Jyoti wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2018 9:17 pmEveryone one has a choice in their lives, some choose to follow a guru, some follow a career, some practice in solidary, some devote to study of sutra and develop their own thesis, some a mixture of this and that, I myself am a mixture of career and study. Direct introduction is important, but it is not a ritual where you have to receive repeatedly, although it is not restricted from doing so. I confessed I already know the teaching, including the meaning of thusness (presence) on reading books alone, but I took the direct introduction nonetheless.
I did not come here to learn anything, I am just a buddhist scholar who is feeling bore, because no one can discuss the definitive dharma with me. Now it seems clear to me that this dzogchen forum does not have the people I am looking for, my expectation is too high I guess, I will moved on as I did 6 six years ago, due to not finding the capable opponents.
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Oh!...Malcolm wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2018 10:09 pmJyoti wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2018 9:17 pmEveryone one has a choice in their lives, some choose to follow a guru, some follow a career, some practice in solidary, some devote to study of sutra and develop their own thesis, some a mixture of this and that, I myself am a mixture of career and study. Direct introduction is important, but it is not a ritual where you have to receive repeatedly, although it is not restricted from doing so. I confessed I already know the teaching, including the meaning of thusness (presence) on reading books alone, but I took the direct introduction nonetheless.
I did not come here to learn anything, I am just a buddhist scholar who is feeling bore, because no one can discuss the definitive dharma with me. Now it seems clear to me that this dzogchen forum does not have the people I am looking for, my expectation is too high I guess, I will moved on as I did 6 six years ago, due to not finding the capable opponents.
...snap!
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Has it ever occurred to you that you may not know nearly as much as you think you do?Jyoti wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2018 9:17 pmEveryone one has a choice in their lives, some choose to follow a guru, some follow a career, some practice in solidary, some devote to study of sutra and develop their own thesis, some a mixture of this and that, I myself am a mixture of career and study. Direct introduction is important, but it is not a ritual where you have to receive repeatedly, although it is not restricted from doing so. I confessed I already know the teaching, including the meaning of thusness (presence) on reading books alone, but I took the direct introduction nonetheless.
I did not come here to learn anything, I am just a buddhist scholar who is feeling bore, because no one can discuss the definitive dharma with me. Now it seems clear to me that this dzogchen forum does not have the people I am looking for, my expectation is too high I guess, I will moved on as I did 6 six years ago, due to not finding the capable opponents.
Sorry to be blunt but your view is a mess, and you would benefit from a qualified teacher and listening to what others have to say in this forum.
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Malcolm wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2018 10:09 pmJyoti wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2018 9:17 pmEveryone one has a choice in their lives, some choose to follow a guru, some follow a career, some practice in solidary, some devote to study of sutra and develop their own thesis, some a mixture of this and that, I myself am a mixture of career and study. Direct introduction is important, but it is not a ritual where you have to receive repeatedly, although it is not restricted from doing so. I confessed I already know the teaching, including the meaning of thusness (presence) on reading books alone, but I took the direct introduction nonetheless.
I did not come here to learn anything, I am just a buddhist scholar who is feeling bore, because no one can discuss the definitive dharma with me. Now it seems clear to me that this dzogchen forum does not have the people I am looking for, my expectation is too high I guess, I will moved on as I did 6 six years ago, due to not finding the capable opponents.
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OMG, it's got to be! Right?
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If she really knows how much she knows, then she wouldnt be posting all these all along.krodha wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2018 10:43 pmHas it ever occurred to you that you may not know nearly as much as you think you do?Jyoti wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2018 9:17 pmEveryone one has a choice in their lives, some choose to follow a guru, some follow a career, some practice in solidary, some devote to study of sutra and develop their own thesis, some a mixture of this and that, I myself am a mixture of career and study. Direct introduction is important, but it is not a ritual where you have to receive repeatedly, although it is not restricted from doing so. I confessed I already know the teaching, including the meaning of thusness (presence) on reading books alone, but I took the direct introduction nonetheless.
I did not come here to learn anything, I am just a buddhist scholar who is feeling bore, because no one can discuss the definitive dharma with me. Now it seems clear to me that this dzogchen forum does not have the people I am looking for, my expectation is too high I guess, I will moved on as I did 6 six years ago, due to not finding the capable opponents.
Sorry to be blunt but your view is a mess, and you would benefit from a qualified teacher and listening to what others have to say in this forum.
