RongzomFan
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Are you aware of the doctrine of Papal infallibility?
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I said "I don't believe that Dudjom Rinpoche, Nyala Pema Dudul, Kunzang Dechen Lingpa etc. were fallible humans." Its a matter of religious faith, like Jesus being God, or Mohammed being the final messenger, or whatever.
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What is the evidence of Jesus' resurrection? Its a faith thing. If you want to start a "rationalist" forum on Tao Bums ask the moderators.
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That is your opinion. Then live as you wish and stop preaching. I don't believe that Dudjom Rinpoche, Nyala Pema Dudul, Kunzang Dechen Lingpa etc. were fallible humans.
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And Tilopa was a monk at one point, so he would have had even more undocumented teachers besides his later ones.
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Thats a mythic story. Tilopa had human teachers. http://books.google.com/books?id=j6IP550t4cAC&pg=PA13&dq=Mahamudra+and+Related+Instructions+contradicting+the+history+of+four+transmissions&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TJFDUc7uC8fc4AOnuIG4BQ&ved=0CC8QuwUwAA#v=onepage&q=Mahamudra%20and%20Related%20Instructions%20contradicting%20the%20history%20of%20four%20transmissions&f=true "A song attributed to Tilopa, though it is not included in the canonical works, even claims he had no human guru, contradicting the history of four transmissions mentioned above. This discrepancy is sometimes explained as Vajradhara having given only the blessing, while the instructions came from his human teachers."
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Noone is forcing people to go into Vajrayana in the first place. There are other types of Buddhism, and other religions altogether.
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The constant Chinese Communist propaganda of you and Mandrake calling us "archaic" and "primitive" is getting tiring.
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The subject of your text selection is Vajrayana commitments to do certain practices. "....on receiving an initiation there is always a specific commitment to observe."
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http://thetaobums.com/topic/27366-dzogchen-teachings/page-25#entry414247
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In the part you did not bold, it says very clearly this is talking about complex daily Vajrayana commitments that some people have.
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you can be: Buddhist Dzogchenpa Bon Dzogchenpa pure Dzogchenpa
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Yes, you can be a pure Dzogchenpa like Norbu, Malcolm or myself with no other religion.
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I agree with you completely. And welcome to the forum. We need more Buddhist members on the Buddhist forum.
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As a Dzogchenpa, I believe that Dzogchen terma is primordial and sacred down to the rules and regulations.
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Monastic life? Most lamas are not monks. The Vajrayana tradition as a whole, with all its rules, lineages etc. are from lay Indian Mahasiddhas.
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Do you believe in divine terma or not? Yes or no?
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Is your personal view higher than that of divine terma which is directly from Buddhas? http://thetaobums.com/topic/26017-taobums-moderators-forcing-practitioners-to-break-samaya/
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Note the title of this forum......"Buddhist Discussion". Are you one? Is your personal view higher than tertons and divine terma? Contemplating written text is no different than sutrayana. Might as well go into Zen.
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ChNN is teaching from his own terma, not the LN or DT. His terma doesn't require ngondro in the first place. The same was the case with others, such as KDL.
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I'm still confused with 100,000 BCE being the border of prehistory. I guess world-wide history is screwed up.
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The lingual frenum is not muscle. And the real Shiva, Shiva, instructs to cut it.
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I would be surprised if they didn't do it. For example, its in one of the main tantras Kashmir Saivism is based on, the MÄlinÄ«vijayottaratantra.
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Shiva instructs Parvati in the practice http://www.amazon.com/The-Khecarividya-Adinatha-Translation-ebook/dp/B000SEK1C0/ref=tmm_kin_title_0
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Indeed, isn't some saivism ultimately about yoga, kechari mudra, kundalini etc.? If you want to be Shiva, do this:
