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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEmJ-VWPDM4

I must be silent and you must be silent too so STFU!

Maintain the horse stance. 'But I've been here for three hours'. Maintain the horse stance!!!!!!

In what way would they not apply?

There's nothing wrong with the US ... just look at its great Cities ... detroit for example ...

'As above so below' means that there is a correspondence between the subtle realm of eternal forms and the gross world. So there are patterns which eternally repeat and which the physical world reflects ...although each reflection is in itself unique. If you take reality to be like a hologramic field where everything that exists is a precipitate of this field in a particular place, stressed in certain way and so on, then the internal structure of each created thing reflects the potential structure of the whole field. Most importantly for us, a human being (including his/her body) is a microcosm reflecting the microcosm, so you can by looking at and understanding yourself come to understand the whole universe.

least you miss your mark most you will hit the damn thing so just keep trying

Right ok I suppose this is the relevant quote: "According to Dzogchen teachings, all sentient being attain Buddhahood by the end of the eon -- this is very clearly stated by Garab Dorje in the commentary above. But there are two kinds of Buddhahood, and as I said above, there is only Buddhahood that does not revert to the basis, and that is the Buddhahood attained through Dzogchen methods. The Buddhahood of other vehicles reverts to the basis, without the corresponding result.|" So Buddhahood attained not through Dzogchen reverts to the basis. Does all other vehicles include Mahamudra then?

Does one also get stressed about being stressed ... and so on in an endless cycle?

Oh what is that equation oh master ... is it like E=mc2 sort of thing?

being out of the loop is the aim of supreme buddhahood ... will you be my teacher?

What exactly is a Dzogchen Buddhood that is different to Buddhahood? Are you suggesting you could meet two Buddhas and one would be the Dzogchen Buddha superior to the other Buddha? that doesn't make any sense to me at all.

Seems to be a different point to me.

OK

never? that's a bit damning ...

I don't have this book and have no interest in Dzogchen (sorry) so I'll take your word for it.

Really? Well without disrespecting the dzogchen masters I find this hard to accept (unless they mean that a person achieves buddhahood must necessarily have realised rigpa (or whatever) ... which is not quite the same thing.

My cup overflows so get the mop and clean up don't puddle around.

Poised center, your home. A pure cube hangs in mid air now where's the front door?

I think I may have given the wrong impression. Buddhahood is buddhahood ... what changes is the 'view' given in the sutrayana or vajrayana ... and the view is just a way of expressing buddhahood. As I have been taught all the views are correct i.e. dharma but that the view develops as you go along. The word superior is used to be sure ... but too much is made of that particularly in the west. Its not so much right or wrong but more 'look at it this way' ...'look at it that way' ... Historically denigration of hinayana has happened but I think this was criticisms aimed at particular wrong (i.e. non-buddhist views which crept in) more than anything.

It's part of mahayana mind training ... not specifically vajrayana but incorporated in some practices like ngondro as preliminary.

softly at the sky so while others knock on wood just how hard is that?

esoteric stuff? whispering secret mantras while onlookers stare.

dementia takes o'er this sad, bad, old brain of mine, ... what am I doing?

how many answers? none that I can remember what was the question?