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| − | The [[practice of Guhyasamaja]] part of [[Guhyasamaja]] is such a vast and profound [[subject]], so it cannot be dealt with in a very short period. If to go through the [[stage of generation]] and completion, usually it takes at least a month. Also, usually when a [[teaching]] is given then it must be based on certain commentaries, reliable commentary of the practice and so reading the words of the commentary and explaining the meaning of it altogether takes a very long
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| − | time. So [[Je Rinpoche]] today, instead of going through such commentaries about those two stages of practice, he will give the explanation of how to practice the [[sadhana]], how to practice the [[meditation]], the actual [[meditation]] [[sadhana]], concerning [[Guhyasamaja]]. So actually the practice of [[sadhana]] is the very [[essence]] of what is called the [[stage of generation]]. After completing this explanation of the [[sadhana]], then [[Je Rinpoche]] will explain a summary of the stage of completion.
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| − | So first we need to know that a [[person]] who is going to practice the [[stage of generation]] of the [[tantra]], what sort of qualities should that [[person]] have. What sort of preparations that [[person]] must undergo, such as the place of the [[meditation]], the actual practice of the [[meditation]] and the preparation of, the personal preparation from his [[own]] side. So what sort of [[person]] has the right or is fit to practice the [[stage of generation]] is, it must be someone who has
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| − | received the proper [[initiation]]. Without receiving the proper [[initiation]], let alone to enter into the practice of [[tantra]], even that [[person]] has no right whatsoever even to hear some words of the [[tantra]]. So to teach the [[tantra]] to the unrightful [[disciple]] or a [[person]] is a great downfall, to the [[teacher]] himself. So without receiving the proper [[initiation]], then try to learn about the practice and also try to put into practice the [[meditations]] and so on is completely wrong and does not give any favorable result or fruit and it can have certain heavy {{Wiki|consequences}}. So without [[initiation]] if someone teaches [[tantra]], both the [[teacher]] and the [[student]] will fall into the great [[suffering]] of [[hell realm]]. So there are many quotations from various great [[masters]] and [[Guru]]
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| − | [[Vajradhara]] himself. For example -- but all those quotations will take time and will be difficult to translate. However, one line says "A [[person]] out of [[ignorance]] and great [[pride]] engaged into the practice of [[tantra]] takes the [[tantra]], both the [[master]] and the [[disciple]] will certainly, without any [[doubt]], will fall into the [[hell]] very speedily." So a proper [[practitioner]] must first receive the [[initiation]], the necessary [[initiation]], not only receiving the [[initiation]], but observe the [[precepts]], the pledges of the [[initiation]]. So if a [[person]] does not observe the [[samayas]] or the pledges of the [[tantra]], although how hard he
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| − | works, strives in the practice of the [[meditation]], one will never achieve the [[siddhi]] or the [[accomplishment]]. So it says in the [[tantra]], "One who has not entered into the [[mandala]] and who has given up the [[samayas]] and who is [[ignorant]] about the actual, the [[Wikipedia:Absolute (philosophy)|ultimate]] meaning of the practice will never achieve any [[siddhi]]." So on the basis of receiving [[initiation]] and also in general a [[practitioner of tantra]] must be endowed with these natural qualities of [[intelligence]], power of [[intelligence]], and very strong or firm [[devotion]] and one who can keep the secrecy. Although somebody has great power of [[intelligence]], somebody is
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| − | very {{Wiki|intelligent}}, if the proper [[faith]] and [[devotion]] is lacking, then again one can, it is an [[obstacle]] to obtain the fruit, the result. Although someone does not have a very great [[intelligence]], if somebody has a really deep [[faith]] and [[devotion]], that [[person]] still has more chance to accomplish the goal. In general there are [[three divisions]] of the [[faith]], three types of the [[faith]]; [[faith]] that is called the "clear [[faith]]", "[[desiring]] [[faith]]" and the [[faith]] of "[[confidence]] of [[belief]]". So out of those three, the kind of [[faith]] which is very important here, very necessary here is what is called the "clear [[faith]]".
