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- Sun Mar 17, 2024 4:00 pm
- Forum: Sūtra Studies
- Topic: 84000.co The Chapter Teaching the Purification of Boundless Gateways
- Replies: 0
- Views: 48
84000.co The Chapter Teaching the Purification of Boundless Gateways
The Chapter Teaching the Purification of Boundless Gateways , Anantamukhapariśodhananirdeśaparivarta, སྒོ་མཐའ་ཡས་པ་རྣམ་པར་སྦྱོང་བ་བསྟན་པའི་ལེའུ། , sgo mtha’ yas pa rnam par sbyong ba bstan pa’i le’u 1.1 Homage to all buddhas and bodhisattvas. 1.2 Thus did I hear at one time. The Blessed One was...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 2:44 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Enlightenment
- Replies: 34
- Views: 6500
Re: Enlightenment
By gathering the collections of merit and wisdom (punya sambhara and jñana sambhara) for innumerable lifetimes and for several or many kalpas (world cycles). This is how you attain enlightenment - however you also purify the mind and purify karma as Shakyamuni Buddha did over three kalpas. So a bri...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 12:54 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Avalokitesvara Boddhisatva mahasatva
- Replies: 5
- Views: 326
Re: Avalokitesvara Boddhisatva mahasatva
Hi everyone, I would just like to ask if you believe in Avalokitesvara bodisattva ... but I never got help from him. How do you know? Because things didn't go your way? Well, there is karma and it can't be reasoned with or begged or whatever. It can however be purified and accumulated ("good&q...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:41 pm
- Forum: Media
- Topic: Music time
- Replies: 5280
- Views: 883223
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:54 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
- Replies: 126
- Views: 5973
Re: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
Regarding pilgrimage, it largely depends on individuals I guess. On one side of the spectrum, there are individuals who argue that since according to higher teaching like anuyoga and hyt, taught that all biological equivalences of the holy sities are constantly present in our vajra body, why is eve...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:45 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: My last will and testament
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1002
Re: My last will and testament
Yep, time to rewrite it. The actuarial tables give me an expectancy of 12 more years. So you never know of course but you probably have a good deal more time, although Yama always appears unexpectedly. Now my wife is not a Buddhist, but is very sympathetic, and I trust her to deal with my dharma st...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 12:20 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Is it ok to practice Vajrasattva mantra meditation without oral transmission
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1358
Re: Is it ok to practice Vajrasattva mantra meditation without oral transmission
It would be better to purify strictly using. TB sutric method for now like practicing the Thirty-Five Confession Buddhas. On Lama Yeshe's website, he advises, before doing the Thirty-Five Confession Buddhas, to recite this mantra and do prostrations (prostrations I don't really know how to do yet) ...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 2:38 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Is life a illusion?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 806
Re: Is life a illusion?
No. He says its a dream, an illusion, a mirage. A long time ago my first question to my main Zen teacher concerned this exact quote: "Is life a dream." Daido Roshi responded with "No, life is like a dream" and then expanded upon this with what was in effect a concise teaching on...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 1:22 am
- Forum: Mahamudra
- Topic: Machig Labdron Wisdom from an Old Lady
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6690
Re: Machig Labdron Wisdom from an Old Lady
This is wonderful! It seems to be a condensed version of Machig's Last Instructions. As it happens, I was just reading that text earlier today in the Jérôme Edou book Machig Labdrön and the Foundations of Chöd . Yes, that is correct although I have no idea where I got a condensed version from. For ...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 1:18 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Is life a illusion?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 806
Re: Is life a illusion?
This is a classic misunderstanding. Stick your hand into a fire and you will find out that there is a big difference between an intellectual grasp of the concept of non-substantiality and the reality you experience. Anyway, Buddhism has never said that life IS an illusion (compared to what?), but r...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 1:08 am
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
- Replies: 69
- Views: 3006
Re: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
You (all) might like to think about where anyone in Central or South America could go to get away from starvation, death squads, etc. Starvation in Central and South America: The UN claims that approx. 1/3rd of the population suffers from food insecurity. ~43.2 M people suffer from hunger (much of ...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 12:12 am
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
- Replies: 69
- Views: 3006
Re: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
You (all) might like to think about where anyone in Central or South America could go to get away from starvation, death squads, etc. Starvation and death squads are much less common in Central or South America than they were in the 80's and before. I don't have immediate statistics but for example...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 11:11 pm
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
- Replies: 69
- Views: 3006
Re: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
Maybe Buddhists should warn the millions of people risking everything trying to move here (to the United States) before it’s too late. Because their own homelands have been plundered, exploited and destabilized to the point of utter squalor by the US-centralized empire? Ah yes, that certainly speak...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 4:08 am
- Forum: Sūtra Studies
- Topic: The Shorter Devata Sutra, 84000.co
- Replies: 1
- Views: 254
The Shorter Devata Sutra, 84000.co
The Shorter Devatā Sūtra , ལྷའི་མདོ་ཉུང་ངུ། (lha’i mdo nyung ngu), Alpadevatāsūtra Summary While staying in Śrāvastī, the Buddha is approached by an unnamed “divine being,” who inquires as to what behavior merits rebirth in the higher realms. In response, the Buddha explains, in a series of concise...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 4:01 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: What are options for an insect infestation?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1027
Re: What are options for an insect infestation?
This Play Bug Vacuum is a good option. I used it to completely remove a sudden infestation although it took days. It is best for little flying creatures - not great for ants though although it gets some of them.
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 3:35 am
- Forum: Mahamudra
- Topic: Machig Labdron Wisdom from an Old Lady
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6690
Re: Machig Labdron Wisdom from an Old Lady
This is wonderful! It seems to be a condensed version of Machig's Last Instructions. As it happens, I was just reading that text earlier today in the Jérôme Edou book Machig Labdrön and the Foundations of Chöd . Yes, that is correct although I have no idea where I got a condensed version from. For ...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 12:12 am
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
- Replies: 69
- Views: 3006
Re: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
I've been really interested in public benefit corporations and other similar enterprises for a while, and studied up on them. If some people came to me and said they wanted to do something like that, I'd help them set it up pro bono and do what I could to help them secure financing. I feel like ent...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:53 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Is it ok to practice Vajrasattva mantra meditation without oral transmission
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1358
Re: Is it ok to practice Vajrasattva mantra meditation without oral transmission
Hi I would like to finally engage with dzogchen, with the sangha, find a teacher. I am suffering tremendously and I would like to purify my karma and I think it's for time a change, to make that step. Before I go and find a teacher, or master, is it possible or beneficial to practice this mantra? T...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 5:13 pm
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
- Replies: 69
- Views: 3006
Re: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
Green anarchism is a form of anarchism that brings together "green" politics - environmental beliefs such as animal rights - with anarchism, meaning that this form of anarchism is tinged by an environmental feeling. Does this exist or no? Is this a viable option, as both a lifestyle and a...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 12:32 pm
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
- Replies: 69
- Views: 3006
Re: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
And it was an identity trip for all the green anarchists I hung out with. Almost as much of an identity trip as vegans today. Must be difficult being the only one "keeping it real" in a landscape littered with posers. :roll: What did Occupy Wall Street accomplish? The reaction to it demon...