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- Mon Jan 28, 2019 11:37 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Dharmic Fungibility
- Replies: 37
- Views: 4800
Re: Dharmic Fungibility
I'll add something I've witnessed numerous times at more than one larger Dharma center especially when hosting an important event like an empowerment. Say the suggested donation is $20. A line forms to get in. Several pay $20 before someone comes up and says they can't pay anything today. Fine, go o...
- Tue Jan 22, 2019 4:22 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Signing Off
- Replies: 37
- Views: 10912
Re: Signing Off
I think this is very sad news.
May everyone benefits from consideration of what he said, what others have said, and how it all goes together.
Peace to everyone.
May everyone benefits from consideration of what he said, what others have said, and how it all goes together.
Peace to everyone.
- Fri Jan 11, 2019 10:17 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: American Circumcision
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6646
Re: American Circumcision
Circumcision, like all other kinds of unnecessary interventions hurting the natural, healthy corporal integrity of a person without his consent is abuse and arbitrary torture You're going to have a very hard time getting more than three people to agree upon the definition of an "unnecessary in...
- Sun Dec 30, 2018 11:51 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Mathematics in China
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1805
Re: Mathematics in China
I would say the important question is not who invented what is now called mathematics but rather who is doing it best. In that regard China is a clear winner. Though whether gold, bronze or silver is a different matter.
- Wed Dec 26, 2018 8:27 pm
- Forum: Nyingma
- Topic: New Head of Nyingma: Kathok Getse Rinpoche
- Replies: 49
- Views: 14351
Re: New Head of Nyingma: Kathok Getse Rinpoche
What indication did he give? Please read the letter translated by Sangye. I was only browsing this topic but reading the letter gives an entirely different perspective. Without the necessary level of realization it is very difficult to understand precisely what happened and why it appeared to happe...
- Wed Dec 26, 2018 8:02 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Wrathful deities
- Replies: 70
- Views: 11404
Re: Wrathful deities
How hard is it these days to find a trustworthy guru? Lineage heads make good starter lamas. Starter lama ? :) Thank you for that. Gave me a good case of what a friend of mine calls "view giggles." ... As for the signs under discussion, they are rejected in Dzogchen as being mental phenom...
- Wed Dec 19, 2018 10:32 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Human, you are not necessary.
- Replies: 125
- Views: 16277
Re: Human, you are not necessary.
... People always choose tribes over class. The market, however, is the one place where people are able to exercise influence irrespective of class or tribe, where the movement of capital by design is not impeded by protectionist policies, which are never effective. You shoot down your own assertio...
- Fri Nov 30, 2018 2:50 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: DJKR letter to Aung San Suu Kyi
- Replies: 100
- Views: 16208
- Thu Nov 29, 2018 7:47 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: DJKR letter to Aung San Suu Kyi
- Replies: 100
- Views: 16208
Re: DJKR letter to Aung San Suu Kyi
https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/response-dzongsar-jamyang-khyentse-rinpoche/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=fb For me I’m not so much interested in the authors of these pieces but rather what the pieces actually say. I think that putting the original letter and this response side-by-side produces...
- Tue Nov 20, 2018 4:53 pm
- Forum: Kagyu
- Topic: Situation of Kalu Rinpoche
- Replies: 53
- Views: 15528
Re: Situation of Kalu Rinpoche
Without pinning down who KR sees as his root guru, I think it safe to say that he has received authentic lineage transmissions. No doubt in my mind. None in mine, either. I was fortunate to meet Yangsi Kalu Rinpoche in August of 2011 shortly before his 21st birthday. I found him authentic, engaging...
- Sat Nov 10, 2018 4:24 am
- Forum: Kagyu
- Topic: Situation of Kalu Rinpoche
- Replies: 53
- Views: 15528
Re: Situation of Kalu Rinpoche
Without pinning down who KR sees as his root guru, I think it safe to say that he has received authentic lineage transmissions. No doubt in my mind. None in mine, either. I was fortunate to meet Yangsi Kalu Rinpoche in August of 2011 shortly before his 21st birthday. I found him authentic, engaging...
- Sat Oct 20, 2018 10:16 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Psychoanalysis
- Replies: 107
- Views: 18098
Re: Psychoanalysis
During his life the founder of AA, Bill W., proudly wrote about the 12 Steps being incorporated into some form of Buddhism in Japan. He did not say which kind of Buddhism however. In any case apparently he did not see the 12 Steps as being Christian specific. Yes, there's a lot of wisdom in the Big...
- Sat Oct 20, 2018 10:13 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Psychoanalysis
- Replies: 107
- Views: 18098
Re: Psychoanalysis
... Talk therapy is useless. ...just another way to separate fools from their money. Then it is not entirely useless is it? :) I would disagree it is entirely useless if a person doesn't have anyone else to talk to. They can get some benefit from talking with someone (hopefully) more knowledgeable ...
- Sat Oct 20, 2018 10:07 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Guru Rinpoche As...
- Replies: 212
- Views: 37735
Re: Guru Rinpoche As...
I agree that the dzogchen teachings in the DT Drolo cycle are limited (to one short text - http://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-masters/dudjom-rinpoche/light-of-primordial-wisdom ) and that would entail looking elsewhere for more extensive Dzogchen teaching in the terma tradition, but there is no re...
- Fri Sep 28, 2018 3:31 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Chogyal Namkhai Norbu Has Attained Parinirvana
- Replies: 137
- Views: 39384
Re: Chogyal Namkhai Norbu Has Attained Parinirvana
My heart goes out to all of his students. :heart: May you all be inseparable from his wisdom mind. And a special wish for those for whom this is a first, painful lesson in impermanence from your teacher. For people like me who have no special qualities a departure like this is so full of grief it's ...
- Thu Sep 27, 2018 12:46 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dzogchen Community of Chogyal Namkhai Norbu
- Replies: 8214
- Views: 1656320
- Mon Sep 24, 2018 1:36 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dzogchen Community of Chogyal Namkhai Norbu
- Replies: 8214
- Views: 1656320
Re: Dzogchen Community of Chogyal Namkhai Norbu
The son and dharma heir of the late Shenphen Dawa Rinpoche & the sangha and seat of the Dudjom Tersar immediately expressed their support when the news first broke: Dudjom Tersar Yeshe Nyingpo Temple NYC & Orgyen Cho Dzong Upstate NY September 16 at 3:54 PM · Our family and Sangha members se...
- Wed Sep 19, 2018 8:44 pm
- Forum: Kagyu
- Topic: Situation of Kalu Rinpoche
- Replies: 53
- Views: 15528
Re: Situation of Kalu Rinpoche
... I mean that just because someone is a tulku that does not mean that they do not need samaya with a teacher and connection with a lineage, as it seemed Quay was suggesting. But maybe that is not what he meant. It is not and sorry for any confusion. I was assuming that when someone is known as a ...
- Wed Sep 19, 2018 4:03 pm
- Forum: Kagyu
- Topic: Situation of Kalu Rinpoche
- Replies: 53
- Views: 15528
Re: Situation of Kalu Rinpoche
I like Cone's reply a lot. It accords with my own experience.
- Wed Sep 19, 2018 3:17 pm
- Forum: Kagyu
- Topic: Situation of Kalu Rinpoche
- Replies: 53
- Views: 15528
Re: Situation of Kalu Rinpoche
... if he has renounced the whole thing and gone against his lineage for whatever reasons justified or not, why would he want to give teachings anyway? And if he is giving teachings, does he teach Vajrayana, or personal stuff unrelated to lineage? In the Vajrayana system he is the lineage. He teach...