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Spirit bomb? Dragonball Z? Aren't these just blood cells? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_field_entoptic_phenomenon

These are just floaters. Cell debris. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floater

what new agers call trance, I call clear light of sleep. Others would call it sleep paralysis.

This forum needs to be renamed to Hinduism forum. Or merged with the Buddhism forum to have a "Dharmic" forum.

Well you have to explain that there is no arising in the first place. Thus there is no arising, abiding and cessation. "Nagarjuna taught , "bereft of beginning, middle, and end," meaning that the world is free from creation, duration, and destruction." -Candrakirti There is no arising in Dzogchen either. Instead we have the 3 inseperable wisdoms.

This was just the beginning. Then Naropa was given all sorts of empowerments and so forth. "Finally, people have a funny idea for example that Tilopa hitting Naropa on the head was the end of Naropa's path. They don't realize that that was the beginning and it was only after that that Tilopa gave Naropa empowerments, practices connected with the channels and so on. N" http://www.dharmawheel.net/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=4555&p=46821#p46821

There is something sort of similar to the soul in Vajrayana. Sort of. Not really. One's own wisdom can manifest itself as deities, Buddhas and Pure Lands, such as in bardo experiences/lucid dreams where clarity is 7 times higher.

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I am not aware of any Buddhism that subscribes to a Creator in the first place. If there is let me know.

I'll PM you.

This group was predicted by Dudjom Lingpa to be deviant and heretical. Or something like that.

I cited Ronald Inden whom Rajiv Malhotra LOVES. Did you miss that part? "However, in the case of a specifically Indic deconstruction of Eurocentrism, some of the finest academic challenge is often being delivered by Westerners, such has Ronald Inden and Nicholas Dirks." "The historian, Ronald Inden explains the root cause of this dis-ease...." "Ronald Inden explains how postcolonial Indian scholars have fallen into this trap...." "Inden explains the colonial origins of the presuppositions of India that are now commonly accepted by Indian scholars. His very important book, from which the following passages are excerpted, should be required reading for every student of India, in order to understand the origins of today's neocolonialism"

Buddhism and Hinduism aren't 2 separate Dharmas. Indians started worshiping individualized devas, just as Christians started worshiping individualized saints.

This is your fear mongering:

Then why are you fear mongering?

What soul? You are a bundle of 5 skandha, which are not established either.

Studying Nagarjuna and Candrakirti is the excellent way of discerning what the Buddha taught.

All the Indian royalty were Buddhist too. http://books.google.com/books?id=RvuDlhpvvHwC&pg=PA12&dq=Buddhist+Vishnu+before+the+eighth+century,+the+Buddha+was+accorded&hl=en&sa=X&ei=41IpUeT_B7G80QHSkoEY&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Buddhist%20Vishnu%20before%20the%20eighth%20century%2C%20the%20Buddha%20was%20accorded&f=false The scholar is someone Rajiv Malhotra likes. So its fact. http://rajivmalhotra.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=29&catid=22:dialog-of-civilizations&Itemid=26

According to both New Age and Vajrayana models, people naturally do this stuff when they sleep.

Right wing India is just as ridiculous as right wing America. Just substitute Jesus for Rama. .Jonathan Walters remarks, "The impact of the 2003 discovery of Buddhist ruins underlying both Hindu and Muslim layers at Ayodhya remains to be seen."

Its not. Its like white people here complaining of affirmative action in college admissions.

dwai, what was the point of the wall st journal article? According to the chart, brahmins do the best, and dalits do the worst. And according to the correction to the end of the article, brahmins are doing better than ever.