As we fall about laughing, I find myself in need of clarification here.
User natan used to call himself crazywisdom on this forum. It was said, and afaik not denied, that he is https://gurunatan.org/en/about/ Is that true?
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- Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:22 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Was karmamudra part of ganachakra in the ancient India?
- Replies: 149
- Views: 5144
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 5:38 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: My last will and testament
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1004
Re: My last will and testament
Thanks for the suggestions so far. Kirtu, as for the groups, the people I'm mostly connected to are lone wolves like myself. The centre I was first attached to (for many years) is a bit sleepy, tbh, and I fear the books would either just be left lying around the tea-room or stuffed into a corner of ...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:10 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: My last will and testament
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1004
My last will and testament
Yep, time to rewrite it. The actuarial tables give me an expectancy of 12 more years. Now my wife is not a Buddhist, but is very sympathetic, and I trust her to deal with my dharma stuff responsibly. The statistical expectation is that she will outlast me. But I might outlast her, and I want to see ...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 5:15 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: characteristics of outer, inner and secret guru yogas
- Replies: 9
- Views: 718
Re: characteristics of outer, inner and secret guru yogas
Terms vary between systems. IMHO that link is a fine presentation applicable to many Guru Yogas. However, confusion is possible. The Konchog Chidu indeed has outer, inner, secret and extremely secret sections, but the meaning is not at all the same. The first two both involve the peaceful manifestat...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 12:46 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Amitabha Phowa and faith
- Replies: 9
- Views: 472
Re: Amitabha Phowa and faith
I have to wonder where you got your phowa teachings/transmissions from. I'm fortunate to have received phowa from a number of sources, and faith was emphasised every time.
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 8:26 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dream Yoga struggles
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2261
Re: Dream Yoga struggles
Ösel / hod-gsal and milam - both do they concern yoga of sleep(osel) and dreaming(milam) or milam is a term for practice of sleep and dreaming and osel is something completely different, more related to guruyoga? Milam is about dreams and their continuity with waking. The TERM osel has a wider usag...
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 8:51 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dzogchen Historiography
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1902
Re: Dzogchen Historiography
For light diversion, how about this: for an accomplished generation phase practitioner, to be born in a back shed to a servant girl *IS* to be born from a beautiful lotus in the centre of a lake of milk.
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 11:16 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Lung oral transmission
- Replies: 82
- Views: 5146
Re: Lung oral transmission
Idle curiosity here - when did he become "Khyentse"?laowhining wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 10:54 am
I'll be thrilled if Khyentse Yeshi starts giving transmission, but his public opinion seems to be that people can receive it from a recording, something his father repeated ad nauseam is not possible.
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 6:31 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dzogchen Historiography
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1902
Re: Dzogchen Historicity
BTW guys, you have been talking about the historicity of Dzogchen's origin narrative, not the historiography. Words matter, otherwise what are we doing here?
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 9:05 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dzogchen Practice and the Nada Sound Current
- Replies: 11
- Views: 919
Re: Dzogchen Practice and the Nada Sound Current
Can anybody tell the rest of us what this "sound current" is? And where it is taught? It's a new one on me.
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 8:58 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dzogchen and thoughts
- Replies: 109
- Views: 7430
Re: Dzogchen and thoughts
I'm only a spectator to this discussion, but I do see a problem, at least for ChNNR's followers, in that the theory of remote DI, even using closely synchronised videotape as was done for a while, irrefutably entails something best described as telepathy. For details, see previous thrashings-out.
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 9:14 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Tips for learning the classical Tibetan of Longchenpa
- Replies: 4
- Views: 601
Re: Tips for learning the classical Tibetan of Longchenpa
Tingdzin is right. I wpuld not say that Richard B "takes liberties" exactly. I feel that in fact he follows the text quite closely,, but clearly declined the impossible task of replacing one word with another, choosing to expand where (often) necessary. The philosophical distance from west...
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 3:46 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: What is supposed to be kept secret? What isn't?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1057
Re: What is supposed to be kept secret? What isn't?
Part of the problem is that the semantic range of "secret" is different from (and broader than) its range in western languages. Bit of a minefield tbh.
- Sun Jan 14, 2024 12:04 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Rushen or not
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1259
Re: Rushen or not
Not mutsuk but I had the impression you practiced Konchok Chidu? Kongtruls instructions on that cycle, translated by Nalanda translations, have rushan. Gosh, you have an eagle eye! Well done! You are quite correct there, but I only received the full KC a year and a half ago, and the transmission fo...
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 6:30 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Rushen or not
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1259
Re: Rushen or not
So my question, if anyone has broad experience, is this: are the classic rushen exercises largely a Longchen Nyingtig and Yeshe Lama thing? No, they belong to the special preliminaries of Dzogchen and you find them in most Upadesha-cycles of instructions. Thus they are very widespread in the Upades...
- Sun Dec 31, 2023 10:04 am
- Forum: Nyingma
- Topic: New Nyingma Head?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3706
Re: New Nyingma Head?
Well said, Tree... Good that somone thinks.
- Sun Dec 31, 2023 10:00 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: To recite the seven line prayer together within 3 months from 15th,December,2023
- Replies: 2
- Views: 452
Re: To recite the seven line prayer together within 3 months from 15th,December,2023
A rough calculation suggesrs that if he has two hundred.thousand followers committed enough to manage ten hours a day on the core recitation of.the seven lines it might just get done in three months.
This does not appear to have been fully thought through.
This does not appear to have been fully thought through.
- Sat Dec 23, 2023 9:54 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: pointing out instruction, direct introduction
- Replies: 2
- Views: 428
Re: pointing out instruction, direct introduction
Dear dharma friends, if term ngo sprod, is translated as pointing out instruction, where is the "empowerment" aspect of this process? Can one be introduced only by means of pointing out instructions, without dzogchen master giving empowerment of energy of rigpa, (rigpe cel wang)? Technica...
- Thu Dec 21, 2023 7:00 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Tawa as a stand-alone practice during activity
- Replies: 64
- Views: 4215
Re: Tawa as a stand-alone practice during activity
This is false. The wall thing is a misunderstanding. He faced his own face, the nature of mind. And you know this because...? Not that chan/zen is either my thing or this forum's thing, but I have to ask. Because he was a Mahasiddha in the Vajrayana tradition. HH Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche told me t...
- Thu Dec 21, 2023 10:57 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Tawa as a stand-alone practice during activity
- Replies: 64
- Views: 4215