... Deeper levels ... thus ...? could you explain yourself a bit more, seeing your former use of "higher levels of concentration"? BTW: For ordinary people to...
Marc Breukhoven
u.nohu@...
Aug 11, 2000 5:21 pm
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... Because when there is no mind there is no My mistake, in form and especially formless realms there's no desire, and in Tibetan Buddhism that's used as a...
Kent Sandvik
sandvik@...
Aug 12, 2000 5:40 pm
1669
Hi all, this list has been quiet, one reason was that I could not moderate it properly due to being very busy the last three weeks (lots of teacher visits and ...
Kent Sandvik
sandvik@...
Sep 26, 2000 4:21 am
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HH Dalai Lama, Path to Bliss, page 195. "For some practitioners it is better to visualize with closed eyes, but for others -- althought it is difficult at the...
Kent Sandvik
sandvik@...
Sep 26, 2000 4:37 am
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Lati Rinpoche, Mind in Tibetan Buddhism, page 16-17 material: "Direct perceivers are by definition, knowers which are free from conception, and non-mistaken....
Kent Sandvik
sandvik@...
Sep 27, 2000 4:43 am
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From: "Understanding the Mind", Geshe Kelsang Gyatso p. 130... "Mindfulness: The definition of mindfulness is a mental factor that functions not to forget the...
JOSEPH BRECK
LJBRECK@...
Sep 27, 2000 8:08 pm
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... Earlier this month I received a dzogchen transmission on Garab Dorje's Three Statements That Strike the Heart of the Matter along with transmission of...
Richard Menninger
rmenninger@...
Sep 28, 2000 1:35 am
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I was looking for some appropriate context setting quotes on what calm abiding and special insight are to set a clear context. From "The Jewel Ornament of...
Richard Menninger
rmenninger@...
Sep 28, 2000 11:32 pm
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HH Dalai Lama, Path to Bliss, page 195: "Right from the beginning it is important that you have a very strong determination that - even if it means having only...
Kent Sandvik
sandvik@...
Sep 30, 2000 4:39 am
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HH Dalai Lama, Path to Bliss, page 195: "Then, while in the actual meditation session it is crucial never to lose the object of meditation that you have...
Kent Sandvik
sandvik@...
Oct 4, 2000 6:12 am
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This is from "The Practice of Tranquility and Insight" by Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, P. 40-. When meditating, one has to recognize which experiences come out...
JOSEPH BRECK
LJBRECK@...
Oct 5, 2000 5:05 am
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[OK, let's continue again!] HH Dalai Lama XIV, Path to Bliss, page 198: "The actual meditation on special insight is explained here in terms of meditation on...
Kent Sandvik
sandvik@...
Nov 9, 2000 9:42 pm
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Hi, I know this is not according to the mailing list rules we set up, but I do think this is a valid exception! Je Tsongkhapa's master piece, the reason this...
Kent Sandvik
sandvik@...
Nov 9, 2000 10:42 pm
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Pramanavartikka (Tib. tse ma namdrel, Wylie TSHAD MA RNAM 'GREL) by Master Dharmakirti (Tib. chudrak, Wylie CHOS GRAGS) is one of the main root texts when...
Kent Sandvik
sandvik@...
Nov 11, 2000 2:03 am
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HH Dalai Lama, Path to Bliss, Page 198: "To do the meditation on the selflessness of persons, think that the self or person is nothing other than a label...
Kent Sandvik
sandvik@...
Nov 15, 2000 6:48 am
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[More from the Nagarjuna citation from Ratnavali, this time from Emptiness in the Prasangika System by Jam-yang Shay-ba, translated by Jeffrey Hopkins with...
Kent Sandvik
sandvik@...
Nov 17, 2000 2:03 am
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HH Dalai Lama,Path to Bliss, page 199: TEXT: "The tradition explains that undertaking the analysis on the emptiness of inherent existence with the four...
Kent Sandvik
sandvik@...
Dec 10, 2000 11:15 pm
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Hi all, I think we should finish the HH Dalai Lama Path to Bliss very soon (phew!), and the irony is that just now Geshe Dakpa is doing a commentary on this...
Kent Sandvik
sandvik@...
Dec 10, 2000 11:27 pm
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... I think it would be wonderful if anyone who knows the details of these rules of debate could go through them on this list before we continue with another ...
Martha Foster
marthaf@...
Dec 11, 2000 7:43 pm
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... Good idea! It's actually a big topic. The best is to learn it from someone who has studied at a Tibetan monastery. The second best is to read David ...
Kent Sandvik
sandvik@...
Dec 11, 2000 8:19 pm
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Hi, to continue from last email, it's important also not to argue and debate about a position that the other part has already accepted, this is neither ...
Kent Sandvik
sandvik@...
Dec 12, 2000 7:17 pm
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Here's another logical tool, explained in the ACI course I in case you have taken this one (or intend to take it). It's used to figure out all the possible ...
Kent Sandvik
sandvik@...
Dec 14, 2000 2:14 am
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The use of logic, such as the things mentioned so far, could actually be used in all the daily activities, work, back home and so forth. Successful business...
Kent Sandvik
sandvik@...
Dec 18, 2000 7:10 am
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May I suggest that we can also learn a lot from Western philosophers in this respect. Our debates on this list are infinitely more free in format than those...
thomas y jones
thomasythan@...
Dec 23, 2000 9:16 pm
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... The format of going through a book is fine. We could either carry on with that, or just have a topic suggested a week in advance, everyone go away and...
thomas y jones
thomasythan@...
Dec 23, 2000 9:16 pm
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... Hi, thanks for the excellent feedback and postings. One idea I've been playing around with is to take one nice section of a text, let's say the brand new...
Kent Sandvik
sandvik@...
Dec 23, 2000 10:45 pm
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HH Dalai Lama, Path to Bliss, page 200: "It is important ot relate all this analysis to your own way of thinking. You can reason that if things, the self or...
Kent Sandvik
sandvik@...
Dec 23, 2000 10:50 pm
1694
[OK, here's the test, there are only a couple of pages left in this commentary, so I will extract some of the key parts as explained from page 200 forward. You...
Kent Sandvik
sandvik@...
Dec 24, 2000 1:26 am
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I like your new format - I think it will work well. I look forward to getting back into Lamrim egroup after a fairly long absence. Thomas. ... Get FREE...
thomas y jones
thomasythan@...
Dec 27, 2000 11:37 pm
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Hi all, sorry very busy over here, but for your information there's an experiment to see how well we could Buddhist online teachings using the Asian Classics...