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by climb-up
Tue Mar 19, 2024 1:38 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Poll (ANONYMOUS): Are you Male / Female / Other?
Replies: 19
Views: 778

Re: Poll (ANONYMOUS): Are you Male / Female / Other?

Me too, at the grad level. Me and you have some weird parallel karma. Because this is self - report on a forum, the ability to actually research this is limited. Additionally, it would be misleading (imo) trying to just do a quantitative take of overall Buddhist participation here, because the demo...
by climb-up
Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:26 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Was karmamudra part of ganachakra in the ancient India?
Replies: 6
Views: 225

Re: Was karmamudra part of ganachakra in the ancient India?

I remember ChNNR talking about that we cannot really do the "real" ganachakra in our conditions, which is why we call the tsok "ganapuja" instead. Ganachakra happens in pure lands. I remember ChNN saying this, and it's one his books too, though I'm not at home atm to check, but ...
by climb-up
Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:22 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Poll (ANONYMOUS): Are you Male / Female / Other?
Replies: 19
Views: 778

Re: Poll (ANONYMOUS): Are you Male / Female / Other?

There is a theory that women are more likely to participate in real-life groups than online, and men are more likely than women to participate online but may be less likely to participate in real life. But the group of "all active western Buddhists" (which is really what we're talking abo...
by climb-up
Sat Mar 16, 2024 12:43 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Poll (ANONYMOUS): Are you Male / Female / Other?
Replies: 19
Views: 778

Re: Poll (ANONYMOUS): Are you Male / Female / Other?

Yeah, why so many dudes? Or, alternatively, why so few ladies? This came up on another Buddhist group I'm on, mostly men, which does not seem to reflect irl buddhism (so I hear, tbh I don't interact with buddhist groups irl much, but I do participate online, ...I don't know if that is related or no...
by climb-up
Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:04 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Poll (ANONYMOUS): Are you Male / Female / Other?
Replies: 19
Views: 778

Re: Poll (ANONYMOUS): Are you Male / Female / Other?

Yeah, why so many dudes? Or, alternatively, why so few ladies? This came up on another Buddhist group I'm on, mostly men, which does not seem to reflect irl buddhism (so I hear, tbh I don't interact with buddhist groups irl much, but I do participate online, ...I don't know if that is related or not...
by climb-up
Thu Mar 14, 2024 7:57 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
Replies: 126
Views: 5584

Re: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching

If one doesn’t have access to a guru in person to point out your hidden faults, get married. Your spouse will start pointing these out to you within two to three years. They may not have as much compassion however. Two to three years? You lucky bastard! I wish it had taken that long! :tongue: This ...
by climb-up
Thu Mar 14, 2024 7:43 pm
Forum: Zen
Topic: My family worries that some Zen Buddhism feels like a “cult”
Replies: 13
Views: 729

Re: My family worries that some Zen Buddhism feels like a “cult”

I wonder if there could be a discussion about what precisely they feel is cult-like and why. It very much depends on who is having this conversation. If the goal on their end is to dismiss something different and other, that they're don't like because they don't understand, this might not be very he...
by climb-up
Mon Mar 11, 2024 7:18 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: characteristics of outer, inner and secret guru yogas
Replies: 9
Views: 682

Re: characteristics of outer, inner and secret guru yogas

Thank you for the answers, and the clarification of Konchok Chidu being the source of the Medium thun's guru yoga. It seems clear (I think, given my still very limited exposure) that there are general similarities, and clearly the guruyogas get progressively subtler, but also there is maybe not a cl...
by climb-up
Mon Mar 11, 2024 7:00 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
Replies: 126
Views: 5584

Re: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching

I was once forced in a class (seriously) to watch The Secret, which is sort of the “root text” of a lot of that garbage. Me too, last semester! We talked about it a bit before my class started. My class, honestly, ended up being really good. Regardless of differences of opinion, the teacher was ver...
by climb-up
Sun Mar 10, 2024 10:20 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
Replies: 126
Views: 5584

Re: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching

I was once forced in a class (seriously) to watch The Secret, which is sort of the “root text” of a lot of that garbage. Me too, last semester! We talked about it a bit before my class started. My class, honestly, ended up being really good. Regardless of differences of opinion, the teacher was ver...
by climb-up
Sat Mar 09, 2024 7:12 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: characteristics of outer, inner and secret guru yogas
Replies: 9
Views: 682

