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by ThreeVows
Thu Dec 14, 2023 6:55 pm
Forum: Creative Writing
Topic: The Physicalist
Replies: 3
Views: 487

The Physicalist

The Physicalist believes some variation of... Once, there was Nothing. Then, out of Nothing came Something. The Big Bang. Or, perhaps, there was never truly Nothing, but just cyclical Somethings. Anyway, this Something was, in the beginning, not sentient, but just MATTER. A lump, a gas, a plasma, bu...
by ThreeVows
Wed Dec 13, 2023 6:25 pm
Forum: Kagyu
Topic: new platform of ex-Diamondway found in Germany
Replies: 55
Views: 3450

Re: new platform of ex-Diamondway found in Germany

I am opinionated? 😃 Opinionated about negative perceptions of others, yes, it seems to be that way to me, both here and in the other Kagyu thread. I generally have quite pure perception of both Ole and Hannah and Trungpa. I think all of them have had a significant impact on the lives of many beings...
by ThreeVows
Wed Dec 13, 2023 3:52 pm
Forum: Kagyu
Topic: new platform of ex-Diamondway found in Germany
Replies: 55
Views: 3450

Re: new platform of ex-Diamondway found in Germany

Incidentally Ole Nydahl and Trungpa apparently didn’t care too much for each other. I basically think they are too similar. I’ve heard that the 16th Karmapa said it would be beneficial if they had met in his presence but it didn’t happen. They were nothing like each other. Both with strong nyingma ...
by ThreeVows
Wed Dec 13, 2023 3:18 am
Forum: Kagyu
Topic: new platform of ex-Diamondway found in Germany
Replies: 55
Views: 3450

Re: new platform of ex-Diamondway found in Germany

--along with Trungpa. Thread descends into chaos in 3...2...1... If it’s of any interest, Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche on Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche After the Twenty-fifth Rigden has ruled Shambhala and propagated the teachings for 97 years, there will come a time when it will be very difficult for...
by ThreeVows
Tue Dec 12, 2023 9:38 pm
Forum: Kagyu
Topic: new platform of ex-Diamondway found in Germany
Replies: 55
Views: 3450

Re: new platform of ex-Diamondway found in Germany

He used to say that some of his students in past lives stole horses with him. Which is somewhat of a joke, in some cases, but in other cases is perhaps not really a joke at all. Whether it was specifically stealing horses or other things.
by ThreeVows
Tue Dec 12, 2023 9:34 pm
Forum: Kagyu
Topic: new platform of ex-Diamondway found in Germany
Replies: 55
Views: 3450

Re: new platform of ex-Diamondway found in Germany

IMO, which can be disregarded as others see fit, what is being missed on this thread is that his (and his late wife Hannah's) influence is not simply about being 'in the world', but rather in a particular karmic net. I think it's fair to say that many of his students would not have been Buddhist und...
by ThreeVows
Tue Dec 12, 2023 4:21 pm
Forum: Kagyu
Topic: new platform of ex-Diamondway found in Germany
Replies: 55
Views: 3450

Re: new platform of ex-Diamondway found in Germany

He just did his ngondro and got some teachings and transmissions , hardly qualifies as “trained”. Lots of people also did that with Kalu Rinpoche and Karmapa and then went on to do one or several three year retreats. That is more like being trained. He basically wanted to just go into lifelong retr...
by ThreeVows
Tue Dec 12, 2023 4:07 pm
Forum: Kagyu
Topic: new platform of ex-Diamondway found in Germany
Replies: 55
Views: 3450

Re: new platform of ex-Diamondway found in Germany

Of first wave westerners practitioners authorized to teach? There are many alive definitely Yes that's what i meant, but we have to consider their age, and that they where trained by those teachers who where them self the last ones raised and trained in old Tibet. So everyone of them will be a grea...
by ThreeVows
Mon Dec 11, 2023 10:47 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: “My mind isn’t like that”
Replies: 32
Views: 1724

Re: “My mind isn’t like that”

The Buddha taught that existence is suffering. I think the/a problem with this, however, is that people might hear this and then think, ok, well, the answer then is non-existence. But the problem is that both of these conceptions are basically problematic. Striving for both existence and striving f...
by ThreeVows
Mon Dec 11, 2023 7:07 pm
Forum: Kagyu
Topic: new platform of ex-Diamondway found in Germany
Replies: 55
Views: 3450

Re: new platform of ex-Diamondway found in Germany

Whatever on might think of him, he is one of the last remaining that where at first authorisiced to teach among westerners... There are many thoughts that many people have about Ole Nydahl, but I think that there are quite a lot of people that would not have really engaged with dharma with another ...
by ThreeVows
Mon Dec 11, 2023 5:43 pm
Forum: Creative Writing
Topic: The Fawn
Replies: 0
Views: 203

