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by muni
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...
by muni
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 ...
by muni
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.
by muni
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 ...
by muni
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 ...
by muni
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...
by muni
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...
by muni
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.

:anjali:
by muni
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...
by muni
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...
by muni
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...
by muni
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...
by muni
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. :...
by muni
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...
by muni
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...
by muni
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...
by muni
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...
by muni
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, ...
by muni
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...
by muni
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 ...

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