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by Tenzin Dorje
Thu Apr 02, 2015 11:10 am
Forum: Gelug
Topic: Gorampa & Tsongkhapa
Replies: 357
Views: 69971

Re: Gorampa & Tsongkhapa

If a table is empty of being a table, it follows that a table is as empty of being a table as a car is [empty of being a table]. It follows absurdly that one could validly impute anything on any basis of designation. As a matter of fact, if you need a car to go to town, what don't you just impute a ...
by Tenzin Dorje
Wed Apr 01, 2015 9:43 am
Forum: Gelug
Topic: Gorampa & Tsongkhapa
Replies: 357
Views: 69971

Re: Gorampa & Tsongkhapa

If you, michaelb, don't sense the existence to be inherent: congrats. All people are individually different. The point is more that 'inherent existence' is not the problem, or certainly not the whole problem. If you just negate inherent existence you are still left with the 'thing' you haven't nega...
by Tenzin Dorje
Wed Apr 01, 2015 9:24 am
Forum: Gelug
Topic: Gorampa & Tsongkhapa
Replies: 357
Views: 69971

Re: Gorampa & Tsongkhapa

If phenomena were existent, they would not be merely imputed by mind. They would be findable. If phenomena were not existent, Michaelb would not have written Dorje anything. :woohoo: If phenomena were nonexistent, they would not be merely imputed by mind. They would be findable. I accept that 'if p...
by Tenzin Dorje
Wed Apr 01, 2015 9:12 am
Forum: Gelug
Topic: Gorampa & Tsongkhapa
Replies: 357
Views: 69971

Re: Gorampa & Tsongkhapa

If phenomena were inherently existent, they would not be merely imputed by mind. They would be findable. If phenomena were existent, they would not be merely imputed by mind. They would be findable. If phenomena were not existent, Michaelb would not have written Dorje anything. :woohoo: That phenom...
by Tenzin Dorje
Wed Apr 01, 2015 9:05 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: How do choose this? Schools or sects.
Replies: 27
Views: 5820

Re: How do choose this? Schools or sects.

Like Arya, by observing the qualities of teachers. Of course, you can find great (and notorious) teachers in all traditions, some of whom are dead and some alive. Though, when you have equal admiration or devotion for Thich Nhat Hanh, Master Sheng Yen, H.H. the Dalaï-Lama, H.H. the Karmapa and Ajahn...
by Tenzin Dorje
Wed Apr 01, 2015 8:45 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Little Confused
Replies: 16
Views: 4851

Re: Little Confused

Tenzin, that was great piece of advice. :thanks: "it is either omniscience (and non-abiding nirvana) or abiding nirvana (and without omniscience)" Does it apply to both path (mahayana and Theravada) But i am not finding any information about Theravada tenets (or Hinayana tenets according ...
by Tenzin Dorje
Wed Apr 01, 2015 8:13 am
Forum: Gelug
Topic: Gorampa & Tsongkhapa
Replies: 357
Views: 69971

Re: Gorampa & Tsongkhapa

we perceive impermanent things as inherently existent. I don't and I doubt if anyone else does really. Maybe the term "inherent existent" is understood differently. As I learned in Lamrim teachings, the illusion of "inherent existence" is the same like feeling the things are per...
by Tenzin Dorje
Tue Mar 31, 2015 1:26 pm
Forum: Meditation
Topic: Type of practice...
Replies: 16
Views: 5659

Re: Type of practice...

So in the Tibetan tradition is there not a practice like Apanapasati for example? Or are you saying that Theravadin meditation practices achieve the same results as those in for example Mahamudra? Do both lead to the Mind experiencing the Mind? :namaste: In the Tibetan Gelug tradition (I'm not fami...
by Tenzin Dorje
Tue Mar 31, 2015 10:25 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Little Confused
Replies: 16
Views: 4851

Re: Little Confused

Well, it's complicated. There is Hinayana tenets, Mahayana tenets, Hinayana paths, Mahayana paths, And 4 possibilities between them. Now, the entry gate to any path is the generation of renouncement (the mind of definite emergence), The entry gate to a Mahayana paths is that (renouncement) conjoined...
by Tenzin Dorje
Mon Mar 30, 2015 7:13 pm
Forum: Gelug
Topic: Gorampa & Tsongkhapa
Replies: 357
Views: 69971

Re: Gorampa & Tsongkhapa

Conventional truths are manifestations of the self-grasping mind. In truth, all phenomena are mere name or mere appearance, and this mere name is one nature with the ultimate truth of phenomena, not its conventional nature. For a Buddha, forms are ultimate truths because there is no contradiction b...
by Tenzin Dorje
Sun Mar 29, 2015 5:19 pm
Forum: Gelug
Topic: Gorampa & Tsongkhapa
Replies: 357
Views: 69971

