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- Tue Apr 09, 2024 6:12 pm
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Don't know mind
- Replies: 15
- Views: 393
Re: Don't know mind
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 4:48 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Vajrayana practice without empowerment
- Replies: 38
- Views: 2890
Re: Vajrayana practice without empowerment
Empowerments align the dependent origination of a practitioner's body speech and mind to the path. They also introduce the nature of mind. Thank you, but that doesn’t really do it, because now you have to explain what “align” and “introduce” mean. They clear out the gunk from your body speech and m...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 3:55 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Vajrayana practice without empowerment
- Replies: 38
- Views: 2890
Re: Vajrayana practice without empowerment
Thank you, but that doesn’t really do it, because now you have to explain what “align” and “introduce” mean.stoneinfocus wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 3:50 pm Empowerments align the dependent origination of a practitioner's body speech and mind to the path. They also introduce the nature of mind.
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 1:12 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Vajrayana practice without empowerment
- Replies: 38
- Views: 2890
Re: Vajrayana practice without empowerment
What I find curious about practice empowerments is that although people say they are absolutely necessary, I have yet to meet someone who can explain precisely what they are. People say things such as “blessing of the lineage” or “transmission of mind” of simply “point of continuation” but the answe...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 3:10 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Enlightenment
- Replies: 38
- Views: 6798
Re: Enlightenment
By being a Bodhisattva, and waiting for everyone else to attain Enlightenment first . :shrug: https://www.lionsroar.com/the-bodhisattva/ That's an insult. Say your sorry and apologize :jawdrop: I believe I have an understanding of the truth non egotistical enough to understand that compassionate en...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 2:38 pm
- Forum: Ethical Conduct
- Topic: Printing out Buddhist practice texts with 'no reproduction' copyright notice?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 540
Re: Printing out Buddhist practice texts with 'no reproduction' copyright notice?
:tongue: Dharma is nobody’s property. True, but you are still paying for internet to access online stuff. Instead of paying FPMT, you are paying Apple or Verizon or whoever. Your choice. The only difference is digital and paper. Otherwise you argue that when accessing Dharma material, your phone or ...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 12:17 pm
- Forum: Ethical Conduct
- Topic: Printing out Buddhist practice texts with 'no reproduction' copyright notice?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 540
Re: Printing out Buddhist practice texts with 'no reproduction' copyright notice?
Throughout the history of Buddhadharma, copying of sacred texts was viewed as a meritorious activity. It was a far more common than having texts produced by large printings at places like Derge. That activity doesn’t cease to be meritorious because business interests have convinced governments over...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 11:13 am
- Forum: Ethical Conduct
- Topic: Printing out Buddhist practice texts with 'no reproduction' copyright notice?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 540
Re: Printing out Buddhist practice texts with 'no reproduction' copyright notice?
“no part of this book may be reproduced for any reason by any means" In Buddhist legalese, this would be what is known as a ‘provisional teaching’. In other words, the meaning behind holds more significance than the actual wording. Even ordinary copyrights worded this way allow for some reprod...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 2:41 am
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Don't know mind
- Replies: 15
- Views: 393
Re: Don't know mind
“Only don’t know” was the dharma teaching of the Korean Zen master Seung Sahnmaster of puppets wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 6:07 pm Don't know mind
Anyone knows what is it like?
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seungsahn
I laughed because although you can understand what it is about, by definition you can’t “know” what if “is”.
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 1:25 am
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Don't know mind
- Replies: 15
- Views: 393
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 5:05 pm
- Forum: Ethical Conduct
- Topic: Printing out Buddhist practice texts with 'no reproduction' copyright notice?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 540
Re: Printing out Buddhist practice texts with 'no reproduction' copyright notice?
stealing back things we bought years ago ???? There have been a number of notable cases lately where companies completely remove people's access to their legitimate digital purchases; Ubisoft is one example, removing some older Assassin's Creed games from digital stores entirely and disabling peopl...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 2:18 pm
- Forum: Ethical Conduct
- Topic: Printing out Buddhist practice texts with 'no reproduction' copyright notice?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 540
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 2:09 pm
- Forum: Ethical Conduct
- Topic: Printing out Buddhist practice texts with 'no reproduction' copyright notice?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 540
Re: Printing out Buddhist practice texts with 'no reproduction' copyright notice?
Does this mean we can't print out the text to use in our practice, or is this just boilerplate legalese that we can ignore? Not even sure why it's there in the first place - I've seen Buddhist books with notices in the same place stating that they can be freely distributed but not sold. The publish...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 2:00 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: The concept of a root guru
- Replies: 19
- Views: 797
Re: The concept of a root guru
I would it not make more sense to see all masters as equal and not place any above? Including avoiding attachment to the Guru as an object? Would not the ultimate Guru be the Dharmakaya? “Would not the ultimate Guru be the Dharmakaya?” Yes, of course. But this needs to be seen as a sort of poetic r...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 5:04 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: The concept of a root guru
- Replies: 19
- Views: 797
Re: The concept of a root guru
I have been researching the concept of a root guru and whether it even makes sense. . . . . The issue I see is that this concept seems to only serve to generate attachment and afflictions. I think you need to look at not only the concept, but the context as well. Otherwise, your speculations concer...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 2:20 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: 21 st century
- Replies: 7
- Views: 303
Re: 21 st century
Any thoughts welcome My thought is that the same things that cause beings to be stuck in samsara are the things that prevent such a dream from becoming a reality. People have had this dream for a long time. Particularly right after the end of WW1 when most of the planet had been conquered by the mo...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 1:24 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Points about Karma and Causality in Buddhism
- Replies: 1
- Views: 127
Re: Points about Karma and Causality in Buddhism
I think you will get a lot from this podcast teaching:Vajrasvapna wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2024 12:47 pm I have been studying the phenomenon of Buddhist Karma and Causality.
https://urbandharmancpodcast.wordpress. ... it-part-1/
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 3:36 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Worship of Ganesha in Buddhism
- Replies: 15
- Views: 647
Re: Worship of Ganesha in Buddhism
I get a lot of Hindu resources, which take a different approach than Buddhism, because they ultimately see Ganesha as a form of a capital-G God and Buddhism sees Ganesha as a deva being and dharma protector. Conversely, many Hindus regard the Buddha as a manifestation of Shiva and keep Buddha image...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 10:19 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: What did Indian Buddhists call themselves?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 733
Re: What did Indian Buddhists call themselves?
“भारतीय” (bharati) it means someone from India. भारतीय would be bhāratīya, which is someone from India. भारती is bhāratī, which can have different meanings. It could be something like a female descendant of Bhārat (if we take Bhārat to refer to the historical Indian king), or Mother India (if we ta...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 12:22 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Emptiness as "insignificance" and as "spatial vacuity"
- Replies: 66
- Views: 2087
Re: Emptiness as "insignificance" and as "spatial vacuity"
I'm not trying to emphasise some sort of vague similarity between different religious teachings on the ultimate nature of reality while blatantly ignoring the obvious, stark differences. What I try to emphasise is that regardless of the content of any formulation, it is drawn from/in response to ex...