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by Tolya M
Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:28 pm
Forum: Wellness, Diet and Fitness
Topic: Question about hair in Tibetan medicine
Replies: 1
Views: 506

Question about hair in Tibetan medicine

For as long as I can remember, I have had this straight transparent simgle hair growing from my forehead. It is very thin and with the available resolution on the phone it is difficult to photograph it. The red line in the photo shows where I'm pulling it from. What is it prescribed to do with such ...
by Tolya M
Sat Sep 09, 2023 11:33 pm
Forum: Sūtra Studies
Topic: The Modern Western Theravada bias
Replies: 273
Views: 17843

Re: The Modern Western Theravada bias

Vinnanam anidassanam refers to the consciousness of a formless god, and is repudiated as something to cling to. Where did you get that interpretation from? Do you have a link? You can read the Chinese Agama parallel: https://suttacentral.net/ma78/lzh/taisho?lang=en&reference=none&highlight=...
by Tolya M
Sat Sep 09, 2023 11:25 pm
Forum: Sūtra Studies
Topic: The Modern Western Theravada bias
Replies: 273
Views: 17843

Re: The Modern Western Theravada bias

For what it's worth, I think perhaps it is good to first and foremost understand that the English word consciousness is not a perfect translation for the term vinnana. Start by going back and understanding the term properly. According to the post, you could easily understand that I am at least fami...
by Tolya M
Sat Sep 09, 2023 11:21 pm
Forum: Sūtra Studies
Topic: The Modern Western Theravada bias
Replies: 273
Views: 17843

Re: The Modern Western Theravada bias

How does it arise in this case from complete nothing? Nothing comes from nothing. It is impossible. The six types of consciousness arises dependent on the six types of sense areas. Just as the sense areas, so is consciousness impermanent. One smells the smell of tea, thus there is olfactory conscio...
by Tolya M
Mon Aug 14, 2023 10:39 pm
Forum: Sūtra Studies
Topic: The Modern Western Theravada bias
Replies: 273
Views: 17843

Re: The Modern Western Theravada bias

In Theravadin teaching, when a practitioner achieves nirvana with remainder, their consciousness become supermundane and some habitual tendencies as a result of karmic residuals, remain. Those eventually vanish at nirvana without remainder. No Theravadins will call it a state of cessation which is ...
by Tolya M
Mon Aug 14, 2023 10:32 pm
Forum: Sūtra Studies
Topic: The Modern Western Theravada bias
Replies: 273
Views: 17843

Re: The Modern Western Theravada bias

Astus wrote: Mon Aug 14, 2023 7:43 am
PadmaVonSamba wrote: Mon Aug 14, 2023 2:40 amAny assumption of complete cessation of consciousness can be nothing other than pure speculation
Consciousness ceases completely every moment. How is that a speculation?
How does it arise in this case from complete nothing? Nothing comes from nothing. It is impossible.
by Tolya M
Mon Aug 14, 2023 10:29 pm
Forum: Sūtra Studies
Topic: The Modern Western Theravada bias
Replies: 273
Views: 17843

Re: The Modern Western Theravada bias

What do they say nibbana is? It is total extinction of consiousness! For what it's worth, I think perhaps it is good to first and foremost understand that the English word consciousness is not a perfect translation for the term vinnana. Start by going back and understanding the term properly. Accor...
by Tolya M
Sat Aug 12, 2023 11:06 pm
Forum: Dying and Death
Topic: How to get a reals sense of reincarnation being true? / Fear of death questions
Replies: 33
Views: 14747

Re: How to get a reals sense of reincarnation being true? / Fear of death questions

Some body has always been there, because now you have inferential knowledge*. The presence of inferential knowledge now speaks of the logical necessity of past experience with the same inferential knowledge. Inferential knowledge speaks of the logical necessity of the process of abstraction. The pr...
by Tolya M
Sat Aug 12, 2023 10:54 pm
Forum: Sūtra Studies
Topic: The Modern Western Theravada bias
Replies: 273
Views: 17843

Re: The Modern Western Theravada bias

What do they say nibbana is? It is total extinction of consiousness! To be fair, Mahayana also has the anatta doctrine; anatman. Some Mahayana school doctrines sound just as nihilistic as the Theravada -- parinibbana. But at least some Mahayana doctrines do not have those nihilistic doctrines. I th...
by Tolya M
Sat Aug 12, 2023 10:45 pm
Forum: Sūtra Studies
Topic: The Modern Western Theravada bias
Replies: 273
Views: 17843

