Dharma Wheel

In a previous post here Malcolm gives an informative explanation. To put it succinctly, the reason we have four empowerments in HYT is that we have what are called the four mandalas: the nāḍīs, nāḍī syllables, bindu, and vāyu. This is, as is usual from Malcolm, very informative. However, as I'm afr...

Generally I think we just don't know.
BTW, I believe pekor is. most often translated as something like "turning lotus".

Welcome to the path!
As you continue it gets deeper, though it can be in a "two steps forward, one back" sort of way. Keep up the effort - but gently.
For what my advice may be worth.

Sādhaka wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 11:05 am I’m reminded of a couple of quotes from H.P. Blavatsky’s (who met—and may have received teachings from—the Panchen Lama) Isis Unveiled:

"Met" - hahahahahaha.
And Cyril Hoskins was a Tibetan Lama too!!!

You can practise any time you want. Right now would be perfect. But *Vajrayana* practice without empowerment is just nonsense. It's really that simple.

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?

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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.

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...

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.

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.

Idle curiosity here - when did he become "Khyentse"?

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?

Can anybody tell the rest of us what this "sound current" is? And where it is taught? It's a new one on me.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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...