@Meaningness - while revisiting your ngöndro post, I noticed something I'm confused about...
It seems Aro is dzogchen (ie too close, too accessible, too present, etc), and that you were* following the Aro school.
*(I think you recently said somewhere you had left... something?)
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But in this post... > "So ideally someone would invent a ngöndro that efficiently induces emptiness, is well-suited to contemporary people, and is in the style of contemporary Buddhist tantra." ...the colorful tantra, or the ultra-simple dzogchen?
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I guess I'm asking a few things here: 1) what school has your practice been in? one of those? both, alternatingly? 2) what is it now? 3) how is your practice similar to / different from your more theoretical studies/priorities?
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Ah… the confusion here is that yanas are not sects (or schools). Tantra and Dzogchen are yanas, not schools. Most sects/schools (including all Tibetan ones) teach more than one yana.https://vividness.live/2013/11/25/yanas-are-not-buddhist-sects/ …
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Ah yeah, this is helpful. And then confusingly both Tantra and Dzogchen are part of Vajrayana?
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.......it would be nice if they had picked *different* words ending in yana, to be. Or something. I'm not sure exactly
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One artifact that's going on there is that most of those words are Sanskrit (yanas, and all the derived forms w/ prefixes) and Dzogchen is a Tibetan word
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Yes, the Sanskrit is Atiyogayana. Hard to say whether Sanskrit or Tibetan is in general more unpronounceable for English speakers
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