Re: Gorampa & Tsongkhapa

Still, to come back to our topic, Je Tsongkhapa asserts that a wrong consciousness realizes its own appearing object. For instance, ignorance realizes not inherent existence (because it is a non-existent and a non-existent can not be realized) but the appearance of inherent. The appearance of inher...
by Tenzin Dorje
Sun Mar 29, 2015 2:47 pm
Forum: Gelug
Topic: Gorampa & Tsongkhapa
Replies: 357
Views: 69971

Re: Gorampa & Tsongkhapa

I accept your correction. I'm not expert enough in Prasangika views that are not Tsongkhapa's. I found Dölpopa's commentaries, as well as Ju Mipham's commentary to Chandrakirti's Madhyamakavatara quiet confusing and decided to establish a firmer understanding of Tsongkhapa before going any further. ...
by Tenzin Dorje
Sun Mar 29, 2015 2:29 pm
Forum: Prayers and Aspirations
Topic: Taking Refuge Tomorrow!
Replies: 13
Views: 4242

Re: Taking Refuge Tomorrow!

I am receiving the precepts at Kadampa Center, here in Raleigh. The Geshe-la there is giving them to me. I will be taking all 5 lay vows. Thank you so much for your good wishes, everyone. :namaste: Welcome as a lay follower of the Buddha in the FPMT, Dharma brother :smile: (not to be sectarian) I s...
by Tenzin Dorje
Sun Mar 29, 2015 10:35 am
Forum: Gelug
Topic: Gorampa & Tsongkhapa
Replies: 357
Views: 69971

Re: Gorampa & Tsongkhapa

How could a Buddha give any lecture if he wasn't able to use concepts as a measure? He must not be bound by concepts to do so. We tend to say that a Buddha apprehends concepts directly, by directly realizing their appearance in the mind of sentient beings. Even the appearance of inherent existence ...
by Tenzin Dorje
Sun Mar 29, 2015 9:13 am
Forum: Gelug
Topic: Gorampa & Tsongkhapa
Replies: 357
Views: 69971

Re: Gorampa & Tsongkhapa

According to Tsongkhapa, one gives up conceptual meditation on emptiness when you attain the path of seeing[...] Not really, since an Arya being in subsequent attainment realizes emptiness inferentially (i.e. with a conceptual consciousness, and together with the tree types of dualistic appearance)...
by Tenzin Dorje
Sat Mar 28, 2015 8:27 pm
Forum: Prayers and Aspirations
Topic: Taking Refuge Tomorrow!
Replies: 13
Views: 4242

Re: Taking Refuge Tomorrow!

Congratulations! It's worth rejoicing about.

I hope you will flourish in the Dharma, and refuge actualize in your continuum, so that you become yourself a suitable object of refuge.

Do you plan on taking any of the 5 lay vows - or all of them - as well ?
by Tenzin Dorje
Sat Mar 28, 2015 6:21 pm
Forum: Gelug
Topic: Gorampa & Tsongkhapa
Replies: 357
Views: 69971

Re: Gorampa & Tsongkhapa

Tsongkhapafan wrote:According to Tsongkhapa, one gives up conceptual meditation on emptiness when you attain the path of seeing[...]
Not really, since an Arya being in subsequent attainment realizes emptiness inferentially (i.e. with a conceptual consciousness, and together with the tree types of dualistic appearance).
by Tenzin Dorje
Sat Mar 28, 2015 9:37 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Establishing a Correct Understanding?
Replies: 159
Views: 22177

Re: Establishing a Correct Understanding?

Sources: Jamyang Shayba, in Great Exposition of Tenets (Jeffrey Hopkins, in Meditation on Emptiness, p. 54) The sign of dependent-arising is sufficient to show that the subject cannot be found under analysis; however, repeated investigation of dependent-arising is required befire it is seen that ana...
by Tenzin Dorje
Sat Mar 28, 2015 8:19 am
Forum: Gelug
Topic: Gorampa & Tsongkhapa
Replies: 357
Views: 69971

Re: Gorampa & Tsongkhapa

If you still don't get the differences, then how about this Lama Tsong Khapa position: Buddha still retains some correct concept (such as LTKP final "correct" version of Prasangika Madhyamika) Gorampa position: Buddha is free of all conceptualisation. He only appeared to have concepts and...
by Tenzin Dorje
Fri Mar 27, 2015 8:20 pm
Forum: Meditation
Topic: Type of practice...
Replies: 16
Views: 5659

Re: Type of practice...

You are most welcome, Dhammasponge. Please, bear in mind that I am neither a teacher nor a guide. So, since we are speaking practice rather than dogma, if there is anything I said that you plan to make use of in a persistent and significant way, I suggest you check with a qualified teacher. Also, th...

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