Re: The Modern Western Theravada bias

What do they say nibbana is? It is total extinction of consiousness! Nibbana is the extiction of greed, hate, and delusion. This is so in both Theravada and Mahayana. Consciousness is momentary in both, so it ceases every moment anyway. I have a version of why they twisted the question so much. Thi...
by Tolya M
Sat Aug 12, 2023 10:29 pm
Forum: Sūtra Studies
Topic: The Modern Western Theravada bias
Replies: 273
Views: 17843

Re: The Modern Western Theravada bias

What do they say nibbana is? It is total extinction of consiousness! To be fair, Mahayana also has the anatta doctrine; anatman. Some Mahayana school doctrines sound just as nihilistic as the Theravada -- parinibbana. But at least some Mahayana doctrines do not have those nihilistic doctrines. The ...
by Tolya M
Fri Aug 11, 2023 11:41 pm
Forum: Sūtra Studies
Topic: The Modern Western Theravada bias
Replies: 273
Views: 17843

The Modern Western Theravada bias

What do they say nibbana is? It is total extinction of consiousness! But if you stop your consciousness with your own consciousness, then it is like extinguishing a fire with fire; If you do not need your consciousness to stop your consciousness, then you have nothing to stop; If you need someone e...
by Tolya M
Fri Jan 06, 2023 3:38 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Killing an animal doesn't break the first precept?
Replies: 66
Views: 3767

Re: Killing an animal doesn't break the first precept?

In general, this is a very big topic. I think that hanging out with girlfriends who do not even share the correct mundane view is kāmamithyācāra, because unlike prostitutes, they exert a bad ideological influence. This topic, it must be admitted, is not sufficiently covered by the authors although i...
by Tolya M
Fri Jan 06, 2023 3:27 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Killing an animal doesn't break the first precept?
Replies: 66
Views: 3767

Re: Killing an animal doesn't break the first precept?

One time I used to think that the sense of " prāṇātipāta vairamaṇya śikṣāpadaṃ samādayāmi " is actually the compound of प्राण m. prANa life and अतिपात m. atipAta ill-usage. Because in the case of "murder" only it turns out that beating, cutting off the nose, etc., upasaka-rules a...
by Tolya M
Mon Oct 17, 2022 2:20 am
Forum: Media
Topic: Triratna from Amaravati
Replies: 1
Views: 320

Re: Triratna from Amaravati

It is the Wheel of Dharma with vajra or laurel wreath (the last option is from Gandhara I think) with trident on it. With leaves of hearing, reflection and understanding for Dharma; beginners, those who are on on the Path and no more learning for Sangha; and the Buddha in the center.
by Tolya M
Mon Oct 17, 2022 2:10 am
Forum: Media
Topic: Triratna from Amaravati
Replies: 1
Views: 320

Triratna from Amaravati

Actually here it is (3 cm height).

About 7 years have passed before I finally made it from picture to the aluminium and silver ones. Unfortunately I have no 18k gold. The 24k looks not good.

Something as cross in christianity for me.
by Tolya M
Mon Mar 09, 2020 1:43 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Selling the dharma
Replies: 117
Views: 23211

Re: Selling the dharma

or a commodity with a price. I assume that this approach has no future in our society, since no one is able to demonstrate the result for which they would be payed. The situation in the Dark Ages was very different from today. For ex I would pay a bag of gold to the teacher if I returned to my loca...
by Tolya M
Wed Feb 26, 2020 1:52 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Selling the dharma
Replies: 117
Views: 23211

Re: Selling the dharma

I guess that there will be no end to the rainfall of donations, offerings and disciples if you levitate, stick a wooden kilaya into a stone, cure cancer with hands or mantras... There will certainly be several padmini spouses, patreon will blow away by money floods etc. But the main problem is there...
by Tolya M
Mon Feb 10, 2020 1:52 am
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Rigpa and Alayavijnana
Replies: 68
Views: 16513

Re: Rigpa and Alayavijnana

Are these the same thing? If so, Are there distinctions in the way alaya is described in Yogacara and rigpa in Dzogchen? If this has been discussed here already, reference would be appreciated. The AV is 1st and 2nd Noble Truths as Asanga said. It can't be the vidya. It is defiled portion of parata...
by Tolya M
Mon Apr 01, 2019 2:24 am
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: What happens at the end of a mahakalpa?
Replies: 26
Views: 6847

Re: What happens at the end of a mahakalpa?

During the end of the kalpa, nothing controversial particularly happens. Everybody starts doing good, samadhi, etc., and all the creatures of the world system gather in Brihatphala with brahma bodies and minds. This is the highest undestructible level of mundane 4th Dhyana with only rupa-abode Akani...

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