Reasonable things to tattoo
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What dharma related things are acceptable to tattoo? Obviously Buddhas and Bodhisattvas are out.
I mean Mantras, auspicious symbols, Devas, Nagas, Garudas... Things like that.
I mean Mantras, auspicious symbols, Devas, Nagas, Garudas... Things like that.
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Why?
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Don't do it
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Depends who sees them, depends on the vows you have taken and how interpreted, depends on advice from your Guru.Tiago Simões wrote: ↑Mon May 14, 2018 6:56 pm What dharma related things are acceptable to tattoo? Obviously Buddhas and Bodhisattvas are out.
I mean Mantras, auspicious symbols, Devas, Nagas, Garudas... Things like that.
'Liberation through seeing' may apply to some images. Disclosing secret things to those unsuited to receive them may be another.
You'll get a spectrum of views here, but the only one which matters is that of your Guru.
My view? Have whatever you want as long as nobody else ever sees it.
Go to Thailand and get inked with a sharp stick and the rules are different of course.
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I just had a tattoo of the Sanskrit alphabet and "ye dharma..." done. They are the sound and essence of all the Buddhas teachings and not "secret" so...
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The above comment is a reminder that script and language are not the same.
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I wonder how much, dislike of dharma related tattoos, is doctrinal and how much is cultural...
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Thai, Cambodian and Laotian people have a Dharma tattoo tradition.Tiago Simões wrote: ↑Tue May 15, 2018 10:41 am I wonder how much, dislike of dharma related tattoos, is doctrinal and how much is cultural...
"My religion is not deceiving myself."
Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."
The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."
The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
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44 hours of work in which I really took it upon myself to understand the ephemeral illusory nature of sensation and its memory, as well, as impermanence. Very interesting experience of mind and matter, I learned a lot. There are various lines of thought from tattoos being totally not ok in dharma, to being totally part of cultural traditions. For me, it was a project that yielded very clear experiential insights.
Also the placement is easy to conceal in the corporate world I work in.
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The Heart Drive - nosce te ipsum
"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget." –Arundhati Roy
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Wow! Very nice work and your choices of placement are great!Ogyen wrote: ↑Wed May 16, 2018 12:03 am Ogyen Tattoos.jpg
Nothing secret here, but it is my core practice (in case I have an accident and get amnesia). 7 line prayer, 100 syllable vajrasattva mantra, song of vajra and some symbolized items in my red seals - one is a stylized yabyum to NOT depict actual union, which is inappropriate, but to represent it, and the other is a double dorje, both enclosed in the 6 primordial syllables. I did NOT get a big Tibetan A, but I didn't think it necessary, as it's subsumed into every part of the script.
44 hours of work in which I really took it upon myself to understand the ephemeral illusory nature of sensation and its memory, as well, as impermanence. Very interesting experience of mind and matter, I learned a lot. There are various lines of thought from tattoos being totally not ok in dharma, to being totally part of cultural traditions. For me, it was a project that yielded very clear experiential insights.
Also the placement is easy to conceal in the corporate world I work in.
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"My religion is not deceiving myself."
Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."
The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."
The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
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Made from 100% recycled karma
The Heart Drive - nosce te ipsum
"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget." –Arundhati Roy
The Heart Drive - nosce te ipsum
"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget." –Arundhati Roy
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Yes. Initially I was going to do "ye dharma" in Pali script but then I thought to add the sanskrit alphabet so I did them both in sanskrit with the Thai symbols of liberation above the text.amanitamusc wrote: ↑Wed May 16, 2018 9:09 pmNice! It has a certain Thai look to it on the top?
"My religion is not deceiving myself."
Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."
The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."
The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
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Ogyen wrote: ↑Wed May 16, 2018 12:03 am Ogyen Tattoos.jpg
Nothing secret here, but it is my core practice (in case I have an accident and get amnesia). 7 line prayer, 100 syllable vajrasattva mantra, song of vajra and some symbolized items in my red seals - one is a stylized yabyum to NOT depict actual union, which is inappropriate, but to represent it, and the other is a double dorje, both enclosed in the 6 primordial syllables. I did NOT get a big Tibetan A, but I didn't think it necessary, as it's subsumed into every part of the script.
44 hours of work in which I really took it upon myself to understand the ephemeral illusory nature of sensation and its memory, as well, as impermanence. Very interesting experience of mind and matter, I learned a lot. There are various lines of thought from tattoos being totally not ok in dharma, to being totally part of cultural traditions. For me, it was a project that yielded very clear experiential insights.
Also the placement is easy to conceal in the corporate world I work in.
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