Ordination
Ordination
Some years ago when I was a teenager I took an interest in Buddhism and the ball got rolling on a trip that hasn't stopped. It took me to Japan, Taiwan, Nepal and India. It sure hasn't stopped, but I decided to take things a step further.
I've hesitated a lot about the idea for a few years, mostly because of disappointment with people and a distrust of large institutions. I've seen the dark side to Buddhism as well as the good side. I've been both disenchanted with the human side, and delighted with the nice people. I've tested out the three trainings and remedied a lot of suffering in my own life. I'm still a common saṃsāric being, but for my part I've cured a lot of anguish in the mind thanks to Dharma.
However, I finally figured I might as well be an island onto myself, say to hell with it and just go for it. I've had an interest for years and often imagined myself going down this route, though I had to gradually give up a lot of desires in the process.
So I became a monk. I think I renounced the home life a long time ago, so in many ways this is just a change of clothes.
I've hesitated a lot about the idea for a few years, mostly because of disappointment with people and a distrust of large institutions. I've seen the dark side to Buddhism as well as the good side. I've been both disenchanted with the human side, and delighted with the nice people. I've tested out the three trainings and remedied a lot of suffering in my own life. I'm still a common saṃsāric being, but for my part I've cured a lot of anguish in the mind thanks to Dharma.
However, I finally figured I might as well be an island onto myself, say to hell with it and just go for it. I've had an interest for years and often imagined myself going down this route, though I had to gradually give up a lot of desires in the process.
So I became a monk. I think I renounced the home life a long time ago, so in many ways this is just a change of clothes.
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Congratulations on this joyful occasion!
May this be of great benefit to both yourself and others.
May this be of great benefit to both yourself and others.
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Ven. Indrajala (formerly Jeffrey):
I saw your announcement earlier today on Facebook, and was very happy for you. Your robes may not make you wiser, but your already demonstrated wisdom and unique insight will be a great addition to the ordained community! As I said earlier, Anumodana!, and may you spend many years in robes cultivating your own liberation, and doing the Bodhisattva work in the world.
I saw your announcement earlier today on Facebook, and was very happy for you. Your robes may not make you wiser, but your already demonstrated wisdom and unique insight will be a great addition to the ordained community! As I said earlier, Anumodana!, and may you spend many years in robes cultivating your own liberation, and doing the Bodhisattva work in the world.
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You look just like the picture (avatar/icon) that accompanies your posts.
EMPTIFUL.
An inward outlook produces outward insight.
An inward outlook produces outward insight.
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Sadhu! Sadhu! Sadhu!
Sarvamangalam bhavantu!
~~ Huifeng
Sarvamangalam bhavantu!
~~ Huifeng
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Awesome!
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"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of
throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned."
Nam mô A di đà Phật!
http://hickersonia.wordpress.com/
"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of
throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned."
Nam mô A di đà Phật!
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And when the Ven Indrajala set the ordination thread in motion, the earth devas cried out:
"At Dharma Wheel, the Ordained One has set in motion the unexcelled ordination that cannot be stopped by brahman or contemplative, deva, Mara or God or anyone in the cosmos."
On hearing the earth devas' cry, the devas of the Four Kings' Heaven took up the cry... the devas of the Thirty-three... the Yama devas... the Tusita devas... the Nimmanarati devas... the Paranimmita-vasavatti devas... the devas of Brahma's retinue took up the cry:
"At Dharma Wheel, the Ordained One has set in motion the unexcelled ordination that cannot be stopped by brahman or contemplative, deva, Mara or God or anyone in the cosmos."
Being the noob that I am Ven Indrajala, I had to ask: under which Vinaya system was the ordination performed under?
"At Dharma Wheel, the Ordained One has set in motion the unexcelled ordination that cannot be stopped by brahman or contemplative, deva, Mara or God or anyone in the cosmos."
On hearing the earth devas' cry, the devas of the Four Kings' Heaven took up the cry... the devas of the Thirty-three... the Yama devas... the Tusita devas... the Nimmanarati devas... the Paranimmita-vasavatti devas... the devas of Brahma's retinue took up the cry:
"At Dharma Wheel, the Ordained One has set in motion the unexcelled ordination that cannot be stopped by brahman or contemplative, deva, Mara or God or anyone in the cosmos."
