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- Sat Apr 06, 2013 6:16 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: No beginning?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4760
Re: No beginning?
'Kyemal! This restless flickering awareness, which we call our 'mind', appeared in the beginning at the very same moment as Samantabhadra. Even so, it is he who is liberated, since he knows himself, whereas we sentient beings wander astray in endless Samsara, because we do not recognise our own tru...
- Sat Apr 06, 2013 10:15 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: No beginning?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4760
Re: No beginning?
'First thinking 'me' they fixate on self, then thinking 'this is mine' attachment to things develops.' (Chandrakirti)
- Fri Apr 05, 2013 8:10 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Best academic studies on (tibetan) buddhism?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5354
Re: Best academic studies on (tibetan) buddhism?
Sam is an accomplished scholar and a practising Buddhist (Longchen Nyingthig). Amongst Buddhist Buddhologists, the best is probably Professor Geoffrey Samuel (ChNN).Yudron wrote:I'm currently most interested in Jacob Dalton, Holly Gayly, and Sam Van Shaik.
- Thu Mar 28, 2013 1:21 am
- Forum: Media
- Topic: Article on Sexual Abuse & Harassment in Buddhist Communities
- Replies: 132
- Views: 25686
Re: Article on Sexual Abuse & Harassment in Buddhist Communi
shel wrote:Unicorns have meaning. That doesn't mean that they are more than mythical creatures
'The unicorn is a supernatural being and an auspicious omen.' Jorge Luis Borges.
- Wed Mar 27, 2013 6:04 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Why makes Buddhism true ?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 9878
Re: Why makes Buddhism true ?
'However, the more sophisticated extremists meditate on the coarse impermanence of birth, aging, sickness, death, and so forth; they know the suffering of this life and of the desire realm; they affirm that coarse substances such as material forms lack a true reality; they decrease their attachment...
- Wed Mar 27, 2013 5:49 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: How they choose the Dalai Lama?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4173
- Sun Mar 24, 2013 6:36 pm
- Forum: Pure Land
- Topic: Doubts about Pure land
- Replies: 76
- Views: 21187
Re: Doubts about Pure land
In places like China, one have to look back into how religious factors, politics and social conditions paved way for development of exclusive and dual practice, hence today, we have the legacy of the exclusive practice according to Master Shan Dao's Tradition during the Tang and the dual practice b...
- Sun Mar 24, 2013 5:48 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: How they choose the Dalai Lama?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4173
Re: How they choose the Dalai Lama?
State Religious Affairs Bureau Order No.5.'...an important move to institutionalize management on reincarnation of living Buddhas. The selection of reincarnates must preserve national unity and solidarity of all ethnic groups and the selection process cannot be influenced by any group or individual ...
- Sun Mar 24, 2013 12:45 pm
- Forum: Media
- Topic: Article on Sexual Abuse & Harassment in Buddhist Communities
- Replies: 132
- Views: 25686
Re: Article on Sexual Abuse & Harassment in Buddhist Communi
...don't forget it is own mind what is deluding us, and this can become visible by the shining lamp of an awaken teacher... '...so come up and see my tantric etchings'. I disagree that the advice I received was conditional and simply 'needed at that moment'. It is possible, and indeed advisable, to...
- Sun Mar 24, 2013 12:22 pm
- Forum: Pure Land
- Topic: Doubts about Pure land
- Replies: 76
- Views: 21187
Re: Doubts about Pure land
Mantra recitation/Buddha name recitation isn't a form of meditation? :? You do realize that the goal is explicitly called "Buddha Remembrance/Recitation Samadhi" (Buddhanusmrti Samadhi)... As far as whether or not there's a guaranteed rebirth, the sutras are pretty specific... even in the...
- Sun Mar 24, 2013 4:43 am
- Forum: Pure Land
- Topic: Doubts about Pure land
- Replies: 76
- Views: 21187
Re: Doubts about Pure land
...how can anyone with a sane mind believe in something that sounds so irrational and fairy tale like? Not to mention the anti woman sentiments in one of the vows? The vow appears to apply only to women who specifically wish to be men. For my part, I have no problem believing that a Cosmic Buddha i...
- Sun Mar 24, 2013 3:53 am
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Hello from Kent UK
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2438
Re: Hello from Kent UK
Welcome Remain
(I visited the Old Courthouse in 1999; its a wonderful building.)
(I visited the Old Courthouse in 1999; its a wonderful building.)
- Sun Mar 24, 2013 3:02 am
- Forum: Media
- Topic: Article on Sexual Abuse & Harassment in Buddhist Communities
- Replies: 132
- Views: 25686
Re: Article on Sexual Abuse & Harassment in Buddhist Communi
'...The relationship students have to their Buddhist teachers is like the relationship PhD candidates have to their advisors combined with the relationship clients have with their psychotherapists, mixed in with the relationship super fans have to their favorite rock stars.' Once I asked an old mon...
- Fri Mar 22, 2013 4:05 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: The Third Eye
- Replies: 147
- Views: 32246
Re: The Third Eye
Okay. These snide "country club" references are of no help to anybody...No more snide remarks. My apologies for any offence caused to members, I was merely adopting an extreme position for the purposes of debate. My own views are very different. As for this thread, my advice for Motova wo...
- Fri Mar 22, 2013 2:24 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: The Third Eye
- Replies: 147
- Views: 32246
- Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:56 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Ahoi
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1711
Re: Ahoi
Ahoi there! and welcome.
- Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:41 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: The Third Eye
- Replies: 147
- Views: 32246
Re: The Third Eye
Some practitioners are looking for special things in Tibetan Buddhism. They take on practices trying to develop channels and so on. They hope for results. Some even do three year retreats and follow practices such as the 6 yogas and so on. Some practitioners gain some understanding and others do no...
- Wed Mar 20, 2013 2:47 pm
- Forum: Nyingma
- Topic: Crisis at KPC in Maryland
- Replies: 54
- Views: 12658
Re: Crisis at KPC in Maryland
Adamantine wrote: Penor Rinpoche was not one of my own Gurus...He also recognized Steven Seagal. My pure vision would struggle with that.
- Wed Mar 20, 2013 2:07 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: The Third Eye
- Replies: 147
- Views: 32246
Re: The Third Eye
There are no separate conventional and ultimate views and that's what 'purity' means. 'On the relative and conventional level you have death, impermanence, the suffering of samsara and so forth, all of which are deceptive appearances, nevertheless experienced as such. On the ultimate level the mode...
- Wed Mar 20, 2013 11:27 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: The Third Eye
- Replies: 147
- Views: 32246
Re: The Third Eye
When you believe that empty rainbows appear and therefore exist in some way, albeit relatively, you are mistaken. And that applies also for your worship of deities. Perhaps you are conflating conventional and ultimate views, for so-called conventional beings, deities are very real. As for 'the subt...