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by Adamantine
Tue Jan 31, 2023 7:13 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Has the Chöd practice become almost obsolete in modern times?
Replies: 29
Views: 2449

Re: Has the Chöd practice become almost obsolete in modern times?

In our current times, imho, no need to go to a special scary place because the whole world has become a scary place. Impending climate catastrophe, random mass shootings, global pandemics, threats of WWIII and nuclear armageddon— all we need to do is read the news for 20min and voila! And if that do...
by Adamantine
Mon Jan 23, 2023 10:27 pm
Forum: Help Required
Topic: Seeking a guru
Replies: 47
Views: 2844

Re: Seeking a guru

Do I really need a teacher at this point in the formal sense of things to accomplish what I honestly want to accomplish? I've encountered one lama/monk and one lama/former monk in this lifetime. I listened to their words with the attention of a student honestly wishing to learn, though I never took...
by Adamantine
Sun Jan 22, 2023 10:10 pm
Forum: Help Required
Topic: Seeking a guru
Replies: 47
Views: 2844

Re: Seeking a guru

Thank you to everyone who has left a comment since the last posting. Unfortunately, I am in the middle of my doctoral dissertation, so funds, energy, and time are in limited supply. I am not able to travel at this time, so I am limited to those who are local to me or with an online presence. I will...
by Adamantine
Sun Jan 22, 2023 6:20 pm
Forum: Chod
Topic: Troma Nagmo empowerment online?
Replies: 27
Views: 4803

Re: Troma Nagmo empowerment onlin

As far as I have found, Pema Osel Ling offers the most accessible Troma online/via streaming. And, what I have found is that sometimes they offer more than is ‘advertised’. So if Troma is what you are after, then you can join for their weekly and monthly online pujas. https://www.vajrayana.org/stre...
by Adamantine
Fri Jan 20, 2023 11:18 pm
Forum: Ethical Conduct
Topic: Buddhism on laymen having two wives.
Replies: 9
Views: 1537

Re: Buddhism on laymen having two wives.

Polyandry—a women having more than one husband—was normative cultural conduct in old Tibet and never considered contrary to Dharma. One of my own late Lamas had such an arrangement and didn’t differentiate between the child he was the biological father of and the other man’s biological children, he ...
by Adamantine
Fri Jan 20, 2023 9:59 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Yeshi's really back!
Replies: 165
Views: 10804

Re: Yeshi's really back!

Just as I never asserted that we should parse out the teaching of rebirth in Dzogchen. I just said, repeating the words of ChNN, we don't need to believe anything in Dzogchen. Beliefs come and go, change, get dropped, etc. What we need in the Dharma is knowledge, personal and direct knowledge, not ...
by Adamantine
Fri Jan 20, 2023 8:03 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Yeshi's really back!
Replies: 165
Views: 10804

Re: Yeshi's really back!

Yet we also know that we can find thousands of passages from Buddha referring to karma and rebirth from the 4 noble truths onwards, to every one like this. And that’s because it’s quintessentially integral to the enterprise of the Buddhist path. You are missing the point and creating a tempest in a...
by Adamantine
Fri Jan 20, 2023 7:28 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Yeshi's really back!
Replies: 165
Views: 10804

Re: Yeshi's really back!

And no, secular buddhism is not the answer. There are better ways. Wasn’t ChNN’s way working pretty well? A vast international sangha spanning the globe? Who knows, Adamantine? The DC is big, like massive, or at least it was. But Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche more than once asked if he was wasting his lif...
by Adamantine
Fri Jan 20, 2023 7:01 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Yeshi's really back!
Replies: 165
Views: 10804

Re: Yeshi's really back!

Dechen Norbu wrote: Fri Jan 20, 2023 6:37 pm
And no, secular buddhism is not the answer. There are better ways.
Wasn’t ChNN’s way working pretty well? A vast international sangha spanning the globe?
by Adamantine
Fri Jan 20, 2023 5:49 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Yeshi's really back!
Replies: 165
Views: 10804

Re: Yeshi's really back!

