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by mutsuk
Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:30 pm
Forum: Suggestion Box
Topic: Moderation, bias, etc.
Replies: 20
Views: 170

Re: Why are DharmaWheel and DhammaWheel separated?

There are really levels of warning? Yes there are warning levels. I think level 5 is the last limit. Is there a mechanism how to downgrade one's level to avoid it only increasing? Not sure. Mine has been on level 5 for the past 2 years if I'm not mistaken. So I don't think time passing is going to ...
by mutsuk
Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:05 pm
Forum: Suggestion Box
Topic: Moderation, bias, etc.
Replies: 20
Views: 170

Re: Why are DharmaWheel and DhammaWheel separated?

Moderators and moderation aren't perfect, Sure, and that's not what most of us are asking here, rather leaving their political proliferations and priviledged statements at home would certainly make things less heated sometimes. Those “buddhists” who post to ridiculize other people's political belie...
by mutsuk
Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:57 pm
Forum: Suggestion Box
Topic: Moderation, bias, etc.
Replies: 20
Views: 170

Re: Why are DharmaWheel and DhammaWheel separated?

Also, losing Malcom was truly a substantial loss, but there are 16,000 people here. Isn't it enough minds to keep the forum active and figure out each topic being asked? Maybe... However not all these people post and Malcolm's knowledge was beyond compare. Btw I hope you mutsuk change your mind and...
by mutsuk
Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:31 pm
Forum: Suggestion Box
Topic: Moderation, bias, etc.
Replies: 20
Views: 170

Moderation, bias, etc.

The separate forums by major traditions we have here appears to have worked out well. Well, it’s mostly because you allow a bunch of far-left activists work as moderators dictating others what they have to think, deleting comments that contradicts them, and banning people whose opinions are not in ...
by mutsuk
Thu Mar 28, 2024 2:40 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Dzogchen practice in Dorje Drolo cycle
Replies: 127
Views: 7051

Re: Dzogchen practice in Dorje Drolo cycle

what is different in the Karma Ratna presentation and of what import those differences are? Well, in general Trekchö teachings are of two kinds: 1. instructions on the View, or 2. instructions relying on contemplative techniques following DI. The instructions on the View are basically explanations ...
by mutsuk
Thu Mar 28, 2024 1:40 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Dzogchen practice in Dorje Drolo cycle
Replies: 127
Views: 7051

Re: Dzogchen practice in Dorje Drolo cycle

To give a general idea of the supplemental Trekchö text by Karma Ratna and see how it is quite different from more “usual” Trekchö instructions, it is divided into five parts : 1. the explanation about the defects inherent in not having realized emptiness and the Clear-Light of the Mind (sems nyid);...
by mutsuk
Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:06 am
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Dzogchen practice in Dorje Drolo cycle
Replies: 127
Views: 7051

Re: Dzogchen practice in Dorje Drolo cycle

yagmort wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:02 am do you reckon this also warrants the need for Rinpoche to draw from other sources when it comes to tregchö?
I don't think so. The text by Khenpo Karma Ratna is very good and has all that is sufficient for teaching trekchö.
by mutsuk
Thu Mar 28, 2024 7:02 am
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Dzogchen practice in Dorje Drolo cycle
Replies: 127
Views: 7051

Re: Dzogchen practice in Dorje Drolo cycle

bummer, that doesn't look like a complete cycle to me. I am sure that orally they will supplement it with Thögel from other sources/cycles. when you say "in the versions that I have access to.." do you mean there can be other texts with more profound dzogchen instructions or unlikely? I d...
by mutsuk
Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:55 am
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Dzogchen practice in Dorje Drolo cycle
Replies: 127
Views: 7051

Re: Dzogchen practice in Dorje Drolo cycle

shagrath wrote: Wed Mar 27, 2024 10:28 pm Is that commentary by Khenpo Karma Ratna available in english or just tibetan on BDRC or somewhere?
I don't know if it's been translated in English. It's on BDRC W30345, pp. 390-434.
by mutsuk
Wed Mar 27, 2024 7:10 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Dzogchen practice in Dorje Drolo cycle
Replies: 127
Views: 7051

