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- Wed Jan 23, 2013 6:22 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Advice, suggestion, guidance, anything?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4327
Re: Advice, suggestion, guidance, anything?
Hello, I am here after quite a bit of a journey. I used to be active member here and of e-sangha. I practiced Pureland for a few years and a few years in Chan(Zen) at a branch of Chung Tai. I am now facing a bit of an obstacle in my spiritual life. About a year and a half ago I abandoned everything...
- Wed Jan 23, 2013 5:25 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Question about Khenpo Gangshar's vivid awareness
- Replies: 82
- Views: 20059
Re: Question about Khenpo Gangshar's vivid awareness
No. Don't do anything. Don't notice anything. Don't look for anything. Don't practice anything. Dont try to relax. Just rest. When I "just rest" I usually drift off into half (or full) sleep. Even at my peak awake hours. The feeling I have is that brain, having nothing to do or focus on, ...
- Wed Jan 23, 2013 4:50 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Question about Khenpo Gangshar's vivid awareness
- Replies: 82
- Views: 20059
Re: Question about Khenpo Gangshar's vivid awareness
If it happens that things start getting a little wild, or too intense, that is scattering, and you need to relax and loosen up on noticing your thoughts. My friend (who recommended that I check out vivid awareness) advised using the breath as a kind of stabilizer when things get too wild. Not to sh...
- Wed Jan 23, 2013 12:54 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Question about Khenpo Gangshar's vivid awareness
- Replies: 82
- Views: 20059
Re: Question about Khenpo Gangshar's vivid awareness
If you have not done so, seek out direct introduction. If you have no teacher who can do this for you, consider taking it from ChNNR when he next does one. Without direct introduction it will be very difficult for you to ascertain the state of mind you are aiming for. Contrary to being a series of ...
- Wed Jan 23, 2013 12:51 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Question about Khenpo Gangshar's vivid awareness
- Replies: 82
- Views: 20059
Re: Question about Khenpo Gangshar's vivid awareness
Look into the looker. I had this very exchange with a teacher one time. My next question was, "Who or what is the looker?" The translator asked the teacher, and the teacher replied, and they both laughed heartily. The translated answer was, "No one can tell you that. You have to find...
- Tue Jan 22, 2013 10:05 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Question about Khenpo Gangshar's vivid awareness
- Replies: 82
- Views: 20059
Re: Question about Khenpo Gangshar's vivid awareness
Look into the looker.rachmiel wrote:How?conebeckham wrote:Turn awareness in on itself.
- Tue Jan 22, 2013 10:03 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Question about Khenpo Gangshar's vivid awareness
- Replies: 82
- Views: 20059
Re: Question about Khenpo Gangshar's vivid awareness
You can have so many experiences. This is a not good or bad. Anicca is of course a good thought but not what vivid awareness means. What, as you see it, does vivid awareness mean? Clarity without involving thought. If you move your eyes from right to left across a room for one second, no thought co...
- Tue Jan 22, 2013 4:54 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Question about Khenpo Gangshar's vivid awareness
- Replies: 82
- Views: 20059
Re: Question about Khenpo Gangshar's vivid awareness
That's fine. But after that don't aim.
- Tue Jan 22, 2013 4:41 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Question about Khenpo Gangshar's vivid awareness
- Replies: 82
- Views: 20059
Re: Question about Khenpo Gangshar's vivid awareness
You can have so many experiences. This is a not good or bad. Anicca is of course a good thought but not what vivid awareness means. You just stay with it until you see what doesn't change.
- Tue Jan 22, 2013 3:44 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Rainbow body
- Replies: 53
- Views: 14375
Re: Rainbow body
Dzogchen talks different. By the way, as sambhogakaya is only a symbolic representation of dharma teachings and does not perform activities. This is why a rainbow body is a nirmanakaya and not a sambhogakaya. So you're saying all the sambogakaya deity forms are just symbolic representations of dhar...
- Tue Jan 22, 2013 3:40 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Rainbow body
- Replies: 53
- Views: 14375
Re: Rainbow body
Rainbow body is the result when elements return to their essence of five colors. Body of light is the realization that he's you there.
- Mon Jan 21, 2013 11:15 pm
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Kundalini Awakening vs Buddhist Awakening
- Replies: 87
- Views: 47167
Re: Kundalini Awakening vs Buddhist Awakening
Folks should see chapter 8, p. 349-50 of Longchenpa's Precious Treasury of Philosophical Systems, where: In lower systems of secret mantra approach, the entrance of motile energy [prana] and mind from the rasana and lalana channels into the central channel initiates an experience of timeless awarene...
- Mon Jan 21, 2013 5:22 pm
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Kundalini Awakening vs Buddhist Awakening
- Replies: 87
- Views: 47167
Re: Kundalini Awakening vs Buddhist Awakening
They are using the word kundalini, but it is a different concept altogether. In Vajrayana, there is really no kundalini. It's not about motivation really. In Hinduism the kundalini is a living force that acts of its own. In Vajrayana, practitioner uses visualization to generate the fire element. No...
- Mon Jan 21, 2013 5:07 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: What meaning is?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4361
Re: What meaning is?
Mental projections.oushi wrote:So, what is the meaning of meaning?
- Mon Jan 21, 2013 3:45 am
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Kundalini Awakening vs Buddhist Awakening
- Replies: 87
- Views: 47167
Re: Kundalini Awakening vs Buddhist Awakening
They are using the word kundalini, but it is a different concept altogether. In Vajrayana, there is really no kundalini. It's not about motivation really. In Hinduism the kundalini is a living force that acts of its own. In Vajrayana, practitioner uses visualization to generate the fire element. Not...
- Sun Jan 20, 2013 9:15 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Advaitin vs. Buddhist takes on awareness/reality
- Replies: 364
- Views: 73796
Re: Advaitin vs. Buddhist takes on awareness/reality
Mahayana only stops mental projections. It doesn't say anything about anything.
- Sun Jan 20, 2013 7:52 pm
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Kundalini Awakening vs Buddhist Awakening
- Replies: 87
- Views: 47167
Re: Kundalini Awakening vs Buddhist Awakening
Adamantine, "Well Nityananda was the avadhoot I was speaking of" You're obviously talking about Nityananda, Muktananda's guru. I think Deepbluehum is possibly refering to Nityananda of the brother/ sister lineage. Why are you putting words in my mouth? I'm talking about Swami Muktananda's...
- Sun Jan 20, 2013 2:07 am
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Kundalini Awakening vs Buddhist Awakening
- Replies: 87
- Views: 47167
Re: Kundalini Awakening vs Buddhist Awakening
Going strong. Anyone connected to Swami Nityananda has tremendous power.greentara wrote:deepbluehum, What happened to the lineage of Baba Muktananda? There was much strife and bickering after he passed away.
- Sun Jan 20, 2013 2:04 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Yidams: What are they, how does one get one?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7892
Re: Yidams: What are they, how does one get one?
Hiram is a deity whose form is a teaching. Get a teacher.
- Sun Jan 20, 2013 1:56 am
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Kundalini Awakening vs Buddhist Awakening
- Replies: 87
- Views: 47167
Re: Kundalini Awakening vs Buddhist Awakening
It can happen due due to past lives or this life associations but without a lineage it won't go well. What a huge, sweeping, [over]generalization and assumption. Such are the huge overgeneralizations and assumptions told by the Mahasiddhas like Dhyanyogiji and Baba Mukhtananda. Their not going to t...