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- Sat Nov 23, 2019 5:35 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Can beings in hell recall their past lives?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 440
Re: Can beings in hell recall their past lives?
If you think of some point in your life where you have been painfully suffering - that experience of suffering overwhelms and dominates your experience. There's no room for any thoughts other than your suffering. Hell is like that except magnitudes worse and goes on for eons. Generally, I agree wit...
- Sat Nov 23, 2019 4:35 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Can beings in hell recall their past lives?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 440
Re: Can beings in hell recall their past lives?
If you think of some point in your life where you have been painfully suffering - that experience of suffering overwhelms and dominates your experience. There's no room for any thoughts other than your suffering. Hell is like that except magnitudes worse and goes on for eons. Generally, I agree wit...
- Thu Sep 26, 2019 5:38 pm
- Forum: Gelug
- Topic: Is idiot compassion a thing?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 2321
Re: Is idiot compassion a thing?
People do way worse things than panhandling and making up BS stories for drugs, and sometimes a person doing this might actually be trying to take the "nice route" to sustaining their addiction, frankly - one that does not involve outright stealing etc. Your reasoning is identical to my Lama's, I t...
- Fri Sep 20, 2019 11:55 pm
- Forum: Gelug
- Topic: Vajrasattva in the Gelug tradition
- Replies: 10
- Views: 589
Re: Vajrasattva in the Gelug tradition
For "visualization of ourselves as Vajrasattva" Geluks definitely do that- just look at the long six session. As an aside: Gehlek Rimpoche's six-session yoga commentary specifies that, even though it says "Vajrasattva," the actual visualization here is supposed to be of ourselves as a white-coloure...
- Fri Sep 20, 2019 2:09 pm
- Forum: Gelug
- Topic: Vajrasattva in the Gelug tradition
- Replies: 10
- Views: 589
Re: Vajrasattva in the Gelug tradition
Your guess is as good as mine, ultimately. I received Vajrasattva Yab Yum multiple times, although it sounds like it could have been classified as a jenang (subsequent permission) rather than a wang. I'm not entirely sure. I can confirm that the practice involves visualizing him above one's crown—I ...
- Wed Aug 14, 2019 11:37 pm
- Forum: Gelug
- Topic: Long life Tsongkhapa
- Replies: 12
- Views: 965
Re: Long life Tsongkhapa
Thank you! May I know the book to read? Hi there, my gurus live far from me, I have not seen them for years. But thanks ! A copy of the Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga is here, compiled by Lama Zopa: http://www.atishacentre.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Lama-Tsongkhapa-Guru-Yoga2.pdf Hope this helps.
- Tue Aug 13, 2019 5:09 pm
- Forum: Gelug
- Topic: Long life Tsongkhapa
- Replies: 12
- Views: 965
Re: Long life Tsongkhapa
Lester, this is a case where you should ask your lama, if you have one. For what it's worth, Gaden Lhagyema by itself, without special embellishments, would probably be considered a life-extending practice by some. I always hear about Tsongkhapa in reference to Tushita, rather than Sukhavati, so I'm...
- Tue Mar 05, 2019 10:50 pm
- Forum: Gelug
- Topic: Free prayer book to print out
- Replies: 12
- Views: 834
Re: Free prayer book to print out
We never know who someone is. Speaking negatively about them could have unanticipated effects, like "deterring from tantric practice anyone having confidence in it." Sure, but here we are talking about something HH. Dalailama called spirit worship and in general there was a lot of nastiness around ...
- Tue Mar 05, 2019 1:46 pm
- Forum: Gelug
- Topic: Free prayer book to print out
- Replies: 12
- Views: 834
Re: Free prayer book to print out
Can't really help you with a gelug prayer book, but if I were you I'd stay far away from Tsem Tulku Rinpoche and everything he does. He is actually worshiping certain gyalpo dressed as "dharmapala". That is the only advice I can offer. For a topic that is categorically off-limits, ppl sure do talk ...