The Fawn

He thought it was about escape. Escape from the cruel world. A peace, beyond and beyond. Free from. He pursued this escape. And indeed, he went away from some, even much, of the cruelty. A disciplined mind and body, mindful of the breath. Not engaging with the impure. One day, he was walking, mindfu...
by ThreeVows
Mon Dec 11, 2023 4:37 pm
Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
Topic: “My mind isn’t like that”
Replies: 32
Views: 1724

Re: “My mind isn’t like that”

Is that fair, or just unfounded arrogance? I have a friend who insists that suffering is part of life’s rich spectrum of emotional experiences (and the problem with Buddhism is it wants to suppress that). That's kind of where I am. I think suffering is real, is a crucial factor of existence, and ca...
by ThreeVows
Mon Dec 11, 2023 3:15 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: what sustains a bodhisattva?
Replies: 68
Views: 2879

Re: what sustains a bodhisattva?

Huh? The agamas are part of the Nikayas. No, they are not. They are basically parallel transmissions. The majority of the agamas are the same as the nikayas but there are notable differences. Here is a short comment on reddit from a while back on the topic: https://www.reddit.com/r/Buddhism/comment...
by ThreeVows
Fri Dec 08, 2023 10:59 am
Forum: Creative Writing
Topic: The Three Ways
Replies: 0
Views: 224

The Three Ways

The Way of Manjushri, the way of the jnani, is relentless pursuit of Truth, wielding the sharp sword that cuts through all that is False. Uncompromisingly unaccepting of anything that can be cut, that can be broken. The Way of Vajrapani, the way of the yogi, is searching for the indestructible vajra...
by ThreeVows
Thu Dec 07, 2023 8:07 pm
Forum: Kagyu
Topic: Devotion
Replies: 6
Views: 959

Re: Devotion

It is said that Devotion is the we foundation of practice (“the foot of meditation”) in the kagyu tradition. What exactly is “devotion” in this context, and what if one has found their way into buddhism through the kagyu tradition, through a meditation center or whatever, but truly has no inclinati...
by ThreeVows
Wed Dec 06, 2023 3:09 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: what sustains a bodhisattva?
Replies: 68
Views: 2879

Re: what sustains a bodhisattva?

One may not know the internal state of any being, in general, of note. In the Gandhavyuha Sutra there is a description of a bodhi-king who apparently engages in terrible torture of beings, but it is essentially all a display to tame particularly unruly beings. When Buddha generated first bodhicitta...
by ThreeVows
Tue Dec 05, 2023 8:09 pm
Forum: Kagyu
Topic: A Joint Statement on the Shamar Incarnation
Replies: 50
Views: 3912

Re: A Joint Statement on the Shamar Incarnation

Of course, many are not--for various reasons, which I am not going to get into here. Go to FB if you're interested. I don't understand why someone wouldn't be, to be honest. If you have pure, or at least high, perception of either Karmapa, then I would think that you would have confidence that if t...
by ThreeVows
Tue Dec 05, 2023 5:31 pm
Forum: Kagyu
Topic: A Joint Statement on the Shamar Incarnation
Replies: 50
Views: 3912

Re: A Joint Statement on the Shamar Incarnation

If they where Karma Kamtsang centers, of course they count. :smile: However by year 2000 all different thinking people, like those accepting two Karmapas, had been pushed out, one way or an other, from the centers. Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche immediately accepted two Karmapas which was considered a prett...
by ThreeVows
Tue Dec 05, 2023 4:55 pm
Forum: Kagyu
Topic: A Joint Statement on the Shamar Incarnation
Replies: 50
Views: 3912

Re: A Joint Statement on the Shamar Incarnation

If you spent some time in Kagyu centers in the end of the 80's you wouldn't call me a cynic. Anyway, I don't practice in the Karma Kagyu tradition anymore and I hope it work out well for you all. I spent quite a lot of time in Kagyu centers including living in 3 separate ones during the '00s-'10s, ...
by ThreeVows
Tue Dec 05, 2023 4:04 pm
Forum: Kagyu
Topic: A Joint Statement on the Shamar Incarnation
Replies: 50
Views: 3912

Re: A Joint Statement on the Shamar Incarnation

FWIW, as an observation, on this thread even it seems like there is some deep cynicism present, and perhaps - if I may - this relates to exactly why such purification practices are being recommended, for exactly such individuals. I do not personally feel even a whiff of this cynicism, and I'm sure ...

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