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- Thu Aug 17, 2023 7:07 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Dudra - Collected Topics
- Replies: 2
- Views: 730
Re: Dudra - Collected Topics
https://thubtenchodron.org/2018/04/collected-topics/ Whether a study is leading to be able to practice depends not solely on the type of study. Debates could look like defeating another but that is not their aim. The aim is to get more insight in nature and thereby alleviate mutual suffering. A talk...
- Wed Aug 09, 2023 11:33 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: No guru, no dzogchen?
- Replies: 269
- Views: 33191
Re: No guru, no dzogchen?
By my recollection you regularly post opinions in contradiction to other peoples opinions - which is normal and fine. They tend to use very neutral language, but other than that they are similar to the posts of others - reflecting your opinions and individual perspective. I think the issue arising ...
- Wed Aug 09, 2023 6:05 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: No guru, no dzogchen?
- Replies: 269
- Views: 33191
Re: No guru, no dzogchen?
Sorry as I am not home and cannot write easy on mobile, I try.
I wrote why I see the importance on Guru only.
Johhny, can you open the page in my signature? It could help to illustrate what I meant with wrong-right debate, because I probably caused misunderstanding. Thanks.
I wrote why I see the importance on Guru only.
Johhny, can you open the page in my signature? It could help to illustrate what I meant with wrong-right debate, because I probably caused misunderstanding. Thanks.
- Tue Aug 08, 2023 5:39 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: No guru, no dzogchen?
- Replies: 269
- Views: 33191
Re: No guru, no dzogchen?
By my recollection you regularly post opinions in contradiction to other peoples opinions - which is normal and fine. They tend to use very neutral language, but other than that they are similar to the posts of others - reflecting your opinions and individual perspective. I think the issue arising ...
- Mon Aug 07, 2023 7:46 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Treasury of Lives: Women Initiative
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1792
Re: Treasury of Lives: Women Initiative
Some encouraging notes: Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo : " women are more inclined to go directly into the practice". “Male or female–there is no great difference. But if she develops the mind intent on enlightenment, to be a woman is better.” -Guru Padmasambhava. A talk by a nun: "Yet in the ...
- Mon Aug 07, 2023 6:00 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Treasury of Lives: Women Initiative
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1792
Re: Treasury of Lives: Women Initiative
Great whatever we can do. Anyway it is an inner journey and how we appear, is only that, makes no any difference. https://tsoknyirinpoche.org/monestaries/ There is no Buddha elsewhere; look at your own face.There is nothing else to search for; rest in your own place. Non-meditation is spontaneous pe...
- Sun Aug 06, 2023 8:48 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: No guru, no dzogchen?
- Replies: 269
- Views: 33191
Re: No guru, no dzogchen?
That is not possible. You are still engaging, but in a less direct way. For example, when you say that you agree that Dzogchen should not be discussed online, you are taking a side and indirectly stating that you think this is what is right. 9 on 10 it is not going smoothly was been said. However d...
- Sun Aug 06, 2023 8:26 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: No guru, no dzogchen?
- Replies: 269
- Views: 33191
Re: No guru, no dzogchen?
Hi,
It is so that I am not engaging in "right-wrong debates" in Dzogchen. And will thereby not bother you any longer in the Dzogchen forum.
It is so that I am not engaging in "right-wrong debates" in Dzogchen. And will thereby not bother you any longer in the Dzogchen forum.
- Sun Aug 06, 2023 7:01 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: No guru, no dzogchen?
- Replies: 269
- Views: 33191
Re: No guru, no dzogchen?
you’re sitting on the sidelines throwing things at people then running off when challenged about it Yes, sharing what Guru now alive are throwing at people, for it points to awaken or it could inspire us to practice. Even they are not debating like in the other Tibetan traditions, they do not run a...
- Sat Aug 05, 2023 10:16 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: No guru, no dzogchen?
- Replies: 269
- Views: 33191
Re: No guru, no dzogchen?
I have been chased for years, asking who is your Master on this discussion forum and been called all kind of things I had to look upon wiki to know what it was. I asked Master La to please let me say his name but he said: I do not teach separation. ( separated nature) As well he said do not lose fa...
