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This joyful event will take place in the course of two days, at the end of which the participants will have received the transmission and in all respects will be practitioners of Chögyal Namkhai Norbu. This sounds a bit crazy. You cannot be a pracitioner (meaning student) of some master you have ne...

weitsicht wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 12, 2019 9:03 am

I think activation of the own speech chakra is better
- and if this is humming or murmuring only
(rather than listening)

helpful for beings in the bardo states though
since the listening capacity is the last sense to fade
(not sure about the sense order when coming to existence)

Queequeg wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 01, 2019 2:45 am

Hey, parents... who's doing their best to raise Buddhists? If that doesn't happen, then Buddhism will never go native.

We do.

I think it is nearly impossible to judge what was happening when you were not part of it or at least witnessing. The letter won't hold for a court trial (at least in Germany) for absue- but it gives a hint to a certain closed-shop mentality that seems rather strange. I mean, why are people lost in t...

Similarly Chime Rinpoche..Lama Atos cousin. A life well spent teaching the Dharma in rural England. No “ crazy wisdom” no b.s. No secondary movie career. No fanfares. No big venues. One forgivable lapse when he became David Bowie’s teacher..otherwise no celeb endorsements. He has influenced hundred...

In today’s environment one would be smart to make such changes regardless of the veracity of the claims. Not to say I think there’s no truth to them, I’m just not sure ‘my teacher acted like asshole’ rises to the level of ‘abuse’, especially not on the level of the Rigpa or Shambhala stuff. Sure. I...

After reading the letter, the posting on the land use issue, and the reddit thread comments it’s unclear to me what exactly could be investigated here and what the point of that investigation would be. The only allegation that sounds like actual misconduct is building outside the specs of the land ...

Eight students of Reginald Ray, inspired by the revelations of abuse in Rigpa in the letter written by eight Rigpa students and in Shamabala by Buddhist Project Sunshine, have written an open letter revealing Reginald Ray’s abuse of students and the cult dynamics in his organisation, Dharma Ocean. h...

It is hard to judge, when one is not nearby.
The way you explain it sounds about right.

Don't worry too much!
KY

I think HH is about right. You can talk about it however and howmuch you want, but in the end, being an attractive female would be much better on the relative level for a bodhisattva with the wide scope that a Dalai Lama has. It is really a bit absurd: the US seems to be a place where outer apperean...

The tibetans have a saying that when there is much dharma, there is also much mara.

In a post-ngöndro nyingma-saddhana, you usually do all nine yanas combined.

I'd recommend to use guggul (Commiphora wightii) on charcoal, like one does when doing sang, instead of using incense.

I don't want to comment on the current situation, but you should really take every photo shown nowadays with a grain of salt, to say the least.

First, I practiced in the Karma-Kagyü-Tradition. After 2 and half years I switched to the Nyingma-Tradition. Why I did this is not a story for the internet, but it was not because there is something wrong with the Kagyü-Tradition.

Best
KY

Grigoris wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 13, 2018 8:26 pm

It seems the fact that Bosnia, Herzegovina and Albania are Muslim majority European nations, has bypassed all the ubermensch in this thread calling for European purity.

And?

The Dalai Lama spoke about refugees coming to Europe, not about the native population of two relativly small countries.

https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/government-economy/dalai-lama-says-europe-belongs-to-europeans Quite honestly, I have to agree with H.H. I am not super happy about it but I am starting to be afraid that their religion driven culture will prove to be incompatible with our European ones. What do you...

Malcolm wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 06, 2018 7:05 pm

You are free. You can do whatever you want. Everyone else does. It's up to students to decide who is a qualified teacher. It is also up to teachers to decide who is a qualified student.

Impermenance is the very nature of all phenomena. Of course this does not change when we are in rigpa. Quite the opposite (as Magnus already said). Yeah, not quite. In dzogchen is totally different. Your primordially pure state is the nature of all dharmas. The Kunjed Gyalpo says:" I am the root of...

Impermenance is the very nature of all phenomena. Of course this does not change when we are in rigpa. Quite the opposite (as Magnus already said).