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  1. Feels like Death -shamatha before bed

    RongzomFan replied to Tibetan_Ice's topic in Buddhist Discussion

    The arising, duration and cessation shtick is not established in any way. Dependently originated phenomena do not arise as existents in the first place.

  2. Feels like Death -shamatha before bed

    RongzomFan replied to Tibetan_Ice's topic in Buddhist Discussion

    Not everyone.

  3. Feels like Death -shamatha before bed

    RongzomFan replied to Tibetan_Ice's topic in Buddhist Discussion

    I'm 100% positive you were in a trance state conducive for real time zone OBE. The racing heart beat. And you were doing this in bed.

  4. Feels like Death -shamatha before bed

    RongzomFan replied to Tibetan_Ice's topic in Buddhist Discussion

    Right, but there is a difference between astral projection and a real time OBE The latter has many more weird symptoms.

  5. Feels like Death -shamatha before bed

    RongzomFan replied to Tibetan_Ice's topic in Buddhist Discussion

    This is a quintessential OBE sign. Very well known.

  6. Feels like Death -shamatha before bed

    RongzomFan replied to Tibetan_Ice's topic in Buddhist Discussion

    You need to look into the lucid dreaming or OBE forums. You are entering altered states. No big deal dude.
  7. For Dzogchen, I prefer Malcolm's posts on Dharma Wheel. For Madhyamaka, "Center of the Sunlit Sky" by Karl B and of course also Malcolm's posts on Dharma Wheel.
  8. Many posts of Malcolm in this vein: "In any event, the main point of the view in all four (or five if we included Jonang) schools is the experiential cultivation of a momentary unfabricated awareness. Other than that, the main differences are terminolgies related to the specifics of each schools presentation of their respective paths and methodologies." "The most obvious distinguishing characteristic of sems is conceptuality. Time is not established per se, it is a conceptual construct. " P.S. I bolded what I think are the key words.....
  9. Madhyamaka: Nonarising/illusion because dependently originated phenomenon do not arise. Advaita Vedanta: Nonarising/illusion since Brahman never displays as anything other than Brahman. Dzogchen Upadesha : Nonarising/illusion since the five pure lights never display as anything other than the five pure lights. Kashmir Saivism: Everything is One and real.
  10. Yes many people think that the end goal is recognizing the instant of unfabricated freshness (ma bcos shes pa skad cig ma) and the conceptualizing mind. This is just the beginning. You still have to work with the body's channels using esoteric tantric techniques until omniscient Buddhahood.
  11. Xabir and Thusness are not authorities on anything. In fact, they are always wrong about everything
  12. Yes you first recognize the nature of the mind. But then you have to remove all delusion, which is omniscient Buddhahood.
  13. do you have some point you are trying to make?
  14. From the perspective of Vajrayana, meditation is contrived and conceptual. Some good posts by Loppon Malcolm: http://www.dharmawheel.net/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=4704
  15. one cannot claim anything exists.
  16. I am a fundamentalist Vajrayanist. Buddhahood and Vajrayana deities are both real.
  17. I will cut through all the B.S. Vajrayana is the only correct religion in the world. If you doubt that, read Blazing Splendor. A New Age oriented couple saw Buddhas and deities in their advanced practice, and were shocked by it. There were so many tertons in recent times that received teachings from deities and so forth, such as Dudjum Rinpoche, Dilgo Khyetse Rinpoche, Tulku Urygen etc. Norbu still is receiving such teachings from deities.
  18. It is the basis of trekcho, Mahamudra etc.
  19. Im pretty sure Namdrol admits that Advaitins can recognize the nature of the mind. But that is not realizing lhun grub or the basis (gzhi).
  20. Recognizing the nature of the mind is not the same thing as realizing emptiness. Realizing emptiness is much higher. It means you are on the first bhumi.
  21. Probably, but that is a different issue. Emptiness when it comes to the inseparability of clarity and emptiness, merely refers to the fact you cannot find clarity, or point to clarity with your finger.
  22. You really have no clue what you are talking about. Its a shame people like you spread all sorts of false ideas. "Emptiness" in the context of the inseperable clarity and emptiness of the mind, simply means you cannot point to clarity with your finger. You cannot find clarity, nor get rid of clarity. It does not refer to real emptiness.
  23. What is realizing its emptiness?
  24. Whatever you said was wrong.
  25. Thats not what the inseperability of clarity and emptiness means.