Dunning-Kruger effect
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Thank you for saying what I was also thinkingliuzg150181 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2018 12:48 amIf she really knows how much she knows, then she wouldnt be posting all these all along.krodha wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2018 10:43 pmHas it ever occurred to you that you may not know nearly as much as you think you do?Jyoti wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2018 9:17 pmEveryone one has a choice in their lives, some choose to follow a guru, some follow a career, some practice in solidary, some devote to study of sutra and develop their own thesis, some a mixture of this and that, I myself am a mixture of career and study. Direct introduction is important, but it is not a ritual where you have to receive repeatedly, although it is not restricted from doing so. I confessed I already know the teaching, including the meaning of thusness (presence) on reading books alone, but I took the direct introduction nonetheless.
I did not come here to learn anything, I am just a buddhist scholar who is feeling bore, because no one can discuss the definitive dharma with me. Now it seems clear to me that this dzogchen forum does not have the people I am looking for, my expectation is too high I guess, I will moved on as I did 6 six years ago, due to not finding the capable opponents.
Sorry to be blunt but your view is a mess, and you would benefit from a qualified teacher and listening to what others have to say in this forum.
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I found Śīlabhadra proposing the theory plausible as he is the teacher of Xuanzang (who in turn taught Won Chu'k) whose East Asian Yogacara school proposed the Three Turning teaching.Malcolm wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2018 3:24 pmThis is anecdotal.ItsRaining wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2018 7:16 amDivākara from the Nalanda reported that in India there were two masters at Nalanda the abbot of Nalanda and Xuanzang's teacher Śīlabhadra and Jnanaprabha. The first taught the Three Turnings with the Third Turning as Yogacara and most definite whereas the latter taught the Madhyamka as the definite teaching.
But the Huayan Patriarch Fazang Xianshou notes that the Prajna Sutras cannot be classified as only second turning and in the end places Yogacara on a level lower than Madhyamaka.
When you examine the bstan 'gyur, you will discover that there is almost nothing mentioned about the three turnings. The passage in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra about three turnings was ignore Asanga in his commentary on the sūtra. The other commentary, by Jn̄̄ānagarbha, also ignores the three turnings. It appears obvious then that this tiny section of the sūtra in question are regarded as being of little importance by Indian masters in India.
The notion of three turnings as a major device for interpreting sūtras was introduced to Tibet in the massive commentary on the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra by the Korean master་་Won-ch'uk. However, this is almost entirely ignored in Chinese Buddhism as well which seems to generally follow the Tientai school for dating and evaluating sūtras.
Madhyamikas would never accept this scheme since they regarded the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra a provisional sūtra from the get go, and their criteria for evaluating definitive vs. provisional sūtras comes from the Akṣayamtinirdeśasūtra.
But this is all massively off topic.
But I would agree that the Tiantai and Huayan evaluations are much better than the Three Turnings.
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I'll have to work on my originality with my quips!
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Well, seeing that my OP which I thought was rather innocuous turn into this was quite amazing!
Amazingly off topic but maybe not...we just witnessed a lot of suffering
Thanks to those who chimed in on the actual question.
Your right Malcolm, a few seconds of Instant Presence isn't necessarily an effective form of pain management but its a sensation and some fuel for practice nonetheless.
Amazingly off topic but maybe not...we just witnessed a lot of suffering
Thanks to those who chimed in on the actual question.
Your right Malcolm, a few seconds of Instant Presence isn't necessarily an effective form of pain management but its a sensation and some fuel for practice nonetheless.
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Oh, right... the topic at hand. Of course.
I've tried to apply instant presence while getting some dental work done. And while passing a kidney stone in the restroom of a Costco warehouse. I can't say it changed the quality of the pain but I did notice that distractions were few. I don't know if that's helpful...
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You’re missing the point. Indian masters who wrote commentaries on this text didn’t care about this tiny passage and it is evidently so since they ignore it completely.ItsRaining wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2018 1:35 amI found Śīlabhadra proposing the theory plausible as he is the teacher of Xuanzang (who in turn taught Won Chu'k) whose East Asian Yogacara school proposed the Three Turning teaching.Malcolm wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2018 3:24 pmThis is anecdotal.ItsRaining wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2018 7:16 am
Divākara from the Nalanda reported that in India there were two masters at Nalanda the abbot of Nalanda and Xuanzang's teacher Śīlabhadra and Jnanaprabha. The first taught the Three Turnings with the Third Turning as Yogacara and most definite whereas the latter taught the Madhyamka as the definite teaching.
But the Huayan Patriarch Fazang Xianshou notes that the Prajna Sutras cannot be classified as only second turning and in the end places Yogacara on a level lower than Madhyamaka.
When you examine the bstan 'gyur, you will discover that there is almost nothing mentioned about the three turnings. The passage in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra about three turnings was ignore Asanga in his commentary on the sūtra. The other commentary, by Jn̄̄ānagarbha, also ignores the three turnings. It appears obvious then that this tiny section of the sūtra in question are regarded as being of little importance by Indian masters in India.