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| − | So a [[practitioner]] of the [[tantra]] must be able to keep the secrecy of the [[tantra]]. So therefore, even if one practices a little bit immediately to make a big showoff of that, is completely [[contradictory]] to the practice of [[tantras]]. Therefore, except for a few very reliable other practitioners one should keep ones practice secret. Even one should not make it public that what sort of [[deities]] one has. When the [[great master]] [[translator]] who is Ralousawa was a great [[siddha]] of [[Tibet]], when he went to [[Nepal]] to receive the [[lineage]] or the teachings of [[Yamantaka]], at that time that [[guru]], that [[Nepalese]] [[guru]], was giving lots of
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| − | teachings to his [[disciples]], teachings of various fields, various kinds, but he was never [[teaching]] any [[Yamantaka]], any [[practice of Yamantaka]], even not uttering the [[word]], the [[name]] of [[Yamantaka]]. So the [[name]] of that [[master]] was Divancharochita or also sometimes is known an [[Lama]] Baro. So when the great [[translator]] went to him to receive the teachings, he was never uttering even the [[name]] of [[Yamantaka]] and when he was living with his [[Master]] then he saw the [[master]] was going every night somewhere. So he was curious about this and one night he decided to follow. The place of this [[great master]] can be visited in
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| − | [[Nepal]]. There is a [[cave]] then there is a long passage underground. Very few [[people]] go in there. Some [[people]] are successful to get to the end of the passage, by tying themselves with a rope and a string. [[Je Rinpoche]] has visited the place, but he didn't go right in the end because there are many, it is dark and many places where one can fall and there are certain dangers like that. So then when the [[translator]] followed the [[master]] and the [[master]] was going to a [[cave]] and then he was alone reciting the [[Yamantaka]] [[sadhana]] and [[mantras]] and practicing [[meditation]]. So he followed very quietly and sat somewhere in the coroner
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| − | listening, and listened to the [[lama]]. He [[thought]] that, he came back before the [[guru]] so he [[thought]] that he could break some secrecy and he [[thought]] that his [[guru]] wouldn't have known. But then of course, [[guru]] was [[clairvoyant]] and the next morning he scolded the [[translator]], "Why were you behaving like a sneaking {{Wiki|dog}} last night?" So then he had to admit it and he said "I was very eager to know what the secret practice of my [[guru]] is and with this {{Wiki|hope}} to know a little bit of it, he followed". Then the [[lama]] asked him "What have you learned?" He of course couldn't give a complete report, but he has learned, has
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| − | heard only a few words of the [[tantra]], so he said those few words, repeated those few words, then insist the [[guru]] to give him that particular [[teaching]]. He insisted and insisted for a very long time, very strongly until he has received the complete [[lineage]] of the [[transmission]] of this particular [[tantra]] - then he returned to [[Tibet]] and became a very great [[siddha]] and became the most outstanding [[siddha]] [[Tibet]] ever had. 2
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| − | If someone has very strong [[faith]] and [[devotion]] in the [[tantra]], and even if one is unable to practice all the complex [[stage of generation]], even with certain ore simple practice of the [[tantric meditation]], one has still the possibility to obtain some accomplishments or some [[siddhis]]. If someone has a deep [[faith]] in
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| − | the [[guru]] and in the [[deity]] and in the practice itself, then even if he didn't have very great [[intelligence]] and [[wisdom]], but gradually that [[person]] will be guided by the [[deity]] and gradually one will accomplish all the [[siddhis]]. So once there was an old mother in [[India]] who was very devoted but she was unable to practice all the complex [[practices of meditation]], but she was very devoted and she had a great [[desire]] to recite some [[mantra]] of a [[deity]]. So she had been given this [[mantra]] of [[goddess]] Tundale so the {{Wiki|recitation}}, the actual {{Wiki|recitation}} of the [[mantra]] is something like [[OM]] CHURl CHURl CHURNDALI SWA HA, but she was
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| − | so [[ignorant]] that she didn't learn it correctly and she had been reciting always [[OM]] BULLY BULLY BULLY SWA HA. So she was spending her time reciting this wrong [[mantra]] and she had a son who was a {{Wiki|novice}} somewhere in a [[monastery]], then once there was a great famine in their country and the greatest starvation and so on, so the son was very worried about his mother and he went to see her. When the son saw his mother, his mother was not only living but she was looking very healthy, very radiant, looking much more powerful than she had ever been. So the son asked, "There is a starvation throughout the country and
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| − | I was worried that maybe you were already [[dead]] and you are still living and very healthy, so what have you been eating all this time?" And she has answered "I have been cooking the stones, eating these cooked stones and drinking the melted stone." And the son asked "what sort of [[magic]] have you learned to cook the stones and melt the stones". She said, "I have no other method than my [[mantra]] which is [[OM]] BULLY BULLY BULLY." Then the son said "This [[mantra]] is completely wrong, the proper [[mantra]] is [[OM]] CHURl CHURl CHURNDALI SWA HA and so on he [[taught]] her the right [[mantra]]. Then she started reciting the right [[mantra]]
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| − | and then with that she was doing her normal cooking with the stones and it didn't work, the stones were not melting, not cooking and when she used her [[own]] original [[mantra]] the wrong [[mantra]], then it was again functioning. So because she had great [[faith]] and [[belief]] in what she had been practicing, so therefore, there are like that, there are in general there are many [[people]] who have gained certain [[powers]] by reciting certain [[mantras]] with great [[belief]] and [[faith]] in it.