Re: characteristics of outer, inner and secret guru yogas

lelopa wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2024 7:58 am Do you already know this site?

https://www.samyeinstitute.org/guru-rin ... guru-yoga/
I did, thank you. That was the page that confused me actually because both the outer guru yoga of the YN and the guru yoga of the medium Thun contain all of those phases.
by climb-up
Sat Mar 09, 2024 1:47 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: characteristics of outer, inner and secret guru yogas
Replies: 9
Views: 682

characteristics of outer, inner and secret guru yogas

Hi all, I was reading "Freedom in Bondage," by Adeu Rinpoche last night and there was a chapter on his receiving a terma of an outer guru yoga of Padmasambhava Dewachenpo, and how he then wrote an inner guruyoga as well. It got me thinking. I have received one cycle that contains outer, in...
by climb-up
Fri Mar 08, 2024 8:56 pm
Forum: Games & Humour
Topic: Daily Laugh Thread
Replies: 842
Views: 261813

Re: Daily Laugh Thread

I don't know who here will find this amusing, but I don't know many people IRL who know enough about both sides of this equation to get the joke. I was listening to a group of biblical scholars talking, and one made the point that it was weird, when you think about it, how many self-identified "...
by climb-up
Fri Mar 08, 2024 8:49 pm
Forum: Games & Humour
Topic: Daily Laugh Thread
Replies: 842
Views: 261813

Re: Daily Laugh Thread

Esta camiseta, jajaja ¡Me lo encanta!
by climb-up
Tue Mar 05, 2024 7:26 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Silly but persistent pop-culture myths about Buddhism.
Replies: 26
Views: 916

Re: Silly but persistent pop-culture myths about Buddhism.

Does anyone know if this myth has a particular origin? I don't know of its initial origin but in the English-speaking world there's a long history of saying such things. In Victorian and Edwardian times it was rather common among non-Buddhist writers who were well-disposed towards the Buddha but no...
by climb-up
Mon Mar 04, 2024 10:15 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Silly but persistent pop-culture myths about Buddhism.
Replies: 26
Views: 916

Re: Silly but persistent pop-culture myths about Buddhism.

There are a lot of these out there. I've found that Facebook groups in particular are full of "experts" with all kinds of dubious ideas about Dharma, but I was reminded of one particular myth I've seen often, it goes something like this: it is bunk that The Buddha did not acknowledge a Cr...
by climb-up
Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:31 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Silly but persistent pop-culture myths about Buddhism.
Replies: 26
Views: 916

Re: Silly but persistent pop-culture myths about Buddhism.

There are many Christianities. Sometimes my kids ask me questions about Christianity and what Christians believe (which is so surreal to me still that, not having grown up Christian, they don't know) and I always have to preface any answer I give that there 27 bajillion Christian sects (more or less...
by climb-up
Sat Feb 24, 2024 2:28 am
Forum: Media
Topic: Decoding the Gurus - Sam Harris
Replies: 14
Views: 754

Re: Decoding the Gurus - Sam Harris

In that latest episode, there is one point where one of the hosts (Chris) talks about how he thinks Anatta is a straw man of sorts, and proceeds to explain how it's just common sense that there is no consistent self. I would say the reason he thinks is that he is coming at it primarily from the poi...
by climb-up
Sat Feb 24, 2024 2:14 am
Forum: Media
Topic: Decoding the Gurus - Sam Harris
Replies: 14
Views: 754

Re: Decoding the Gurus - Sam Harris

I was able to listen to the first couple minutes today, where they make fun of Joe Rogan's perspective (always satisfying), but I am really intrigued to hear their (seemingly bad) take on meditation. I have listened to the podcast before and enjoyed it, a lot. I also at one point listened to Sam Har...
by climb-up
Fri Feb 16, 2024 6:46 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Lung oral transmission
Replies: 82
Views: 4980

Re: Lung oral transmission

I'll be thrilled if Khyentse Yeshi starts giving transmission, but his public opinion seems to be that people can receive it from a recording, something his father repeated ad nauseam is not possible. Whaaaa!? :o I don't really follow the various ins and outs regarding this but, did he actually say...

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