Search found 24 matches

by spot dawa
Wed Jun 12, 2013 11:48 am
Forum: Gelug
Topic: Norbu House & Domo Geshe Rinpoche
Replies: 80
Views: 41115

Re: Norbu House & Domo Geshe Rinpoche

Sorry if my above tone seemed judgemental of you, it wasn't my intention. :namaste: Khedrup Not at all, Khedrup! We do miss a lot in terms of verbal tone and body language attempting to be gracious through this medium. I did not pick up any personal judgment or animosity from you, nor was I project...
by spot dawa
Wed Jun 12, 2013 9:49 am
Forum: Gelug
Topic: Norbu House & Domo Geshe Rinpoche
Replies: 80
Views: 41115

Re: Norbu House & Domo Geshe Rinpoche

It is not the idea itself that I have the aversion to but Tara's behaviour as I have seen in her videos and heard from her students. I have been approached via email from 2 people connected with her who doubt her claims simply because her behaviour with her students is not very compassionate. I als...
by spot dawa
Tue Jun 11, 2013 8:16 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Dealing With Desire
Replies: 302
Views: 47740

Re: Dealing With Desire

Three things come to mind with regards to dealing with desire, they all are activities of giving proper attention: Benefits and disadvantages, the false appearance, and the internal feelings (winds if you will). [...] While this is all true, its more in line with Theravada. Whereas this is a Mahaya...
by spot dawa
Tue Jun 11, 2013 7:44 pm
Forum: Gelug
Topic: Norbu House & Domo Geshe Rinpoche
Replies: 80
Views: 41115

Re: Norbu House & Domo Geshe Rinpoche

As a student of Buddhism for many years, I can appreciate the perspective presented here on the importance of lineage and preservation of the Tulku lineages. Since I began participating in this thread, however, I have come across some new and intriguing facts regarding the phenomena of "transmi...
by spot dawa
Mon Jun 10, 2013 8:02 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Dealing With Desire
Replies: 302
Views: 47740

Re: Dealing With Desire

Has any modern bhikshu/ni tried to actually live from begging? I mean, homeless people can manage somehow, why not a few bald people too? Yes. There are three American Theravadan monks living on alms rounds in Oregon. Only three, but if it is working then it can be made to work elsewhere I would th...
by spot dawa
Sun Jun 09, 2013 1:58 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Dealing With Desire
Replies: 302
Views: 47740

Re: Dealing With Desire

I realized what I took refuge in was the ideals of arhatship and bodhisattvahood: the ārya-saṃgha . Faith in the sangha aspect of the Triple Gem is directed at the goal of liberation and those who have attained it, not ordinary people who have a legal and orthodox ordination plus the accompanying c...
by spot dawa
Thu Jun 06, 2013 8:51 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Dealing With Desire
Replies: 302
Views: 47740

Re: Dealing With Desire

Applying antidotes is just housekeeping in a dream. I agree, Karma Dorje. Also, making beds is just housekeeping in a dream. So is studying the Dharma. Nirvana itself arises due to conditions, empty of an inherent eternal existence. When every thought and thing is truly a dream, pointing it out is ...
by spot dawa
Thu Jun 06, 2013 8:37 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Dealing With Desire
Replies: 302
Views: 47740

Re: Dealing With Desire

who does not cultivate lustful thought or actions... Desire objects are not confined to sex. Bodhisattvas in Mahāyāna training are not supposed to enjoy any sense objects for their own benefit, only if it will benefit others. The general attitude in Mahāyāna towards sense objects is illustrated by ...
by spot dawa
Thu Jun 06, 2013 8:06 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Dealing With Desire
Replies: 302
Views: 47740

Re: Dealing With Desire

As for the first, [though you simply wont agree even when presented with a vast amount of evidence] in this day and age, the Sangha of Bhikṣus has basically come to the point where it is basically badge wearing and politics, and is completely irrelevant in the world we live in, outside of offering ...
by spot dawa
Thu Jun 06, 2013 8:03 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Dealing With Desire
Replies: 302
Views: 47740

