RongzomFan
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The Skeptical "Buddhist"...Critical thinking & Buddhism..
RongzomFan replied to stefos's topic in Buddhist Discussion
No shit. You are the only one trying to reconcile them. Why are you threatened by Hinduism? Especially with your love for Brahman? No shit. Tibetans know about jhanas, but will view stuff like pranayama superior to meditation, following in the vein of the Indian tradition. No shit. -
I don't believe anything Yogananda has to say. Most Hindus never heard of him. The famous saint in India is Ramakrishna.
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Holy things like rainbow body are lost on Mara people. Don't expect me to talk about rainbow body again.
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Absolutely not.
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Dudjom Lingpa had 12 or so disciples that went rainbow body. Feel free to laugh and dismiss.
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which is?
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Jesus had only a physical body, even after resurrection. Dudjom Rinpoche's legs would often be disappearing. He had the ability to go full light body if he wanted.
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Emptiness is freedom from the views of existence and nonexistence. "Nagarjuna taught , "bereft of beginning, middle, and end," meaning that the world is free from creation, duration, and destruction." -Candrakirti "Against someone who has no thesis of āexistence, nonexistence, or [both] existence and nonexistence,ā it is not possible to level a charge, even if [this is tried] for a long time." -Aryadeva
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Dudjom Rinpoche (the head of the Nyingma school, supreme terton, rainbow body etc.) says that Buddhadharma is the only way to liberation. This is just 1 statement of many similar ones in A Torch Lighting the Way to Freedom: "Do not forsake the Three Jewels for any reason, however important, whether to save your own life, for a kingdom, or for a reward." Not only that, within Buddhadharma, Dudjom Rinpoche states: "The eight lower levels have intellectually fabricated and contrived that which is changeless solely due to fleeting thoughts that never experience what truly is. They apply antidotes to and reject that which is not to be rejected. They refer to as flawed that in which there is nothing to be purified, with a mind that desires purification. They have created division with respect to that which cannot be obtained by their hopes and fears that it can be obtained elsewhere. And they have obscured wisdom, which is naturally present, by their efforts in respect to that which is free from effort and free from needing to be accomplished. Therefore, they have had no chance to make contact with genuine, ultimate reality as it is (rnal maāi de kho na nyid)." - Wisdom Nectar, p30-31 Dudjom Rinpoche even trashes the mind class and space class of atiyoga itself, by citing the Supreme Array of Ati (a ti bkod pa chen po): "O Vajrapani! If the Pith Instruction Class is not established, There will be those who cling to deliberate examination [Mind Class], And in particular, those who will believe in nothing at all [Vast Expanse Class]. Therefore, this definitive secret essence [Pith Instruction Class]ā Like a butter lamp amid darkness, Like an elephant among oxen, Like a lion among wild animals, Or like a horseman among those on footā Is superior to them all." - Wisdom Nectar, p31 So at the minimum, we can clearly see that it is the Buddhist norm to put paths in a hierarchical order.
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Resting the mind in its natural state
RongzomFan replied to Seeker of Wisdom's topic in Buddhist Discussion
What is stage 4 and stage 7 -
Resting the mind in its natural state
RongzomFan replied to Seeker of Wisdom's topic in Buddhist Discussion
separating samsara and nirvana, rushen https://www.google.com/search?q=seperating+samsara+and+nirvana&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:IE-Address&ie=&oe=#bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&fp=e70a163e76c42268&hl=en&q=separating+samsara+and+nirvana+rushen&rls=com.microsoft:en-US%3AIE-Address&safe=images&tbm=bks -
Resting the mind in its natural state
RongzomFan replied to Seeker of Wisdom's topic in Buddhist Discussion
Which part? -
Resting the mind in its natural state
RongzomFan replied to Seeker of Wisdom's topic in Buddhist Discussion
Yet this thread references lama Allan wallace and sogyal rinpoche. Seriously, look into seperating samsara and nirvana. -
Resting the mind in its natural state
RongzomFan replied to Seeker of Wisdom's topic in Buddhist Discussion
We do something called rushan to identify the conceptualizing mind. -
Resting the mind in its natural state
RongzomFan replied to Seeker of Wisdom's topic in Buddhist Discussion
Maybe for you. But for us, we distinguish between rigpa and sems. Loppon Namdrol says: 1. "If you think concepts are dharmakÄya, your practice is screwed before it has even begun. In Ati these days, conceited elephants [claim] the mass of discursive concepts is bodhicitta. chos dbying mdzod" 2. "But if you want to consider your discursive thoughts to be dharmakÄya, go ahead and be my guest. It's your practice and not mine." -
Its a nonissue for me. I follow the teachings of the tertons and Mahasiddhas, not Shakyamuni Buddha.
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HIs teachings are pretty unique and precise. Starting with the Four Noble Truths.
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It sounds more like sex "Make the two into One and the inner as the outer and the outer as the inner, the above as below, the male and female into a single One."
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You are supposed to be stuck. Dudjom Rinpoche says "Don't toss away a gem to search for a trinket. Since we have the extreme good fortunate to have met with such profound instructions, the heart blood of the dakinis, be inspired." And where do you get the notion that all paths lead to the same place? There is a difference between Bodhisattvas, pratyekabuddhas and arhats. There are 6 different lokas that people get reborn in samsara. etc. etc.
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You hear Om?
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Exactly
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What is wrong with the statement: "I personally believe that Yahweh and Allah are also hungry ghosts" Loppon Namdrol thinks Yahweh and Allah are mundane tribal gyalpos. This is a standard Buddhist sentiment. And Atheists believe that Yahweh and Allah are fictional characters.
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Om is a primordial sound heard by yogis
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I don't believe in Tsongkhapa
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I'm not familiar with him. I don't prefer the Gelug school.
