Vajrahridaya

Putting this in public space is her form of revenge... So, this whole thread should be erased... unless someone else thinks of it as revenge as well?? Eh... que sera sera.

Wow... I thought it was over. But I guess not... Getting mad at her for poking me over and over again, being needy for attention that I gave her all day? Oh well. I say stop... she keeps doing it... I brush it away nicely... she keeps at it. Yeup... no it's not over... she's stormed in here. ooopppsss. it's on.

I don't think the higher forms of Buddhism have an issue with this limitation in sexual experience? But... yes... I am straight and have a live in girlfriend and yes, we do argue from time to time. But, we always make up and "I'm sorries" are shared. Only he is really mean, and i mean MEAN I have never known someone to be so mean and so serious about stupid things

What was once brought together by the condition of I am, is now brought together by the condition of I am for all beings. The intention changes from self existence to universal existence without a clinging to a self. This is whats misunderstood about the Pari-nirvana sutra. When he say's, I have attained my true self. He is talking about a self that is still relative, but is the true self because it sees the nature of all things and offers from this realization. So... what was once coagulated by fear, is now coagulated by compassion. The condition of there being a self that acts and experiences still is, but from selfish to selfless. I wonder if that explanation helps with the rest of the post?

LOL! Generally, it's people who get into arguments with me.

I've been understanding re-birth since I was a little kid, before I read a thing about it. I also was not indoctrinated by my Mom who is still a devote Advaitin. I'm not straying from my beliefs, to believe as you do, would be straying from my experience and would be dis-honest to myself. Why not stray from your own set of limited projections that allow for emotional over-reactions and a sense of injustice and the next sense of needing justice!? "Justice must be done to that person!!" I find that type of clinging is only reflective of not understanding the way things are and are reflective of projecting ideals. Your view seems to take up Chaos as reality as if there wasn't a pattern here. If the Dalai Lama thought that way, he would be suffering still the event that took place in Tibet that got him kicked out of his own country. But, he understands karma... so... he is free from suffering this great sense of, "injustice has been done to me." It's not so black and white though, it's subtle, because he still wishes for the conditions of having Tibet back and works for that condition to arise as karma is generated by those that act. Buddha didn't come up with dogmas, he saw things as they are, and they are complicated but can be understood through study of Buddhas and meditation. What you think of as indoctrination is actually insight.

Indeed. I've had two dogies die on me. Both were heart breaking. I've seen a number of deaths, and all of them have deepened me in some way.

This is why Buddhas work so hard to generate the conditions for other beings liberation. Because beings cannot have the condition for liberation without there being a Buddha within conscious distance to help out. In Buddhism, liberation is a condition that is free from conditions in as much as dependent origination is not an intellectual musing anymore, but one activates through the accumulation of beneficial conditions, the liberated chain of originating dependently. There are only causes and conditions, there is no brahman. In certain states of meditation, it can seem as so. The formless jhanas seem to be quite those states, because they are beyond time, thus beyond a center, beyond an object of perception. Yet, they are still conditions and relative, because it still takes a sentient to speak about the possibility of that experience. To reify these states means to absorb into them at the end of life, or at the end of a cosmic eon where the possibility of perception of the flow of time and it's things, including gross senses or refined senses are all repressed. These also are not the truth of the cessation of ignorance which the Buddha teaches. The formless Jhanas are hard to explain, but some beings have been able to explain them a bit it seems and create systems for breaking down from formless to form experience in a sequential pattern of beyond perception to perceiving and then the senses of perception. Seeing the emptiness of these even the act of seeing and knowing is considered emptying the base, and that base is mind, the 8th consciousness or the 8th jhana. That doesn't mean there is something beyond this, yes, there is only mind, but it's only the relativity of the relative and does not have inherent existence. But, there is no ultimate existence, and no inherent existence to be relative either... That's the pure cognition.

I guess your saying that the formless experience of neither perception nor non-perception is the reality of the mind? That would be the 8th consciousness. Yogacara's break down of the mind from level of beyond object to objects is good as well. Of course all based on Abhidharma.

I don't feel that one can reify an evil person out of the act. Yes the act was non-beneficial to both and the emotional reaction is that of an extreme. But, that one act is not the whole of the person who perpetrated the act, just as the "child" is not the whole of the person who is the victim. Both had past lives, both players of this circumstance and the circumstance itself has a history of causation that goes far deeper and more complex than merely perp. and victim. Evil praying on the Good. That would be to reductionist I think. Not excusing the act at all. As Compassion can both dewire the perp's causes for such actions and the victims future pain that could lead to the victim becoming the perp. in the future, lives or whatever. In the cycle of Samsara, the victims become victimizers and the victimizers victims, over and over and over... like a circle.

I have indeed done just that. I don't find your conclusions to be the truth though. I also have memories through meditation that help in understanding what exactly the wild animals feel when they seem to just be sitting there, as in the inner experience. Mostly in my opinion, you are projecting your own ideals and seeing only your own subjective interpretation. IMHO. Through observation I have found that animals are not able to see through and transcend conditions, instinct and fear of death... for the most part. There might be rare individual animals though. Take care.

You should read some Heart Sutra and prasangika madhyamaka. The Buddhas don't agree with you. Though, you are free to make up your own mind about that... that's mind's inherent non-existence at work there, to exist in whatever way it wishes to and manifest the conditions for itself as such, when it itself is not a condition of existence as well. Well... that's your choice to consider. I don't agree with you. For me purity is the non-inherent existence of mind/phenomena. Any reification of any sort is the cause for more impurity in experience. You should read some Abhidharma. I wouldn't mind getting into this discussion, but your questions beacon more than I have time to offer at this moment. All the best!

mind does not inherently exist either. Except your reifying this. So we don't agree. The Buddha realm also does not have true inherent existence.

