Vajrahridaya

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He's definitely stoned.

All the worldly siddhis or iddhis are available through Buddhism as they are in Hindu Tantra. But, Buddhist tantra would argue that the siddhi of liberation is reserved for those that realize dependent origination/emptiness. Buddhism does not require the belief in a first cause, and in fact does not agree with that assumption at all.

A stream of interconnected conditions arising in that moment, empty but full of potential.

Without a self, or Self.

As is the condescension towards Buddhas teachings. Yes, consciousness is an aggregate, that is empty of inherent existence, thus mutable, expandable or contractible. You can in fact have your cake and eat it too, that's why the Buddha said that Samsara is Nirvana. Enlightenment is in fact that. Having your cake and eating it! That's why there's the Samboghakaya.

An empty process, illuminated by the wisdom of this direct knowing. Even the illuminating "of" is an empty process. Nothing to cling to, and no one to cling. Total freedom!

Who experiences?

Both must be in balance for enlightenment. But, I understand. I remember going through that. p.s. not that I'm enlightened. I just remember going through feeling drained by the mind training.

Wait until you have this experience constantly. They have their past life impressions yet to be manifest in their spine and cerebral cortex or cerebrum. A baby does let out a vibration which attracts various circumstances that reflect their past life karmas which then shape their brain in accordance with these karmas. But yes, at first... they do seem most pure!

Like I said, I know these experiences and interpretations of these experiences very well. But... as I said above. This is why the Buddha said that "right view" is the most important and the foundation of all the 8 fold path. It is the first of the 8 and also the experiential result as Nirvana. Most traditions misinterpret the causes and conditions around experience, and especially the spiritual experiences. Most try to find a final identity of all, which is what the I AM experience revolves around as described in the Upanishads, which is where that concept comes from. Soham or Hamsa is the Sanskrit "I Am" and is known as one of the important statements from the ancient Upanishads, the core of which is the Vedas and the Buddha criticized these as being deficient in sufficient wisdom for liberation. There really is no entity in and behind everything that is the "one" of all. There is a deeper view and interpretation of these experiences which the Buddha offers us. The result of the interpretation of experience that you are having is well hashed out by the Buddha, and it's not Nirvana. But, when one realizes directly the "right view" one has a direct experience of all this wisdom that is not merely conceptual. Yes, me and Xabir are talking through concepts here, but what else would you want from us on a blog board? We are connected through the law of inter-dependence, and our consciousness can transcend physical barriers due to emptiness. But, we are not one. You can intuit things, and feel empathy, but we are not exactly the same, even dimensionally, people exist on personal dimensions.

This is why the Buddha said that "right view" is the most important and the foundation of all the 8 fold path. It is the first of the 8 and also the experiential result as Nirvana. Most traditions misinterpret the causes and conditions around experience, and especially the spiritual experiences. Most try to find a final identity of all, which is what the I AM experience revolves around as described in the Upanishads, which is where that concept comes from. Soham or Hamsa is the Sanskrit "I Am" and is known as one of the important statements from the ancient Upanishads, the core of which is the Vedas and the Buddha criticized these as being deficient in sufficient wisdom for liberation.

I respect your humility. I very well understand this experience where you fee like you've merged with everything. It's really just the awareness expanding past things and localized self through focus, a shocking experience of some sort... whatever. But, you really are not me, and I am not you. We are connected yes, but we are not one. Due to the fact of the emptiness of things, the individuated consciousness can expand past things and time, but that's just because all things are empty of inherent existence, including your own consciousness, which is why everything is transparent, (even translucent) and mutable, including your own consciousness. So yes... there are many more wondrous realms of experience to be had, on ever deepening levels.

He actually taught that meditation alone wouldn't do it. He also taught vipassana, and dependent origination/emptiness. These are very key as meditation alone only leads through the different jhanas. Which prepare one to intuitively know what vipassana and dependent origination teachings are experientially about.

Yes, there is still some Gnostic Christianity going on in Egypt. Don't really know the entirety of their methodology though I've red the Nag Hammadi. Not much on method in there.

:lol: Oh you poor child.

I mostly just hit stones back at people with my trusty baseball bat. I'm never the one who starts throwing stones.

That's exactly what dependent origination means. You do reveal time and time again your lack of spiritual experience ralis. Because it is possible on a level far transcending your linear minded entrapment to see past brain limitations. Please just go meditate or something and leave this stuff to those that know better.

I think there is more evidence for the life of the historical Buddha than there is of Jesus or Lau Tzu. The problem with a lot of these really ancient characters is much of the history was oral for quite a while before being written down. The nice thing about the Buddhas history though is that it was kept orally by a whole lot of very clear minded monks who lived their lives repeating what he said and his life was written down by people who were actually witness to it. Very unlike the life of Jesus, even though some of his life was written down by those that were there, much of it was lost, burnt, and the disciples were not very clear minded. The life and time of Jesus was very different from the life and time of the Buddha. Not to mention, the Buddha actually taught methods that one could use to become just like him, and he taught with clear examples, not just parables.

Oh, do you mean, do we know he actually taught the 4 noble truths and 8 fold noble path? I think there is plenty of anthropological evidence to suggest that he did.

Ok Marblehead, prepare to have your wig split! Have we found the universe that existed before the Big Bang?

It depends upon your level of insight. As according to what we know of how he died, he left through the 4th jhana level, which he associated with the realms of (26) Clear-sighted devas (sudassi deva) (25) Beautiful devas (sudassa deva) (24) Untroubled devas (atappa deva) (23) Devas not Falling Away (aviha deva) and these realms are reachable through high level meditation masters where they can and have received teachings directly from the Buddha after his passing from the physical form. Those that got that far, also realized there were tons and tons of Buddhas and tons of teachings based around the 4 noble truths and 8 fold path and Buddha beings that talk more of the fruit of the path as well with much added detail. Historically, the Mahayana texts were being written down at the same time that the Hinayana texts were being written down. So, much of the Mahayana is attributed to his living speeches while on Earth. Also, if you really understand the teachings, there is a seamless flow between all the vehicles that makes sense. It does to me at least and it does to many that practice Vajrayana and Mahayana. Sure there are some disagreements between different schools, but that's not my concern. There will always be people doing such things. I don't agree with every single text that came about from people writing commentaries on scriptures attributed to Buddhas. But, I do have other worldly experience and know it's possible to receive teachings directly from Buddhas beyond this physical realm. So, I don't have blind faith in the idea that the Buddha taught various things to highly realized masters transcending dimensions. For me, I know this is possible. So yes, I feel that we can know what the Buddha taught beyond what is recorded in the Pali Suttas.

For Buddhahood, that has to be emptied as well by seeing how much of a relative arising this is too and not ultimate. "right view" is very specific in Buddhas teachings and he debated many times over the course of 40 years about what it was and what it wasn't. There really is no transcending of the structure, there is just knowing exactly how it works. There is not a transcendent one beyond everything, that concept arises due to a mis-interpretation of experience.