According to Nyingma Buddhists, there are 2 main incarnations of the lama Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje.
A friend is excited that he may get to meet the Tibetan incarnation, who is in the US.
He has no interest in meeting the Bhutanese incarnation.
And no, I didn't ask why.
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Do you know what kind of incarnations they were? Whole incarnation or a partial emanation from the mind-body-speech?
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Itβs frustrating to me, in an empathetic way, that so many practitioners in Vajrayana who legitimately need guidance from a teacher get so few answers from leaders who donβt have enough answers themselves, so they shroud their confusion with ritualistic mysticism.
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Very well said. I find most teachers are not teaching from experience, but quoting from texts and commentaries. How is this different than a Baptist quoting the New Testament?
Students need guidance, and as you well point out, they aren't getting it.
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Not only is it a robotic parakeet trick of recital, but it robs each experience of any & all real value in the esoteric quality of lifeβs moments by making it an exoteric mockery. In something thatβs based in lineage-holding, this constitutes corruption in a single generationβ¦
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Let alone many generations⦠At least in Chinese/Japanese esoteric Buddhism, they stick to mostly one script & their time-tested method of discipline, instead of trying to juggle the preservation of a hundred different teachings & traditions.
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agreed. the Tibetan approach is messy. too many deities. too many termas. it confuses students endlessly.
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Termas still make me wonderβ¦ really? You found that scroll in a rock? I didnβt see it in there, and Iβve passed this rock a hundred timesβ¦
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Mahayana sutras, Tibetan Termas, Book of Mormon, Christian Science & Scientology "scriptures", Q'ran, etc. may be examples of automatic writing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic
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Considering automatic writing is little more than writing without thinking about it, it would make sense that most of the mystics and prophets have done it...
Without conscious thought, Chagmie. I'm doing it right now. I have no idea what this sentence is going to say as I'm writing it.
I wouldn't exactly call that a psychic ability, though. Not every conscious moment is spent in ideation. But then, you know that...
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