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- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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);...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:06 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dzogchen practice in Dorje Drolo cycle
- Replies: 127
- Views: 7051
- 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...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:55 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dzogchen practice in Dorje Drolo cycle
- Replies: 127
- Views: 7051
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:41 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dzogchen Historiography
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1900
Re: Dzogchen Historiography
Could you provide the title of this bönpo text?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
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 1:32 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Was karmamudra part of ganachakra in the ancient India?
- Replies: 147
- Views: 5108
- 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...