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by Norwegian
Thu May 25, 2023 3:16 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: ChNN and formal trekchö practice
Replies: 72
Views: 11613

Re: ChNN and formal trekchö practice

Arnoud wrote: Thu May 25, 2023 3:14 pm I think he wrote this one before he revealed his Longsal terma. It has many quotations and has more pages, etc. Mine is on its way to me.
ChNN added portions from his Longsal terma in 2005 to the text in question.
by Norwegian
Sat May 20, 2023 8:50 pm
Forum: Games & Humour
Topic: Daily Laugh Thread
Replies: 848
Views: 263152

Re: Daily Laugh Thread

Most indoor cats that haven't been outside where they can hunt prey and also have access to raw meat, tend to not have toxoplasmosis. And the percentage of infection with those cats that have it, is in general quite low. So if you care about your cat's health, make sure they are indoor cats, with ev...
by Norwegian
Sun May 14, 2023 5:40 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Is there rainbow body phenomenon in other Buddhist traditions? (Outside of Nyingma/Bon)
Replies: 21
Views: 2001

Re: Is there rainbow body phenomenon in other Buddhist traditions? (Outside of Nyingma/Bon)

jet.urgyen wrote: Sun May 14, 2023 5:36 pm
Norwegian wrote: Sun May 14, 2023 5:34 pm
jet.urgyen wrote: Sun May 14, 2023 5:28 pm

If so, why there's so much importance given to a mere sign?
Because that "mere sign" is the sign of Buddhahood.
Ahh you mean a kind of proof?
Yes.
by Norwegian
Sun May 14, 2023 5:34 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Is there rainbow body phenomenon in other Buddhist traditions? (Outside of Nyingma/Bon)
Replies: 21
Views: 2001

Re: Is there rainbow body phenomenon in other Buddhist traditions? (Outside of Nyingma/Bon)

i bet my heart to that there will be always a "higher" realization, lol. There is no higher realization than Buddhahood. In Dzogchen, rainbow body is merely the sign (rtags) of the attainment of the fruit ('bras bu), which is Buddhahood. What it means to have rainbow body, is that one has...
by Norwegian
Sun May 14, 2023 5:16 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Is there rainbow body phenomenon in other Buddhist traditions? (Outside of Nyingma/Bon)
Replies: 21
Views: 2001

Re: Is there rainbow body phenomenon in other Buddhist traditions? (Outside of Nyingma/Bon)

Why are Abrahmaic outcasts like Sufis and Gnostics in the discussion now? :o :rolleye: To clear things up. according to Dzogchen, there are four types of Rainbow body: 1) Small Rainbow body (Body becomes smaller and smaller amidst rainbow lights/spheres, etc, shrinks to a very small size less than ...
by Norwegian
Mon May 01, 2023 12:10 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: World Chess Championship 2023
Replies: 7
Views: 564

Re: World Chess Championship 2023

Knotty Veneer wrote: Mon May 01, 2023 12:00 am Wonder how Ding would do against Carlsen?
Lose.
by Norwegian
Wed Apr 19, 2023 9:59 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Chakrasamvara book recommendations
Replies: 12
Views: 1102

Re: Chakrasamvara book recommendations

A very fine book. You may learn more than you bargained for. Would one need a HYT initiation to read this book from an academic perspective? There is no "academic perspective" in Vajrayana. There's only the Vajrayana perspective, which of course means you need to have a relevant empowerme...
by Norwegian
Tue Apr 18, 2023 4:46 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Why not let the lamas go?
Replies: 49
Views: 2953

Re: Why not let the lamas go?

