Dharma Wheel

LongChen Nyingthik is a quite popular cycle, taught by many Lamas throughout the world. You should locate a teacher who teaches this lineage, and take Ngondro transmission. The whole of ngondro is actually really a guru yoga practice. Tigle Gyachen would be something you would practice later on, mos...

My personal feeling is that "Rime" is not an institution, nor is it really a separate lineage of practice, so it should be covered under the general TB forum. As a movement, in the 19th Century, it arose due to very specific sectarian issues. In particular, it was largely started and encouraged by S...

Hmm, something’s maybe fishy here. I suppose there are many ways of understanding but I was always taught that Dorje Bernagchen was not an manifestation of Avalokiteshvara. Is it possible that Garchen Rinpoche was giving a different empowerment and some well meaning disciple just put some accidenta...

At a certain level of practice, all experience is the display of the guru. This includes one’s enemies. There is something called “lama’i Lam Khyer” in this regard. Yes! I am familiar with this idea in general, and specifically as discussed in Dilgo khyentse Rinpoche's book "Wish fulfilling Jewel. ...

At a certain level of practice, all experience is the display of the guru. This includes one’s enemies. There is something called “lama’i Lam Khyer” in this regard.

neoliberalism... ...has in fact lifted a billion people on the planet out of chronic poverty. It just hasn't done good things for the American working class. But America First, right? In other words, what I mostly see here is people obsessing about American jobs and American politics, but there is ...

I seriously doubt the "full wang" of Bernakchen was given by Garchen Rinpoche over the internet. I don't want to go down that road of discussing on-line empowerments. The complete empowerment of Bernakchen is a very rare thing, but there are torwangs, etc. I didn't know that Garchen Rinpoche gave th...

The "conspiracy" is in the way the so-called "dunces" have been convinced that their vote is pointless. Rich people may have one vote each....but all votes are not equal. Money buys votes, and canny manipulators know how to use their money to buy the votes that will influence the game in their favor...

In addition to to all the good advice in this thread, the Kagyu Monlam Prayer Book is a good source for prayers in English. Some are specific to Kamtsang, but many are shared by all Tibetan lineages.

Can you see Buddha Nature? If not, why practice Buddhism?

well......traditionally, these are "sung" during Drupchos, at least in my tradition.....there's also a tradition of singing them within a ritualized framework....we call this a "Kagyu Gursto Puja" or something. The point of such songs, in a ritual context, is to reach the meaning, and not merely the...

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Thu Oct 18, 2018 4:24 pm

Basically, no one has any f*&^ing idea of what is going on or what to do about it -- and frankly, no one ever has.

And, I am increasingly convinced, no one ever will.

We should do what we can, of course. But there is no end to politics, etc., as long as we all are not liberated.

Generally the Karmapa has not been involved in temporal politics in Tibet, other than in regard to the spiritual hierarchy of the lineage if you want to call that politics. The Dalai Lama holds the position of the temporal head of Tibet, and is also a high tulku within the Gelug lineage. In general...

Bernie is a terrific person but clearly too far to the left to be a realistic prospect. You know this world is done for when health care, infrastructure and education are considered left wing... It also shows a very profound ignorance of basic economics. When you weed out the noise from credit cycl...

The letter refers to Thaye Dorje as Karmapa as well...

Here is the “letter” I spoke of....

Maybe a lot premature. No one has said anything about there being more than one Karmapa, though many of those rejoicing, and those wringing their hands, have assumed this meeting allows for two (or more) Karmapas. I think that's an incorrect inference. I also saw something on FB about Thaye Dorje r...

Just to be clear--I agree, it seems there will be a lot of such manipulations, etc. and I don't put much credence in what people post on FB or pretty much anywhere......

We are going to see a lot of nonsense from all sides.