment at the number of Sanskrit Manuscripts hel...
by Tlalok
Tue Aug 24, 2021 6:59 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Bodhisattvas of Produce?
Replies: 33
Views: 2730

Re: Bodhisattvas of Produce?

bodhiye wrote: Tue Aug 24, 2021 6:53 pm
Tlalok wrote: Mon Aug 23, 2021 5:55 pm Agricultural fecundity sounds like a part of any Bodhisattvas portfolio IMO.
Hmm..
Can you tell why?
It's hard to lead every single sentient being to complete and perfect Buddhahood if they're all starving and stuff.
by Tlalok
Mon Aug 23, 2021 5:55 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Bodhisattvas of Produce?
Replies: 33
Views: 2730

Re: Bodhisattvas of Produce?

Agricultural fecundity sounds like a part of any Bodhisattvas portfolio IMO.
by Tlalok
Fri Aug 20, 2021 6:14 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Buddhist OCD
Replies: 8
Views: 808

Re: Buddhist OCD

You're describing a real common pitfall people encounter with visualization practice. We read stories of great masters mentally emanating immense mountains packed full of deities, and when it's not primally visible to us, we feel we're phoning it in. This is actually kind of missing the point of the...
by Tlalok
Tue Aug 17, 2021 5:31 pm
Forum: Gelug
Topic: Most Important Texts in the Gelug Tradition
Replies: 5
Views: 1052

Re: Most Important Texts in the Gelug Tradition

You could also say that the Monastic curriculum and the supporting commentaries taught in the monastic colleges that are not attributed to LTK would answer your question. Shaun :namaste: :namaste: :namaste: Perhaps Off Topic, but I'd love to see some monastic curriculums, do you have any sources fo...
by Tlalok
Fri Jul 30, 2021 11:55 pm
Forum: Meditation
Topic: Selecting a mala
Replies: 13
Views: 6803

Re: Selecting a mala

Kathy and PadmaVonSambhava, thank you very much. I'd never thought of threading it like that and I was just jamming the thread hoping it would magically come out like an Orangutan or something!
by Tlalok
Fri Jul 30, 2021 6:50 pm
Forum: Meditation
Topic: Selecting a mala
Replies: 13
Views: 6803

Re: Selecting a mala

All things are impermanent, even mala threads! :namaste: It will break, sooner or later. You get some new thread, and a needle small enough to go through the holes in the beads, and you re-thread it. Om mani padme hum Kathy This is in itself a powerful meditation on patience. The guru bead's holes ...
by Tlalok
Thu Jul 29, 2021 3:31 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: New guy to Tantra
Replies: 15
Views: 1299

Re: New guy to Tantra

Thank you for this answer that answered the basics of my questions. A few more tho in response, You said that the instructions of a guru, life circumstances, etc all play into what practices one may do throughout the day. Would you be able to give me a basic idea of how a lay practitioner may pract...
by Tlalok
Wed Jul 28, 2021 5:09 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: The channels of the eight classes.
Replies: 3
Views: 664

Re: The channels of the eight classes.

These channels apparently open when one is involved with concepts and performs negative actions. Once opened the influence of the eight classes can be received. But who doesn’t have concepts and how many of us can with 100% certainty say that they never performed any negative actions. So is safe to...

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