The notion of three turnings as a major device for interpreting sūtras was introduced to Tibet in the massive commentary on the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra by the Korean master་་Won-ch'uk. However, this is almost entirely ignored in Chinese Buddhism as well which seems to generally follow the Tientai school for dating and evaluating sūtras.
Madhyamikas would never accept this scheme since they regarded the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra a provisional sūtra from the get go, and their criteria for evaluating definitive vs. provisional sūtras comes from the Akṣayamtinirdeśasūtra.
But this is all massively off topic.
But I would agree that the Tiantai and Huayan evaluations are much better than the Three Turnings.
Further, this is off topic.
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Something relevant to the topic: I remember a interview of fransisco varella a couple of weeks before he died and he was asked what was the most important thing in life and he started talking about tulku urgyen and how he show him the nature of mind. He talked about how even with a cancer, his stomatch cutted by surgery and tubes going in and out of his body he could still fall in rigpa and everything was ok in that moment.
It was a very beautifull interview but its not longer in youtube
It was a very beautifull interview but its not longer in youtube
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Dear, I do not think the four reliances is rejecting a Master. Not to focus on the outer individual-personality-form is not the same as rejecting, perhaps its' to not feed dualistic perception (perceiver-perceived). But Guru is essential. Guru is Buddha - is awaken.In this prespective, in the standpoint of buddha, we have no other choice than the four reliances, 'a person' (or teacher) also is one of the element of uncertainty, every person has their own agenda and opinions, so can never be recommended as a source to be relied, in this case, only the dharma itself is the only reliable source, because the definitive dharma belongs to the side of the base which is changless and permanent. And as a 'buddha', our own view or understanding of the meaning of the scriptures that we relied is itself precious and has an authority on its own, it should not be judge/verify by the authority of person (or teacher) alone but by the meaning/truth of the dharma itself. This is the reason, we need the four reliances, and the reason why the Buddha want us to uphold them as his injunctions.
There is said if we perceive a human who is teaching us something, then we get teachings from a human. By Bodhisattva, it will be teaching from a Bodhisattva , or Buddha, it will be Awaken Nature teaching.
Then:
“Some of us really are looking for a master to follow. We think that someone out there can “fix” us and make our lives better. Others of us avoid teachers, often because of personal issues about authority figures. Or, we might think we are smart enough to “get” this by ourselves, and we don’t need anyone telling us what to believe.
Both of these extremes are pitfalls, and they are both rooted in the same self-other dichotomy, the same delusion.
Clinging to something or avoiding something both come from seeing oneself as separate from everything else. Liberation from this delusion is enlightenment.”
Again this is not rejecting the Guru, which is not just Nirmanakaya.
“We are each living in our own soap opera. We do not see things as they really are. We see only our interpretations. This is because our minds are always so busy...But when the mind calms down, it becomes clear. This mental clarity enables us to see things as they really are, instead of projecting our commentary on everything.” Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bg9jOYnEUA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bg9jOYnEUA
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This will be my last post after clearing this up once and for all.muni wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2018 11:00 amDear, I do not think the four reliances is rejecting a Master. Not to focus on the outer individual-personality-form is not the same as rejecting, perhaps its' to not feed dualistic perception (perceiver-perceived). But Guru is essential. Guru is Buddha - is awaken.In this prespective, in the standpoint of buddha, we have no other choice than the four reliances, 'a person' (or teacher) also is one of the element of uncertainty, every person has their own agenda and opinions, so can never be recommended as a source to be relied, in this case, only the dharma itself is the only reliable source, because the definitive dharma belongs to the side of the base which is changless and permanent. And as a 'buddha', our own view or understanding of the meaning of the scriptures that we relied is itself precious and has an authority on its own, it should not be judge/verify by the authority of person (or teacher) alone but by the meaning/truth of the dharma itself. This is the reason, we need the four reliances, and the reason why the Buddha want us to uphold them as his injunctions.
There is said if we perceive a human who is teaching us something, then we get teachings from a human. By Bodhisattva, it will be teaching from a Bodhisattva , or Buddha, it will be Awaken Nature teaching.
Then:
“Some of us really are looking for a master to follow. We think that someone out there can “fix” us and make our lives better. Others of us avoid teachers, often because of personal issues about authority figures. Or, we might think we are smart enough to “get” this by ourselves, and we don’t need anyone telling us what to believe.
Both of these extremes are pitfalls, and they are both rooted in the same self-other dichotomy, the same delusion.
Clinging to something or avoiding something both come from seeing oneself as separate from everything else. Liberation from this delusion is enlightenment.”
Again this is not rejecting the Guru, which is not just Nirmanakaya.
