RongzomFan

The teachings of the Mahasiddhas (who are Buddhas in their own right) are considered superior to Shakyamuni's teaching. Shakyamuni purposely taught a lower path.

True, but I don't consider Dzogchen to be part of Vajrayana.

Vajrayana was founded by the Mahasiddhas, not Shakyamuni Buddha. So saying that Vajrayana is not "Shakyamuni Buddha's original message", is not shocking. Of course Vajrayana is the essence of Shakyamuni's teaching, since it is based on Madhyamaka from Indian times.

Look, Buddhahood is the goal in Mahayana and Vajrayana.

Vajrayana was founded by the Mahasiddhas, not Shakyamuni Buddha. So your point there is not relevant. Mahayana arose as a reaction against crypto-realism in Abhidharma, so yes it is the epitome of Shakyamuni's teaching.

They lead to Buddhahood, not nirvana.

The Greek magical papyri have Egyptian magic. There are a couple of books on this.

Actually yes the majority.

According to even mainstream scholarship, the gospels are mostly fictitious They are gospels (propaganda), not histories. Carrier merely comes to a different conclusion using mainstream facts.

Nah, they just hide it. Like Thomas Brodie recently came out as someone who believes that Jesus is a fiction.

Jesus never existed according to Columbia PhD in Ancient History Richard Carrier http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Richard+Carrier%2C+long&lclk=long

What many people consider enlightenment, recognizing unfabricated freshness, is only step one in Vajrayana.

how do you open the third eye?

You gotta work on the legs:

If you are correct, then there was no point to Buddha teaching at all.

He left behind a community of monks. What more do you want?

Rechungpa, Dudjom Rinpoche, Milarepa, the Mahasiddhas, most lamas are laypersons. Shit, this is how the tulku system works for the most part i.e. children of famous lamas. Only laypersons can have children. By the way, many lamas start out as monks and give back their monkhood.

Buddha wasn't silent at all about God. He denied God all the time. Google Mahabrahma.

Zen teachers are not authorities on anything. Zen people are incredibly stupid.

Yes you do. You should rely only on the interpretations of Nagarjuna and Chandrakirti.

Advaita Vedanta comes about in the middle ages when Gaudapada rips off Madhyamaka. http://books.google.com/books?id=sx12hxoFVqwC&pg=PA88&dq=The+Method+of+Early+Advaita+Ved%C4%81nta+It+is+not+a+matter+for+dispute+whether&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wr8ZUZ7iGceR0QGHuID4Cw&ved=0CDMQuwUwAA#v=onepage&q=The%20Method%20of%20Early%20Advaita%20Ved%C4%81nta%20It%20is%20not%20a%20matter%20for%20dispute%20whether&f=false

yeah its not

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Is it?

The NOW is overlaid with the conceptualizing mind. End of thread.