Dharma Wheel

Is another way to look at it that in Mahayana, there are teachings of buddha-nature whereas in Hinayana, there are not? Unless I'm very mistaken. I fail to see how my way of thinking and Tathagatagarbha are mutually exclusive. Actually it would seem the complete opposite: Because one has Tathagatag...

...about how "liberal" westerners and their neuroses can't get past this or that... Is it really nonsense? Coz it seems to me we "can't get past this or that". Seems to me we have been discussing this in never ending circles since it happened but not really proposing anything intelligent apart from...

Let's get real and name the problem: powerful men abuse their position to solicit/force/coerce/rape/ sex with women Nope. It's not about men or women, it is about the abuse of power. Right now we happen to have patriarchy, so currently it is about men with power. But it is not about men per se thou...

Malcolm wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 22, 2017 6:15 pm

This is the Hinayāna view of buddhahood.

Well, right now I prefer to uphold a Hinayana view and maintain my sanity, then pretend to understand something which makes no sense at all to me.

Mandalas are just the Akaniṣṭha Ghanavyuha realm. So yes, if you are not a Vajrayāna practitioner, you are never going to attain Buddhahood in this life. So we are humans on the periphery of Akanistha training to be Buddhas in order to manifest as beings, that are pretending to become enlightened, ...

An odd kind of piety: The truth about Gandhi's sex life With religious chastity under scrutiny, a new book throws light on Gandhi's practice of sleeping next to naked girls. In fact, he was sex-mad, writes biographer Jad Adams. It was no secret that Mohandas Gandhi had an unusual sex life. He spoke...

The Buddha displayed awakening under the bodhitree, but in actuality, buddhahood is achieved in Akaniṣṭha Ghanavyuha according to Mahāyāna sūtra. And in the case of Śākyamuni, eons and eons ago. In which case we cannot achieve Buddhahood in this lifetime since we are human beings and are not born i...

Malcolm wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 21, 2017 8:25 pm

No buddha is human. It is a contradiction in terms.

Not even up to the point of his Parinirvana?

liuzg150181 wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 20, 2017 2:39 am

Went to the empowerment,very inspired and touched by his teachings...

I rejoice in your merit! May your practice be the source of enlightenment for all sentient beings!

If you have to pretend to see your guru as a Buddha, you already have failed to see them as a Buddha. Therefore, you have no choice but to see them as an ordinary person, since in fact you do see them as an ordinary person. So let's not kid ourselves here. Most of us perceive our teachers to be no ...

In the context of his response to the Sogyal debacle (which, tbh, I found much more off-putting) it is a mess. He is trying to eat his cake and have it at the same time. The Sogyal letter was along the lines of "your guru-qua-guru is a Buddha, that is all you need to know (and if you disregard it, ...

It’s just unfortunate DJKR is highlighting that in the context of these scenarios. I disagree. If you don't apply it in these scenarios, where do you apply it? I remember one time when a teacher had died of an illness, I mentioned something about the unavoidable mechanism of karma (my statement was...

They say Go requires intuition and creativity... The creativity and intuition required for Go is based on a finite set of specific positions and moves of the pieces. A computer can just crunch the numbers and make a prediction based on this large, yet finite, set thus simulating what appears to be ...

For example, there was a conflict between the terton Nyima Drakpa and the Yonge Terton, Mingyur Dorje. To this day many Nyingmapas will not receive the transmission of any of Yonge Mingyur Dorje treasures. Likewise, many Kagyus avoid the transmission of Nyima Drakpa's transmission of the Karling Zh...

For example, there was a conflict between the terton Nyima Drakpa and the Yonge Terton, Mingyur Dorje. To this day many Nyingmapas will not receive the transmission of any of Yonge Mingyur Dorje treasures. Likewise, many Kagyus avoid the transmission of Nyima Drakpa's transmission of the Karling Zh...

Why would we want to? Do we want smarter tools to help accomplish our goals or do we want to make politically outraged machines? I think we have more than enough politically outraged machines as it is. What you are failing to understand is that sometimes one needs an intense emotional reaction (out...

Personally I thought the humor was in bad taste, but that he made some valid points.

In trying to learn the alphabet I've come across a split in the way the letters in the third column (the low tone, aspirated letters) of the alphabet are pronounced. The sources I'm using are all courses teaching Central/Standard Tibetan. For example: ག seems to be pronounced either the same as ཁ, ...

The Buddha clearly discusses this, in among other places, the (inconvenient) Eastern Gatehouse Sutta. Thanks for the heads-up! For those that want to read the Pubbakotthaka Sutta (Eastern Gatehouse Sutta): https://studybuddhism.com/en/tibetan-buddhism/original-texts/sutra-texts/wheel-of-sharp-weapo...