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I do not liken wisdom teachings to spectator sports, nor do I identify with a particular "home team", rooting for them as a cheerleader would. If you really want to talk about "maturity", you may want to start there. However, in regards to vajrayana and especially the legacy of the siddhas, you have absolutely no clue what you are talking about. Your misconceptions are interesting to hear about nonetheless, and its also nice that you provide a cautionary tale for others. I have plenty of rope to spare (... dont worry its not a snake). Let us proceed.

Well, I can already see your lack of awareness and understanding quite clearly - so I dont expect you to have an accurate view on this. Projections and distortions? That I can expect. Study is no substitute for practice, although it can seem that way for certain people. You may wish to reconsider how much time you spend being fixated on (and clinging to) "conceptual elaborations" you have acquired second-hand.

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Think about your experience of life in this moment as you take one breath in, and one breath out. Now imagine a perspective where your entire lifetime is experienced as one breath. This may help you figure out why reincarnation is difficult to understand.

I have a feeling that this is not a feeling for you, but rather a very specific concept derived from other very specific concepts.

At the lake next to Mahabodhi Temple Bodh Gaya, India

Yes I would have to agree with this. Real compassion is the great equalizer of all relationships. It is a simultaneous arising of "self" and "other", where the inseparability of action and consequence is fully revealed. It is the living realization of "do unto others as you would have them do unto you", from the inside out, rather than as an external imposition or "rule" of morality. It has nothing to do with letting murderers and rapists walk the streets unhindered, or other ideas such as this. It is so much more "big picture" than that. Taking into account a "greater good" is something that cannot be fathomed at an individual level unless the truth of dependent origination is entirely realized. You cannot explain that kind of perspective to someone who cannot see past themselves. People must work through their own psychology before they encounter the work of relationship, and thereby enter the realm of "service". It is not really possible to serve others until you have served yourself to a certain degree. At a certain point the work of self-cultivation becomes universal and reaches beyond the personal sphere, (although that does not mean it is complete). When the work is truly universal, then it is not a danger to anyone (especially the practitioner). False ideas of service can certainly be dangerous, however - so it is advisable to focus on small steps of working with yourself instead of subscribing to big ideas of saving the world and becoming a crusader and so forth. At all levels, the practice of "service" becomes further and further internalized, more and more instantaneous - until the hindrances of the self-image are entirely overcome. Compassion is a natural consequence of the real practice of returning to source.

Regardless of whatever intent someone may have (even those who are sincerely trying to offend you) it may be beneficial to keep an open mind and embrace life as it presents itself anyways. As long as you are alive, you can always learn something. And those who cannot appreciate themselves will never appreciate honesty, and that includes the honesty of malicious intent acting out in a malicious way. Blind spots go hand in hand with non-acceptance of reality. They start within and unfold into the world around you. People only see evils and terrors in the world because they choose to ignore the evils and terrors in themselves. Once you understand the origins, you will understand the results, and you will understand that the real judgement of men does not belong to mankind. The politics of self-imagery define their own parameters of conflict. Its an insidious shell game that starts by choice - a trick people play on themselves then blame on someone else. At heart, its an abdication of the responsibility of being alive. Once you discover the purpose for this, you will discover the implications, and you will discover the meaning of life itself.

Sorry but you are wrong. You have not correctly divined my intent in posting that video. Furthermore the ability to be offended rests solely in the observer, however difficult it may be to accept.