- Mon Dec 31, 2018 1:33 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: DW 10 y.o. video msg from me (DNS)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2571
Re: DW 10 y.o. video msg from me (DNS)
I thought the saying was, "Time flies when you're having fun"!

- L
- Mon Dec 31, 2018 1:31 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: DW 10 y.o. video msg from me (DNS)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2571
Re: DW 10 y.o. video msg from me (DNS)
Unbelievable! This is exactly what I need for my own legs. I can't fathom how I've never seen it before.
Thank You, from the bottom of my heart.
- L
Thank You, from the bottom of my heart.
- L
- Mon Dec 31, 2018 1:23 pm
- Forum: Prayers and Aspirations
- Topic: Request for all
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1045
- Mon Dec 31, 2018 1:19 pm
- Forum: Prayers and Aspirations
- Topic: Request for all
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1045
Re: Request for all
That was a very peaceful melody & image -- I have You to thank!

- L
- Mon Dec 31, 2018 1:12 pm
- Forum: Prayers and Aspirations
- Topic: Request for all
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1045
Re: Request for all
Maybe a bit lame, but can we all wish for each other never to be separated from the guru? I'm feeling his absence right now :consoling: this is supremely beneficial - not lame. ah lama kyenno YES! I just mean that I'm not always comfortable asking for help, and because I don't know all of you perso...
- Mon Dec 24, 2018 5:14 pm
- Forum: Wellness, Diet and Fitness
- Topic: CBD oil
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2259
Re: CBD oil
I've been trying to take this into the path as well. I'm a MMJ patient with a severe injury sustained at birth, & it brings relief. I'm not ready to give it up just yet, for the reason that it (coupled with THC) have "given me my life back" in a certain conventional sense. For what it's worth, I'm b...
- Mon Dec 24, 2018 4:50 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Does it matter if you reveal your yidam?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 3965
Re: Does it matter if you reveal your yidam?
For one particular Yidam, I've been told, "Don't even tell your wife." Down the road, I thought it would be ok to mention it to my then-fiancée in a devotional/protective context, offering her help with a specific issue. She didn't understand, and I consider myself to have paid a huge price for it i...
- Mon Dec 24, 2018 4:41 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Disagreeing with Guru
- Replies: 80
- Views: 7347
Re: Disagreeing with Guru
Typical of my one-shot answers, likely to be controversial/provocative when they don't need to be: If your "disagreement" is to the level where you perceive actual flaws in the person that you would personally correct, you're not treating them like a guru, meaning they aren't your Guru. The label "G...
- Mon Dec 24, 2018 4:21 pm
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: Uṣṇīṣacakravartitantra
- Replies: 3
- Views: 408
Uṣṇīṣacakravartitantra
I learned of the existence of this text only recently; it's given in Chinese by Amoghavajra, below. I would really like to see it in English, because I consider myself indebted to Amoghavajra, but I don't know where to go from here. For example, is it feasible for me, a 31-year-old man in reasonable...
- Sun Dec 23, 2018 9:10 pm
- Forum: Gelug
- Topic: According to the Prasangika, what is wrong with statement that the two truths are two ways of looking at one object?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 3816
Re: According to the Prasangika, what is wrong with statement that the two truths are two ways of looking at one object?
Because all entities may be seen veridically or nonveridically, all entities bear two natures. I assert that there is only one truth/one nature encompassing reality as a whole, accompanied by various flavours of misapprehension corresponding to the minds of beings. As long as a given set of misappr...
- Fri Dec 21, 2018 3:05 pm
- Forum: Gelug
- Topic: Lam Rim Discussion: Part 1
- Replies: 61
- Views: 23166
Re: Lam Rim Discussion: Part 1
I think it can be natural to develop intense feelings of devotion toward a particular method once it works for you, & that must be why we do have sectarianism. In reality, it seems to me we can't expect lightning to strike for others in the same way it has for us. What it means for each one of us to...