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- Sun Jan 14, 2018 5:52 pm
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: How do I go deeper into Zen practice?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 9608
Re: How do I go deeper into Zen practice?
Some good suggestions above. Do retreats. That's the main thing.
- Mon Jan 01, 2018 6:08 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Finding mewa
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3480
Re: Finding mewa
http://www.kalacakra.org/calendar/kcal.htm Grigoris, others too, how can I find the constellations for a given day? The kalachakra website you gave is very good, is the info in there somewhere? I'm including an image from there, maybe it's buried in there somehow. [img]file:///Users/jacobkarlins/De...
- Sun Dec 31, 2017 1:52 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Finding mewa
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3480
- Sat Dec 30, 2017 11:08 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Finding mewa
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3480
Re: Finding mewa
Key for consulting the Tibetan calendar- available on Amazon and through Shang shung. Kevin et al- one more question for now: The days of the week are very helpful and approachable. Do these refer to our Western days of the week, or would you calculate this from the lunar calendar, with day 1 being ...
- Sat Dec 30, 2017 9:44 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Finding mewa
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3480
Re: Finding mewa
Thanks, just got that myself. Thanks for the help, and I'm also glad I worked on it myself a little in the book, because now I understand how to use the Mewa table in the back. Next I'll be learning to calculate the mewa of the day, and comparing it to mine (2).
Jake
Jake
- Sat Dec 30, 2017 9:34 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Finding mewa
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3480
Finding mewa
Just got Namkhai Norbu's book on Astrology.
I'm trying to find my birth year mewa (birthday is Jan 12 1981). From the charts, it looks like my year was a Metal Monkey year, technically 1980, since 1981 started in February. Could someone help me out with the mewa for this year?
thanks
Jake
I'm trying to find my birth year mewa (birthday is Jan 12 1981). From the charts, it looks like my year was a Metal Monkey year, technically 1980, since 1981 started in February. Could someone help me out with the mewa for this year?
thanks
Jake
- Sun Dec 03, 2017 1:34 am
- Forum: Shrine Room
- Topic: I found this statue...
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9686
Re: I found this statue...
As Grigoris and Virgo have said, the influences there are many. To conflate multiple arms with the Mahayana is not correct. Not sure exactly where this comes from, but Thai religion is extremely rich and complex. Deities venerated include bodhisattvas from China and elsewhere like Kshitigarbha. I be...
- Fri Dec 01, 2017 2:54 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Lungta/Prayer Flags
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3553
Re: Lungta/Prayer Flags
It's an interesting point, faith, and we could spin off in any number of directions from here. I'd worry that it would become a sort of back and forth argument, and I'm not really interested in that. It can work sometimes, but here it seems not to, most times. Which is to say, I hold to my original ...
- Fri Dec 01, 2017 12:56 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Lungta/Prayer Flags
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3553
Re: Lungta/Prayer Flags
Ok, I agree that the time of putting them up is important. I've always tried for the morning of "PF days" based on my calendar. Mornings better? Same as later in the day? I disagree that making them is simple, although buying them is definitely an option. The designs seem traditional, prec...
- Fri Dec 01, 2017 12:52 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Lungta flags
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1027
Re: Lungta flags
ok, thanks to both of you- yes, I'm aware of the days, I go with the FPMT calendar right now, ordering a new one SOON!
thanks Johnny, good to know
thanks Johnny, good to know
- Fri Dec 01, 2017 12:45 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Lungta/Prayer Flags
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3553
Re: Lungta/Prayer Flags
Since we're on the topic, if anyone could help with this, it would be appreciated very much. I have wondered about this too.
Jake
Jake
- Fri Dec 01, 2017 12:39 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Lungta flags
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1027
Lungta flags
Ok to put em up inside, like in a meditation room? I've been doing this for a while, but I've heard some people say that it's more of an outdoor thing.
thanks
Jake
thanks
Jake
- Thu Nov 30, 2017 11:14 pm
- Forum: Nichiren
- Topic: Recently, a family member told me that "without God, we are nothing".
- Replies: 30
- Views: 6014
- Wed Nov 29, 2017 12:35 pm
- Forum: Media
- Topic: Trungpa: Surrendering Your Aggression
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1303
Re: Trungpa: Surrendering Your Aggression
nice! like a Buddhist boomerang
Jake
Jake
- Wed Nov 29, 2017 4:20 am
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: Has the Heart Sutra Been Finally Proven as Chinese Apocrypha?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 17072
Re: Has the Heart Sutra Been Finally Proven as Chinese Apocrypha?
seems out of touch- whatever the evidence might be to make such an argument, it assumes that thousands of realized teachers utilizing this teaching have been mistaken
Jake
Jake
- Wed Nov 29, 2017 4:08 am
- Forum: Media
- Topic: MANTRA VIDEOS - PLEASE ADD:)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3224
- Wed Nov 29, 2017 4:06 am
- Forum: Media
- Topic: MANTRA VIDEOS - PLEASE ADD:)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3224
- Wed Nov 29, 2017 4:05 am
- Forum: Media
- Topic: MANTRA VIDEOS - PLEASE ADD:)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3224
- Sun Nov 26, 2017 11:30 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: How to (try to) resolve family conflict?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2493
Re: How to (try to) resolve family conflict?
Family karma is heavy. Just a guess, but it sounds like there is both a lot of anger, and a level of addiction to the relationship (desire), in terms of your wife and her sister.
No suggestions. Glad you're practicing. Good luck.
Jake
No suggestions. Glad you're practicing. Good luck.
Jake
- Sun Nov 26, 2017 9:36 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Pointing out only 3 times?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2747
Re: Pointing out only 3 times?
wahp wahp wahp
down to the minor leagues of Mahamudra
down to the minor leagues of Mahamudra