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What???? Are you kidding? No religion, teaching, practice is free from this stuff.

Sereneblue, It depends mostly on what you want to study. If you are not aligned to any particular Buddhist school then read generalist books rather than old texts from the middle ages (if you see what I mean). All the traditions are very strong in themselves and have their strengths. Such as the Karma Kagyu are known as the practice lineage and so on. If you really want to study any tradition deeply then to be honest you need a lama to give the instructions. If you want to just understand the basic principles then pick a generalist book. PS. I kind of agree about Tsongkhapa in that if you want to study non-dual madyhamaka the he is probably not your guy.

I think there may be some confusion here. Tsongkhapa's school of Buddhism in 14th Century was sometimes called the New Kadampa because it was a revival of the monastic tradition founded by Atisha in 10th Century and this was called the Kadampa. However there is also a modern tradition which also styles itself as the New Kadampa and venerates Tsongkhapa. They also practice the controversial Dorje Shugden sadhana which the Dalai Lama has deemed unhelpful or perhaps even harmful. Schisms in Tibetan Buddhism are not unusual ... take for example the Karmapa controversy. If in doubt don't go there !!! But don't throw baby out with the bathwater .... etc. It's a good reminder that you have to think for yourself. Even if you follow or venerate a teacher you still have to think for yourself.

Do you mean Tsongkhapa the 14th Century Tibetan founder of the Gelugpa sect (of which the Dalai Lama is currently the head)? If so I see no reason to avoid his teachings if you are interested in Monastic Buddhism.

What happened to chi 2013? are you taking a gap year?

You can delete what's in there if you want to ... just leave a shell. No point deleting the whole thing ... you might change your mind anyway later.

I preferred Sinfestation but you know ... not even us mods get everything we want. You could count your new name as a kind of reverse proxy I suppose.

1. No. 2. yes.

have you gone Spanish? NB. I can't change your ppf to this unless I change your name to this.

How about Sinfestation or Et in Arcadia Horstancia or Mi' Likkew Pornee.

Errrrr .... yes ok! (so many people with an identity crisis these days *sigh*)

*sigh* ok then. Use them well.

We moderators exist in the 9th orbital of supra-cosmic immensity, we crush whole planets just by thinking, our minds have transcended to the very essence of essences and still we deign to stoop to this lowly place of chitter-chatter, motivated only by universal pity for you who subsist on this earthly plane. I think a demand for flattery is completely reasonable given the circumstances. What use is sincerity to the divinely ordained eternal ones? Eh?

The only thing that works consistently is flattery and obsequiousness.

OK done it for chi 2012 and sinan .... get posting you personal practice fiends.

Well enjoy yourself idiot (I can say that without breaching insult rules!) log in and password unchanged.

Don't let this be you

There you go Sc .... er ... turtle ... everything else ... log in and password the same as it was.

Right so Scotty you want to be turtle shell (is that all lower case?) and jc you want to be idiot_stimpy. Yes... really ... yes?

Careful what you ask for

I think the poetry dominates because very few articles are written. People should write more and also do what SB did which is to bump stuff you are interested in. Then the articles section will change without the need for interference or more subs. if someone thinks deeply about a subject then expresses it as a poem ... well what's wrong with that?

No that won't work I'm still on my first month of ignores.

OK

Well I would suggest that those that show off are not the real deal. I would like to be unnecessary.

Steady on chaps ... I don't want this thread to be one of those where I have to put my moderation hat on. Especially as bunnies are involved. I believe that tummo is part of a yoga practice and the point is to transform yourself using inner heat to gain enlightenment ... the ability to shed clothing is a bye product.