Dharma Wheel

Mirror wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 15, 2019 3:42 pm

Hello, I need your advice. Next wednesday I'm going to do the driving exam and because of that, I feel so stressed. Please, what shall I do with stress?

We take things to seriously and build up tension.If you don't pass the test you can take it again.Remind yourself.

Hey all, Fairly general question here, but can anyone recommend any good resources for someone who is finding themselves moving towards a balance between Buddhism and Taoism? I have a library of good Buddhist material but am a little light on the Taoist side as it is relatively new to me. In readin...

I would like to change my username to a usersound,say 3 seconds of barnyard noises.Whenever someone went onto a thread I posted
on they would here my sound and instantly know I was on that thread.

I'm not really sure what this big difference really amounts to, in terms of yogic practice and its relationship to philosophical understanding. Simply this.Buddhadharma, including Kagyu is the path to liberation. Vedanta is eternalist and does not lead to liberation.

Whether time travel is a genuine phenomenon is not the point in the context of a forum dedicated to 'the discussion of Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism'. The only question is does time travel aid enlightenment? And a swift perusal of those claiming to experience that phenomena suggests that it does ...

May our Tibetan fellows have the strength to endure and may our Chinese fellows quickly realize their errors. I wouldn't say our Chinese fellows personally because fellows, to me, means that a large amount of people endorsed, meditated upon, and executed such decisions. It's the Chinese 1% that are...

Good luck with your future endeavours, but I think you need to relax a bit, be more practical, and less superstitious. Dharma, above all, is about motivation. Anything motivated by the eight worldly concerns is not pure Dharma/virtue. Every action performed without the eight worldly concerns is pur...

Tomorrow I'm leaving behind my life in New Zealand to start a new career in Korea. I'm wondering about travelling with Dharma materials (a mala) and books. I've heard that in Tibetan Buddhism, one should not take sacred objects into a bathroom. This thing about 'unclean areas' is one of the only th...

ratna wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 29, 2019 8:00 am

If you put this mantra from the Manjushri Root Tantra between the pages of your Dharma book, there will be no fault when the book is stepped over, etc.

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Very nice.I will make many a copy.Thanks.

For my part I can say that my "feeling" is that they are genuine, I think you mean your "wish" is that these are genuine. From what I see here no evidence of any kind is advanced for this stuff. They are just shaggy dog stories, like those from folks whom claim near death experiences where they met...

This one? https://samyeinstitute.org/instructors/somananda-yogi/ Yup, that's the guy. Me and Somananda outside the Mahadevi temple in Bangkok, Thailand. me and somananda.jpg Nice pic.You guys could be brothers. Does he have some Sak Yants?

I think Esoteric Theravadan Buddhism is fascinating, so it cool seeing stuff like this and learning more about it. I also think the Reusi/Lersi role is really interesting as a tradition of yogis/ascetics. It seems to have some things in common with Ngakpas and other Vajrayana yogi traditions, altho...

You can actually benefit a lot from asking questions about practice to your dharma friends. But this particular subject, the mind instructions in Dzogchen and Mahamudra, is not one of them in my experience. No one is patronizing you. /magnus Not me specifically, i'm not personally insulted or anyth...

Johnny Dangerous wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 27, 2019 7:34 am

amanitamusc wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 27, 2019 7:32 am

I think you like thinking about thoughts.

Well, i'm not running away from them;)

I think you like thinking about thoughts.

It's a good answer, and this is my understanding as well. In many ways though, it seems that this means functionally "going backwards", we are back to the Two Accumulations approach, we are working with Karmic situation. Now wait for the ensuing poopstorm as I insult other practitioners by insinuat...

You could contact this Karmapa.https://www.karmapa.org/

You still have not given the center you are talking about.

So I was talking to other Tibetan Buddhists from another forum, and they said that it is normal for them to read books about Buddhism from various teachers and scholars. I was told that it is normal to even read books from different lineages and branches of Buddhism. However, lately I have noticed ...

I'm assuming nearly everyone participating in this thread has had introduction....the theme is 'what next'... Namkhai Norbu used to say that after introduction we repeat that G.Y method or other different ones until we have some clarity as to what our nature is. Then once we have some confidence ab...