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| − | So once there was [[in Tibet]] a [[person]] who was going, traveling from village to village and doing some [[prayers]] for the [[people]], reciting [[sutras]] and so on. So that [[person]] [[thought]] that he should learn some [[mantra]], some effective [[mantra]], so that which he can blow at the [[people]], some sick [[people]], like that so that
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| − | he can show some [[powers]] of that kind. So he went to [[lama]] to receive such a [[mantra]]. This person's face was all full of {{Wiki|smallpox}} marks, {{Wiki|nose}} and everything. His {{Wiki|nose}} was somewhat similar to the, there is a kind of [[mala]] which is called a bead which is called "[[rudraksha]]" which is something very rough with many sort of holes in it. It was something like that. So that [[lama]] [[taught]] him, out of sort of joking, that he should recite this [[prayer]]: the first line is "The {{Wiki|mouth}} and the {{Wiki|nose}} are like [[rudraksha]], [[rudraksha]] is this bead". And he was very innocent, very innocent [[faithful]] [[person]], so he really took it seriously, so
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| − | he started reciting "The {{Wiki|mouth}} and {{Wiki|nose}} is like [[rudraksha]], the {{Wiki|mouth}} and {{Wiki|nose}} is like [[rudraksha]]", he was reciting a lot of them. So with that [[mantra]] he has [[attained]] certain [[powers]], [[siddhis]], what he was seeking and afterwards they went there were some sick [[people]] and somebody had some trouble on the {{Wiki|skin}}, or anything like this, when this [[person]] recited this line, and blow on it, then it was effective, very effective. So when [[people]] are [[suffering]] from {{Wiki|smallpox}},
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| − | sometimes they get very serious, gets also into the {{Wiki|throat}} or into the [[eyes]] and so when he was blowing, when blowing on the [[eyes]] and neck, on the [[eye]], then it clears away the pox and then also when someone had inside trouble, then he blows on the [[water]] and when they drink that [[water]] and it clears away everything. So thus, he became very famous.
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| − | Once there was a [[Rinpoche]] who had been affected by {{Wiki|smallpox}} and so had affected in his {{Wiki|throat}} inside. So the attendants of the [[Rinpoche]] invited this [[person]]. So then he came and started reciting this crazy [[mantra]] and then that [[Rinpoche]] was laughing and laughing, he had to [[laugh]] and couldn't control his
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| − | [[laugh]], he laughed so much, so strongly, too strongly that it completely cleared away this thing in his {{Wiki|throat}} and without even blowing or anything, was fully recovered. So that story that [[Rinpoche]] just told was actually happened when [[Rinpoche]] was young and when he was studying at that time, was still living. Now there is another [[person]] who again, again there was a [[person]] who went to ask for some instructions, some [[mantras]], to [[lama]], but that [[lama]] was very busy in a really, in some very busy work, and so he was disturbed and said "Go away", and made a gesture like this to send him away, and said
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| − | "Marelisa". So that [[person]] [[thought]], has taken Marelisa as the [[mantra]] that he has received and that as some kind of gesture, this sending away gesture he took as some special gesture, [[mudra]]. So he started practicing this gesture and [[mantra]] and went back to his [[own]] house and recited very many times. Then through this very intensive practice of Marelisa then he [[attained]] some [[powers]]. Later when some sick [[people]] come to him and he said Marelisa it works, it cures. So even someone who is not practicing some very advanced practice of [[tantra]], even for some power in this [[lifetime]], one who practices some kind of
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| − | [[mantras]] like that, if one does it with very strong [[faith]] and [[belief]] in it, they accomplish it, they accomplish that kind of power. So that is the [[reason]] why in the practice of [[tantra]] in general, the [[faith]] is very important. If there are both [[intelligence]] and the [[faith]], both are combined and {{Wiki|present}}, that is the best. If two are not possible then the [[faith]] is more important. So therefore when we practice the [[tantra]] then it is very indispensable to have a strong [[faith]] and constance in one's [[guru]], the [[disciples]] and the [[guru]] and the [[deity]] and the actual method. In addition to that, if somebody has a great power of
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| − | [[intelligence]] then one has the possibility to learn and to practice all the vast and profound [[methods]] of the [[tantra]]. Even if such a [[wisdom]] or [[intelligence]] is lacking at the {{Wiki|present}}, if one does it sincerely and seriously the practice what one can, then eventually then one will accomplish the result in this [[life]] and even continue to progress in the {{Wiki|future}}. So therefore, these [[conditions]] must be {{Wiki|present}} to receive a complete [[initiation]] and also to, in keeping all the [[precepts]] and [[samayas]] we have received during the [[initiation]] and then have the [[intelligence]] and [[faith]]. So even if one is incapable of practicing the
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| − | extensive practice of [[tantra]], but if one for the [[sake]] of helping someone to rescue someone from [[suffering]] and so on, if someone recites or gives the [[mantra]] of a certain [[deity]] like [[Tara]] and then for such a practice of [[mantra]], what is very indispensable, what is very necessary is to have a very firm [[refuge]], [[refuge]] in the [[Triple Gem]]. That is very important foundation. If someone wants to go further and practice, engage in some more somewhat higher practice of the [[tantra]], and like it pertained to the actual practice of [[retreat]] of the [[deity]] and so on, then an 3
