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There is no direct relationship between Bhumis and Jhanas, as far as I know. If there is, I'd be interested in reading about it, too! "Jhana" usually refers to a stage of Samadhi, or "one-pointed mindfulness". I think of it more like a skill, a tool, like a magnifying glass, that we can use to enhan...

Thank you for the dedication and hard work!

tranides wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 24, 2017 7:28 am

Generaly speaking those are things i keep in mind (since i heard them from my teachers) when im doing any practice: feeling presence of diety, trust in your Lama teachings, loosing expectations and attachment to result, and practice more.

Seconded. Solid advice in my experience.

mtulev wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 12, 2017 2:34 pm

Finally, he told me he didn't want to teach me anymore

Did he tell you why he didn't want to teach you anymore?

I'm only answering to provide a tiny bit more open perspective to the whole thing.

Who knows what happened to him? How well do you know this guy? If you're not his teacher, stop the judgements and projections?

It seems there is something wrong with the mail configuration of the new server. Having forgotten my password, I tried to have DharmaWheel send me a new one. Each time, there was no email even after hours. I then started to check the mail server logs and found this: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from ec2-52...

The bio on his website says he studied in Rumtek. But since there are none of his teachers mentioned, there's no way to verify his tulku and/or rinpoche status. Could of course mean he's "extra humble" or something, but then, why would such a person advertise to be a reincarnated rinpoche in the fir...

Thanks for bringing this to our attention again. Almost forgot to donate

If you are practicing shamatha, this could be a Nimitta. Lotus flower actually is a classic. Although this only appears at a very advanced stage.

Having recently stumbled across the Instagram posts of the son of a certain lama, today he's posted some rather surprising pics. Think wads of money, a splif (i believe that's the stoner terminology). Ok, i just felt like sharing that -- sometimes the apple does fall quite far from the tree, it see...

Grigoris wrote:

buddhagirl wrote:...the dominant strain tends towards support for Sogyal...

Really? I don't think there is anybody here supporting the supposed actions.

Saying someone supports these horrible actions seems like a pretty tough accusation!

I feel relief to hear such clear-cut statements from HHDL. We're very lucky to have him around in this position!

Lhasa wrote:

Tolya M wrote: Thank you but I just want what Garchen Rinpoche said and a sadhana text.

Did you email Rinpoche's staff and ask them yet?

I'm guessing four armed Sitatapatra terma by Nuden Dorje?

(By the way, you can always send an email to Rinpoche's helpers)

With Trungpa Rinpoche its very helpful to develop an overall sense of the way he expressed himself, a "feel" for how he liked to put certain things. Then, I find, he makes a lot of sense. Actually some of his explanations were sheer genius. Just take the classic term "Spiritual Materialism". It may ...

The Dalai Lama has said, in response to this type of question posted by Western Dharma center leaders, that if a teacher is behaving wrongly, and is harming people, one must speak out. HHDL did exactly that with respect to his own teacher, the Regent, when he lived in Lhasa. He also said that if cr...

Miroku wrote:

Stewart wrote:Great story, I have a similar one from a time I was out with Mingyur Rinpoche about 15 years ago, in a rough part of a town in England, if I get time later I'll post it.

Oh, please do Stewart! I enjoyed the previous story a lot.

Seconded!

Thank you Malcolm and smcj for your answers to my earlier questions!

And thanks dzogchungpa for that amazing Mingyur Rinpoche story!

Malcolm seems to have already answered all your questions in the following post: All sounds very messy. Let's just hope for all involved that samayas are repairable. When a guru breaks samaya, it is irreparable. That's a general statement. We don't even know if it applies to the case at hand. I gue...

Could someone with some knowledge on the topic of Samaya (Malcolm?) please be so kind and say a few words to clear up the following? 1) We're harming Samaya by exposing our Guru after we've have been sexually or physically abused by him 2) We should therefore keep quiet and keep practicing 3) By kee...