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- Wed Apr 25, 2018 11:59 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: The bardo and akanistha
- Replies: 9
- Views: 375
Re: The bardo and akanistha
Someone said that the Bardo is just another name for akanistha? is this true? i always thought that the Bardo was the transmigrassion realm and that akanistha was another different heavenly realm. No, this is not even remotely true. However, the bardo is not a "transgression realm." It is just the ...
Re: DNA TESTS
Are you telling us you have dysentery? :lol: But seriously, folks, as interesting as the results of DNA testing might be, I would under no circumstances willingly submit such personal information to a faceless corporation which can be counted on to use it in deleterious ways in the future. People t...
- Wed Apr 25, 2018 4:32 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: How do you know you're not just making karma worse??
- Replies: 45
- Views: 731
Re: How do you know you're not just making karma worse??
Quotes compiled from collective karma thread But dependent origination, when reduced to its essential components, simply means: where there is affliction, there is a cause for action; where there is action there is a cause for suffering; and where there is suffering, there is a condition for furthe...
- Wed Apr 25, 2018 1:40 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: The bardo and akanistha
- Replies: 9
- Views: 375
Re: The bardo and akanistha
the dharmadhātu.chimechodra wrote: ↑Wed Apr 25, 2018 5:00 amThank you for the illuminating knowledge as always, Malcolm. Could you expand on how Akaniṣṭha is understood in the Great Perfection? Thank you!
- Tue Apr 24, 2018 11:41 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: An interesting book...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 175
Re: An interesting book...
He was a nutjob: ".... Samael Aun Weor is my true name as a Boddhisattwa. Samael is the name of my Monad! I am perfectly cognizant of the dawn of life in this Solar System! I saw the dawning of Creation! I am here with this humanity, from the very first moment, since the heart of this solar system s...
- Tue Apr 24, 2018 1:51 pm
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Check my understanding of dran pa/smrti
- Replies: 3
- Views: 174
Re: Check my understanding of dran pa/smrti
If we are beginners, then our smrti is weak, and will get distracted by thoughts. Samprajnya is the caitasika dharma which "guards" our smrti, as we progress through the nine stages of shamatha, our samprajnya develops and helps redirect our mind-vijnana to the object whenever it wanders more and m...
- Tue Apr 24, 2018 1:47 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: The bardo and akanistha
- Replies: 9
- Views: 375
Re: The bardo and akanistha
Someone said that the Bardo is just another name for akanistha? is this true? i always thought that the Bardo was the transmigrassion realm and that akanistha was another different heavenly realm. No, this is not even remotely true. However, the bardo is not a "transgression realm." It is just the ...
- Tue Apr 24, 2018 2:36 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: How do you know you're not just making karma worse??
- Replies: 45
- Views: 731
Re: How do you know you're not just making karma worse??
We talk about karma in principle, and I am fixed (determined) on understanding it in its correct view. But not to just understand and talk about it. I want this to be done already. I'm fed up with being ignorant. Since you read French, you can get Valle-Poussin's original translation of the Abhidha...
Re: DNA TESTS
It shows how we're all inter-connected genetically and that there is no pure race. Recently read an article describing the hand wringing among alt right boobs who discover heritage they've avowed to hate. You can imagine, it really hurts when they find out they're Jewish or black. Idiots. Yes, I've...
- Tue Apr 24, 2018 1:36 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: How do you know you're not just making karma worse??
- Replies: 45
- Views: 731
Re: How do you know you're not just making karma worse??
We talk about karma in principle, and I am fixed (determined) on understanding it in its correct view. But not to just understand and talk about it. I want this to be done already. I'm fed up with being ignorant. Since you read French, you can get Valle-Poussin's original translation of the Abhidha...
- Mon Apr 23, 2018 9:52 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: How do you know you're not just making karma worse??
- Replies: 45
- Views: 731
Re: How do you know you're not just making karma worse??
Karma is the driving force behind where one is born in samsara. Yup, that is past karma. In the meantime though one is busy accruing vipaka with their current actions too. However, karma does not form ideologies and philosophies. If you believe this, then you will be forced accept the consequence o...
- Mon Apr 23, 2018 9:18 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: How do you know you're not just making karma worse??
- Replies: 45
- Views: 731
Re: How do you know you're not just making karma worse??
Karma supersedes all political, social, and economic theories, rendering them all pretty meaningless, in fact. I think you will find that it is karma that is the driving force behind social systems and karma which forms ideologies and philosophies. ;) I would say it is karma that renders them meani...
Re: DNA TESTS
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Actually, it is higher, 1.5. I guess the max is 5%.
Re: DNA TESTS
I am related to all Native American men on both continents. My late paternal grandmother, like many Anglo-Americans, claimed to be part Native American. Cherokee, IIRC. Claims of Native American ancestry are fairly common in the States by people of whatever stock. ...When it comes to bragging about...
- Mon Apr 23, 2018 6:30 pm
- Forum: News & Current Events
- Topic: Definitely not the best time to come back as a donkey
- Replies: 9
- Views: 310
Re: Definitely not the best time to come back as a donkey
Well, I just want to make sure no one intrudes on my white, anglo, imperialist privilege.
- Mon Apr 23, 2018 6:27 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Collective karma
- Replies: 139
- Views: 2054
Re: Collective karma
I assume by everything you mean the realization of emptiness. If so, yes, below the path of seeing the ultimate truth of things is an inferential ultimate only. This also applies to Dzogchen and has been discussed by Khenpo Ngachung among others. yes, that was sloppily put, I am typing in a rush I ...
- Mon Apr 23, 2018 6:08 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Collective karma
- Replies: 139
- Views: 2054
Re: Collective karma
I am interested in your perspective vis a vis a thread I was just reading regarding dzogchen. Maybe I can take up that thread later, but in brief it seems you accept that everything below path of seeing is conceptual, an inference. I assume by everything you mean the realization of emptiness. If so...
- Mon Apr 23, 2018 4:56 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Collective karma
- Replies: 139
- Views: 2054
Re: Collective karma
"The cognition in which there is no conceptual construction is perception." (Dignaga: Pratyaksapariccheda, in Dignaga on Perception, p 25, tr Hattori) can you clarify please: what is this "conceptual construction?" all conceptual, ie non-direct perceptions must have them, is there there a conceptua...
Re: DNA TESTS
How much Neanderthal DNA do you all have? 1.3 percent. People call me "blond," but I am really a redhead. Was your red always lighter or was it particularly redder when you were younger? I was a towhead when little. Then my hair shifted red. If my mother is any example, I won't go grey until my lat...