Being the noob that I am Ven Indrajala, I had to ask: under which Vinaya system was the ordination performed under?
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I rejoice in your action Venerable.
Equanimity is the ground. Love is the moisture. Compassion is the seed. Bodhicitta is the result.
-Paraphrase of Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Tsephel citing the Guhyasamaja Tantra
"All memories and thoughts are the union of emptiness and knowing, the Mind.
Without attachment, self-liberating, like a snake in a knot.
Through the qualities of meditating in that way,
Mental obscurations are purified and the dharmakaya is attained."
-Ra Lotsawa, All-pervading Melodious Drumbeats
-Paraphrase of Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Tsephel citing the Guhyasamaja Tantra
"All memories and thoughts are the union of emptiness and knowing, the Mind.
Without attachment, self-liberating, like a snake in a knot.
Through the qualities of meditating in that way,
Mental obscurations are purified and the dharmakaya is attained."
-Ra Lotsawa, All-pervading Melodious Drumbeats
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Congrats.
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Sarva Mangalam!
I rejoice in this auspiciousness. May you benefit many!
I rejoice in this auspiciousness. May you benefit many!
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")
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[quote="plwk"
Being the noob that I am Ven Indrajala, I had to ask: under which Vinaya system was the ordination performed under? [/quote]
Yeah, I came back to ask the same. Who is your preceptor, where did you get ordained, which tradition, etc. etc? Us wordlings want the juice.
Being the noob that I am Ven Indrajala, I had to ask: under which Vinaya system was the ordination performed under? [/quote]
Yeah, I came back to ask the same. Who is your preceptor, where did you get ordained, which tradition, etc. etc? Us wordlings want the juice.
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Sadhu ! Sadhu ! Sadhu !
“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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excellent, excellent!
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Sadhu sadhu!
I am sure many will visit your island a lot to learn from you.
I am sure many will visit your island a lot to learn from you.
"Men must want to do things out of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work. Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness - they cannot work and their civilization collapses."
- A letter to CHOAM, attributed to the Preacher
- A letter to CHOAM, attributed to the Preacher
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Excellent! Sarva mangalam!
There is not only nothingness because there is always, and always can manifest. - Thinley Norbu Rinpoche
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Excellent, excellent!
I have embarked on this path as well, slowly but surely.. I moved to a dharma center as a full time resident a month or so ago, took my official refuge last week and am bound to take on the novice bikkhu status one of these days, once I figure some things out and know what direction I want to take!
Other people's examples of walking this path are inspiring, thank you
I have embarked on this path as well, slowly but surely.. I moved to a dharma center as a full time resident a month or so ago, took my official refuge last week and am bound to take on the novice bikkhu status one of these days, once I figure some things out and know what direction I want to take!
Other people's examples of walking this path are inspiring, thank you
Disclaimer: If I have posted about something, then I obviously have no idea what I am talking about!
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Wow! Excellent news! Congratulations!
Gassho,
Jikai.
Gassho,
Jikai.
"止觀明靜前代未聞"
(摩訶止觀)
"此妙法蓮花經者本地甚深之奧藏也"
( 法華玄義)
"觀心者空觀是般若假觀是解脫中觀是法身"
(法華文句)
(摩訶止觀)
"此妙法蓮花經者本地甚深之奧藏也"
( 法華玄義)
"觀心者空觀是般若假觀是解脫中觀是法身"
(法華文句)
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Congratulations, Venerable!!! Good decision, in this dusty world!
May I ask: where did you leave home? Tradition? Lineage?
Wish you all the best! May you be of benefit for those in need!!
WuMing
May I ask: where did you leave home? Tradition? Lineage?
Wish you all the best! May you be of benefit for those in need!!
WuMing
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People not only don't know what's happening to them, they don't even know that they don't know.
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Congratulations! May all beings benefit!!
One should do nothing other than benefit sentient beings either directly or indirectly - Shantideva