I did not object to the need of teacher for person still ignorant of the teaching. My stand point is that in order discuss the definitive meaning sutras, the person must already passed the student-teacher pace, where they have firmly established themself the view, path and fruition of the teaching. At that stage, the need for a teacher automatically show sign of immaturity and uncertainty in his mastery of the teaching, in which case he/she should just admit he/she is not ready to discuss the definitive teaching on his own accord, but still needing the guidance of the teacher.
How do everyone here suppose I am to discuss the definitive teaching, if everyone insist they must bring their teacher with them, and I with my own. It is our selves that involved in the discussion, not our teachers. If anyone is incapable to be independent with regard to the teaching, then admit it to be his/her own short-coming, rather than trying to impose the same status of weakness onto another person.
I have been erudite in the dharma since 25 years ago to be exact, in 2001 I already active in newsgroup discussion, I considered that as the testing ground for my competence in dharma, it is not easy, myself as a young lady at that time, to stand firm against various opponents from different tradition of buddhism as well as heretics, Malcolm was there too under the name 'namdro', but later he disappeared from newsgroup and hiding himself in the safe zone of moderated forums, being protected by like-minded followers, that is the difference between myself and him, I grow by that haste environment with no help but myself and the knowledge of the dharma alone. I don't need a teacher, because I have forced to grow under that environment to be independent, it is proven by experience that I can handle any difficult buddhist discussion, it is only where I receive no more challenge but only praises and compliments that I decided to leave the newsgroup in 2011. As in 2012, I find no capable opponent here in this forum capable of handling the definitive discussion with me (in the spirit of academic discussion and the four reliances). If anyone think he is capable, then you know where to find me.
Virgo, hope to see you in good shape, if I ever return again.
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Don't feed the troll, would be my response.....Really folks, just leave it.
“You don’t know it. You just know about it. That is not the same thing.”
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche to me.
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche to me.
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This is total gibberish and has no more place in a Dzogchen thread than the trolling posts it is in response to.muni wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2018 11:00 amDear, I do not think the four reliances is rejecting a Master. Not to focus on the outer individual-personality-form is not the same as rejecting, perhaps its' to not feed dualistic perception (perceiver-perceived). But Guru is essential. Guru is Buddha - is awaken.In this prespective, in the standpoint of buddha, we have no other choice than the four reliances, 'a person' (or teacher) also is one of the element of uncertainty, every person has their own agenda and opinions, so can never be recommended as a source to be relied, in this case, only the dharma itself is the only reliable source, because the definitive dharma belongs to the side of the base which is changless and permanent. And as a 'buddha', our own view or understanding of the meaning of the scriptures that we relied is itself precious and has an authority on its own, it should not be judge/verify by the authority of person (or teacher) alone but by the meaning/truth of the dharma itself. This is the reason, we need the four reliances, and the reason why the Buddha want us to uphold them as his injunctions.
There is said if we perceive a human who is teaching us something, then we get teachings from a human. By Bodhisattva, it will be teaching from a Bodhisattva , or Buddha, it will be Awaken Nature teaching.
Then:
“Some of us really are looking for a master to follow. We think that someone out there can “fix” us and make our lives better. Others of us avoid teachers, often because of personal issues about authority figures. Or, we might think we are smart enough to “get” this by ourselves, and we don’t need anyone telling us what to believe.
Both of these extremes are pitfalls, and they are both rooted in the same self-other dichotomy, the same delusion.
Clinging to something or avoiding something both come from seeing oneself as separate from everything else. Liberation from this delusion is enlightenment.”
Again this is not rejecting the Guru, which is not just Nirmanakaya.
“You don’t know it. You just know about it. That is not the same thing.”
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche to me.
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche to me.
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The mic drop works better when you don’t write a long self-justification after itJyoti wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2018 3:06 pm
I have been erudite in the dharma since 25 years ago to be exact, in 2001 I already active in newsgroup discussion, I considered that as the testing ground for my competence in dharma, it is not easy, myself as a young lady at that time, to stand firm against various opponents from different tradition of buddhism as well as heretics, Malcolm was there too under the name 'namdro', but later he disappeared from newsgroup and hiding himself in the safe zone of moderated forums, being protected by like-minded followers, that is the difference between myself and him, I grow by that haste environment with no help but myself and the knowledge of the dharma alone. I don't need a teacher, because I have forced to grow under that environment to be independent, it is proven by experience that I can handle any difficult buddhist discussion, it is only where I receive no more challenge but only praises and compliments that I decided to leave the newsgroup in 2011. As in 2012, I find no capable opponent here in this forum capable of handling the definitive discussion with me (in the spirit of academic discussion and the four reliances). If anyone think he is capable, then you know where to find me.
Virgo, hope to see you in good shape, if I ever return again.
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No, I simply grew tired of the unrelenting spam that came to dominate the alt.religion.buddhism.* newsgroups.