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by Karma Dorje
Fri Mar 15, 2024 4:35 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Vajrayana in the spectrum
Replies: 41
Views: 2830

Re: Vajrayana in the spectrum

WTF is normal anyway? Lots of neurotypical people approve of the Gaza genocide, of building walls in rivers to drown migrants, of stopping boats from rescuing drowning refugees fleeing economic despair and war, police killing people because they are the “wrong colour”, et al, ad nauseum. Excuse my l...
by Karma Dorje
Wed Mar 13, 2024 10:02 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
Replies: 126
Views: 5580

Re: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching

I was often told to do things I didn't want to do or to stop doing things I wanted to do. Sometimes these were little things. Sometimes these were big things, like vefry, very big things. The pain was my own pain of attachment. But there was never a time that I could just "drift." I was n...
by Karma Dorje
Sun Mar 10, 2024 4:48 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
Replies: 126
Views: 5580

Re: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching

1. "He [Guru Rinpoche] did not place termas anywhere else." That's not true. Terma have been revealed in the U.S . and I feel quite certain that more will come. Revealed by whom, and where? Can you provide details? The rest of your contribution was quite on point by the way. Orgyen Kusum ...
by Karma Dorje
Sat Mar 02, 2024 4:39 am
Forum: Nyingma
Topic: Prophecies of (Nuclear) World War in 2030 (split)
Replies: 48
Views: 4601

Re: Prophecies of (Nuclear) World War in 2030 (split)

You're projecting. This is pure lineage dharma, pal. If it wasn't taught to me by my lama, I don't speak on it. You should be careful with your "witty" remarks. They might be disparaging dharma and breaking samaya, Karma Dorje. I wasn’t speaking in jest. Very on point with the schoolmarmi...
by Karma Dorje
Sat Mar 02, 2024 1:11 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Politics in dharma center - article
Replies: 202
Views: 7703

Re: Politics in dharma center - article

That’s a strange example: photographs from space are themselves false relative truth, with a whole mountain of assumptions required a priori for them to validate anything. Correct relative truth is the path and path phenomena, full stop. False relative truth is the world as it appears to deluded sen...
by Karma Dorje
Fri Mar 01, 2024 8:27 pm
Forum: Nyingma
Topic: Prophecies of (Nuclear) World War in 2030 (split)
Replies: 48
Views: 4601

Re: Prophecies of (Nuclear) World War in 2030 (split)

I find in cults outside of Buddhism doomsday style pronouncements happen often under 2 preconditions. Soon after a health scare of an aging cult leader or in times the cult is losing it's mojo and having financial difficulty. eg, Make a bigger donation. Be more devoted to your practice. You won't n...
by Karma Dorje
Fri Mar 01, 2024 4:55 pm
Forum: Nyingma
Topic: Prophecies of (Nuclear) World War in 2030 (split)
Replies: 48
Views: 4601

Re: Prophecies of (Nuclear) World War in 2030 (split)

Guys HH Dalai Lama said aspiration prayers don't help, you have to take intelligent action. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1CH0hlP0Mjg Folks need to remember why we as Buddhists recite prayers and mantras. We are not asking for help from powerful beings outside ourselves. We are aspiring to change o...
by Karma Dorje
Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:41 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Politics in dharma center - article
Replies: 202
Views: 7703

Re: Politics in dharma center - article

I was discussing with a lama friend of mine (that gives internet teachings) how pay rates need to be adjusted depending on the country a person comes from. We have to take into account that asking (for example) for $20 from a Swiss participant, is not the same as asking for $20 from a Vietnamese pa...
by Karma Dorje
Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:19 pm
Forum: Nyingma
Topic: Prophecies of (Nuclear) World War in 2030 (split)
Replies: 48
Views: 4601

Re: Prophecies of (Nuclear) World War in 2030 (split)

Guys HH Dalai Lama said aspiration prayers don't help, you have to take intelligent action. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1CH0hlP0Mjg Folks need to remember why we as Buddhists recite prayers and mantras. We are not asking for help from powerful beings outside ourselves. We are aspiring to change o...
by Karma Dorje
Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:15 pm
Forum: Nyingma
Topic: Prophecies of (Nuclear) World War in 2030 (split)
Replies: 48
Views: 4601

Re: Prophecies of (Nuclear) World War in 2030 (split)

