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by kirtu
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 ...
by kirtu
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...
by kirtu
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...
by kirtu
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...
by kirtu
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...
by kirtu
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 ...
by kirtu
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...
by kirtu
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...
by kirtu
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...
by kirtu
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...
by kirtu
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...
by kirtu
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...
by kirtu
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...
by kirtu
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

by kirtu
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

by kirtu
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...
by kirtu
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...
by kirtu
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

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