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livingwellnessblog · 10 months

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Tantra: Tilopa’s Song of Mahamudra

Explore the profound world of Tantra and the teachings of Tilopa, an Indian Buddhist monk in the tantric Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Delve into the essence of Mahamudra, a set of spiritual practices that accelerate the path to Buddhahood.

Tantra The Supreme Understanding Tantra: The Supreme Understanding Introduction Tilopa’s Song of Mahamudra A deep and insightful look into the underlying ideas of Tantra. Walking the road to enlightenment by embodying the full acceptance of all that is. A commentary on Tilopa’s marvelous song. Tilopa, was an Indian Buddhist monk in the tantric Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. He…

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buddhabeings · 1 year

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Whatever problems there are in the world, Are created by the afflictions in our own minds. A mistaken attitude is a cause for the kleshas (mental states that cloud the mind and manifest in negative karmas), Yet the pattern of our thoughts can be refined. As we have seen, the very root of samsara is the concept of self and our habit of clinging to our identification with an “ego.”

~ Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

#buddhism #buddhism quotes #tibetan buddhism #spirituality #compassion #Tibetan Buddhism #Dilgo Rinpoche #Tibet #Buddhist Masters

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journeytothewestresearch · 4 months

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Buddhist Deities Exiled From the Western Heaven

My new article examines the reasons why three Buddhist deities from Ming-Qing vernacular Chinese literature are exiled from the Western Heaven.

Master Golden Cicada (Jinchan zi, 金蟬子) (a.k.a. Tripitaka, Tang Sanzang, 唐三藏) from Journey to the West (Xiyouji, 西遊記, 1592) - a Buddha disciple who is caught sleeping during the Tathagata's sermon.

Miao Jixiang (妙吉祥) from Journey to the South (Nanyouji, 南遊記, c. 1570s-1580s) - A Buddha disciple who kills a belligerent sage on the grounds of the Thunderclap Monastery.

Great Peng, the Golden-Winged King of Illumination (Dapeng jinchi mingwang, 大鵬金翅明王) from The Complete Vernacular Biography of Yue Fei (Shuo Yue quanzhuan, 說岳全傳, 1684) - An avian dharma protector who kills a stellar-spirit for farting during the Tathagata's lecture.

The article analyzes them together and notes parallels, even with concepts from Greek philosophy.

The motif might serve as a good idea for writers wanting to create an OC with an interesting backstory. I have, for example, previously used it to suggest a fictional origin for Sun Wukong as a hot-tempered Bodhisattva (see the 06-16-23 update here).

#Buddhist deities #Chinese fiction #Master Golden Cicada #Golden Cicada Elder #Journey to the West #JTTW #Miao Jixiang #Journey to the South #JTTS #Great Peng #Great Roc #Yue Fei #story idea #story motif

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hanatatami · 1 year

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Love at first sight (taste?)

#it's the buddhist monk attire i love....he's also bald and i. like bald men #the tale of food #tale of food #rkgk #hu-geng #dinghu's veggie #the names... are very funny #master of kongsang

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 4 months

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Wild Woman riding a Unicorn, 1475 by a German artist known as Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet

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So What Is the Take-Away Point About the Unicorn?

Everyone wants to use happiness as a fix for problems, yet happiness is its own, very big thing, and it is selling happiness short to make it a fix for problems. To be happy is to experience life not as a series of struggles but as a gift, one that has no known limit. This doesn’t mean ignoring your difficulties: it means not assuming that they are what you think they are. If you throw away everything you believe about your difficulties you will notice that many of them disappear and the rest become interesting.

When you get the hang of being more interested in life than in agreeing with your thoughts, then you will get the life you get. And you will be able to have as much happiness as you want with almost no effort whatsoever. When you stop believing your thoughts, you look around just for you, just because it is interesting to look around. Some people call that enlightenment. But you won’t call it that. You’ll be too interested in the new view. And you’ll notice that wherever you look there will be nothing but those damned unicorns.

– John Tarrant

Note: This article was first published under the title, The Paradox of Happiness, in Shambhala Sun, January 2004.

