Simple_Jack
-
Content count
2,425 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
4
Everything posted by Simple_Jack
-
.
-
.
-
"Hinduism" is really just a neocolonial construct...
-
logical analysis & synthesis of immortality & its methods
Simple_Jack replied to Wells's topic in General Discussion
Well from what I heard, consort practices involve a lot of shall we say...getting 'hot and heavy.' Nirvikalpa samadhi isn't even the highest attainment in Vedanta: -
logical analysis & synthesis of immortality & its methods
Simple_Jack replied to Wells's topic in General Discussion
Thanks for the info on the Thervadin monk! I've already come across the other info though, but thanks! I wouldn't completely trust Bodri's info on what "sexual tantra" is. Anyways, I was asking because you're mentioning 'emptiness,' 'nirvikalpa samadhi,' Nan Huaijin and making comparisons that, IMO, just don't fit together....Especially since you're mentioning what 'emptiness' means in Buddhism...For the record 'emptiness' in Buddhism is not a meditative absorption or experiential state: It's essentially a realization (there is the term nirvikalpa-jnana.) The first quote of Nan Huaijins is dealing with the 'transformation' of vijnana into wisdom when buddhahood is reached. I was just curious as to why you were throwing around all these concepts is all. -
Why would you consider "Buddhism," the true Indian religion?
-
logical analysis & synthesis of immortality & its methods
Simple_Jack replied to Wells's topic in General Discussion
What type of "emptiness," are you describing? How familiar are you with this concept from a "Buddhist" perspective? -
Ok, "competing" was not a good choice of words to use (didn't mean this in a sense of how Westerners would think of it or sense of competing for converts a la Abrahamic religions)...But, there were apparently 96 different schools of thought back in Buddha's day [according to the historical records of the Chinese]; all with their own set of ideals and an 'ultimate goal.' Considering that "Buddhism's" influence spread throughout India, I would say that it was successful at one point.
-
.
-
Buddhaguptanatha and the Late Survival of the Siddha Tradition in India
Simple_Jack replied to RongzomFan's topic in Buddhist Textual Studies
That was interesting, thanks for posting it. I see his so-called "conversion to Buddhism," as simply a natural progression. For anyone reading this, here's Taranatha's "History of Buddhism in India," [which is on scribd in its entirety] http://books.google.com/books?id=4yXn-lVdqGgC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false -
.
-
Correction: This was Ch'an master Baizhang, dealing with the formation of the Ch'an monastic system. Wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baizhang_Huaihai
-
.
-
.
-
.
-
.
-
Haha, you're really that jaded after all these years spent in TB are you?
-
Do a google image search for "yoga injury"
Simple_Jack replied to Flolfolil's topic in The Rabbit Hole
Those posts made me EL O EL. -
It's one of the threads where he stated how he changed his views of "being a die-hard Buddhist," to just a Dzogchen practitioner. Not "Dzogchen and Buddhism," but another thread. It was in one of those long threads a few months before he left DW. You might be able to find it in one of the threads on here; I might've linked it.
-
I recommend he doesn't read syncretic works such as "Jnana Yoga: The Way Of Knowledge." To the OP: Read Buddhist and Hindu philosophical thought separately and on its own terms.
-
I posted in another thread, other parts of Malcolms posts from DW, where he correctly explains what the "body of light" really means in Dzogchen:
-
It's not just Dzogchen that has been taught very openly compared to how it was presented traditionally....Mahamudra, HYT and many other practices are given out, that otherwise wouldn't have been done so freely not too long ago.
-
It's not like there is a total lack of samaya in Dzogchen..... ChNN gives empowerments for meditational deities and other practices that have their own set of samayas. In that context, what he is explaining above is that in Dzogchen, it is not absolutely necessary to uphold those specific commitments: Because in the Dzogchen view, everything is accomplished in the state of rigpa. If for whatever reason you are not able to continue in the state of rigpa, then you fall back on maintaining the pure perception of the deity or whatever.
-
That thread you linked, is an old thread with old opinions of Malcolms. Malcolm has changed his views since then. What does Malcolm's opinion have to do with this anyway?
-
Of course, this does not mean that ChNN encourages his students to openly blabber about aspects of Dzogchen (i.e. its practices) to the uninitiated.
