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- Wed Apr 10, 2024 6:53 am
- Forum: Media
- Topic: Arapachana Manjushri Sculpture Masterworks
- Replies: 0
- Views: 12
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 5:58 am
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: Original source of "So you should view this fleeting world...." (Diamond Sutra Gatha)??
- Replies: 7
- Views: 131
Re: Original source of "So you should view this fleeting world...." (Diamond Sutra Gatha)??
There is a popular English "translation" of the famous four verse Diamond Sutra Gatha that goes like this: "So you should view this fleeting world A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning in a summer cloud A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream." According to...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 4:27 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Vajrayana practice without empowerment
- Replies: 38
- Views: 2904
Re: Vajrayana practice without empowerment
It’s not universal, one public Sakya practices involves self-generation. I’m sure more stringent instructions exist for people without the empowerment in some instances, with some teachers but there is a large public practice involving a liturgy with self-generation. What exactly are you thinking o...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 2:13 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Vajrayana practice without empowerment
- Replies: 38
- Views: 2904
Re: Vajrayana practice without empowerment
It’s not universal, one public Sakya practices involves self-generation. I’m sure more stringent instructions exist for people without the empowerment in some instances, with some teachers but there is a large public practice involving a liturgy with self-generation. What exactly are you thinking o...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 1:46 am
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Don't know mind
- Replies: 15
- Views: 393
Re: Don't know mind
Brad Warner on Seung Sahn Sunim's Don't Know Mind
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 1:42 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Divination for better health
- Replies: 2
- Views: 171
Re: Divination for better health
As far as I can tell this is the only legitimate organization with a legitimate lama associated with them that offer Mo divination online: https://www.ripaladrang.org/donate/divinations/ Mahasiddha.org also offers extensive prayers but no Mo divination as far as I have seen. Having said that, you co...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 9:55 pm
- Forum: Media
- Topic: Music time
- Replies: 5293
- Views: 888951
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 9:16 pm
- Forum: Language
- Topic: Similarities Between Sanskrit and Lithuanian - YouTube
- Replies: 0
- Views: 116
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 3:32 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Vajrayana practice without empowerment
- Replies: 38
- Views: 2904
Re: Vajrayana practice without empowerment
An overview and explanation of TB empowerment from Samye Institute: Empowerment There is no engagement in Vajrayana practice without empowerment. It is true that usually outer Vajrayana practices (Kriya/Upa/Yogatantra) are kind of permitted as long as one doesn't visualize oneself as the deity (one ...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 4:14 am
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Don't know mind
- Replies: 15
- Views: 393
Re: Don't know mind
"Why Has Bodhi Dharma Left for the East", 1989
The non-dialog sections are cogent to the OP's question.
The non-dialog sections are cogent to the OP's question.
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 4:09 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dzogchen Historiography
- Replies: 62
- Views: 3671
Re: Dzogchen Historiography
Mutsuk, if you know Jean-Luc and he has any updated thoughts since his seminal 1999 work on the Śaiva-Dzogchen connections, I'd very much love to hear them! I corresponded with JLA on this last year, and he said that he has not been able to date the Saivite sources he used to suggest a connection w...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 2:09 am
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Modern, advanced books on Zen
- Replies: 46
- Views: 3104
Re: Modern, advanced books on Zen
Tending the Fire: An Introspective Guide to Zen Awakening But it's a non-Zen, Zen book, so maybe it's not apropiate, it's more like a new deep approach to zen, I think it's an interesting read for people who already is clear about Zen, but who knows? The authors were students of Katagiri Roshi. The...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 12:53 am
- Forum: Dharma Events
- Topic: Buddha Day April 8 in Japanese Buddhist Traditions
- Replies: 1
- Views: 161
Re: Buddha Day April 8 in Japanese Buddhist Traditions
This will also be celebrated at some Zen places, including non-Japanese Zen places, around the same time. April 8 has been recognized widely across many traditions as International Buddha Day. It is of course based on the Japanese Buddhist celebration of the Birthday of Shakyamuni Buddha, also known...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 12:48 am
- Forum: Dharma Events
- Topic: Buddha Day April 8 in Japanese Buddhist Traditions
- Replies: 1
- Views: 161
Buddha Day April 8 in Japanese Buddhist Traditions
Honpa Hongwanji Hawaii Aloha kākou! April 8 is Buddha Day, when we commemorate the birth of Siddhartha Gautama in Lumbini Garden. He became the historical Buddha, Sakyamuni, and was the manifestation of Amida, the Buddha of Infinite Wisdom and Compassion. Buddha Day services are held on Sundays near...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 5:02 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dzogchen Historiography
- Replies: 62
- Views: 3671
Re: Dzogchen Historiography
There are certain points in Dzogchen mythology that, in my view, lack historical validity. .... Dzogchen is in fact ahistorical (meaning in this case beyond historical considerations, beyond the historical-non-historical dichotomy). The historicity of Dzogchen is unimportant. The practice of Dzogch...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 3:44 am
- Forum: Tendai
- Topic: Tendai and the Laity
- Replies: 8
- Views: 730
Re: Tendai and the Laity
I was recently asked if I wanted to participate in a refuge ceremony, which I have been considering for a bit now. From what I've heard, formally taking refuge isn't a requirement to "be" a Tendai Buddhist. I personally agree with all the comments here *BUT* would encourage you to take re...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 5:57 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Favourite Professional Sports
- Replies: 32
- Views: 991
Re: Favourite Professional Sports
My favorite professional sports: Judo (since France created a professional Judo league last year) Track and Field (started and stopped at least 2-3 or more times in the US, and is now again a professional sport for some time now) Muay Thai Kickboxing (been watching it since I was 10 yrs old) Surfing...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 12:54 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Favourite Sports
- Replies: 25
- Views: 658
Re: Favourite Sports
I don't really do martial arts anymore, but I do like to workout with the Bas Rutten thai boxing workout (it's basically cardio-kickboxing, but a little more realistically oriented); I don't know if that counts as still doing martial arts or not (like, in my mind no, but also if I was still doing m...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 12:44 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Favourite Sports
- Replies: 25
- Views: 658
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:21 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: How do we know what our individual dharma is in the modern age?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 563
Re: How do we know what our individual dharma is in the modern age?
"It is better to do one’s own dharma, even though imperfectly, than to do another’s dharma, even though perfectly. By doing one’s innate duties, a person does not incur sin." At a minimum our own dharma, at least wrt Buddhist teaching, means to cultivate love and kindness to all beings an...