#women #woman #Wild woman #Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet #happiness #unicorn #John tarrant #Shambhala Sun #buddhist #Buddha #enlightenment #interested in life

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raffaellopalandri · 1 year

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Book of the Day - Why We Meditate

Today’s Book of the Day is Why We Meditate, written by Daniel Goleman and Tsoknyi Rinpoche in 2022 and published by Penguin Books. Daniel Goleman is one of the most relevant authors, psychologists, and science journalists of our age, having introduced the concept of Emotional Intelligence to the world in 1995. He was a science reporter for The New York Times, was twice nominated for the Pulitzer…

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#Book #book recommendation #book review #bookstagram #booktok #Buddhism #Buddhist Master #Business #clarity #compassion #Daniel Goleman #healing #meditation #mindfulness #Raffaello Palandri #self improvement #Tsoknyi Rinpoche #Why We Meditate

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airenyah · 4 months

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now that i've turned thai drama into my bachelor thesis, the only question left is: how to turn thai drama into my master's thesis

#i have about 2 years to figure this out #it's gotta be something that i can do with whatever skill level i'm at with my thai once i get there #not just the skill level but also my cultural knowledge #i'm one semester into my master's and i've already decided on a supervisor for my thesis fkfjfjf #and he even said he'd let me do this SO!!#airenyah plappert #alternatively a different idea i had was to do a translation analysis of pjo #since i have 3 different translations of the og series at home (german italian and norwegian)#i think thai would be fun tho bc i don't think the thai language is something that gets researched a lot here #we don't even have thai studies as it's own subject to study #(there's korean studies and japanese studies and chinese studies)#(there's also one major called 'south asian tibetology and buddhist studies' but they have no thai unfortunately)#(i was still thinking of doing that as a 2nd subject tho bc i'd get to learn more about buddhism which i know nothing about)#(and also they do sanskrit which could also be suuuper interesting)#(also i have so many indian mutuals and i thought it might be fun to learn about indian culture)#(and then discuss it with the mutuals and learn even more djcjjcf)#(let's see if i can manage to schedule it hfhfhc)#(bc i've also been thinking of doing theater film and media studies as a 2nd major)#(i have too many things i'm interested in send help)

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catsniffer420 · 9 months

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The Rubin Museum

#nyctrip #the rubin museum #himalayan art #detail of mural depicting the teachings of Buddhist master Pema Lingpa (1450 - 1521)#tibetan art #indian art

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commonplacebuddhism · 1 year

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Bibliography

All the Buddhist books I have taken notes from, with links if they are available free online. Updated 02/26/24.

After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path by Jack Kornfield

Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Enlightenment: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World by Lama Surya Das

Buddha's Brain: the Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love & Wisdom by Rick Hanson, Ph.D., and Richard Mendius, M.D.

Buddhish: A Guide to the 20 Most Important Buddhist Ideas For the Curious and Skeptical by C. Pierce Salguero

Buddhism Without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening by Stephen Batchelor

Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha translated by Thomas Byrom, Shambhala Pocket Classics 1993 (There are A LOT of versions of this online, but not this particular edition)

Enlightenment is an accident: ancient wisdom and simple practices to make you accident prone by Tim Burkett

Happiness is Overrated: Simple Lessons on Finding Meaning in Each Moment by Cuong Lu

How to Raise an Ox: Zen practice as taught in Zen master Dogen's Shobogenzo by Francis Dojun Cook (2002)

How We Live is How We Die by Pema Chödrön

Illumination: a guide to the Buddhist method of no-method by Rebecca Li

Love for Imperfect Things by Haemin Sunim

"Living my vow," by Zenju Earthlyn Manuel in Lion's Roar, March 2021.

Nothing Holy About It: The Zen of Being Just Who You Are by Tim Burkett

Novice to Master: An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of My Own Stupidity by Soto Morinaga

Opening to Oneness: A Practical & Philosophical Guide to the Zen Precepts by Nancy Mujo Baker

The Other Shore by Thich Nhat Hanh

Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior by Chögyam Trungpa

A Spiritual Renegade's Guide to the Good Life by Lama Marut

Start Here Now: An Open-Hearted Guide to the Path and Practice of Meditation by Susan Piver

The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down by Haemin Sunim

The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment by Roshi Philip Kapleau (I read the 25th anniversary edition and this is the 1967 version)

Wake Up: How to Practice Zen Buddhism by Bonnie Myotai Treace

Walking the Way: 81 Zen Encounters with the Tao Te Ching by Robert Meikyo Rosenbaum

The Way of the Bodhisattva by Shantideva, revised translation and new preface by the Padmakara Translation Group (2006) (This is another one that is widely available online in other editions.)