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| − | power of [[samadhis]] and high [[samadhis]] and so on, then it would, this generation of the proper [[motivation]] would help one's practice to, [[channel]] ones practice in the right [[direction]] and to accomplish the result. Concerning the [[development]] of [[Bodhichitta]], [[Je Rinpoche]] has also given the {{Wiki|past}} few days some brief [[teaching]] on it and some of you already have some [[understanding]] of it. So therefore, to put that into practice, the generation of [[Bodhichitta]] is most [[essential]] practice now. If one can [[meditate]] on the [[development]] of [[Bodhichitta]], that is like the, that is very most beneficial, most effective and
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| − | beneficial. It is like the [[life]] of the [[path]] of the [[Great Vehicle]]. If the actual [[Bodhichitta]] is developed in us, then even a very simple act of [[virtue]] will become a very effective [[cause]] for [[attaining enlightenment]]. So even if one, even if the actual [[Bodhichitta]], the proper [[Bodhichitta]] has not developed in us but if one trains one's [[mind]] in that [[direction]] and develops the [[motivation]] in our [[mind]] of that kind, then since it is a [[motivation]] dedicated for the [[benefit]] of all [[sentient beings]], then even if one makes a slight mistake in way of developing it, it still has a very great result. For example, if one sees
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| − | someone, somebody else [[suffering]] from certain problem like headache, very severe headache, and by [[seeing]] that other [[person]] in that [[suffering]], that [[condition]], if one generates a very {{Wiki|sincere}} wish to free that [[person]] from that [[sickness]], from that [[pain]] and sort of start to look for some [[medicine]] and so on, already that [[motivation]], that sort of {{Wiki|sincere}} wish and [[motivation]], it has a very great value and very great [[merit]]. So even the wish to {{Wiki|liberate}} or free just one [[sentient being]] from just one type of [[suffering]] like that, has such a great [[benefit]] and is a great [[accumulation of merit]]. Then there is no
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| − | question, there is needless to say how powerful and how [[meritorious]] it is to generate the wish to {{Wiki|liberate}} all [[sentient beings]], [[infinite]] [[sentient beings]], without exception, to {{Wiki|liberate}} from all [[sufferings]] and their [[cause]] and to establish them in [[happiness]]. So this is [[taught]] with this example of the sick [[person]] by the [[Bodhisattva]] [[Shantideva]] and [[Bodhisattva]] Shavitara.
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| − | [[stage of generation]] and then the completion. There was a view in the {{Wiki|past}} which asserts that the stage of completion is necessary to attain [[full enlightenment]] and the [[stage of generation]] is for [[attaining]] common [[siddhis]], ordinary [[siddhis]].
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| − | it is, there are many [[scripture]] sources, there are [[tantras]] [[taught]] by [[Buddha]] as well as other great commentaries of great [[siddhas]] and [[pundits]] like [[Nagarjuna]] and so on. So they all say that to attain the [[enlightenment]] then one has to go through these stages, the [[stage of generation]] and completion, like the steps of the ladder or stair. So [[Rinpoche]] [[thinks]] that is sufficient concerning, explanation concerning the preparation into the [[meditation]] and actual practice.
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| − | very correctly and precisely in the [[mind]], and for such [[person]] the {{Wiki|recitation}}, [[verbal]] {{Wiki|recitation}} of the [[sadhana]] is not absolutely necessary. So usually when we learn, when we get used to the [[verbal]] {{Wiki|recitation}}, then it happens that it goes sort of automatically without [[thinking]]. So as one begins the [[prayer]] and then the [[mind]] wanders here and there and the {{Wiki|recitation}} is already about half way finished. Also we can combine the {{Wiki|recitation}} with other work like drawing something or sewing something or anything like that, and the {{Wiki|recitation}} goes sort of {{Wiki|unconsciously}}. So in the same way if one practices this [[meditation]]
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| − | inwardly, {{Wiki|training}} our [[mind]] to practice this [[meditation]], [[stages of meditation]], within the [[mind]], at the beginning it is effortsome, but after a while one gets completely acquainted with it and then it will, one's [[mind]] will be able to go through these [[stages of meditation]] without much [[effort]], sort of a natural process. So in the practice of the [[meditation]] there are two periods. There is the [[meditation]] period, the formal session of [[meditation]] period, and the [[post-meditation]] period, while we engage in other [[activities]]. So during the actual formal session of [[meditation]], our [[mind]] is more in control. There are
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| − | less chances for certain negative [[thoughts]] or negative attitudes to arise in the [[mind]] because one is engaged in some formal work, so one's [[mind]] is more occupied with that. So when we stop the formal session and {{Wiki|past}} the [[post-meditation]] period, at that time if we completely put aside one's practice or completely forget about it, then all the [[contradictory]] [[thoughts]] and [[actions]] would then arise during the [[post-meditation]] period and this way one will not be able to make any progress, any real progress, even if one practice in such a way his whole [[life]]. Because one will keep on spoiling all what one has made,
