private teaching

diamind
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Re: private teaching

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Malcolm wrote: Tue Dec 26, 2017 4:29 pm
diamind wrote: Mon Dec 25, 2017 4:59 am
Blessings are necessary and if the Guru says you can practice without a lung that is a blessing of the lineage, albeit big or small.
One does not have a Vajrayāna guru sans empowerment.
What is that?
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Josef
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Re: private teaching

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diamind wrote: Wed Dec 27, 2017 3:47 am
Malcolm wrote: Tue Dec 26, 2017 4:29 pm
diamind wrote: Mon Dec 25, 2017 4:59 am
Blessings are necessary and if the Guru says you can practice without a lung that is a blessing of the lineage, albeit big or small.
One does not have a Vajrayāna guru sans empowerment.
What is that?
No empowerment, no guru.
"All phenomena of samsara depend on the mind, so when the essence of mind is purified, samsara is purified. Since the phenomena of nirvana depend on the pristine consciousness of vidyā, because one remains in the immediacy of vidyā, buddhahood arises on its own. All critical points are summarized with those two." - Longchenpa
Punya
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Re: private teaching

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diamind wrote: Wed Dec 27, 2017 3:14 am
Punya wrote: Tue Dec 26, 2017 4:50 pm
Diamind said:

Many students and even the monks reject alot of the teachings and dont follow the advice of the Buddha as written in the scriptures, let alone the advice of the teacher.
Umm.........really? That's a pretty broad statement. What's your evidence for this?
Ask Kalu Rinpoche.
The current one? I guess I want to know the context in which he said it.
We abide nowhere. We possess nothing.
~Chatral Rinpoche
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