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- Wed Jan 31, 2024 1:23 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dzogchen and thoughts
- Replies: 109
- Views: 7485
Re: Dzogchen and thoughts
Nothing is given, and nothing is received. Those who have experiential knowledge surely understand this. You have misquoted me here and avoided answering the point I was making. I was replying to what you had written in your previous post: Two other factors, or "experiences," are said to ...
- Fri Jan 26, 2024 5:20 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dzogchen and thoughts
- Replies: 109
- Views: 7485
Re: Dzogchen and thoughts
I haven't used the words "energy transfer" or "supernatural". True, i assumed something...still trying to understand your understanding. But glad to see you were not implying any of that. Why ? If the guru's state of mind cannot have any influence on the state of mind of the stu...
- Fri Jan 26, 2024 5:40 am
- Forum: Kagyu
- Topic: Karma Pakshi life story and writings (video in English and French)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 395
Re: Karma Pakshi life story and writings (video in English and French)
Lovely. Thanks for posting.
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 6:18 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dzogchen and thoughts
- Replies: 109
- Views: 7485
Re: Dzogchen and thoughts
I noticed your signature quote. Or as Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche put it: I understand that the Tibetan term is jin lap. :namaste: Jinlab is, really, nothing other than the Guru's authentic state and his or her ability to communicate it to students such that an experience is produced --but it does not...
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 1:33 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dzogchen and thoughts
- Replies: 109
- Views: 7485
Re: Dzogchen and thoughts
A direct mind transmission that does not depend on words or symbols. In the formal pointing out instructions, the words and symbols come before that. But it can still be done without them. Many teachers and masters do it, because it is necessary for any Vajrayana empowerment (Tib. "wang"....
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 6:24 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dzogchen and thoughts
- Replies: 109
- Views: 7485
Re: Dzogchen and thoughts
You seem to be asking about clairvoyance, but that is not what is being referred to in the above quotation from the website. Okay. Then, can you explain what is being referred to? Right now, for instance, we are having a Mind to Mind communication. Mediated through constructs of language, the inter...
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 7:09 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dzogchen and thoughts
- Replies: 109
- Views: 7485
Re: Dzogchen and thoughts
You have a special skill in choosing words which will lead to disputes. I wonder, could Lama Lena tell us about everyone who happened to watch her "pointing out" videos? I wonder, could Lama Lena tell us about everyone who happened to watch her "pointing out" videos? You seem to...
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 11:51 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dzogchen and thoughts
- Replies: 109
- Views: 7485
Re: Dzogchen and thoughts
There is no Dzogchen to practice, unless one has had the pointing out instructions. And, as others have already said: adopting a conceptual understanding prior to receiving pointing out instructions can be unhelpful. Pointing Out Instructions: First and foremost, the teacher introduces the student ...
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 8:33 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Yidam vs Dakini practice benefits
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1184
Re: Yidam vs Dakini practice benefits
Dakinis can be yidam practices, for instance. Yidam practice brings accomplishment because it is that which engages one's own skandhas, etc. Thank you Cone for your input in this thread. The same would apply to "Guru as Yidam" practices, right? One wouldn't need to worry that is "onl...
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 7:24 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Yidam vs Dakini practice benefits
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1184
Re: Yidam vs Dakini practice benefits
thanks Cone and Kai lord, regarding siddhis and yidams : 1. are they universal for all yidams, or there are some specific ones for different yidams? 2. are siddhis attained solely through visualisations/deity yoga or there are subtle body yogas required as well? - for example, in the classic 2 stag...
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 5:28 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Yidam vs Dakini practice benefits
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1184
Re: Yidam vs Dakini practice benefits
...the root of all blessings is the lama ...the root of all accomplishment is the yidam ...the root of all activity is the dakini and the dharmapalas. what exactly are: accomplishments, blessings, and activity? Blessing is the essential factor received in empowerment. Without blessing, there is no ...
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 7:29 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Ok to read a Sadhana without Empowerment?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1972
Re: Ok to read a Sadhana without Empowerment?
Up until recently, it was often the case that access to sadhanas was limited. Before the internet, and before English Translation, volumes were "sealed" by teachers....if one was learning a certain practice, it was common for the master to "seal" the volume at a certain point and...
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 4:59 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Yidam vs Dakini practice benefits
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1184
Re: Yidam vs Dakini practice benefits
I think these sorts of things are really a teacher/student discussion.....practicing "Tantra" (The stages of Creation and Completion) is a vast topic and the answers you get or the instructions you receive are dependent on which practices you engage with. Dakinis can be yidam practices, fo...
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 4:07 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dzogchen practice in Dorje Drolo cycle
- Replies: 135
- Views: 7673
Re: Dzogchen practice in Dorje Drolo cycle
Nepal, where Mingyur Rinpoche resides.jet.urgyen wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 3:52 pm june retreat will be in nepal or tibetan china? sorry my ignorance about
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 8:12 pm
- Forum: Kagyu
- Topic: new platform of ex-Diamondway found in Germany
- Replies: 55
- Views: 3562
Re: new platform of ex-Diamondway found in Germany
You can dismiss it as myth if you want, but I personally might suggest not being so quick to dismiss the instructions of the 16th Karmapa. FWIW. It's one thing to simply go towards what we resonate with, and it's another thing to denigrate. I might urge at least some caution when it comes to denigr...
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 7:57 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dorje Drolö practice can be dangerous?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1191
Re: Dorje Drolö practice can be dangerous?
Personally I think the main danger of DD and other wrathful manifestations is the possibility of forgetting it is a manifestation of pure bodhicitta. Not a hint of anger. What lovers of crazy wisdom may say I do not care to be frank. Too often it suits them, their agendas and just excuses their sho...
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 7:39 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Help request: re Pervading Space Sadhana
- Replies: 9
- Views: 695
Re: Help request: re Pervading Space Sadhana
Thanks guys, know of anyone who sells a hard copy by chance? That KDK one can be purchased Pecha style...but I dunno if anyone is manning the bookstore these days. I'm a bit out of touch. Ok cool, good to know, thanks Cone. Is the one you posted the full version, or a shortened one? It seems shorte...
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 7:04 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Help request: re Pervading Space Sadhana
- Replies: 9
- Views: 695
Re: Help request: re Pervading Space Sadhana
That KDK one can be purchased Pecha style...but I dunno if anyone is manning the bookstore these days. I'm a bit out of touch.Johnny Dangerous wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2023 6:36 am Thanks guys, know of anyone who sells a hard copy by chance?
- Mon Dec 11, 2023 8:36 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Help request: re Pervading Space Sadhana
- Replies: 9
- Views: 695
- Sat Dec 09, 2023 5:08 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dzogchen practice in Dorje Drolo cycle
- Replies: 135
- Views: 7673
Re: Dzogchen practice in Dorje Drolo cycle
.. a SEPARATE new event, in June (13-16th) where Rinpoche will give the Dorje Drolod Empowerment publicly for the first time and teachings specifically on the cycle, which will continue annually... do you happen to know the structure of the cycle? is this translated or students have to rely solely ...