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| − | generates all the [[wholesome]] [[state of mind]] during the [[meditation]] session, also we should try to continue during the [[post-meditation]] period with this same [[attitude]] of the [[mind]] so that one will not do completely exactly the opposite or the [[contradictory]] things during the post-period. In this way if one
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| − | time one holds every [[sentient being]] equally very dear to one's [[heart]]. But then, when we break the [[meditation]] and go through the post- [[meditation]] period at that time we start doing all just the opposite, generating [[ill-will]] and very harmful [[thoughts]] toward [[sentient beings]] or harming them, {{Wiki|physically}} harming them, {{Wiki|killing}}, beating or scolding them and doing all the negative things toward [[sentient beings]]. Then it is completely [[contradictory]] to the kind of motivations and [[state of mind]] that we have generated with all our [[effort]] in the [[meditation]] period. So therefore, one destroys completely all, one has
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| − | destroyed everything what one had built up. So if one practices in such a way, then there is very little [[benefit]] of the [[dharma]]. So during the [[meditation]] we generate very {{Wiki|sincere}} [[love]] and [[compassion]] toward [[sentient beings]] and we wish all the best for the [[sentient beings]] and at the post-period if we generate maybe negative, like [[jealousy]] towards the [[goodness]] and [[happiness]] and progress of other [[sentient beings]] like that, then those two stages of [[mind]] are completely opposite. So it is more beneficial to put into practice, to put properly into practice whatever one has learned even though it is very small
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| − | [[degree]], very low level, to put it into practice rather than to learn so much and not put anything into practice. So if one really puts into practice the [[dharma]] what one learns then first it transforms our inner [[attitude]], our [[mental]] [[attitude]], it helps the [[mind]] to develop all the [[wholesome]] qualities and when this happens then automatically it will influence our [[activities]], our [[actions]], our behaviors, our outer behaviors and our outer [[actions]] and behaviors will be [[purified]], so that more [[wholesome]], will develop. Then one becomes a true [[practitioner]] of the [[dharma]]. So instead of just collecting a lot of [[dharma]] with
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| − | little [[benefit]] through one's [[mind]], if one puts into practice seriously puts into practice what is beneficial, what is [[essential]] and beneficial to one's [[mind]], that is more preferable. So if one wishes to become a real good and true [[practitioner]] of [[dharma]] one should keep, develop the [[Bodhichitta]] as the [[principal]] of the practice, as the most [[essential]] practice. Then practice [[love]] and [[compassion]] towards all [[sentient beings]] [[without discrimination]], like discriminating that's my side and their side and so on, [[without discrimination]] of other [[sentient beings]], because [[Bodhichitta]] is something concerned or
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| − | dedicated towards all [[sentient beings]] regardless of who they are and what they have been. It is an {{Wiki|equal}} [[thought]], so therefore to hold this very different and discriminative [[attitude]] toward [[sentient beings]] is wrong and also one should give up all these discriminating attitudes towards the teachings of the [[dharma]], that is my [[teaching]] is, my [[dharma]] is better than his and so on like that, this kind of discriminating [[attitude]] toward the different teachings of the [[dharma]] is also very wrong for a [[practitioner]] of [[dharma]] to do. Also when one practices [[meditation]] in [[relation]] with the [[deity]] one should [[concentrate]]
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| − | take the drop and place it on the {{Wiki|tongue}}. One should think that this drop of [[amrita]] which enters our [[body]] illuminates one’s [[body]] completely like sunshine and clears away all [[obstacles]], [[physical]] or [[mental]] [[obstacles]], all are completely cleared away. Then before the actual [[meditation]] it is very important to actually to generate the right [[motivation]], the [[Bodhichitta]] [[motivation]]. Without the proper [[motivation]], then there is very little progress again. So in order to generate the proper [[motivation]] one sits down and [[contemplates]]. First [[contemplate]] on the [[sufferings]] of the [[samsara]], that one’s [[self]] is born in this cycle of the [[conditions]] of [[rebirth]] and [[existence]], and have gone through in the {{Wiki|past}} so many times in all the various [[sufferings]] and also one doesn't see the end of it. Then one should think that at this time through the grace of the [[Triple Gem]] one has [[attained]] a very [[precious]], a very favorable [[human]] [[rebirth]] and have all the possibilities, the potentialities and all the possibilities to practice [[dharma]]. So therefore, while still we have it in our hand, this
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| + | Couple of weeks ago I found a page in Facebook called or group of [[people]] called [[Buddhism]] in {{Wiki|Sweden}} . I wrote couple of words myself an english on their page and immediately reacted on my words site Admin Peter Olin and told that everybody here on this page have to use only {{Wiki|Swedish}} because it's a {{Wiki|swedish}} [[buddhist]] site. He [[sound]] quite convincible. |