Re: Dzogchen practice in Dorje Drolo cycle

I wonder if 1st Mingyur's terma is mahayoga or anuyoga. It's all about the three yogas. However, Atiyoga is not excessively present in the cycle. In the versions that I have access to, there are no outer or inner rushen, no training of the three doors, etc. You'll find a little bit more trekchö-ori...
by mutsuk
Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:05 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Dzogchen practice in Dorje Drolo cycle
Replies: 127
Views: 7051

Re: Dzogchen practice in Dorje Drolo cycle

So "trekchö" is kind of an umbrella-term subsuming all practices that leed to Tawa? It depends what cycle of teachings you are referring to. Some texts describe trekchö as "instructions on the View" (lta-khrid). This involves reflections on the part of the practitioner after rec...
by mutsuk
Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:00 am
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Dzogchen practice in Dorje Drolo cycle
Replies: 127
Views: 7051

Re: Dzogchen practice in Dorje Drolo cycle

Some cycles are more some less detailed, but practice is same. Not really. Actually, in Dzogchen, trekchö is the practice that shows the most variants, some of which are rather very distinct from others. For instance, in certain Bön cycles, Trekchö refers to "instructions on the View" (lt...
by mutsuk
Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:41 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Dzogchen Historiography
Replies: 31
Views: 1900

Re: Dzogchen Historiography

Vajrasvapna wrote: Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:22 pm -I have been researching Dharmakirti's logic and found its basis in a text from the Bön lineage
Could you provide the title of this bönpo text?
by mutsuk
Sun Mar 24, 2024 3:59 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Was karmamudra part of ganachakra in the ancient India?
Replies: 147
Views: 5108

Re: Was karmamudra part of ganachakra in the ancient India?

I am not sure if it is human nature to be so obsessed Possibly but this is essentially because we have taken rebirth in the Desire Realm ('dod khams). Hence, the yoga of the third initiation can become, for those qualified for its practice, one of the swiftest Path (myur lam) among the Buddha's tea...
by mutsuk
Sun Mar 24, 2024 2:18 am
Forum: Bön
Topic: Tapihritsa Guruyoga
Replies: 6
Views: 308

Re: Tapihritsa Guruyoga

I may add that the description in JR's booklet (except for verse 5 of the long invocation) is pretty good and detailed. There is also a simpler method but it basically relies on what you get in JR's booklet. The core remains the transmission of empowerments through the rays.
by mutsuk
Sun Mar 24, 2024 2:07 am
Forum: Bön
Topic: Tapihritsa Guruyoga
Replies: 6
Views: 308

Re: Tapihritsa Guruyoga

Most certainly the one you received but it's something rather new. In A-khrid, Guru-Yoga is centered around Shenlha Ökar, same in ZZNG and Chaktri.
by mutsuk
Sun Mar 24, 2024 2:03 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Was karmamudra part of ganachakra in the ancient India?
Replies: 147
Views: 5108

Re: Was karmamudra part of ganachakra in the ancient India?

As if sacred sexuality was about following an instruction manual. This is such a narrow view of the path of (sexual) practices that it won't be able to liberate you beyond the concepts you did put in your own mind in the first place. It's clear you have not received these teachings, otherwise you'd...
by mutsuk
Sat Mar 23, 2024 8:03 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Was karmamudra part of ganachakra in the ancient India?
Replies: 147
Views: 5108

Re: Was karmamudra part of ganachakra in the ancient India?

Engaging in karmamudra practice demands some qualifications, as well as outer, inner, and secret signs applying to body, speech, and mind. These specificities are discussed in special works known as “ pho-khrid ”, i.e., Guidance for Males, and “ mo-khrid ”, i.e., Guidance for Females. These descript...
by mutsuk
Sat Mar 23, 2024 1:32 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Was karmamudra part of ganachakra in the ancient India?
Replies: 147
Views: 5108

Re: Was karmamudra part of ganachakra in the ancient India?

Grigoris wrote: Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:24 pm
Natan wrote: Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:26 amI trained and initiated a consort a few years ago.
Oh dear...
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by mutsuk
Sat Mar 23, 2024 1:28 pm
Forum: Bön
Topic: Tapihritsa Guruyoga
Replies: 6
Views: 308

Re: Tapihritsa Guruyoga

Ther is also a lung for the 4 line-GY, but afaik not obligatory to practice GY. True indeed. However, it is interesting to know that this 4-line Guru-Yoga (starting with Chitsuk Dewa...) is a quatrain borrowed from the A-khrid system that came up on the historical scene at least 2 or 3 hundred year...

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