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- Fri Mar 06, 2020 5:02 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: A Manifesto Against the Enemies of Modernity
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3583
Re: A Manifesto Against the Enemies of Modernity
I'm really tired of "the progressive left" being equated with a bunch of twitter identity politics crusaders. This article is silly, it's easy to argue against someone else's ideology when you just make it up and caricature it. What I would be interested in is whether you agree with the a...
- Fri Mar 06, 2020 5:00 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: A Manifesto Against the Enemies of Modernity
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3583
Re: A Manifesto Against the Enemies of Modernity
The reason I like the essay is that it is certainly centrism, but it is not tepid. Between the "ludicrous choices" of Postmodern Utopia and the lost Golden Age what else is there except a growing realization, that is perhaps tragic, that all we can do is merely do our best with the cards w...
- Fri Mar 06, 2020 4:44 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: A Manifesto Against the Enemies of Modernity
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3583
A Manifesto Against the Enemies of Modernity
“Modernity” is the name for the profound cultural transformation which saw the rise of representative democracy, the age of science, the supersedence of reason over superstition, and the establishment of individual liberties to live according to one’s own values. At its core, it values empowering t...
- Tue Feb 18, 2020 11:18 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Desert island book
- Replies: 45
- Views: 8199
Re: Desert island book
Mahamudra: The Moonlight, Dakpo Tashi Namgyal.
- Mon Feb 03, 2020 10:55 pm
- Forum: Suggestion Box
- Topic: An abundance of pictures and video clips
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4427
Re: An abundance of pictures and video clips
We live in a meme culture, like it or not.
- Thu Jan 02, 2020 5:54 pm
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Working with anger
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6395
Re: Working with anger
Yes lol the older I get, the tireder I get, the less energy I have for getting angry. Must indeed have something to do with the
- Thu Jan 02, 2020 5:31 pm
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Working with anger
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6395
- Tue Dec 31, 2019 9:32 pm
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Question about Meditation
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2201
Re: Question about Meditation
It is explained in this way: "While there isn't even as much as an atom to cultivate by meditating, you shouldn't be distracted for even as long as an instant." Phrased in another way, undistracted ordinary mind means to keep the way your mind naturally is without being distracted. Dakpo ...
- Tue Dec 31, 2019 7:33 pm
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Working with anger
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6395
Working with anger
The treasure revelations of Ratna Lingpa contain this quotation: "The essence of your angry mind is clear awareness; bright and empty the moment you recognize it." Thrangu Rinpoche, Crystal Clear, p.67. I find working with anger to be very difficult. Does anyone have any tips or tricks fo...
- Tue Dec 10, 2019 1:53 am
- Forum: Discovering Mahayana Buddhism
- Topic: Origin of mahayana
- Replies: 36
- Views: 5987
- Mon Dec 09, 2019 10:39 pm
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Question about Meditation
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2201
Re: Question about Meditation
My meditation is not to meditate and never be distracted.
- Fri Dec 06, 2019 8:00 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Inexpressibility and Precious Word Empowerment
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1650
Inexpressibility and Precious Word Empowerment
In terms of its meaning, as it cannot be pointed out by words, it is inexpressible; as it cannot be known with ordinary modes of consciousness, it is inconceivable; and as it is does not fall into any extreme, it is the great freedom from elaboration. In the end, it is beyond all expressions, such ...
- Fri Dec 06, 2019 7:16 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: How to Deal w/ Constant Nagging?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1995
- Fri Dec 06, 2019 7:14 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: There is no Vajrayana without renuciation
- Replies: 168
- Views: 18180
- Thu Dec 05, 2019 4:46 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Synthesis and expansion
- Replies: 2
- Views: 596
Synthesis and expansion
The modernistic searcher after meaning may be likened to a man furiously beating the earth and imagining that the finer he pulverizes it, the nearer he will get to the riddle of existence. But no synthesizing truths lie in that direction. It is in the opposite direction that the path must be follow...
- Thu Dec 05, 2019 4:15 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: It is supposed to be simple and easy
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1963
It is supposed to be simple and easy
No matter what the mind might be thinking, it is enough simply to relax directly in whatever arises, without trying to alter or adjust anything, and then to sustain that experience without becoming distracted. This makes everything very simple and easy. To feel that practising the Dharma is difficu...
- Wed Dec 04, 2019 10:13 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Karmic Gain
- Replies: 43
- Views: 6155
- Thu Mar 21, 2019 5:19 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: question on distingushing mind from it's nature
- Replies: 174
- Views: 28909
Re: question on distingushing mind from it's nature
You're not dangerous.
Kidding, I'm kidding ...
Kidding, I'm kidding ...
- Wed Mar 20, 2019 11:03 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Without politics this forum has become a little dull
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1134
- Wed Mar 20, 2019 9:54 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Without politics this forum has become a little dull
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1134
Without politics this forum has become a little dull
Is no-one allowed to start a good old-fashioned political scrum around here any more even in the Lounge? What happened?