- Sat Aug 05, 2023 7:46 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dissociation and Awareness
- Replies: 137
- Views: 15967
Re: Dissociation and Awareness
Right now dreamyoga see dharmata.org by Lama Lhakshey Zangpo Rinpoche Thank you. :good: :anjali: https://www.dharmata.org/events-calendar/ Thank you for your help. I had not the opportunity to write where on the page it could be found, posted in a rush. What was an importance was that when we are n...
- Sat Aug 05, 2023 7:27 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: No guru, no dzogchen?
- Replies: 269
- Views: 33191
Re: No guru, no dzogchen?
I have been chased for years, asking who is your Master on this discussion forum and been called all kind of things I had to look upon wiki to know what it was. I asked Master La to please let me say his name but he said: I do not teach separation. ( separated nature) As well he said do not lose fai...
- Fri Aug 04, 2023 11:32 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Buddha Nature is a way to attract people
- Replies: 84
- Views: 9172
Re: Buddha Nature is a way to attract people
Ime, it is better to expose in the way buddha did, with the four noble truths, and the value of karuna and why a non-hatred attitude is better. The Uttaratantra speaks about the four noble truths. Equanimity and compassion arise from seeing all beings as having an equal nature, including oneself. :...
- Fri Aug 04, 2023 9:57 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Doctrinal Perspective on Prayer
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3275
Re: Doctrinal Perspective on Prayer
would it be considered to be the case that such a prayer would be heard and responded to, in one way or another, by Buddhas or Bodhisattvas? I say yes and it is not helping to hide us in the toilet! Whatever thought you hold on whatever action, everything is known. But due to our idea of independen...
- Thu Aug 03, 2023 1:28 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Doctrinal Perspective on Prayer
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3275
Re: Doctrinal Perspective on Prayer
No it is not just motivation. It is the practice itself and is thereby called Guru Yoga what opens the inner guru or nature, is as well called Awareness and thereby is the devotion, compassion inseparable. It can as well be a prayer to remain Aware or when lost, to come back to it. It could some mot...
- Thu Aug 03, 2023 5:51 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Doctrinal Perspective on Prayer
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3275
Re: Doctrinal Perspective on Prayer
You make clear that prayer is through devotion, what is crucial to be freed from self-importance. Self-importance makes it impossible to understand Dharma. Devotion frees us from our experience of ego, what keeps us in samsara. Our Root Master is our channel to everything. Our Root Master gives us t...
- Thu Aug 03, 2023 5:31 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dissociation and Awareness
- Replies: 137
- Views: 15967
Re: Dissociation and Awareness
Awareness non-dual. Advice on the Presence of Awareness” (dran pa dang shes bzhin gyi gdams pa me long ma) is a short text that describes the essence of the Dzogchen teaching (rdzogs chen, total perfection). Concerning the way to establish this point of view (lta ba), the main point is to have a di...
- Tue Aug 01, 2023 12:51 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Doctrinal Perspective on Prayer
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3275
Re: Doctrinal Perspective on Prayer
Prayers and wishes are of no help in liberation Not sure. Prayer is an ancient rite and a practice whose origin cannot be traced. It is not the invention of a single prophet or religious tradition. It’s safe to say that it has been part of human culture since time immemorial and then further back, ...
- Tue Aug 01, 2023 9:56 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Doctrinal Perspective on Prayer
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3275
Re: Doctrinal Perspective on Prayer
However it could as well be by Compassion, what is actually then not separate from Devotion. All but to open our habitual prison door of suffering self. At all times, again and again, we should make vast prayers for the sake of all beings. When falling asleep we should think, ‘May all beings achieve...
- Tue Aug 01, 2023 7:09 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Doctrinal Perspective on Prayer
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3275
Re: Doctrinal Perspective on Prayer
Doctrinal? Sorry for my lack of understanding. Then there could be doctrinal devotion, doctrinal love as well. Devotion/faith in nature is not to explain, depend on mind, prayer could be as devotion: -=*opening of mind-heart - open to receive blessings*=- It could be heard. (This is not devotion to ...