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| + | I explained to Olin that I have been doing the [[Chinese Buddhist Encyclopedia]] for 18 hours every day for 8 years After which he started to explain to me that many links in [[Chinese Buddhist Encyclopedia]] what are linked to Wikipedia are suspicious and may change over time, and what,ll happened with these articles in my {{Wiki|encyclopedia}} when there,ll be changes in Wikipedia , He seemed quite excited and determined in their [[own]] deliberations and positions. |
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| + | Then I posted couple of [[thangkas]] made by me and lot of critics or by other words a large avalanche of [[criticism]] arrived at my address. compared to my [[attitude]] towards the {{Wiki|Encyclopedia}} and other [[activities]] in {{Wiki|Asia}}, {{Wiki|Sweden}} had an extremely negative and rusty cold [[attitude]]. |
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| − | [[causes]], the [[delusions]] and imprints and so on, now at this [[moment]] it becomes completely [[void]], like perishing of the [[rainbow]] in the [[space]]. So if we have done the [[prayer]] to the [[guru]] before this, then at the end where the [[prayer]] ends with the line saying, "May I attain the [[state]] of [[Vajradhara]]" at this [[moment]] then all the [[gurus]] of the [[lineage]], all absorb into ourself. So if we have [[visualized]] the [[guru]] in a [[great assembly]], then there are two ways of absorbing. The first is all the [[lineage gurus]] they all absorb into the [[root guru]] and that absorbs into us. The second way is that all the [[root gurus]] they all absorb into the 8
| + | With this, I felt like the admin's ironic [[logic]] killed me wanting to participate in this site on Facebook and of course since the admin of the page was quite specific in his [[attitude]], I asked him what have you done for [[Buddhism]] yourself? He didn't answer. At the end I just left the {{Wiki|swedish}} [[group of buddhists]].. |
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| − | on the top and that also absorbs into the [[guru]] [[Aksobhya]] in its {{Wiki|crown}}. Finally only that [[form]] of the [[guru]] remains. Then that [[guru]] also absorbs into our [[body]], so there are two different ways. If one [[visualizes]] the [[guru]] in only one [[form]] then it is more simple. That more single [[form]] of the [[guru]] absorbs simply into us. So there are different ways, either one [[visualizes]] the process of [[absorption]] upward or downward it is same in the [[benefit]] and there are different | + | I spend there on site just 2 days. And then left because [[people]] started to scream about my work with [[Chinese Buddhist Encyclopedia]]. My secretary who has been a member of this group started to defend me and almost all [[people]] on the page started to talk that I serve the interests of the [[Chinese government]] and they pay me for that. |
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| − | purposes though. Whatever way is more suitable for our [[mind]], to [[visualize]] we can take that. Finally when the last [[guru]] absorbs into our [[body]] then this completely purifies all ones, all the [[obstacles]] and imprints. So since this way when the [[guru]] absorbs into us it completely purifies all our [[obstacles]] and the imprints, so this is all possible because they do not [[exist]], the [[obstacles]] and so on, they do not [[exist]] inherently. So if the [[phenomena]] do [[exist]]
| + | I started the {{Wiki|encyclopedia}} in [[Australia]] and interestingly there were no negative [[attitude]] towards my work . [[Australia]] gave me a Distinguished Talented Visa for my [[activities]] and work in [[Buddhism ]]. |
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| − | inherently with its [[own]] [[nature]], then all the changes and all the [[laws of cause]] and effect as well as the {{Wiki|movement}} and all the changes cannot be possible because everything [[exists]] inherently by themselves with no [[cause]] or circumstance, so no [[blessing]] can be received, no [[obstacles]] can be [[purified]]. But in [[reality]], everything does not [[exist]] inherently. So therefore, all these kind of changes and [[activities]] are possible. So when the [[guru]] absorbs into us, all
| + | I am struck by how two countries may have so different [[views]] on [[Buddhism]]. I arrived back to {{Wiki|Sweden}} a year ago and turned to {{Wiki|Swedish}} government and asked if they would like to help me with the {{Wiki|encyclopedia}}. I also wrote to the {{Wiki|Swedish}} {{Wiki|Academy}} of [[Sciences]] and asked them for a positive [[attitude]] towards my work. I wrote to 60 politicians in the government but did not receive any response to my letters at all. |
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| − | the [[impurities]] and [[obstacles]] are completely cleared away and we become completely [[void]], and at this [[moment]] we [[meditate]] for awhile in the [[shunyata]] in the [[voidness]]. So with some [[understanding]] of the [[shunyata]] then our the [[body]] dissolves into {{Wiki|light}} and perishes completely into [[space]]. So this way the ordinary the [[appearance]] and the [[grasping]] become baseless and so they also disappear. At the same time our usual [[grasping]] for the [[true existence]] or [[inherent existence]] of ourself is also eliminated. So in that kind of [[emptiness]], [[void]] [[state]], we should keep our [[mind]]. So abiding in that [[state]] our [[mind]] completely absorbs into [[voidness]], into [[shunyata]], that is called the "taking [[Dharmakaya]] into the [[Path]]". So then by abiding in that [[state of emptiness]] for awhile then that [[mind]] which sees that [[shunyata]], which is [[meditating]] on the [[shunyata]] on the [[voidness]], itself then taking the [[form]] of blue {{Wiki|light}}. So this becoming the blue {{Wiki|light}} is called "the taking the [[Sambogakaya]] into the [[Path]]".