Samsara can’t be “solved” on any sort of collective level, it can just be collectively managed better or worse. Samsara can’t be managed collectively or individually. It’s housekeeping in a dream: one is exhausted by the effort and the house is still dirty when you wake up. What we can do is create...
by Karma Dorje
Wed Feb 28, 2024 12:20 pm
Forum: Nyingma
Topic: Prophecies of (Nuclear) World War in 2030 (split)
Replies: 48
Views: 4601

Re: Prophecies of (Nuclear) World War in 2030 (split)

Guru Rinpoche and His Tertons made these prophecies. If these prophecies deserve serious consideration, then the antidotes He and His Tertons also specified also deserve serious consideration. This is it. If one doesn’t understand how intention and aspiration can interdict negative states at both a...
by Karma Dorje
Thu Feb 08, 2024 6:00 pm
Forum: Introductions
Topic: New But Not
Replies: 10
Views: 818

Re: New But Not

The Meridian Trust has an excellent archive of teachings from teachers of different lineages. There are many hours of teaching videos. https://meridian-trust.org/ Like any specialized pursuit, there is a certain amount of jargon you need to understand for everything to open up. Thinley Norbu’s A Sma...
by Karma Dorje
Thu Feb 01, 2024 2:24 pm
Forum: Engaged Buddhism
Topic: Young Asian American Buddhists are reclaiming narrative after decades of white dominance (continued)
Replies: 19
Views: 2746

Re: Young Asian American Buddhists are reclaiming narrative after decades of white dominance (continued)

The problem arises because in the West we get our philosophy from Greece and our religion from the Middle East. The two have always been strange bedfellows in our discourse, whereas the idea of separating them is pretty much unthinkable in Asian contexts.
by Karma Dorje
Wed Jan 17, 2024 5:15 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Tibetan Iconography
Replies: 12
Views: 986

Re: Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Tibetan Iconography

I personally am looking for an iconography of Ksitigarbha that is standing, based on a terma of Orgyen Kusum Lingpa Rinpoché. Standing Ksitigarbha is the usual form in East Asian Buddhism, and can be found in East Asia, Inner Asia, Dunhuang, etc. Chenda, could you share a little bit about Ksitigarb...
by Karma Dorje
Sat Jan 13, 2024 4:09 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Tibetan Iconography
Replies: 12
Views: 986

Re: Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Tibetan Iconography

The second form you can find in the Rinjung Gyatsa collection of Taranatha.
by Karma Dorje
Thu Dec 14, 2023 8:30 pm
Forum: Kagyu
Topic: new platform of ex-Diamondway found in Germany
Replies: 55
Views: 3448

Re: new platform of ex-Diamondway found in Germany

Of course teachers have faults. But that’s rather between their students and them, isn’t it?

A lot of the criticism of Ole just comes across as jealousy that the man got more pussy than them.
by Karma Dorje
Mon Dec 11, 2023 11:21 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: “My mind isn’t like that”
Replies: 32
Views: 1724

Re: “My mind isn’t like that”

Get drunk with them, play some Townes Van Zandt. Talk about your own experiences of suffering using examples from the common preliminaries of Words of My Perfect Teacher that you feel they will relate to. Find out where they hurt. If you don’t know the sickness, it’s premature to talk about methods,...
by Karma Dorje
Mon Dec 11, 2023 1:58 am
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: What role do ritual implements play in Dzogchen?
Replies: 160
Views: 6414

Re: What role do ritual implements play in Dzogchen?

If one is still evaluating in terms of higher and lower when discussing mahamudra and dzogchen view, one hasn’t understood either. The view is identical, they differ in method on account of the different propensities and capacities of beings to be tamed. Triumphalist claims are meant to induce awe i...
by Karma Dorje
Tue Jul 11, 2023 8:42 pm
Forum: Academic Discussion
Topic: Buddha Nature, Dölpopa's Shentong and Parmenides's Thesis
Replies: 26
Views: 4797

Re: Buddha Nature, Dölpopa's Shentong and Parmenides's Thesis

It’s not an assumption. Of course it’s an assumption. Mipham is not here to answer for himself The nice thing about Mipham is that he tells us his own personal view about which Madhyamaka presentation he considers definitive in his commentary on Shantarakshita’s Ornament of Madhyamaka, which is one...

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