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- Sun Jul 13, 2014 7:37 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dzogchen & rainbow body
- Replies: 91
- Views: 25765
Re: Dzogchen & rainbow body
Dzogchen attitude is quite unique. Very special. The idea of wanting to have rainbow body or wanting to achieve enlightenment doesn't fit. I guess, according to you , that ChNN is a fool then for having stated countless times that he hopes he can achieve rainbow body, that he wants to achieve rainb...
- Sun Jul 13, 2014 1:00 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: On Nirvana
- Replies: 25
- Views: 6738
Re: On Nirvana
This is from a commentary on the Kunjed Gyalpo. So this is coming from a Dzogchen POV.
- Sun Jul 13, 2014 12:57 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dzogchen & rainbow body
- Replies: 91
- Views: 25765
Re: Dzogchen & rainbow body
So the "primal" mind does not only have the passive ability for insight, but also has the active force to "dissolve" things or to transform them. Well perhaps it seems to you that I'm being unfriendly and I apologise if that's the case. If we look at the idea you have posted the...
- Sun Jul 13, 2014 10:26 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: On Nirvana
- Replies: 25
- Views: 6738
Re: On Nirvana
And yet there are consequences............. Dutsi Chuthig states: "I manifest in everything in the universe. Although I appear everywhere, I cannot be seen. Relax in the realm which cannot be seen. I pervade the entire animate and inanimate universe. Although I pervade everything, I cannot be i...
- Sun Jul 13, 2014 8:06 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dzogchen & rainbow body
- Replies: 91
- Views: 25765
Re: Dzogchen & rainbow body
Aspiration for rainbow body and aspiration for liberation are not the same thing. Liberation is the exhaustion of craving and it is this attitude of not craving that one brings to ones practice in order to end this craving. To replace one type of craving (worldly) with another (spiritual) is not the...
- Sun Jul 13, 2014 7:44 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: On Nirvana
- Replies: 25
- Views: 6738
Re: On Nirvana
Baselessness or unconditioned isn't a thing - so it isn't a conditioned state or object. But it does have energy and consequences. This is a key issue that sometimes gets ignored. It is not that you can find this baselessness and yet this not finding has consequences and therefore it is wrong to say...
- Sat Jul 12, 2014 8:36 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dzogchen & rainbow body
- Replies: 91
- Views: 25765
Re: Dzogchen & rainbow body
Citation, Andrew. In the Mejung Chapter 23. The Marvelous Primordial State: The Mejung Tantra. And so you conclude from these citations that one ought not wish for freedom from suffering? That the entire Buddhist path is mere foolishness? That the wish to attain awakening (bodhicitta) should be giv...
- Sat Jul 12, 2014 6:16 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dzogchen & rainbow body
- Replies: 91
- Views: 25765
Re: Dzogchen & rainbow body
Citation, Andrew. In the Mejung Chapter 23. The Marvelous Primordial State: The Mejung Tantra. "When one becomes expert in all views, all training collapses. Any form of training is not the [real] training. Not training in anything is the training of me, the wise one." About this passage ...
- Sat Jul 12, 2014 2:35 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dzogchen & rainbow body
- Replies: 91
- Views: 25765
Re: Dzogchen & rainbow body
It's outlined in Kunjed Gyalpo, Mejung. Nubchen writes about it as does ChNN.Malcolm wrote:Oh really, in what Dzogchen teaching is this taught? Citation please.Andrew108 wrote:There is another key concept in Dzogchen which is something like 'those who wish to achieve are the ones who will never achieve'.
- Sat Jul 12, 2014 1:22 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dzogchen & rainbow body
- Replies: 91
- Views: 25765
Re: Dzogchen & rainbow body
There is another key concept in Dzogchen which is something like 'those who wish to achieve are the ones who will never achieve'. This actually takes precedence over the wish to attain buddhahood and go rainbow. Something to consider.
- Sat Jul 12, 2014 9:16 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: On Nirvana
- Replies: 25
- Views: 6738
Re: On Nirvana
Abhidamma texts speak of nirvana as an ultimate in that it can't be stripped down to something more essential or basic. In these texts it is referred to as the unconditioned or deathlessness or baselessness. Actually even in Dzogchen texts the so-called ultimate nature of reality is said to be basel...
- Sat Jul 12, 2014 9:01 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dzogchen & rainbow body
- Replies: 91
- Views: 25765
Re: Dzogchen & rainbow body
Can I ask you why it is you would like to achieve rainbow body?
- Thu Jul 10, 2014 7:20 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: The practices of the base of santi maha sangha
- Replies: 34
- Views: 9500
- Thu Jul 10, 2014 12:33 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Question for Esoteric Buddhists
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7936
Re: Question for Esoteric Buddhists
You are a Vajrayana practitioner Yuren? Why do you ask? Yuren says "your tradition" in his first post so one would assume he doesn't practice "your tradition" but "his tradition". If he does in fact practice Vajrayana, then he would be disingenuous in using those words...
- Thu Jul 10, 2014 12:26 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Question for Esoteric Buddhists
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7936
Re: Question for Esoteric Buddhists
Yes as Alfredo said. Some teachings are kept secret because perhaps the students would freak out and start quoting doctrine. Teachings such as there is no cause and effect. No Buddhahood. No path. Those types of teachings.
- Tue Jul 08, 2014 7:19 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: still new...questions on mindstream
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2850
Re: still new...questions on mindstream
I'm so incredibly new to all of this. The more I learn and practice, the more questions I have. How do you know the difference between a random/coincidental dream vs one with meaning. Is it possible for a lama/rinpoche who you may or may not know to enter your dreams? How would they do this? Especi...
- Mon Jun 30, 2014 12:39 pm
- Forum: Gelug
- Topic: In the eyes of Mahayana
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1756
Re: In the eyes of Mahayana
Hello, A couple of questions if I may; 1) Can someone clarify how the Mahayana schools see Theravadin practices like Vipassana and the Jhanas? 2) Does 'Emptiness' as described by the Prasangikas fit into the Pali Canon or is it a whole new interpretation? Thanks, M... Vipassana is a key method of p...
- Mon Jun 30, 2014 12:30 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: A Physicalist Theory of Mind
- Replies: 254
- Views: 50721
Re: A Physicalist Theory of Mind
Ok, a little time out. What are the definitions of: physicalist Thinks minds come from brains. Well....Yes a physicalist would say that minds come from brains, but if we open up the terms a little we know that the relationship between consciousness and the brain is very intimate and that according ...
- Sun Jun 29, 2014 8:26 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Unreality of Thoughts
- Replies: 167
- Views: 27820
Re: Unreality of Thoughts
I have stated that interdependence is emptiness. In fact I would go as far as to say that the universe is full and that absence is refering only to the fact that whilst full, nothing in the universe has it's own identity. This is what makes the universe tick. There is no emptiness to be found. Even ...
- Sun Jun 29, 2014 8:14 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: A Physicalist Theory of Mind
- Replies: 254
- Views: 50721
Re: A Physicalist Theory of Mind
@smcj. Yes I'm a monist. But just to make it more complicated, I understand both existence and non-existance to be characteristics only. And you see monism as being compatible with materialism? I see it as being on the extreme other end of the scale. Again it depends on how you define matter. It's ...