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Who cares? Just meditate. :thumbsup:
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I'm TOTALLY with @MaryAnne! Being rich would allow you to do so much for humanity! Money is just a tool. You can use it for good, for bad, for self-indulgence, or to catapult humanity forward. It's a precious tool that, when managed by a good heart,…
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It has NEVER been illegal for 16 year-olds to marry in England. It was/is necessary for those under 18 to get written parental consent.. In Scotland that was not necessary. Which is why I regret raising it in the first place..it just opened the …
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He sounds very modern. Do you know how he is received by the establishment? Is the man trying to keep him down? I've been wondering what opinions are in his lineage, and among the "establishment" since he burst onto the international scene a couple …
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I'm not sure it's wrong to marry someone 16. It was illegal for a 16-year-old to marry in England at the time. Trungpa and Diana had to cross the border into Scotland in order to be legally married, and Diana didn't have parental consent. It d…
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a quote “Whether we eat, sleep, work, play, whatever we do life contains dissatisfaction, pain. If we enjoy pleasure, we are afraid to lose it; we strive for more and more pleasure or try to contain it. If we suffer pain we want to escape it. We e…
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Definitely no revered status just by wearing a monks robes. THEY have to EARN their respect the hard way. Ideally, yes. But even in Sri Lanka anyone wearing robes gets automatic respect and deferential treatment. Even to the point of being above th…
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If a bodhisattva can appear in the guise of a prostitute and enlighten people via sex, then theoretically someone like Trungpa could have achieved some sort of awakening despite being a drunk. I'm just saying... It's stories like that that gurus u…
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I've met well studied geshes that were quite bright and knowledgable, happy and charismatic too. And I've met rinpoches that had just as much learning but also had a quality of being that is hard to describe but that is quite apparent when you meet …
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Actually, there's one in Ch'an, that's based in the US, OP. The one time I looked at their online literature, they looked like a combination of Ch'an and Vajrayana, and used some Vajrayana imagery. You might dig around some more for sources/locati…
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My question still stands. Where did the idea that Trungpa was "awake" (or "liberated" or whatever term anyone prefers) originate? I don't believe he ever made that claim about himself. Is this something his students projected onto him? If so, then i…
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genkaku, these technical questions go in the NewBuddhist.com forum. Lincoln or Brian should be able to help you.
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Why are we considering that Trungpa was enlightened at all? He was raised and educated to be the head of a lineage. That's all. He learned all the lessons a person in that position was required to learn. Like getting a BA or MA or whatever in philo…
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So I am not suggesting that an enlightened person should purposely break rules but, if he did, it would have no karmic consequences. What if someone is harmed by him, due to his drunkenness, which he doesn't have the willpower to stop? Will there b…
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Probably not a good idea to confuse antinomianism with "enlightenment." This is an almost impossible line to draw in some forms of Tantric Buddhism.
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it is the privilege of the enlightened to break rules, moral precepts. They are above morality. We the ordinary folk can't/shouldn't mimic it. Quite a few followers of TB here in the last couple of years have said their lama teaches that the "virtue…
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Think the average western Buddhist put way too much adulation for their gurus, especially in TB. In other schools, the gurus actually earn it. Zen has some of the same problems as TB. Analysts like Stuart Lachs say it has a lot to do with the conce…
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Trungpa made a very interesting comment in his autobiography. He said this after observing a former monk who had been pulled out of the monastery and installed as a regional king, after his brother, the king, had passed away. Suddenly the ex-monk ab…
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He also left out the Spanish tulku. He said he felt that one had had enough media coverage. And I'm not sure, but I think he and Sakyong Mipham R. are estranged. I thought he covered some pretty interesting characters, some good guys. People who are…
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The book, "Tibet Is My Country", by the Dalai Lama's older brother, provides some insight into the experience of a tulku. Three of the DL's brothers were identified as tulkus, and went to the monastery in the region of eastern Tibet/Western China, w…
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Interesting post, @Zero...and well written. I'm not sure why, but when reading it the Zimmerman trial -- which is about to begin -- popped into my head. Where George Zimmerman is legally guilty of killing Trayvon Martin, I don't know. But I feel …
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Personality is determined by 3 factors, IMO: 1: Nature 2: Nurture 3. Past life experience.
