Greetings.
I was a long-time member of Dharma Wheel, under a different username. I have been away for a while, during which time I have changed my identity in real life. Now I am back as the new me with a new username to match.
Most of who I am has not changed, including my faith and understanding of the Dharma. Though I have never been among the most active members here, I hope you will find my contributions helpful.
I consider myself a non-denominational Mahayana Buddhist. My practice history is mostly in the Tibetan Karma Kagyu tradition.
Om mani padme hum
Kathy
Re-introducing myself
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KathyLauren
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- Location: East Coast of Canada
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Re: Re-introducing myself
Welcome back anew!
There is no suffering to be severed. Ignorance and klesas are indivisible from bodhi. There is no cause of suffering to be abandoned. Since extremes and the false are the Middle and genuine, there is no path to be practiced. Samsara is nirvana. No severance achieved. No suffering nor its cause. No path, no end. There is no transcendent realm; there is only the one true aspect. There is nothing separate from the true aspect.
-Guanding, Perfect and Sudden Contemplation,
-Guanding, Perfect and Sudden Contemplation,
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conebeckham
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- Joined: Mon Jun 14, 2010 11:49 pm
- Location: Bay Area, CA, USA
Re: Re-introducing myself
An interesting "rebirth," yes?
All the best, and welcome (back)!
All the best, and welcome (back)!
དམ་པའི་དོན་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ཆེ་བ་དང་།
རྟོག་གེའི་ཡུལ་མིན་བླ་མའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།
སྐལ་ལྡན་ལས་འཕྲོ་ཅན་གྱིས་རྟོགས་པ་སྟེ།
དེ་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་ནི་ལོ་རྟོག་སེལ།།
"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom,
It is realized through the blessing grace of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential.
Like this, mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
- (Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, from his summary of "The Ocean of Definitive Meaning")
རྟོག་གེའི་ཡུལ་མིན་བླ་མའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།
སྐལ་ལྡན་ལས་འཕྲོ་ཅན་གྱིས་རྟོགས་པ་སྟེ།
དེ་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་ནི་ལོ་རྟོག་སེལ།།
"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom,
It is realized through the blessing grace of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential.
Like this, mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
- (Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, from his summary of "The Ocean of Definitive Meaning")
Re: Re-introducing myself
Welcome back KL. Looking forward to more thoughtful contributions.
We abide nowhere. We possess nothing.
~Chatral Rinpoche
~Chatral Rinpoche
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Kim O'Hara
- Former staff member
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- Joined: Fri Nov 16, 2012 1:09 am
- Location: North Queensland, Australia
Re: Re-introducing myself
As Cone (neatly) said, welcome (back), Kathy.
Kim
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Schrödinger’s Yidam
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Re: Re-introducing myself
Welcome back.
Om Mani Padme Hung.
Om Mani Padme Hung.
1.The problem isn’t ‘ignorance’. The problem is the mind you have right now. (H.H. Karmapa XVII @NYC 2/4/18)
2. I support Mingyur R and HHDL in their positions against lama abuse.
3. Student: Lama, I thought I might die but then I realized that the 3 Jewels would protect me.
Lama: Even If you had died the 3 Jewels would still have protected you. (DW post by Fortyeightvows)
2. I support Mingyur R and HHDL in their positions against lama abuse.
3. Student: Lama, I thought I might die but then I realized that the 3 Jewels would protect me.
Lama: Even If you had died the 3 Jewels would still have protected you. (DW post by Fortyeightvows)
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Thomas Amundsen
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- Location: Helena, MT
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Re: Re-introducing myself
Welcome back!
Re: Re-introducing myself
Nice to have you back, welcome!
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DNS
- Site Admin
- Posts: 5271
- Joined: Sun Apr 05, 2009 4:23 pm
- Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, Estados Unidos de América
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Re: Re-introducing myself
Welcome back! Happy (one day belated) Canada Day!
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KathyLauren
- Posts: 967
- Joined: Tue Apr 07, 2009 5:22 pm
- Location: East Coast of Canada
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Re: Re-introducing myself
Thanks, everyone! 
Om mani padme hum
Kathy
Om mani padme hum
Kathy
Re: Re-introducing myself
Sorry for being late to the party.
Welcome back!
Welcome back!
Re: Re-introducing myself
Hi Kathy,
welcome back!
welcome back!
"I struggled with some demons, They were middle class and tame..." L. Cohen