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- Sun Jan 14, 2018 9:13 pm
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: How do I go deeper into Zen practice?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 9561
Re: How do I go deeper into Zen practice?
Bingo, gaining mind and looking for everything to fit into the discursive aspect of your personhood is going to limit you massively in your life. This is the spiritual quest... This isn't like anything you've ever done or had exposure to before most likely. Either way best of luck :) I think I under...
- Sun Jan 14, 2018 6:09 am
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: How do I go deeper into Zen practice?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 9561
Re: How do I go deeper into Zen practice?
Your teacher is telling you something very deep. Spend time trying to understand/embody it. Hello. I've been practicing Zazen for about 3-4 years now. I try to sit for 30 minutes twice a day (but a lot of times it's more like once). I go to a local (Soto) Zen center on and off, but I've mostly just ...
- Thu Jan 11, 2018 4:59 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Skillful means and Dzogchen
- Replies: 48
- Views: 10915
- Thu Jan 11, 2018 4:53 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: My grandmother died
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3561
Re: My grandmother died
This night my grandmother died. My family is Catholic and they will do the usual rituals in which I will participate. Is there additionaly something I can do that could benefit my grandmother? Two years ago I was in Merigar during Shitro teachings, it was one of my first teachings, and I am quite t...
- Mon Jan 08, 2018 10:25 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Skillful means and Dzogchen
- Replies: 48
- Views: 10915
Re: Skillful means and Dzogchen
CedarTree, This isn't Tao Bums, just FYI. FYI relax and stop coming at me. This is a forum regardless. Shoot the shit and help share info so others in different traditions can maybe understand the similarities and differences despite different "languages" we have about shared practice inf...
- Mon Jan 08, 2018 10:22 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Skillful means and Dzogchen
- Replies: 48
- Views: 10915
Re: Skillful means and Dzogchen
Then don't post on forums and close the section completely :) CedarTree, what section was closed? And if you are referring to me (not sure if you still are), I am not a qualified teacher. I share here what I feel is alllowable, and keep back what people should hear from their teachers alone. Kevin ...
- Mon Jan 08, 2018 10:17 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: The Unbearable Lightness of Anatman
- Replies: 212
- Views: 32070
Re: The Unbearable Lightness of Anatman
Your so awesome :anjali: It ends with the premise. In fact its over before the premise. Provisional meaning is possible. But it's, you know, provisional. Have you been buzzing around here all this time and missed the whole Madhyamika thing? Good answer. Entering into a place beyond "knowing&quo...
- Mon Jan 08, 2018 9:27 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Skillful means and Dzogchen
- Replies: 48
- Views: 10915
Re: Skillful means and Dzogchen
Love it lolPuerAzaelis wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2018 9:24 pmAll of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again.
Multiple characters, Battlestar Galactica
- Mon Jan 08, 2018 9:26 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: The Unbearable Lightness of Anatman
- Replies: 212
- Views: 32070
Re: The Unbearable Lightness of Anatman
You guys are familiar with the Sisyphus myth, yes? The dude who's condemned to rolling a rock up a hill for all eternity. Can you imagine a more pointless activity? Who in that circumstance would not wish for a more fulfilling occupation? What Sisyphus desires, and what I would argue we all desire,...
- Mon Jan 08, 2018 9:23 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: The Unbearable Lightness of Anatman
- Replies: 212
- Views: 32070
Re: The Unbearable Lightness of Anatman
It ends with the premise. In fact its over before the premise. Provisional meaning is possible. But it's, you know, provisional. Have you been buzzing around here all this time and missed the whole Madhyamika thing? Good answer. Entering into a place beyond "knowing" and where conceptuali...
- Mon Jan 08, 2018 9:16 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Skillful means and Dzogchen
- Replies: 48
- Views: 10915
Re: Skillful means and Dzogchen
Then don't post on forums and close the section completely :) Many here should be wise enough to know the difference between looking for the crumbs of skillfull information that can be very helpful and looking for the moments of direct encountering with a teacher. I know this is a forum and so do ot...
- Fri Dec 29, 2017 5:02 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Skillful means and Dzogchen
- Replies: 48
- Views: 10915
Re: Skillful means and Dzogchen
You know I like your views ;) start opening up it's a forum. Its the kind of thing you should hear from a Guru, failing that, an expert like Malcolm, but he doesn't have time to answer every post. Kevin You have learned them, pass it on brother ;) Lol in all honesty you don't give yourself enough c...
- Thu Dec 28, 2017 7:44 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Skillful means and Dzogchen
- Replies: 48
- Views: 10915
- Wed Dec 27, 2017 7:55 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Skillful means and Dzogchen
- Replies: 48
- Views: 10915
Re: Skillful means and Dzogchen
"does not have a mind per say" please expand on this as I think this was a missing bridge I was trying to fill between Zen and Dzogchen understanding which seems there is no difference. In that case there is Dharmakaya but not mind, like we have. The Body, Speech, and Mind of Buddhas is i...
- Tue Dec 26, 2017 5:46 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Skillful means and Dzogchen
- Replies: 48
- Views: 10915
Re: Skillful means and Dzogchen
"does not have a mind per say" please expand on this as I think this was a missing bridge I was trying to fill between Zen and Dzogchen understanding which seems there is no difference. Intentional action is always a product of the sems 'byung or caitta , called " cetana " or vol...
- Sun Dec 24, 2017 10:55 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Pointing out instructions and commitments
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7485
Re: Pointing out instructions and commitments
I would be interested to know on here who has received pointing out and actually feels and has been confirmed to have encountered the primordial mind and what that was like.... What do you mean by "primordial mind." The term didn't sound right to me but I am in a bit of a rush and don't h...
- Sun Dec 24, 2017 10:16 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Pointing out instructions and commitments
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7485
Re: Pointing out instructions and commitments
Not to me and that's not what I'm asking. I can't imagine any serious practitioner answering that question on an online forum. Seems like it could be good to avoid everyone having different experiences and thinking it's the same thing ;) Or even worse the whole subjective thing using the same langu...
- Sun Dec 24, 2017 9:51 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Pointing out instructions and commitments
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7485
Re: Pointing out instructions and commitments
I would be interested to know on here who has received pointing out and actually feels and has been confirmed to have encountered the primordial mind and what that was like....
Seems that is the obvious question at hand.
Seems that is the obvious question at hand.
- Sun Dec 24, 2017 9:50 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Occult & Arcane!
- Replies: 54
- Views: 8860
Re: Occult & Arcane!
Lol the popcorn one sufficed.
Stop being afraid of the knowledge you may be witness to
Seriously I can imagine some like Malcolm (who seems to have studied everything in existence) may actually have some really interesting points on cross-religious understandings and information here!
Stop being afraid of the knowledge you may be witness to
Seriously I can imagine some like Malcolm (who seems to have studied everything in existence) may actually have some really interesting points on cross-religious understandings and information here!
- Sun Dec 24, 2017 9:09 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Occult & Arcane!
- Replies: 54
- Views: 8860
Occult & Arcane!
So ancient sources, insights, experiences into this stuff. Obviously from the Buddhist perspective we have some of this realm in the esoteric traditions of Tibet mostly. What all subjects, practices, experiences, does Buddhism (Tibetan Buddhism only maybe?) share with this larger framework and the p...