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pulling toward the moon all oneironauts know that the night has less rules

open wide, blindness too long have i stared at our gorgeous golden star

thanks, i see there are several different versions that berzin page mentioned a couple of them, like the heruka version HHST was reciting maybe it should be called "the approximately 100 syllable mantra"

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are we even allowed to do that?

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thats my understanding too thanks

well, first, best wishes to you, and blessings of success on your ngondro secondly, i dug this up real quick "Vajrasattva mantra recitation and visualization may be undertaken merely within the context of sutra practice, before beginning any practice of tantra." and "Vajrasattva mantra and visualization meditation may be practiced for purification whether or not we have already received a tantric empowerment (dbang, Skt. abhishekha; initiation, “ wang”) for some other Buddha-figure. In either case, we may practice Vajrasattva either with or without thesubsequent permission (rje-snang; “jeynang”) of Vajrasattva, though we at least need oral transmission (lung) of the mantra." from Berzin Archives http://www.berzinarchives.com/web/en/archives/advanced/tantra/level1_getting_started/vajrasattva_purification_basics.html so in light of that, i guess you will find ample description of the visualizations. The ones i was referring to are the white Vajrasattva sitting at the top of the head, radiating white light down into and through the body as the mantra is said. Or one can visualize themselves as Vajrasattva with one face two arms, a bell and dorje, no consort, radiating white. As it was taught to me, the first is for generation stage, the second for completion stage. But if you're doing 100,000 recitations under a guru's guidance, that could apply. i don't utilize Berzin Archives extensively, and it is the first i have seen HUM PHAT appended to the end of the mantra. (about 3/5 down that page) As it is commonly called the hundred-syllable mantra, i am surprised to see different versions of it with different numbers of syllables. No big deal, but can anyone clarify?

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thank you, that helps me understand it a lot better

My Reincarnation is a great film. I like how it portrays Norbu as really normal-seeming.. he has some crazy abilities. I liked how his son's journey was right on time for what he needed to do for Dzogchen Community, as far as leadership training and organizational skills were concerned. It seemed like he was walking away from his own legacy but he was walking his own path according to his destiny. Strong lesson to never judge another based on relative concepts.

oh yes exactly so rv. It was his estimation of what the west needed from vajrayana, from Buddhism, and from meditation in general. I respect his not being locked into his own traditions in a dogmatic way, but instead he was able to adapt and shapeshift while retaining the integrity of the dharma. That is something that most lamas could not possibly do in my opinion.. CTR was a truly rare creature in that regard. I have come to love Shambhala Buddhism for what it is, and although I still study under a traditional Drikung Kagyu lama, I am active at my local Shambhala sangha. My girlfriend is a dorje kasung, if that means anything to anyone, and i am on the council. Its really one of the most amazing communities i have experienced in my bouncing around different sects and branches of Buddhism since i started exploring. Its funny because a lot of traditionalists knock it as "buddhism lite" and that sort of thing, but i find the shambhala community to be more engaged and involved with the community and each other than any other sangha i have sat with. I just went down to the county jail this morning and led meditation and dharma discussion with inmates, and the organization that runs this through the chaplains office is almost completely staffed by shambhala members, with some other sanghas thrown in here and there... i would say that most leadership is Shambhala and the volunteers are 50% shambhala. Its strange because my Drikung Kagyu temple has a great lama and access to genuine vajrayana teachings and practices, empowerments and initiations etc, but the practitioners are just there to practice, and don't even make much eye contact with each other.. its something that a few people have acknowledged as "not a strong community". Its rife with spiritual materialism too.. westerners who think they are the shit because they have a lama and empowerments (at ~$50 a pop!) don't get me wrong, i am all for supporting lamas, and empowerments are great. Its just ironic. And shambhala costs money too, but there is strong lineage energy there.. i understand that its not for everyone, but its not exactly buddhism lite. anyway, i digress. those are my thoughts, and then some. I love shambhala, and chogyam, and am a big fan of his son Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche

the responses i have had aren't really relevant. Have you received guru instruction? I am not qualified to give it to you but there are two stages of visualization that accompany the mantra in my tradition. If you look around on the internet, im sure you'll find talk about it... sorry to be vague, i'm just not qualified to give that instruction. if you can do 8 mala rounds every day for 4 months, you'll achieve your goal. Thats like 4 hours of mantra recitation per day... pretty lofty goal. mind if i ask, are you doing preliminaries under the guidance of a lineage master?