When Things Don't Go Your Way: Zen Wisdom for Difficult Times by Haemin Sunim

Zen and the Art of Anything by Hal W. French

Zen Beyond Mindfulness: Using Buddhist and Modern Psychology for Transformational Practice by Jules Shuzen Harris

Zen Flesh, Zen Bones by Paul Reps

Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki (Link goes to a book that is listed as the 2006 ed but it looks identical to my 2002 edition)

#bibliography #recommended reading #buddhism #buddhist #master list #free books

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aerial-jace · 4 months

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I was just given the opportunity to reaffirm my apostasy right on Good Friday and I'm relishing it.

#context: Master Renshan of Zhenning Buddhist Monastery is holding a digital 3 refuges and 5 precepts ceremony #which makes conversion to Buddhism official #I have taken the ceremony once before and have even got my Buddhist name but I had been wanting to take it again for personal reasons #so the fact the next one ended up being on Good Friday of all days is just perfect for me #it's at 5 in the morning though which is a bitch ugh

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buddhismnow · 5 months

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Morning Meditaton — Do you want to know Manjusri?

Morning Meditaton — Do you want to know Manjusri? https://wp.me/pFy3u-8l0

‘Do you want to know Manjusri? He is here right before your eyes functioning ceaselessly without change, This is the living Manjusri.’ Zen Master Rinzai Clouds above the trees. On our Twitter account, Buddhism Now @Buddhism_Now, most mornings we post a ‘morning meditation’ like the one above. On the net, of course, it’s morning, afternoon, evening, or nighttime 😀 somewhere. Click here to…

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#Buddhist meditation #Zen Master Rinzai

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renegade-hierophant · 1 year

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Just a chill Buddhist mantra to heal all of your ills 🙏

#buddha #buddhist #mantra #tibetan #bekandze #bhaisajya #bhaisajyaguru #medicine buddha #medicine master

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thisgodwontforgiveyou · 1 year

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hanging out with my dead platonic boyfriends romantic boyfriend who used metal gear solid 2 ocelot hypnosis nanomachines to convince himself he was my dead platonic boyfriend because i want to fuck his platonic girlfriend

#the fucking buddhist master walking the perfect path of balance writing every time aerith talks about tifa #where straight women who hate women can imagine aerith killing tifa with a piece of rebar #and gay women can imagine aerith and tifa having sex #and straight women who dont hate women can just immerse themselves in the mindscape of being cloud so they can fuck aerith

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lepertamar · 2 years

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sometimes you wrestle and it might be a dream but you limp and you know it’s really true you wrenched a blessing from g-d and g-d acknowledged it and laughed and named you and lamed you for all time to promise for all time that it was true you have wrestled-striven-contended-fought and prevailed and then you’re like ‘fuck i have to do this other shit too’

#drags hands down face the things i do like ‘observe yom kippur’ to try and outdo my martial arts master dom (g-d)#i wonder if spending three years with old chinese martial arts movies playing constantly on the tv of my old #sushi bar workplace while i was getting ready intensely into the religious stuff of judaism for the second time had an impact #wow. i wonder. could it possibly be.#i hope this is not offensive to any real buddhists or taoists lmao but afaict it isn’t #j #coal sings

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hasarjunadoneanythingwrong · 2 years

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i say I can fix ooku but literally all I do is shove my oc in there to fist fight kama and give her therapy

#it’s that fanservant you all saw a while back #tldr miss master gets so mad she just summons her using her own damn body as the avatar bc fuck this shit #and they talk it out. kind of have to considering she’s also the universe. can’t buddhist bc ur way out of that one #my post

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luminouslamps1 · 5 months

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How to kill the ego from a Buddhist perspective? Important spiritual life lesson for all spiritual practitioners. Buddhist teaching by Master Yong Hua.

If interested, please search up '6) Vajra Sutra 2011.10.29' on Master Yong Hua's YouTube channel.

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