Hi, would anyone like to 'illuminate' the relation between Oser/Osel and Salwa? Salwa I am readily familiar with from Kagyu teachings, but Oser/Osel is new to...
"Walkin' down the street with my hand in my pocket. Walkin' down the street thinkin' of you. I ain't hurtin' nobody. I ain't hurtin' no one." John Prine Good...
... ! ... there ... in ... These "yogas" don't relate to Buddhism, really. You're probably thinking of "Raja Yoga??" but again, this is not at all related to...
I don't have a clue about the rest of the post but... it was Boris Badanov (Bad enough...get it?) got to keep the lineage straight in these degenerate times. ...
Anyone else out there going to Samye Ling for Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamptso Rinpoche's visit? I'll be camped in the field, wearing my usual hawaiian shirt. Stop me...
... Boris Badanov is from Moose and Squirrel (Rocky and Bullwinkel). Aleister Crowley was an occultist circa 1875-1950 who's "teachings" were apparently...
... True but people experience life and suffering in the real relative world. The relative world is termed real in this sense because most people have no...
... This is a little misleading. In every sutric story I know it's higher Bodhisattva's who sometimes do things that judged against an absolute standard seems...
Hi Kirt, ... That is a question that I have yet to get comfortable with. There would seem to be a contradiction between the Buddha having infinite power, and...
... I'm sure there are more detailed explanations but basically it comes down to mind streams being individual to being experienced by the individual (*i.e....
... Surely the answer is quite simple? Leaving aside poetry and the hyperbole of ritual praises, Buddhas just *don't* have infinite power. Why should they, and...
... The teachings assert that Buddha's have infinite *spiritual* power (I don't know about Kagyu but this is emphasized in Sakya - just as Buddha's have...
Hi Alex & Kirt, ... has infinite ... (I ... I have heard Kagyu teachings that assert that Buddhas have limitless power. My present understanding does *not*...
Rocky and Bullwinkle and friends (and enemies) were some of my first teachers. Mr Crowley recently got coverage in a prominent climbing magazine. Apparently he...
... infinite ... Here's a mathematical insight that might help. In mathematics, one wild property of infinite sets is that they can have infinite subsets! For...
... limitless ... the ... having ... that ... our ... remove ... My thinking is: The "true Buddha" is the Dharmakaya.....the form kayas which manifest, do so...
There's a simpler concept to deal with the "infinite power paradox" that seems to come up in every religion. Very simply -- infinite power does not mean the...
... Thanks, Skip. This is a useful insight. Maybe you could say instead: if you could override a sentient being's will, then you would BE that sentient being,...
... Thanks, Skip. This is a useful insight. Maybe you could say instead: if you could override a sentient being's will, then you would BE that sentient being,...
... (If I remember correctly) the Tibetan word for 'power' is the same word for 'compassion'. Infinite power...infinite compassion---same same. And this came...
... The process of communication is a a bit of a miracle. I might be struggling with some obstacle. A teacher just tells me something simple like, "If you're...
OK, I remember a little more. Not which text, but I remember that it said that the Tibetan word for compassion could also be translated as 'power'. That in the...
... Gyamptso Rinpoche's visit? ... and we'll have tea! ... href="http://www.buddhamail.net">Nalandabodhi.org</a>, "the gateway to the Buddhist science of...
... Care to post a bio on Lord Jigten Sumgon? He was the first Tibetan Buddhist lineage head from history that I ran across in reading but otherwise I know...
Many thanks to all for their contributions on the limitless power of the Buddhas. I actually heard the teaching as "limitless power" rather than "infinite...
Dear John, Thank you for probing us with such a fascinating line of questioning. ... to ... Who has the upper hand if you pit the "limitless power" to...
... Message----- Who has the upper hand if you pit the "limitless power" to extinguish samsara against the "limitless power" to create (and "re-create") ...
Here is the argument: "infinite power does not mean the power to do the impossible." This holds true, however, this would not hold true if I changed the word...
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