Don't mistake your mind for all minds. No matter your perspective there will be endless beings who keep manifesting delusion. Yes, this is both the distraction, and wonder of samsara. If your realized, it's all quite wonderful!! That would be the case if mind were inherent, but mind also originates dependently with all other minds. So... really it's an inter-relating factor here that reveals that you are not the only bee making the honey. So, your mind is also the product of other minds in a sense. Ok... He is not, only the realization is. Are you saying that his being is a reflection of the realization? In that sense, yes. Which is why Guru Yoga works. But... he is not reified as a soul, just merely a reflection of our highest potential. Yes. Ok, that's my point. This is not so. I remember having these blissful experiences that kind of reify a Solipsist view of things. It's very powerful and seems to reify itself in the way that the outer world is mirroring our high powered level of concentration. But, it's not a reflection of the Truth of the Bodhi of the Buddhas. There are infinite minds. Ah... exactly... Smarty pants got to it before me.

This is called the emptying of the ego. We have found meaning through grasping since beginningless time. Now we have come face to face with the falsehood of our previous intentions. It's scary and it can be depressing. Great lightness of being and wonder is on the other side though... do not give up!!

Yes, we shouldn't be discussing this stuff on an open board. Pero's right. Keep it sutra.

This is why in the Bodhisattva tradition, we make the intention to liberate all beings, the intention of our own liberation, and this sets up an entirely different ball of effects that accumulate beneficial expressions. So, once selflessness is actually realized, one still has this endless ball of accumulated beneficialness. It also helps immensely to connect with a teacher as sitting with a good reputable teacher with realization is one of the best ways to realize for oneself the benefits of practice, and the energy emanating from the being of such a teacher effects our own energy, especially if we are consciously open to it.

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Come on guys... that's wisdom! You gotta give credit where it's due. Come on... We all know we've experienced this. I know I have.

I sometimes wonder if it's just one person coming in many disguises! MARA!!! No kidding... seriously though... that's just a joke. Mara isn't reified in "right view" either. Though those that do, might manifest as the delusional force that he represents.

Actually there are probably the same amount of people that understand, than don't. I understand that because you do not, that your view is subject to that criteria and you probably karmically gravitate towards those that support your ideas about me, which is only natural... not liberated, but natural. It has also been stated by many posters here that they do understand the things I've said and I could name many names. Thank goodness I'm not posting only to hear myself talk. ... I say this only so that maybe you can get a more objective view of your own interpretation of circumstances. It seems that those that really don't understand the things I say are really passionate about it. But, those that understand the things I say just state as such. No big deal. Wow... what a perspective?? I actually loved that movie. I don't see how it applies to me and Michaelz relationship. Looordy!

Actually Mizheals has undergone more training through other avenues other my own. You would benefit more from seeing him as his own person as he has learned way more on his own and through other people than through me. Sometimes he surprises me with information that I've never considered. So, sometimes he indeed is also my teacher. p.s. We just have a tendency to agree on most points.

Yes, mostly it seems that only those who have the same information in their heads can relate to my postings with any sense of real clarity. The Buddha didn't find that hard, neither did Nargarjuna. But... yes you might like to read some Prasangika. That would help you immensely! Yes, I think it might just be a question of what you've studied. The things I say are an assimilation of all that I've studied and experienced directly. Of course I cannot help that. To me they are. The Buddha said to see dependent origination is to see the dharma and to see the dharma is to see him. So... it really is the right view. Otherwise ones view of Dzogchen is no different from Advaita Vedanta. Well good! Rigpa is not a thing though, it's a realization. It's not something that shines from it's own side. Rigpa must also be emptied through a process of emptying the base. These are Dzogchen teachings. What is Rigpa to you?

Hi there, You would like to study more Mahayana and even get into Myriad Worlds which is a book you can get on Amazon. You never stop the wheel really. That's figurative, you just stop seeing the wheel as being inherent. The cessation is the cessation of mis-cognition, that's it. Why do you think we offer all our merits after each practice? We offer the merits in order to build endless merit so that when we do attain realization we have endless merits to work from once the cessation of misunderstanding is realized. We keep going, working... never ceasing to be, we just be as free and give to the we.

Tigle is a sphere, sometimes translated as drops... The Dzogchen Tigle of primordial purity is... In a state of rigpa it may appear as merely a blue sphere radiating the different colored lights and one see's everything through it. Like a spontaneous download of the infinite. Hard to explain of course. It goes into more detail than this with the different drops in the system, the red and white. But... the Dzogchen Tigle is considered indestructible. Bindu is the sanskrit word for Tigle. Heart drop... well sometimes this is the heart drop. I saw it in the heart, deep in the center, but I've also seen it everywhere and in the 3rd eye area too. Could be because I'm not a Buddha as of yet though. You might like to buy the book, "Heart Drops of Dharmakaya" Serene! Emptiness is not a thing... it's a quality of karma. The quality of karma that shows that it does not inherently exist, only relatively. How do we know? The baby is still in development of it's karmic properties to become an adult, it hasn't transcended becoming, thus is not fully liberated. A baby merely lacks the karmic manifestations, but not the potential. A Master lacks the potential. Read above. Both have consciousness, but the Master is consciously aware.