Regarding this one statement of yours in particular, I have to admit I’m now even more confused. I certainly did notice you wrote “without the existential issue of birth in samsara”, I didn’t include that in the quote merely to be succinct. Actually, that was precisely what caused me to read it as ...
by Adamantine
Fri Jan 20, 2023 4:28 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Yeshi's really back!
Replies: 165
Views: 10804

Re: Yeshi's really back!

The best thing that can happen to an intelligent westerner is connecting with Dharma through a book written by someone who knows our culture, instead of going to a sangha or a public presentation by an "old school" teacher. The best thing that can happen to an intelligent Westerner, is co...
by Adamantine
Fri Jan 20, 2023 2:48 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Yeshi's really back!
Replies: 165
Views: 10804

Re: Yeshi's really back!

, "he's doing it only to keep the institution" So, Is YN a part of Dzogchen community or not? Is he a leader in Dzogchen community or not? Is he the honorary president? People have a right to know these things and not be continually kept in the dark, with information only trickling out fr...
by Adamantine
Fri Jan 20, 2023 2:42 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Yeshi's really back!
Replies: 165
Views: 10804

Re: Yeshi's really back!

I gave this subject a little thought last night and I think Yeshi might be trying to solve a longstanding problem in sanghas today. On Tibet, the brightest, the sharpest, the most intuitive people were practitioners of the Buddhadharma. Of course, there were exceptions. We all know this or that tal...
by Adamantine
Fri Jan 20, 2023 7:19 am
Forum: Help Required
Topic: Seeking a guru
Replies: 47
Views: 2844

Re: Seeking a guru

Are you willing to travel?
by Adamantine
Fri Jan 20, 2023 4:25 am
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Yeshi's really back!
Replies: 165
Views: 10804

Re: Yeshi's really back!

If they are interested in Dzogchen teachings, this means they have karmic traces for it and not otherwise. This means they will have enough interest to seek out a proper teacher and put those teachings into practice. And in time, and based on their own direct experience through practicing the Dharm...
by Adamantine
Fri Jan 20, 2023 3:29 am
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: Eating meat that is destined for the trash
Replies: 38
Views: 1830

Re: Eating meat that is destined for the trash

PadmaVonSamba wrote: Wed Jan 18, 2023 4:07 pm This store in Taipei
Um, but aren’t all items everywhere at all times, and certainly at all stores "gradually expiring items"?

With the exception, of course, of "already expired items"… :tongue:
by Adamantine
Thu Jan 19, 2023 10:46 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Yeshi's really back!
Replies: 165
Views: 10804

Re: Yeshi's really back!

Malcolm wrote: Thu Jan 19, 2023 10:37 pm
Adamantine wrote: Thu Jan 19, 2023 9:58 pm
This certainly reads as discouraging.
Sorry, but facts are facts. They might be uncomfortable for you, but they are what they are.

Nope, not uncomfortable at all… I’m just trying to be cautiously optimistic, and promoting that approach a bit.. :smile:
by Adamantine
Thu Jan 19, 2023 10:42 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Yeshi's really back!
Replies: 165
Views: 10804

Re: Yeshi's really back!

If they are interested in Dzogchen teachings, this means they have karmic traces for it and not otherwise. This means they will have enough interest to seek out a proper teacher and put those teachings into practice. And in time, and based on their own direct experience through practicing the Dharm...
by Adamantine
Thu Jan 19, 2023 10:35 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Yeshi's really back!
Replies: 165
Views: 10804

Re: Yeshi's really back!

This seems a very strange line of argument. No one has suggested people can't change their minds, least of all Malcolm. You don't seem to have any knowledge of the statements of YN that provoked these discussions, as even if you had been correctly interpreting Malcolm's posts that you pulled up, no...
by Adamantine
Thu Jan 19, 2023 9:58 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Yeshi's really back!
Replies: 165
Views: 10804

Re: Yeshi's really back!

It is perfectly accurate and not misleading. No. For example, we do not need to believe we are suffering. When we are suffering, there is nothing to believe. It is a fact. When we discover we are suffering, we are already entering into the existential quandary the Buddha pointed out, "We are s...

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