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@sova, it is possible you are correct, but there is no evidence to suggest it. The NSA is systematically collecting phone metadata, and there are reasons to believe that they record every conversation which includes an overseas party. Which is bad…
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To thine own self be true. I don't see how that could be confrontational. The Buddha said to be like the rhinoceros; take the path of solitude, and keep your eye out for the "virtuous friend" while on that path. Do what you think is right. If the…
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From Wiki: Doctrines [edit] The teachings of Shingon are based on early Buddhist Tantras, the Mahavairocana Tantra (Jap. Dainichi-kyō 大日経), the Vajrasekhara Sutra (Kongōchō-kyō 金剛頂経), the Adhyardhaśatikā Prajñāpāramitā Sutra (Rishu-kyō 理趣…
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Buddhism is big on turning the other cheek. But at the same time, there's the "skillful means" thing. It means we'd all have to be wise enough to be able to discern when it's appropriate to speak out or confront (and how to do so effectively), and w…
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In this film, Gesar Mukpo explores what it means to be a tulku among tulkus born in the West, like himself.
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The tulku system is starting to fall apart, and is coming under review. Dzongsar Khentse Rinpoche, the Bhutanese lama (and tulku) who has made a couple of successful Buddhist films, says in the film, "Tulku", by Gesar Mukpo, that "If Tibetans aren't…
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Suppose you rolled a six sided die 1000 times and wrote down the rolls. Ok, what are the odds that would happen in that particular sequence? Tiny. Can we say that since the odds were so small that God must have controlled the dice? God is the dic…
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I've been told to focus on the itches, acknowledge them in your meditation, and amazingly, they go away.
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@Dakini Yes most definitely! And the Teacher who travels the world is the one (if I'm not mistaken) that teaches it. I won't be around long enough (unless I get a permanent job here) to complete the language teachings, but if I'm allowed to, I'll…
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I think the Buddha started out as a human being. But over the generations and centuries, a mythology developed around him, so that he became larger-than-life and became deified. Same thing happened to Jesus, too, undoubtedly. The Buddha was not a "…
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That's excellent! That's in Flagstaff? Nyingma? It's Nyingma. They teach Dzogchen. What caught my attention is that they have classes in literary Tibetan.
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Since you'll only be here once, and the Dharma is a precious jewel, then you'd want to waste no time in advancing in your understanding and practice of the Dharma. You only live once, so this is your shot at Enlightenment. You wouldn't want to exp…
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Quite so. It was Nagarjuna who explained the philosophical ramifications of the Buddhas teachings. But to dismiss Taoism and advaita is to dismiss nondualism, and thus to dismiss Buddhism. No, it's not. You can accept the teachings of Buddhism …
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i will argue that only fringe buddhists dont believe in reincarnation. i have not met a buddhist monk who does not believe in reincarnation. Some Theravada monks/scholars don't believe in "that" kind of rebirth. It's complicated.
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Well, if people find the 2 Truths doctrine helpful, then fine. I think it complicates things unnecessarily, but that's just me. And of course, there's the pitfall that some fall into, in thinking that Two Truths means Two Moralities; that Ultimate m…
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Now RG here, has made many movies in which he played relatively 'not nice' people; materialistic, vindictive, calculating, cold and harsh - yet IRL, he could be said to be a leading light, an example to others. I'm sure he's very comfortably off, …
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A lot of the problem though is just humans. Yes, people with wells need water, of course. But SO much water goes to irrigating farmland in areas we shouldn't even have farmland, to water lawns in areas there shouldn't be grassy lawns, to supply indu…
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The doctrine of two truths is an ineluctable consequence of the theory of emptiness, both being an ineluctable consequence of the truth of nonduality. If we do not believe in the doctrine of two truths then we do not believe in the teachings of Bu…
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It is about realizing emptiness. It is wisdom. It's where letting go of attachment starts. The beginning of the end of suffering. I think this is possible to achieve without resorting to casting matters in terms of two truths, ultimate and mundane.…
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Oh, thanks, @karasti! I remember discussing this with friends in Colorado, now that you post this link. They said that CO has been so dry, that it's important to allow the rainwater to soak into the ground (or enter the rivers), to replenish aquif…
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Yes, we know the heart and brain stop, and the body rots away after death; but the truth of the matter is we don't know what else happens once we leave this world. None of us on this forum has been dead (unless rebirth is true. :p), so I don't thi…