Vajrahridaya

I just don't see it the same as you. That should be fine. We are here debating views, it happens all over this site, not just me, but everywhere about all sorts of things. People are arguing and debating and things are coming out, and then there are hugs and understandings happen, more information comes out due to friction. It's a party for sharing, and debating, it's great I think! Please, nit pick yourself and either debate view with me or move on. Thanks.

Nice CowTao. I want to read that book too! Now it's time for a Ganapuja in Toronto! See you guys later tonight! Argue nicely now... ya hear?

Yes, he's a real deal for sure! Just thinking about him I get all blissful and watery eyed. Thanks so much for sharing this.

There are stories of Masters who knew exactly when they were going to die long before it happened. Also, if you read autobiographies of Indian or Tibetan masters, they talk about the power to follow a person into death and help them through it with the powers of their mind. Also, when I say lineage, I not only mean living, but those that are on the other side waiting for you to help guide. Those that have already died. This is the power of lineage. Reading Autobiographies of Indian and Tibetan Siddhas is very helpful in coming to an understanding about this, even if just intellectually... it helps.

Sure, he became more aware of the subtlety of life, far more intuitive, as in... deeply psychic to a wondrous degree. He definitely has powers of perception which transcend the 5 senses as evidenced over and over again with my dealings with him. I know this as I was his personal attendant. He has muscular dystrophy. His entire spiritual path just deepened incredibly, like quantum leaps. Even the pictures of before and after the death experience there is noticeable difference in the state of his eyes, the power in his aura. He is known in this particular Sangham as being very enlightened. I lived with him, even though he's too theistic for my taste, lol. Funny, I actually got into readings of the 84 Buddhist Mahasiddhas while working for him and started asking about Buddhism and he kept kind of putting me off. But, none the less, the man is highly realized in his chosen lineage. A very deep being with wondrous love, compassion and insight, though a little hard headed, lol! He's just very disciplined, as he had to be, his life was deeply regimented and probably still is. I haven't talked to him for about 5 years or so, but I've known him since 95' and worked as his personal attendant for 22 months or so. A grueling and very self liberating job without him being a great yogi with specific disciplines that I had to be his body for as well. Anyway, he's highly realized.

I've seen this movie. I also recommend it!

Yes, truly amazing. Yes, medically. I know a number of people who have experienced this and I've experienced things in meditation which make me have more faith than doubt in such truths.

dependent origination/emptiness is the universal truth of relative arising.

Yes, one of my close Hindu friends who has been a practitioner of Tantric Shaivism for well over 40 years died a couple decades ago on the operation table, he was covered though, his lineage came to him, he had some amazing experiences which catalyzed his faith and previous experiences in meditation, then he was brought back to life, but never to be the same again. Yes, with chanting of sacred mantras from people who have experienced their power. A Sangham is very important.

You're wrong actually. We talk in pm's, they just don't want the back lash that I get. It's true that not all of them agree with the way I go about it, but none the less... The view that I speak of is standard Buddhism as taught by Gotama, advanced in the Mahayana, catalyzed in the Vajrayana and perfected in the Dzogchen. If you go to Buddhist forums, you'll find that this is true. Hey, I guess if demonizing me makes you think you're right and keeps you in your comfort zone? It must be true, right? What you say is clearly subjective and defensive. Talk about judgmental and mocking. Good job buddy!

Go deeper into meditation, have more revelatory experiences that advance your perception of time and space, do transcend the reality of the senses while incorporating them. All this is possible, forget about all your excuses, doubt your doubts. There is more to life than meets the 5 senses.

Really? Those that know the truth will just lie then. Those that don't know the truth will tell you about the truth without knowing it. HAHAH!! Oh wow.

Not it "all", but it's a good place to start.

I find it more helpful to do it the other way around, until science catches up at least.

I think it's something from the ancient Indian philosophy of Samkhya, which see's prakriti (matter) and Parusha (spirit) as separate entities, just for the sake of contemplation. In the end description of course, they are non-dual. But, it helps to separate Parusha or spirit from matter, consciousness from the senses, awareness from the brain in order to focus on something higher than one's conditioned physically locked concept of self. It's just a description of a process that should ripen to a more adequate metaphor, maybe. But what is adequate is what evolves a person in the moment anyway.

I've also had this thought. There is a personal process of rewiring that happens when something vague is contemplated to a level of personally integrated realization. It's just nice when one is aware of other masters that have gone before you that have clarified to whatever degree for expression that helps you clarify it to yourself at the same time in a new and unique way as well.

Yes, I liked it I think. I was about to look at it more closely on my table, but it disappeared before I could adequately interact with it.

Countless! p.s. Lineage helps you at the time of death as well.

You are speaking too soon of someone who gets it without actually being so. If you don't see lineage directly, if you don't see into the sub-levels of being directly and think lineage is just a bunch of baggage, it's not that you will never understand what I'm talking about, but just until you let go of you being important, having an experience that is worth anything. You will not know how to bow to another as yourself. You will not connect to the Dharma kingdom that has already come before you have recognized a thing about being yourself. You're too caught up in this, "I" and "my" about a path to freedom which has already been attained by countless beings before you.

Yes. Ah, one of my favorite people, Thichy. Compassion does start with ourself. So, if we can lace our own reaction to situations of change with love, bliss and the recognition of emptiness in motion, from this center it expands outward. Nice to meet you. I have such fond memories of reading Thich Nhat Hanhs works.

Wow... This can be unpacked for days. Not to boost your ego or anything.

Well that's my point. The intimacy between I and other is so transcendent of boundaries that recognition from lineage is like you talking to yourself at this point. It's a reflection of you alone looking in a mirror that has both inner and outer reflection aligned through the enlightened lineage without time restraints. p.s. or space restraints

Like I said, the inner openness and outer pointer have to coincide like two mirrors looking at each other recognizing the mutual state of clear reflection simultaneously. Through reading the Autobiographies of various masters, real masters, not those wanabees who have some experience, but are mostly just intellectuals. But real Masters that have powers beyond the normal level of popularly recognized human capacity. Like the 84 Mahasiddhas. They talk about the mutualness of recognition through the power of being pointed to it once there is readiness. Your whole idea of, "Having to go alone" is very dualistic, on even the subtlest level. By the stage I am talking about, you are so egoless, that you need lineage to point out the fact that you are egoless, so that you can play through an ego again in order to help properly with adequately empowered personality. Anyway, get it or not. The intellect is a jungle in there!

Exactly, people are told to quit longing for personal evolution too soon by people attempting to seem wise. Really, I think only a master can tell you when to let go of that last fetter of deep spiritual desire. Either physically or from another dimension (or both simultaneously), regardless, this is one of the important qualities of lineage connection. You don't know till you know! Most times by the time you get there, you're so egoless that someone who was there has to let you known by someone who was, to let you known by someone, so on and so forth, has to let you know that you know what you know so you can let go. This is subtle stuff we're dealing with, best not fool around until you can really fool around! Like playing with dynamite, until you're subtle enough to know how to snap off that fuse a nano-second before it hits the powder, over and over again consistently, you better not even try.

It's dated. It's also a metaphor that needs unpacking for current times I would say? Other than that, I'd leave it to Stigweard or Marblehead to do so. I would say what he trusts in those that are untrustworthy is the Tao nature in them, thus he acts accordingly, without hinderance. One who trusts the core of all being, is not fooled by it's surface.