Re: Dealing With Desire

Strange, that was never how I had interpreted the Simile of the Water Snake. I thought it applied to the teaching itself, coming, as it does, directly before the simile of the raft. The idea that 'the snake has to be grasped correctly' is a warning against misinterpreting the intent of the whole Bu...
by spot dawa
Thu Jun 06, 2013 6:34 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Dealing With Desire
Replies: 302
Views: 47740

Re: Dealing With Desire

Another succinct simile from Buddha in the Pali Canon (Theraveda) is the Simile of the Snake. In short, if you pick up a snake by the tail or the coil, you will get bit by the head. If you trap the head behind the neck with a forked or crooked stick, then you can pick up the snake from behind the he...
by spot dawa
Wed Jun 05, 2013 4:57 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Dealing With Desire
Replies: 302
Views: 47740

Re: Dealing With Desire

Renunciation for me has been an ongoing process rather than a single step. Sexual desire is only one small obstacle in the larger path; it is a part of a whole way of looking at one's self, and so conquering individual obstacles is not as simple as conquering the self. Take on the whole problem at o...
by spot dawa
Wed Jun 05, 2013 3:54 pm
Forum: Gelug
Topic: Norbu House & Domo Geshe Rinpoche
Replies: 80
Views: 41115

Re: Norbu House & Domo Geshe Rinpoche

It is possible to try to help someone and to just make matters worse. Isn't that the truth. I've learned that too much generosity in one direction may cause great resentment, especially where there is a great need. People need to feel as though they are giving something back in return; or like me t...
by spot dawa
Wed Jun 05, 2013 12:08 am
Forum: Gelug
Topic: Norbu House & Domo Geshe Rinpoche
Replies: 80
Views: 41115

Re: Norbu House & Domo Geshe Rinpoche

Malabeads, thank you for your encouragement! I have had this impression of the Dharma of the Pali Canon, the Middle Length Discourses -- you can do it! The Dharma is precisely based on an understanding of things as they are, discovered by direct experience. I have been bemused and amused by some ven...
by spot dawa
Tue Jun 04, 2013 6:04 pm
Forum: Gelug
Topic: Norbu House & Domo Geshe Rinpoche
Replies: 80
Views: 41115

Re: Norbu House & Domo Geshe Rinpoche

For the good student, one who has immersed him or herself in the teachings for a long time, Dharma can appear anywhere and everywhere. The source becomes quite secondary to the experience of Dharma itself. Sometimes a single word from an obscure poem can have me flat and weeping because it provides...
by spot dawa
Tue Jun 04, 2013 6:53 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Walking Away
Replies: 21
Views: 5584

Re: Walking Away

Gotauma himself is not "beyond reproach" as a deadbeat dad. He left his wife and newborn son in the cradle to seek out the Dharma. Of course, he did leave them well-taken care of, in a palace, so there's that. As far as your children and spouse are concerned, which choice would you want th...
by spot dawa
Mon Jun 03, 2013 5:28 pm
Forum: Gelug
Topic: Norbu House & Domo Geshe Rinpoche
Replies: 80
Views: 41115

Re: Norbu House & Domo Geshe Rinpoche

What's preventing you from experiencing, directly, the truth of your situation in terms of practice? (bracketing all these questions about which doctrine is right or what that doctrine means) Jikan, I experience directly the truth of my situation. Practicing the Dharma has changed my life completel...
by spot dawa
Mon Jun 03, 2013 10:01 am
Forum: Introductions
Topic: See spot post!
Replies: 10
Views: 2293

Re: See spot post!

Thank you Greg!
by spot dawa
Mon Jun 03, 2013 9:15 am
Forum: Introductions
Topic: See spot post!
Replies: 10
Views: 2293

Re: See spot post!

According to the sutras, it is possible to abandon the fetters, and that is what is meant by cessation of contact. Yes a person that has abandoned sense pleasures still has the six bases for contact, and still experiences the world in that way. But as I understand it, to voluntarily withdraw your at...

Go to advanced search