He's dead.Karma Dondrup Tashi wrote:Everything is very, very easy - just do what your teacher tells you to do.
That's it.
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- Thu Oct 27, 2011 1:40 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Elimination
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3046
Re: Elimination
- Thu Oct 27, 2011 1:28 pm
- Forum: Help Required
- Topic: I give up
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8294
Re: I give up
It's what textbooks say.Virgo wrote:Is that what momma said?Epistemes wrote:
No, but that doesn't mean it's not the essential part of my being.
- Thu Oct 27, 2011 3:41 am
- Forum: Help Required
- Topic: I give up
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8294
Re: I give up
Which piece of you is the essential part? Where is your essential being? Is it your hair, your nails, skin, teeth? Your feelings? If so is it anger, happiness? Aren't feelings always changing? So where is this essential being? It's my medulla oblongata. In your next life, Epistemes, will you have t...
- Wed Oct 26, 2011 9:26 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Who are your Top 5 Mahayana masters of all time?
- Replies: 62
- Views: 18706
Re: Who are your Top 5 Mahayana masters of all time?
1. Buddha
2. My girlfriend
3. Saint Francis of Assisi
4. Trungpa Rinpoche
5. Everyone I've ever encountered
2. My girlfriend
3. Saint Francis of Assisi
4. Trungpa Rinpoche
5. Everyone I've ever encountered
- Wed Oct 26, 2011 7:17 pm
- Forum: Help Required
- Topic: I give up
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8294
Re: I give up
But enough of this, back to Epistemes' whining ... Thank you. I was beginning to wonder.... Which piece of you is the essential part? Where is your essential being? Is it your hair, your nails, skin, teeth? Your feelings? If so is it anger, happiness? Aren't feelings always changing? So where is th...
- Wed Oct 26, 2011 6:52 pm
- Forum: Help Required
- Topic: I give up
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8294
Re: I give up
Thank you. I was beginning to wonder....Karma Dondrup Tashi wrote: But enough of this, back to Epistemes' whining ...
- Wed Oct 26, 2011 4:56 pm
- Forum: Help Required
- Topic: I give up
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8294
Re: I give up
Nothing's permanent, silly monk.PadmaVonSamba wrote:So........
do you think this feeling is permanent?
- Wed Oct 26, 2011 3:22 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Elimination
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3046
Elimination
What forms of Buddhism don't require prostrations, recitations, prayers, yoga stretches, candles, incense, statues, malas and all other forms of external, sensuous practice?
- Wed Oct 26, 2011 1:27 pm
- Forum: Help Required
- Topic: I give up
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8294
Re: I give up
So now that you have given up are you gonna get the tattoo removed? Yes, and I am thinking of getting it replaced with the White Tree of Gondor http://quenya101.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/tree_of_gondor.gif or something more James Brown http://www.zhippo.com/KaoticEnzymesHOSTED/images/gallery/Jame...
- Wed Oct 26, 2011 2:04 am
- Forum: Help Required
- Topic: I give up
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8294
Re: I give up
There's no practice, only shadows.Virgo wrote:Maybe your practice is working?
Kevin
- Tue Oct 25, 2011 11:22 pm
- Forum: Help Required
- Topic: I give up
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8294
I give up
I don't give up on Buddhism. Chaz would relish in that a little too much. I give up on myself. I don't know why. I just do. I got a pretty nasty virus Saturday evening - probably the one you have KDT - and I threw up all night long, slept alone and miserable, had stupid 1850s antebellum American Sen...
- Tue Oct 25, 2011 9:31 pm
- Forum: Alternative Health
- Topic: Ayurveda = Smoke & Mirrors
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1808
Ayurveda = Smoke & Mirrors
Breathe like this, breathe like that. Stretch like this, stretch like that. Eat like this, eat like that. Drink like this, drink like that.
And you'll still get punched in the stomach by a virus.
And you'll still get punched in the stomach by a virus.
- Tue Oct 25, 2011 4:09 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: What did you do this weekend?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2312
Re: What did you do this weekend?
As for me: I worked all weekend long on my dissertation proposal, did chores, &c. What is the proposal? I remember one favorite professor, Bill McGee, who is now professor at Dharma Drum Buddhist College in Taiwan, telling me about this great 700 page dissertation he wrote only to find out that...
- Tue Oct 25, 2011 3:06 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: What did you do this weekend?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2312
What did you do this weekend?
My girlfriend and I went car shopping. She's looking for a new Kia Soul. She'll actually be getting one for her birthday/graduation/christmas present - Shhhh! We then went on a historic trolley tour around Asheville, NC. I watched movies all day on Sunday. The best one was probably "The Emperor...
- Fri Oct 21, 2011 6:29 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Spleen Qi Deficiency
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4418
Re: Spleen Qi Deficiency
So, the term "spleen qi deficiency" could be thought of as a weakness of the spleen/pancreas and stomach - which would manifest mainly as fatigue and poor digestion. Does this eliminate Namdrol's suggestion that this is probably a cold liver ailment as per TM? But there might be dietary s...
- Fri Oct 21, 2011 6:07 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Trungpa Rinpoche's "Crazy Wisdom": Padmasambhava's Crime
- Replies: 110
- Views: 23596
Trungpa Rinpoche's "Crazy Wisdom": Padmasambhava's Crime
I am having difficulty understanding this section from "Crazy Wisdom" by Trungpa Rinpoche: "Padmasambhava, having married, became more playful. He even began to experiment with his aggression, finding that he could use his strength to throw things and things could get broken. And he c...
- Fri Oct 21, 2011 4:34 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Tibetan Buddhist sadhana practice for non-Buddhists
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1734
Re: Tibetan Buddhist sadhana practice for non-Buddhists
I have a nice new black onyx one on a sterling chain which I never used for sale.Namdrol wrote: Hail Mary and the Lord's Prayer. You should buy her a really nice new rosary.
- Fri Oct 21, 2011 1:47 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: A Buddhist creed
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4199
Re: A Buddhist creed
I was just thinking that it would be useful to have a concise formula to recite in order to convey our beliefs to others and something we could use to affirm our faith in the Triple Gem. Something to summarize the many teachings and lists in Buddhism in a simplistic way. Perhaps something starting ...
- Fri Oct 21, 2011 12:02 am
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: A Quick Hello
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1322
Re: A Quick Hello
You have more experience than me, and look how many posts I have!!!Terma wrote:While I don't have the wealth of knowledge and years of practice as some of you do, I hope I might be able to contribute to some of the discussions here.
Welcome.
- Thu Oct 20, 2011 11:00 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Spleen Qi Deficiency
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4418
Re: Spleen Qi Deficiency
Tara, Could you please move this topic to the Lounge as it has nothing to do with TM? From what I know of Spleen Qi Deficiency, the Spleen is weakened by cold and damp foods, e.g., dairy, gluten-based foods, salads, etc. Does this mean that these foods must be avoided entirely for the rest of one's...