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thats the first pony phenomenon that i like btw... i guess im just too serious or something i mean its never too late to learn about love and friendship but i don't see the big deal, or why its a cult craze. Im not much into entertainment of that sort but i like your sig because its genuinely funny both ways you could take it

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it took me a long time to accept Trungpa Rinpoche, i thought his "crazy wisdom" was a thin mask for poor choices and nymphomanical alcoholism, and i didn't like his stripped down American Buddhism.. i like all that "weird" Tibetan Buddhism. Seeing the footage of his cremation was actually one of the first turning points in my being able to accept him as a realized being and a genuine genius. All that is evident in his books of course, but unfortunately I had chosen to focus on his problems rather than his brilliance when considering him. The 28-day retreat I went on last year was on the same property as is shown in that footage, at a center called Karme Choling in north Vermont. they are making a movie about his son Sakyong Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche (the present incarnation of Mipham the nyingma scholar, and student of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche) called An Uncommon King.

i wasted valuable time trying to figure out what this thread was about only to realize it was about stupid ponies for little girls iif you are truly compelled to share your strange fascination with shows for toddlers, yes, please post in off topic

i have used it for cleansing, blessing, empowering, protecting, that sort of thing. Like most arts of its nature, there is no concrete way to quantify the results or to describe what my experiences have been. Some would challenge me to prove that they were anything more than placebo, but I would say that based on what i know about magic and energy, that the system has the potential to produce results when practiced correctly.

http://archive.org/details/IntroductionToDzogchenRetreatWithAlanWallace2012 free public archive of October 2012 retreat in Australia with B Alan Wallace: "Introduction to Dzogchen".. there is a torrent of all talks available on archive.org, or you can listen to or download individual talks can't comment on any of it as i have just found it and loaded it onto my player recently. I wanted to post it here in hopes that others <coughtibetanicecough> would enjoy it

Jeusaldo da Venosa Death for Five Voices

Art of Noise Close to the Edit there are 3 versions of this music video, this is the original

calling him a clown is not different in any way alwayson never claimed to have realized compassion or loving-kindness. he knows a lot about buddhism in a scholarly way tho. its darkly comical to watch him bring out the worst in people tho, myself included let it go

maybe youre confusing it with a post about the roots of buddhism. if you read it again, you'll see that it has nothing to say about the roots of vajrayana. I mentioned that jolan chang reports in The Tao of Love and Sex that the physical sexual practices were called the chinese practices in tibet, which might mean that vajrayana incorporated some chinese wisdom in the course of its history. Neither I, nor Chang, made any claims about the origins of vajrayana. I understand that you are a purist and think that vajrayana, or buddhism, is the root of daoism, but to me it is not inconceivable that the two have different origins, and that they cross pollinated during the course of their history. I wouldn't dream of talking to you about the origins of vajrayana, i am sure i would be wrong lol... it all came from the dharmakaya and samboghakaya anyway so its not like you know the origins of it either lol anyway moving on

thats nice alwayson. you're welcome to disagree with jolan chang, i would expect no less from you. but you were going on about the roots of vajrayana, as i quoted in the last post. this post you quote here has nothing to do with the roots of vajrayana. So i'm not sure how to respond except to let you know that i have no interest in arguing with you, which pretty much rules out all conversation with you. if youre going to pick a bone with every little thing outside your box, at least be consistent and make sense. thanks.