S’funny how from here, right now, it seems like everything is in place, is in exactly the right place! The practice = Chod The teachings = Mahamudra The teacher = Shangpa Rinpoche The lineage = Karma Kagyu What more could I need? Every circumstance that presents itself, whatever it is, I already have all that […]
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In response to the notion that: the teachings of Madhyamaka (Great Middle Way, or UmaChenpo in tib.) are the foundation of the view in Kagyu tradition. I didn’t say that Madhyamaka was the foundation of the Kagyu view. I actually said that within the tradition it is often said to be “most useful for clarifying
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Hi, is Zen considered a Vajrayana ‘way’? I would say that it isn’t when considered by the most important criteria. If the major factor which distinguishes the Vajrayana from Mahayana and Hinayana is the fact that it uses the result as the path, whereas the other two yanas use the cause as the path, then
Could you explain what are Mahamudra methods? Is every melting with a Buddha aspect already a Mahamudra method? Maybe the 3-Light-Meditation of the sixteenth Karmapa is the only method which I would call Mahamudra method. I suspect that the answer to your questions are to a certain degree a matter of which angle you are
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