In that case, you missed the main points of Mahayana teachings, Arhathood does not last forever, eventually Arhats will have to enter the Bodhisattva path as well. They are not eternal state. What a cruel conception of existence! This literally makes everything a Catch 22, where you stay if you wan...
by Norwegian
Sun Apr 09, 2023 8:49 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Qualifications of a Dzogchen Master
Replies: 603
Views: 39361

Re: Qualifications of a Dzogchen Master

It's not a technique I use, but in any case I'm not talking about such rarefied ideas as the dharmakaya. It's just an everyday meditation technique, described in everyday language. Why do you refer to the dharmakaya as a "rarefied idea"? It seems to me, that if one approaches Dzogchen wit...
by Norwegian
Sun Apr 09, 2023 1:35 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Qualifications of a Dzogchen Master
Replies: 603
Views: 39361

Re: Qualifications of a Dzogchen Master

But in THAT sense, I think it is not unreasonable to talk about trying to rest in or recognize the gap between two thoughts, as I have heard at least one of my main teachers say. Those thoughts may not be the same as theoretically posited "mind moments", of course, but I think I (or we?) ...
by Norwegian
Wed Apr 05, 2023 1:52 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: how to please Jñanasattva
Replies: 58
Views: 2656

Re: how to please Jñanasattva

i'm not talking about that at all. Then your question "how to please the jñānasattva?" makes no sense. You seem to come at this from a heavily dualistic point of view, of self and other, of here and there. i'm not realized, i'm transmigrating. it makes plain sense. One must understand wha...
by Norwegian
Wed Apr 05, 2023 1:35 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: how to please Jñanasattva
Replies: 58
Views: 2656

Re: how to please Jñanasattva

before initiation was the deity separated from you? Do you think that the jñānasattva is a separate established entity that lives "out there", which has emotions and needs appeasement? For example, if you don't please the jñānasattva, the jñānasattva will then get upset with you? Is that ...
by Norwegian
Wed Apr 05, 2023 1:24 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: how to please Jñanasattva
Replies: 58
Views: 2656

Re: how to please Jñanasattva

:good: They don’t have an « ego » as we human have, so pleasing is maybe not the right term. You can open yourself to receive their blessings and love by establishing bodicitta. Then you turn into a river and they are an ocean. They become one, and that is a way to harmonise with them. You can also...
by Norwegian
Mon Apr 03, 2023 12:59 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Which best describes Buddhism?
Replies: 50
Views: 9396

Re: Which best describes Buddhism?

We don't believe in a god in the Christian sense of god, and we don't oppose such a being but really don't care about the possibility of his existence, so non-theism fits best. Not quite so. While it's certainly true that we don't believe in a god in the Christian sense of god, we actually do oppos...
by Norwegian
Sun Apr 02, 2023 12:55 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: fastest growing "religion"
Replies: 66
Views: 3732

Re: fastest growing "religion"

PadmaVonSamba wrote: Sun Apr 02, 2023 12:43 pm Buddhists say to look at mind which is busy arguing that there either is or is not a god.
Buddhists also say that there's no omnipotent / creator god.
by Norwegian
Thu Mar 23, 2023 11:56 pm
Forum: Academic Discussion
Topic: the difference between Prajñāparāmita and Madhyamaka
Replies: 49
Views: 4470

Re: the difference between Prajñāparāmita and Madhyamaka

he took teachings from Lama Lena for Dzogchen before settling for the Theravada tradition - I am not sure whether he ever took any boddhisatva vow or empowerments. As far as I know, Lama Lena regularly gives pointing out instructions online and have never insisted her disciples to formally take bod...
by Norwegian
Wed Mar 22, 2023 7:35 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Qualifications of a Dzogchen Master
Replies: 603
Views: 39361

Re: Qualifications of a Dzogchen Master

Are we saying that a dzogchen master is still bound by the 10 natures of tantra ? You commented in the following thread: https://www.dharmawheel.net/viewtopic.php?t=34517&start=20 by saying: Actually dzogchen transcends the 10 natures of tantra. to which Malcolm responded: The nature of the min...
by Norwegian
Sun Mar 19, 2023 7:54 pm
Forum: Discovering Mahayana Buddhism
Topic: How important is the Swastika to Buddhism?
Replies: 17
Views: 1424

Re: How important is the Swastika to Buddhism?

Its unknown and irrelevant in the traditions I practice. I’d double check that, there are Buddha rupas in Japan with Swastikas on their chest, and in fact one of the stories I remember is Japanese authorities needing to use a different symbol than a Swastika to mark temples on a map. Not "need...

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