| + | The {{Wiki|Academy}} of [[Sciences]] was [[silent]] in {{Wiki|Swedish}} way. I [[thought]] when I arrived first time to {{Wiki|Sweden}} most of the world's press was {{Wiki|present}} and even {{Wiki|Swedish}} journalists but now it seemed embarrassing for {{Wiki|Sweden}} that they gave me {{Wiki|swedish}} citizenship, Which shows that my {{Wiki|political}} [[activities]] suited them but not [[Buddhist]] . |
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| + | I have organized a major international [[Buddhist]] conferences and ([[Buddhism]] and Nordland) and ([[Buddhism]] and [[Australia]]) what lasted 9 years. I myself have attended other conferences at the {{Wiki|University}} of [[Berkeley]], but I have never seen such a derogatory and monotonous [[attitude]] as in {{Wiki|Europe}}, and especially in Scandinavia haven't seen such negative [[attitude]] anywhere in [[world]]. We can say openly {{Wiki|Sweden}} denies [[Buddhism]]. |
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| − | of the [[consort]], so the [[bell]] and [[vajra]] and in cross gesture, and the [[wheel]] and the [[lotus]] are stretched out, and the [[jewel]] and the sword are stretched on the left side. The [[Guhyasamaja]] is embracing a [[consort]] who is also, has the same [[form]], [[identical]] [[form]], both in the same {{Wiki|color}}, [[dark blue]]. Also with three faces; the center [[dark blue]], the right white and the left [[red]], with six arms. The right arms are holding the same implements the [[vajra]], [[wheel]] and [[lotus]], and the | + | This summer, I approached the {{Wiki|University}} of Kalmar with a proposal to hold an international conference on [[Buddhism]]. In a month's time, my secretary, Marju Broder, sent them letters with a proposal to meet to discuss cooperation and [[activities]] in [[connection]] with the conference. |
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| − | left ones are holding the [[bell]], [[jewel]] and sword. The first two arms of the [[consort]] which have the [[bell]] and [[vajra]] in them are embracing the neck of the [[deity]], so her hands are crossed in back of the head of the [[deity]]. Both the [[deity]] and the [[consort]] are adorned with eight different types of ornaments made of [[precious]] [[jewels]]. So these eight [[jewels]], the first is the {{Wiki|crown}}, [[jewel]] {{Wiki|crown}}, [[jewel]] earrings, [[precious]] earrings, and to tie the {{Wiki|crown}} on the head there is a [[knot]] and on the two [[ears]], just on the two [[ears]] there are two [[lotuses]], blue [[lotuses]]. Then there is the [[precious]] necklace. Then there is a jeweled
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| − | [[garland]] which is longer than the necklace, so made of {{Wiki|pearls}}, a [[garland]] which reaches a little below the {{Wiki|breast}}. Then there is rochel, that is again another longer [[garland]], made of [[precious]] [[jewels]] which reaches to {{Wiki|abdomen}}, a little below the other one. Then there are the bracelets and the anklets. Then there are also the rings around the arm, armlets. So the bracelets, anklets, and armlets are included into one ornament. Then there is the [[precious]] belt, that very beautiful ornament made of [[precious]] [[jewels]] and so on to like a belt to hold the lower garment, to hold those ornaments which goes around the | + | Stefan Arvidsson |
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| − | waist. So there are eight ornaments, that is the {{Wiki|crown}}, the earrings, the necklace, the somatol which is a [[garland]], shorter [[garland]], then a longer [[garland]], then the bracelets and anklets and the belt. The garments, there are two, one to cover the upper part and the lower part. There is a long silken shawl on the upper part and something like a skirt a lower garment, for the lower part of the [[body]]. So this shawl is not very wide but is rather long. So as you see in the paintings then this shawl goes around the neck and comes down and over the arms and makes here a little, like a circle then it hangs down from the
| + | At least someone dared to answer and say what is [[thought]] about of [[Buddhist]] [[activities]] in {{Wiki|Sweden}} . It is [[interesting]] that {{Wiki|Sweden}} is talking about [[religious]] freedom. How to understand it ? |
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| − | two sides of the [[body]]. On the lower part of the [[body]] then there is a [[celestial]] garment, made of very fine silken multi-colored cloth, material which covers the lower [[body]] and it is tied around the waist with that [[precious]] belt. That is the meaning of the first part when we say "I instantly become the Vajrahatred with all these description of the [[body]] embracing with the Vajratouch, that is the [[name]] of the [[consort]], and both are clad in the silken garment. That explains the whole [[visualization]]. So what is in the text, when we read that, what is not included in there? The [[lotus]] and the {{Wiki|sun}} disk on which the
| + | This freedom seems to [[exist]] only for [[Christians]] but not for [[Buddhists]] . In addition, we wrote to many other {{Wiki|Swedish}} organizations, but the answer was [[silence]] |
| − | [[deity]] is sitting - so actually we should [[visualize]] that we are sitting on a very radiant {{Wiki|sun}} disk, reddish {{Wiki|color}}. So there is the [[lotus seat]] and right in the center of the [[lotus]] there is a [[moon disk]] and - so there is the {{Wiki|sun}} disk on top of it. So whatever, so all the [[Buddhas]] you see are either sitting on the {{Wiki|sun}} or a [[moon]] on the [[lotus]]. We should always [[visualize]], although in a statue they are shaped slightly in a different way, but in [[visualization]] we should [[visualize]] all these seats completely round, so when we sit in the middle there is some [[space]] left around us. About the position - the [[deity]] itself is
