Dharma Wheel

Queequeg wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 13, 2018 5:00 pm

redoing NAFTA and resetting trade with China and Europe is the right move.

This is an error, IMO.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/12/opinion/liberals-trump-midterms-2020-election.html Bernie laid out the map. Just cut to the basics that affect all of us and hammer, hammer, hammer: medicare for all, affordable college, infrastructure paid for with taxes on the rich, fix immigration (stop with th...

Footnote 580 in chapter 40 (The Praise) says that, “The innumerable sentient beings of the six realms of samsara are innate seeds within one’s heart center.” Hmm, that is very interesting. I would like to understand this better. Is this literal or figurative or something else all together? It refer...

Since questioning SS Publications's wisdom is so heinous I'll leave it to those who clearly know much more about such things: The request for silence refers only to posting memorials and so on of CHNN's passing. It has nothing to do with the normal day to day business of the gars. They are still ru...

Completion stage practice is the best purification.

I was taught that according to the Buddha, the most difficult obstacle to overcome is clinging to a view. This has made a deep impression on me as it appears to be something unique to Buddhism. So when Malcolm made this comment: .... there are a lot of renowned Buddhist savants in history who have ...

I'm trying to figure out a Tibetan phrase that Khenpo Sonam of Lhündrup Chöling Dharma Center translates as innately present primordial wisdom, or innately abiding wisdom. It sounds like 'len shes rgyas pa’i yeshe' but that doesn't make any sense so can't be right. Can anyone figure out what the ac...

I'm trying to figure out a Tibetan phrase that Khenpo Sonam of Lhündrup Chöling Dharma Center translates as innately present primordial wisdom, or innately abiding wisdom. It sounds like 'len shes rgyas pa’i yeshe' but that doesn't make any sense so can't be right. Can anyone figure out what the ac...

From a lineage perspective the defining feature of the Shambhala organization was the terma system it propagated. The Shambhala teachings were never meant to be mixed with Buddhist teachings at all, and they were never meant to be part of a guru transmitted system. I know this because I know people...

From a lineage perspective the defining feature of the Shambhala organization was the terma system it propagated. The Shambhala teachings were never meant to be mixed with Buddhist teachings at all, and they were never meant to be part of a guru transmitted system. I know this because I know people...

who is Khenpo Namdrol? He is one of a few lamas under Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok who teaches around the world. He is based in Pharping, Nepal. He has given Empowerments and complete transmissions of Guhyagarbha and Chetsun Nyingthig and others in Alameda, CA at Orgyen Dorje Den. and has he recieved CNNR...

Tenma wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 28, 2018 5:41 am

Who is left in this modern world now? One of the great masters has gone off. We have Lama Tsultrim and Garchen Rinpoche left of the modern world from what I know, and perhaps his successor. Is there anyone else out there left of this era?

Khenpo Namdrol.

SwampyFool wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 28, 2018 4:07 am

Does anyone know if we can still purify our samaya with Rinpoche while he is in this samadhi state?

Yes.

Queequeg wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 27, 2018 8:22 pm

"part of". Not the whole. And not the whole of the bodhisattva path.

You did not qualify your statement, hence my observation. Had you said, " being solely concerned with purification of the self," I would not have said anything.

This is where Nichiren takes us on a different path. This is precisely the fatalism rejected. I understand your point but you give up on this precious human life too easily. Some will call this attachment. I'll say it's the fact that we still have opportunity to act until this body is ash. Followin...

...there are actually an infinite variety of Buddhadharma paths There are really only two: the paths based on sems (citta), and the path based on ye shes (jñāna). That's true but I am referring to the forms taken within the paths. Also within the discussion of the apparent dichotomy of the Bodhisat...

I find it interesting that he redifined the terms to suit his own lack of acceptance or lack of understanding of them, and then set up straw-man caricatures of the traditional definitions to make his own definitions seem more credible or viable. But I am not surprised. I knew he was going to do tha...

ChNN is no further away from you than the recognition of your own primordial state.

Motova wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 26, 2018 1:51 am

Is there anything wrong with disassembling dharma books to scan them?

Thank you.

It is like killing sentient beings, if you can restore them whole and perfect, no problem. But if you can't....