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I agree-Mipham was clearly not opposed to analysis. :smile: Nor was Karmapa Mikyo Dorje, or a host of other Kagyu and Nyingma commentators. But it's the ability to recognize the limits of such an approach, and to foster other valid approaches, that constitutes those Kagyu and Nyingma lamas. But that...

Geshe Roach story is old news, and I'd never trust anyone who calls him or herself a "yoga doctor."

YMMV

For you and/or your lineage, perhaps. There are other methods which do not rely on analytical meditation. Fair enough. Well, emptiness is of course not even an object, much less an "absolute one." My words were meant to point to the "object of Madhyamaka analysis," which is the recognition of empti...

Analytical Meditation is a tool. Yes, but it's the principal method for realising emptiness (or any object of Buddhadharma for that matter) For you and/or your lineage, perhaps. There are other methods which do not rely on analytical meditation. I disagree. The "object" to be realized is the absolu...

I've signed in for the first time in 3 or 4 years for this post, so, you know, I might respond on this thread, but then I sign out again..... 1. It's hard to do Tibetan Madhyamaka without sectarianism, but please try. Agreed, everyone should try. For me, it's not about "sectarianism" --it's about m...

Yeah, not an easy read...but very good.

There are so many Cakrasamvara forms and lineages, it boggles the mind. Marpa's main Cakrasamvara tradition, passed to Mila and others, was a five deity practice, yabyum with two hands and one face for Demchok, and same for Phagmo. All the Marpa Kagyu lineages, including the Drikung, share this. It ...

CNNR will only help your practice, in my opinion. The Drikung also have a Dzogchen Terma lineage, the Yangzab, you know. I think you can combine ngondro from the Drikung with a Dzogchen view, for sure.

I believe you can find Virupa in the lineage histories of Troma Nagmo, Aside from Troma's function in Chod, of course there's a lot of practices relating to her, Dudjom Tersar's being the most well-known and widespread. There are numerous terma lineages, as well, going all the way back to Nyangral N...

I would take this one step further to point out that, personally, I don’t think it matters in the least whether the historical Bhavaviveka actually held to truly existent nature, even unconsciously. A point that is systematically missed in these discussions is that there were Madhyamakas who adhere...

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Just down the road.......

Nice. Will you be attending? I'm driving in tomorrow.

Hopefully on Sunday......

Just down the road.......

I would take this one step further to point out that, personally, I don’t think it matters in the least whether the historical Bhavaviveka actually held to truly existent nature, even unconsciously. In the context of Gelug training, the four tenet systems are used as a teaching method to illustrate...

I wasn't precise enough, let me try to parse out the question. The Gelugpas say: The cup is not empty of its own [conventional] essence [as it appears to ordinary persons], but it is empty of having a truly established nature . (Anyen Rinpoche). This is a non-affirming negative. In other words, the...

It's fine, I understand that everybody has a fixed view about this. It's unreconcilable. I guess it's the karma of the tradition, mainly due to the 5th Dalai Lama's sectarian suppression of other traditions. What goes around comes around, religion and politics should never be mixed. In some sense, ...

What sort of awareness do you mean? Do you have something specific in mind? Maybe a Sanskrit or Tibetan term?

As to appearances and the Buddha, a Buddha experience pure appearances. You can’t really compare the way phenomena appear to us and the way they appear to Buddha. I’d love to see your sources in regard to your assertion, by the way. Mipham has a bit to say about this, but it’s tangential to the disc...

Okay, that's fine. This is a difference in our spiritual traditions so we simply agree to disagree. What cone is saying is that inherent existence is not an object that can be negated because it is like the son of a barren women, what is negated is the erroneous perception of inherent existence. I ...

Denying existence is not equivalent to affirming nonexistence, first of all....let’s get that out of the way. Worldly people assume existence. Analaysis is the remedy. Worldly people do not assume a category of “existence” which is conceptually elaborated by scholars. Perception does not prove exis...

Okay, great. If we let appearances be, they appear to possess their own characteristics and nature which are reliably known by worldly people. No one ever said otherwise. But once any assertion is made regarding ontological status of phenomena, worldly people cling to existing phenomena, and this i...