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- Mon Feb 19, 2024 9:22 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Lung vs initiation
- Replies: 40
- Views: 2386
Re: Lung vs initiation
Sang Chö for example requires empowerment and instructions. I have never heard of a specific empowerment associated with Sang Cho. The mantra is not associated with any specific deity. I would be interested to hear if you have. My teacher takes a Dzogchen approach to Sang Cho. I’ve only ever heard ...
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 9:17 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Lung vs initiation
- Replies: 40
- Views: 2386
Re: Lung vs initiation
Sang Chö for example requires empowerment and instructions. I have never heard of a specific empowerment associated with Sang Cho. The mantra is not associated with any specific deity. I would be interested to hear if you have. I was mistaken. HH Penor RInpoche gave students at least a lung and ins...
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 9:01 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Politics in dharma center - article
- Replies: 202
- Views: 8455
Re: Politics in dharma center - article
In closing: we tend to think that there is a basic level of human decency, but there is no inherent human characteristic of this nature. Kindness and compassion are those inherent human characteristics (although in truth they are the characteristics of all sentient beings), first chapter, "Jew...
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 8:56 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Politics in dharma center - article
- Replies: 202
- Views: 8455
Re: Politics in dharma center - article
Contrary to this, an emergent “awakened” society would need to embody compassion, kindness, and desire for social justice in a politically viable and collective form. This was exactly the Social Democrat/Democracy objective of northern, western and partly central Europe in the mid-late 1800's and r...
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 8:28 pm
- Forum: Wellness, Diet and Fitness
- Topic: Please tell me how a meditator is supposed to sleep
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2076
Re: Please tell me how a meditator is supposed to sleep
Hello, I stopped meditation one year ago because of difficulties and problems. I restarted gently and do no more than 1/2h per day. 4 days ago, I was just thinking about dhamma and just not clinging, then my mind started again to arose with sukha and energy and is concentrated by itself even the ni...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 5:41 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dream Yoga struggles
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2327
Re: Dream Yoga struggles
My dream yoga guru suggested taking short naps and practicing dream yoga at those times. I was able to make some headway doing that. This was challenging for me because I don't like to take naps. Also doing this requires actually setting a specific time aside to do this rather than just attempting ...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 5:29 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Lung vs initiation
- Replies: 40
- Views: 2386
Re: Lung vs initiation
Ok,but question concerns impact of practice on person we are helping if I do a healing ritual for you, when will you heal faster? When I do this as an initiated person, or lung will be enough, because power of practice does not depend on initiation? This is impossible to answer conclusively. We hav...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 5:02 am
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: New But Not
- Replies: 10
- Views: 869
Re: New But Not
Looking for a good general introduction to Vajrayana online. One of the better overall introductions to Vajrayana generally is "The Great Kagyu Masters: The Golden Lineage Treasury" . *ALL* Vajrayana introductions are lineage specific (the above suggestion for example is Drikung Kagyu) bu...
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 3:41 am
- Forum: Media
- Topic: The Mystery of the Seventeen Deity Tara Mandala - Himalayan Art Resources
- Replies: 0
- Views: 361
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 2:12 am
- Forum: Media
- Topic: Marpa Lotsawa Chokyi Lodro - Himalayan Art Resources
- Replies: 0
- Views: 274
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 1:17 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Hawai‘i’s Japanese Buddhist Temples Are Struggling to Keep Ancient Traditions Alive
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1335
Re: Hawai‘i’s Japanese Buddhist Temples Are Struggling to Keep Ancient Traditions Alive
What kept Japanese Buddhism outside of Japan from opening up to the larger society was the view that no one was interested (although they knew that wasn't true but kept repeating it and would simplify it to few people are really interested), it couldn't be understood outside of a deep understanding...
- Wed Jan 17, 2024 2:21 am
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Hawai‘i’s Japanese Buddhist Temples Are Struggling to Keep Ancient Traditions Alive
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1335
Re: Hawai‘i’s Japanese Buddhist Temples Are Struggling to Keep Ancient Traditions Alive
...Japanese Buddhism, imo, cannot be understood distinct from the legal frameworks in which sects were recognized and permitted to exist, ... Sure it can. Japanese Buddhism is Mahayana Buddhism and the goal is personal liberation and the liberation of all beings from samsara. All the Japanese schoo...
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 1:08 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dream Yoga struggles
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2327
Re: Dream Yoga struggles
Can you explain that ? The practice of Clear Light sleep actually doesn’t have to involve dreams at all, and my dream/sleep yoga teacher said that at the highest levels, it doesn’t. What I recall is that generally clear light sleep is seen as a more “advanced” practice, but that some people take to...
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 6:40 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Dream Yoga struggles
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2327
Re: Dream Yoga struggles
But I have lost some capacity for dream practice. I know there are more important practices to do while lucid dreaming than the ones I got to, but I struggle to do it at all lately. I wake up very early, work a full day and commute, come home and often struggle to get to bed on time so I take melat...
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 4:54 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Hawai‘i’s Japanese Buddhist Temples Are Struggling to Keep Ancient Traditions Alive
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1335
Hawai‘i’s Japanese Buddhist Temples Are Struggling to Keep Ancient Traditions Alive
From July 8, 2013, Honolulu Magazine Hawai‘i’s Japanese Buddhist Temples Are Struggling to Keep Ancient Traditions Alive In summer, Japanese Buddhist temples across the Islands come alive with lanterns and bon dancers. But temple membership has dwindled. When the most active participants are elderly...
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 3:41 pm
- Forum: Ethical Conduct
- Topic: The Dharma of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 452
The Dharma of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Assembled by the People of African Descent (PAD) and other affinity groups of the Mountains and Rivers Order of Zen Buddhism in commemoration of Martin Luther King Day - January 16, 2023
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 3:15 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: The Sacred Space
- Replies: 258
- Views: 244377
Re: The Sacred Space
Byodo-in Temple in The Valley of the Temples (this is mostly a cemetery) in Kaneohe, O'ahu, Hawai'i
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 2:37 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Tibetan Iconography
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1040
Re: Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Tibetan Iconography
Here is another form of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva in Tibetan iconography: Buddha-Weekly-Ksitigarbha-in-Tibetan-style-Thangka-Buddhism.jpg This is taken from an article in Buddha Weekly Lama Zopa Rinpoche and other teachers recommend Kṣitigarbha mantra and practice for times of disaster, especially hur...
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 2:25 am
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Young Asian American Buddhists are reclaiming narrative after decades of white dominance (continued)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2828
Re: Young Asian American Buddhists are reclaiming narrative after decades of white dominance (continued)
There are millions and millions of devout Asian Buddhists who have not a clue about Madyamaka versus Yogacara tenet systems or what have you, but who devoutly chant in front of the family alter each morning, venerate their ancestors and the Buddhas/Bodhisattvas from the heart rather than the cerebr...
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 2:12 am
- Forum: Pure Land
- Topic: Places to begin in exploring Jodo Shu
- Replies: 4
- Views: 796
Re: Places to begin in exploring Jodo Shu
Rinkaian Jodo Shu Temple also has their own YT channel: rinkaian_channel