@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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Replying to @Malcolm_Ocean
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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I guess I still have a question here, which you don't have to answer ofc, but I'm going to try to operationalize it as something like... 1) how many hours have you spent practicing "tantra"? 2) " " " " "dzogchen"? 3) how many hrs/week do you currently spend doing either of these?
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Replying to @Malcolm_Ocean
The answer to 3 is <1. I pretty much stopped practicing when my circumstances became overwhelming about 6 years ago. This is embarrassing. Technically you can’t practice Dzogchen at all unless you are enlightened, so... that’s #2.
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#1: Tantra has never been my main practice. Maybe 1000 hours formally? There’s lots of reasons i don’t teach this stuff (just enthuse about it), and being a beginner is one.
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Gotcha. Am I correctly inferring that what you're saying re #2 is that previously your main practice wasn't Dzogchen, but the Dzogchen ngöndro? (Aro's version of the four naljors, presumably) (and/or maybe you were also saying some sort of "mu")
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Yeah, it’s a bit more complicated than that, but my main practice has always been formless silent sitting.
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