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One of my friends I often go to lunch with lifts weights a lot, so we sometimes talk about strength training and stuff, and I mentioned body weight training to him and gave him some stuff from Pavel and he was totally thrilled. He said that after reading his stuff a bit and then applying, his maximums went up immediately. He also does body weight training now in addition to weights. Interestingly he said that despite being pretty strong he wasn't able to do one leg squats at the beginning, and one armed push ups were very difficult as well... ...for bench pressing.

You weren't talking about weight lifting in general, but about bench pressing. Of course weight lifting is important for strength. I'd want whole body strength though... But you can also increase strength by just body weight training though at some point that might not be enough maybe.

And I doubt he got his punching power from benching either. If you can bench a lot, doesn't mean you can strike strongly (edit: without working on your technique and working on a bag it will likely be shit whether lift weights or not). As far as I understand it, deadlift is the best practice with weights if you want (correct) strength. But then maybe you guys just want to look good...

I once read a commentary on youtube saying how this guy really likes to hear himself talk and I have the same impression. So although he has some interesting things to say mostly he comes off as a bullshiter to me (not sure of the right English word, sort of like someone who talks a lot, but not necessarily about useful or real stuff, making things up etc.. ). For all his talk about special abilities and practices for them, he has yet to make a video where he demonstrates one of them, though I have to admit I haven't watched any of his for quite some time.

I like Pavel Tsatsouline for strength training. For body weight training you can see his Naked Warrior. Simple stuff, but very good.

It's a made up Vajrayana lineage by some American guy.

Aro is fake.

Words to deaf ears.

Kundalini really doesn't have much to do with Buddhism, it's a Hindu thing. But anyway, thanks for the links. I've had the book for years, it looks great, but I never got around to seriously practice. Also watched some of the videos before, cool stuff. I think the company that produced these videos doesn't exist anymore. I wanted to ask on the foundation forum if any of those guys knows anything about it, but always forgot, and then it became unavailable.

I don't understand what that means. I'm not sure what you're saying here either. There is no heaven in the Christian sense, gods exist but they're still in samsara, and you can die and reincarnate as a god as well but that is not necessarily of much use. You can practice to be reborn in a pure land, of Padmasambhava for example, where you can practice for enlightenment. But this is really more domain of Pure Land Buddhism not just Tibetan. It's a pretty strange guess. You are generalizing. There are many Buddhists in China so I don't get how you came to these conclusions.

Well, it's also possible that it was not Dolgyal, some protectors look similar. And why wouldn't they fund their fake panchen lama? Tibetan Buddhists are also atheists, there is no "God" (meaning creator) anywhere in Buddhism.

I don't know, but if I remember right the 13th also warned against him. And most of the other Dalai Lamas had a very short life-span if I'm not mistaken. The current one is one of the most long lived I believe.

I glanced a bit through it and I think there is a thread on e-sangha about this as well. Non-buddhists don't have any samaya in the first place, it's established during initation. I don't see what atheists have to do with it since all buddhists are atheists. And the thing is, Dolgyal is supposed to uphold "pure" dharma of the gelug sect, and so will hurt anyone who receives teachings from other sects. Dalai Lama said that followers of Dolgyal shouldn't attend his teachings for their own good. The reason for impure samaya is simple. By taking refuge in a demon they broke their refuge. And this organization is a front of the NKT as I understand it. Laughable... The Sakyapa's bound Dolgyal as a worldly local protector in the past. But then later he became a gelug protector.

It's not vegeterianism that's annoying, it's vegeterians. I doubt most vegeterians are really aware. It's kind of hypocritical if someone doesn't eat meat supposedly out of compassion but then eats fish. Tibetans consider fish and the like as impure food of sorts. And you know why? Because if you kill one cow you can feed many people, but you have to kill many fish to feed few people.

Dolgyal is NOT enlightened, he is NOT even a dharma protector. He is an evil spirit of the gyalpo class, which can cause provocations such as nervousness and insanity. He is a reincarnation of some high vajrayana practitioner who broke his samaya or something like that. At first he may appear benevolent to those who do his practice, but he is not benevelonet. Things can soon go wrong and suddenly you have to obey him. 14th Dalai Lama admitted that he made a mistake with doing his practice. At first he thought he was doing a good thing, but then he did some research and found the truth. Even his main propagator over a 100 years ago, Panbokha, wrote how Dolgyal "tortured" him. No other tradition of TB sees him as enlightened or dharma protector. Some have long spoke against him. Kelsang Gyatso, the leader of the NKT cult was thrown out of his monastery and is also a samaya breaker. There are also some rumours that NKT is cooperating with the Chinese government and that in Tibet the monasteries who support Dolgyal are given the most support. "The so-called Drakpa Gyaltsen pretends to be a sublime being, even though he is not, And since this interfering spirit and creature of distorted prayers Is harming everything - both the dharma and sentient beings - Do not support, protect or give him shelter, but grind him to dust." - the 5th Dalai Lama Alas that the 5th Dalai Lama failed to destroy him. To learn more you can read these two lengthy topics (63 & 42 pages of posts and there were other threads too but these two are pinned) on E-sangha if registered: New Kadampa Tradition New Beginnings - New Teachers

Uhm, if the people who don't like it or think it's bogus would stop commenting on it, it would reduce the kunlun discussion by half... And he does't even charge much, his price is pretty regular if not cheap.

Make a connection with a legit Buddhist teacher. Until then, try to avoid doing negative actions.

You can't avoid death, actually you are dying right now. I don't have a car. But why would you want to steal it if I did have one? After all, it's just a car. Of course you do.

Ok, I don't get that. Anyway, my point.. You talk about non-dualism a lot, there being no good or evil and such. I think you do know what is good and what is bad, you're just thinking too much. You see, you'd move away because you know it's bad if I stab you. But if I invite you out for a drink you'd go and be happy - good. Non-dualism for most of us are just empty words.

Why?

PB, if I have a knife and try to stab you, would you move away?

You have 2 penises? Wow. Seriously though one time I saw a clip of a guy who actually did have two.

I'm not sure how I turned them around. I don't know about that, but I know there is a history of many people getting enlightened through Vajrayana to this day. And even if you what you say is true, that just simply means that those that did so did not practice Vajrayana correctly. Of course. Here you go again... The funny thing is, that I don't really disagree much on a lot of the things you say. It's just that you constantly deride the Vajrayana when not knowing anything about it and just claim things that aren't true. Yes, it's said it's like walking on two legs. Anyway, this will be my last post in this topic. I'm sorry for derailing your topic Mat. I hope you all have a nice weekend.

I just watched this movie yesterday.