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:namaste: Why do Theravada and Zen Buddhists do not recognize the existence of Yidams? Are these Yidams symbolic creations of the human mind or do they literally exist? Did the historical Buddha taught the Vajrayana Tantra? If not then is Vajrayana really Buddhistic? Iṣṭadevatā (Buddhism) Tantra Tec...

Who did you study with? And what is the authentic view, that they exist and if you don't believe that they exist the way you do you are not an authentic Buddhist? Let's make one thing very clear the Vajrayana deities are not symbolic, they are real deities having a ontology of their own and mandala...

OK really, lets be honest here. Have you actually studied the Guhyagarbha Tantra with a teacher? Have you have any shitro empowerments? You don't realize that buddha nature is not something to be attained but is the pure nature of the mind that cannot be improved upon, lost, or obtained? And how do...

You are free to hold any view or interpretation of the teachings as you wish, as is anybody else. I just hope that you don't lose sight of what is essential in Buddhism. If you were a serious practitioner you would rejoice is whatever form of Dharma practice people chose to participate in. I'm sure...

Assuming that you are actually being serious and not just trolling... I personally think that things like rebirth and karma are pretty necessary concepts, and that without them the whole system doesn't hang together as well. However, I can't force people to believe the way that I do -- people will ...

What exactly do you mean by saying that gods orchestrate this emperical reality? And in what sense do you think that they are real? Question: If someone realizes this in meditation, does he have to know all the deities to recognize them?” Rinpoche: A practitioner of meditation may not know the deit...

These gods are in and around us, they form our bodies, they orchester this empirical reality for us and they exist in the noumena. The Vajarasattva consorts who appear in male and female forms are real they are not symbolic, they emanate from me not separate from me. How do you take the position th...

CrawfordHollow wrote:So how can a hierarchy be non-dualistic?

The beauty is all those worlds emanate from "YOU" and they don't exist independent of you.

Well, saying that the Buddha and the deities exist in an "eternal platonic realm" sounds pretty dualistic to me. The notion that they are "up there" and the ture believers "down here" can communicate with them also sounds pretty dualistc. Either way, maybe you could an...

This empirical reality, the earth, the sun, the solar system, the trees, the buildings do not exist out there in the physical world. It is all inside your mind and it is only a state of mind. Vajrayana is not concerned with this world at all. So the earth, solar systems and stars just magically cam...

Could you please explain who this "us" is that you are representing? Also, perhaps you could tell us what lineage or teacher that you have, because all of the Tibetan lamas that I have met have taught about a view that is quite different than what you are enforcing. According to Longchenp...

First of all its not a fundamentalist approach, someone who goes with evidence is not a fundamentalist, stating that the earth is not flat is not a fundamentalist position. That's how silly your question is. In Buddhist cosmology Jambudvipa is flat, surrounded by ocean, has Sumeru at its northern e...

So Caucasians also can have the ' eastern mind ' ? :popcorn: Of course, Yes. Its just they are never taught about it. And you are just the chap to put that right ? Yes, I think this should be taught in schools. "Some scientists (like Wigner) believe that quantum mechanics makes certain dualist...

Why should I care what scholars and scientists have to say about Buddhism? Do they have the monopoly on truth? I know that religion trumps logic, reason, evidence and just about everything and honestly you really don't have to care about what scholars and scientists have to say about it if you just...

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Samanthabhadra wrote:Yet an educated man easily know on whose side the evidence is.

So I am uneducated?

Not uneducated. I didn't said that. Perhaps ignorant of the recent developments in science and religious studies done by various scholars.

Both scholarly and empirical evidence is on my side. For scholarly evidence read the works of Dr. Alan Wallace. And all empirical evidence is pointing to a hyper-cosmic God. Concept of hypercosmic God wins templeton prize I do not consider either of those sources relevant. Obviously how can you see...

First of all its not a fundamentalist approach, someone who goes with evidence is not a fundamentalist, stating that the earth is not flat is not a fundamentalist position. That's how silly your question is. It is a fundamentalist approach. All fundamentalists believe they have the monopoly on trut...

Simon E. wrote:So Caucasians also can have the ' eastern mind ' ?

Of course, Yes. Its just they are never taught about it.

First of all its not a fundamentalist approach, someone who goes with evidence is not a fundamentalist, stating that the earth is not flat is not a fundamentalist position. That's how silly your question is. Please provide your evidence. Lmfao. Both scholarly and empirical evidence is on my side. F...

There is an eastern mind ? Yes, Asian thought is not positivistic, for us the mind and brain are two different things and our epistemology is different. And this is true of all Asians, and the inverse is true for all Caucasians ? No, both the east and the west knew about it. The east called it the ...