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Sherab Dorje wrote:Discussion on "Unity's theory of the nature of mind" split to here

Thanks, it had to be done ...

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Malcolm wrote:

mañjughoṣamaṇi wrote:
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. What do you currently think about the proposal that Milarepa's iconic hand-to-ear pose represents klong sde practice?

It's possible.

More than possible ... that's what ChNN teaches.

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This thread should be closed ASAP

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... I've heard him saying that, for the transmission to operate, it has to be pronounced the way it has been transmitted. Hence the story he tells about the hermit ... therefore it would have no sense to pronounce it "according to rules of Sanskrit pronunciation" Sönam The problem with th...

ChNN always tells this story. The background is that Sapan wrote a text called "How to Pronounce Mantras", in which he makes a strong argument that it is better to pronounce mantras according to rules of Sanskrit pronunciation. He notes that reciting mantras incorrectly may contain blessi...

Do you real think that Buddha state could be explained by mind ? ... what can be explained has to be within the scope of the explainer. Buddha state is not in the scope of mind ... otherwise is right. That should end this interminable discussion ... but it will not. Mind trip. Sönam It pretty much ...

From Rangjung Dorje's Aspiration Prayer of Mahamudra: "It is not existent-even the victorious ones have not seen it. It is not nonexistent-it is the basis of all samsara and nirvana. This is not a contradiction, but the middle path of unity. May we realize the true nature of mind, which is fre...

For a person who is still on the ordinary path of training, when he sees a mountain, in the first moment it is unavoidable not to have the thought, "this is a mountain," but in the second moment, because of the perfection (rDzogs-Pa) of the power (rTsal) of the mind and mental events which...

The point that I have made again and again is that you can't tell reality how it should be. Whilst reality has characteristics it would be wrong to say that these characteristics are only subjective. There are characteristics that are also objective - that exist independent of the subject who obser...

Andrew108 wrote:

Sönam wrote:

Andrew108 wrote: Do you have a reference for that?

Just to observe than some are scotched to references ... what more can a reference bring? What would it changes with or without?

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Sorry Sönam, I don't understand what you mean.

not surprized ... words are clear.

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Andrew108 wrote: Do you have a reference for that?

Just to observe than some are scotched to references ... what more can a reference bring? What would it changes with or without?

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My belief about the idea that beings karma literally 'creates the Universe' is that it comes from the necessity of denying 'the creator God' which is doctrinally forbidden to Buddhists for obvious reasons. This is because of a total non understanding of the Buddha Dharma ... Buddha Shakyamuni never...

I'm since long surprized by peoples still trying to hammer a nail with a screwdriver ... Mind (Sems) is a tool originated in ma-rigpa, it is powerful to describe samsara and (from a relative pov) nirvana. It has never answered to question like the beginning or the infinite (except if postuling God o...

In any case my confidence in Dharma does not come from its cosmology. Me neither. Glad you pointed that out. In a relative conception of the univers, why should a view be superior to another? ... perhaps the "another" view has a better focal? Would not the best view be the one the more ac...

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In one word ... Emptiness

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pensum wrote:

garudha wrote:Would staring into your own eyes be a valid non-dual awakening technique ?

The Vijnanabhairava Tantra (a Shaivite text) lists this among its many forms of meditations.

Anyway any form is a cause of meditation ... integration, meditation is not splited from non-meditation.

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http://www.decitre.fr/livres/la-somme-d ... 10026.html

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Sherab wrote:

Malcolm wrote:The mind is the basis, it doesn't have "the basis".

That being the case, scientists should be able to find the mind in a rock, a river or the wind.

They can, if they see that rock, river or wind is to be found on mind.

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