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| − | sitting in a [[vajra asana]], [[vajra]] cross-legged position. The [[consort]] who is sitting on the lap of the [[deity]] facing to the [[deity]], is sitting in the [[lotus position]], [[lotus position]] here means the two knees are sort of raised under the arms of the [[deity]] and the feet are at the back. So the [[hair]] of the [[deity]] is tied here into a [[knot]] on the top. The [[hair]] of the [[consort]], half is made into a [[knot]] on the top and half is falling on her back. So this explains, the complete [[form of the deity]] and the [[consort]] and their position and so on, and this must be carried also later into other parts of the [[meditation]] where one must [[visualize]] the same [[form]]. So our ordinary [[body]] has become completely [[empty]], completely [[void]], 9
| + | My secretary Marju Broder also wrote to others in Scandinavia, but the answer from them was either [[silence]] or a negative [[attitude]]. The same [[attitude]] was observed by those Swedes on Facebook who call themselves a [[Buddhists]]. |
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| − | represents all the method aspect of the [[path]] starting from the [[guru devotion]] until the [[enlightenment]]. The [[bell]] [[symbolizes]] all the method aspect of the [[path]], so that is the [[principal]] [[symbolism]] of the two, but since in [[tantra]] the method [[wisdom]], the method the great [[bliss]], [[wisdom]] of the great [[bliss]], and the [[wisdom]] that is the [[voidness]], [[realization]] of the [[voidness]], these two states of the [[mind]] these two [[aspects of the mind]], in [[tantra]] they are not two separate entities, but they are one [[entity]] of one [[nature]]. So therefore, each [[vajra]] also [[symbolizes]] the union of the two, [[bell]] also [[symbolizes]] union of the two. So
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| − | that's why it says both of them are of the [[nature]] of the [[Wikipedia:Absolute (philosophy)|ultimate]] [[Bodhichitta]]. The {{Wiki|Ultimate}} [[Bodhichitta]] referring to the union of the [[bliss]] and [[void]]. Then with the following [[mantra]], [[OM]] SAVA DATA GATA VITA SITA MITA SOTO, at that [[moment]] we should take the [[vajra]] in our right hand and hold it at the {{Wiki|chest}} and at that time we should think this meaning of it in our [[mind]]. To translate this whole [[mantra]] will take too much time. And after that when we say [[OM]] [[VAJRA]] GHANDA HO, at that time then we should take the [[bell]] in our hand. Take it then {{Wiki|touch}} the rim of the [[bell]], {{Wiki|touch}} on the left side of the {{Wiki|abdomen}} here, we
| + | [[Buddhism]] is a relatively small [[religion]] in {{Wiki|Sweden}}, but has seen an increase in recent years. The number of [[Buddhists]] in April 2011 is estimated at around 45,000 [[people]] or close to 0.5% of Sweden's population, making it Sweden's third largest [[religion]] after [[Christianity]] and {{Wiki|Islam}}. Most practitioners have an {{Wiki|Asian}} background and come mostly from [[Thailand]], [[China]] or [[Vietnam]]. |
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| − | should {{Wiki|touch}} with the rim of the [[bell]]. So this is one style of doing it, one [[tradition]] of doing it, as it is practiced in the [[tantra]] {{Wiki|college}} in our days. There is another style of doing it. Instead of taking at first the [[vajra]] and then [[bell]] after, when we begin, when we say "In [[vajra]] is the method and [[bell]] is the [[wisdom]], etc." thus as soon as we begin the [[prayer]] we take simultaneously both [[bell]] and [[vajra]] in our hand, and then make the same gesture. So this is practiced now in the [[lower tantric colleges]]. [[VAJRA]] GHANDA [[HUM]], [[Ghanda]] means in [[Sanskrit]] "[[bell]]". And with this gesture we say the following lines
| + | In addition, the {{Wiki|Swedish}} government requested that {{Wiki|donations}} to [[Buddhists]] be taxed on the basis of income. |
| − | DORJE SEMPA SORBA NEMBA TOWE. That means "I will please the [[Vajrasattva]] and so on". So this has two meanings. One meaning is; we can take it as, through this kind of method.
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| + | http://religionsvetenskapligakommentarer.blogspot.com/2012/09/strukturell-diskriminering-nar.html |
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| − | [[sentient beings]]. It can be taken either way. Then when we say the following lines, [[HUM]] starting with the [[HUM]] so they are holding the [[vajra]] here, and we say [[HUM]] and then, [...] SEM GEM MOGU DORJE TANGA and that means that all the [[sentient beings]] to separate or to free to {{Wiki|liberate}} the [[sentient beings]] from [[ignorance]] and JIMOGA DORJE SAWAGE means "one who holds very beautifully holds the [[vajra]]" that means holds the [[Wikipedia:Absolute (philosophy)|ultimate]] [[vajra]] of union of the [[method and wisdom]], such a [[vajra]], developing, "I will develop such a [[vajra]] in order to free all [[sentient beings]] from their [[ignorance]]" and that means "that is great work of [[dharma]] which leads the [[sentient beings]] to [[liberation]] or to the [[ultimate enlightenment]]". JIMOGA DORJE SUN that means 'so with a [[joyful]] [[state of mind]] hold this [[vajra]]". So that is the meaning of the line. So while reciting this then we hold the [[vajra]]. So after that we recite these {{Wiki|syllables}} 3X [[HUM]] and 3X
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| + | http://religionsvetenskapligakommentarer.blogspot.com/2019/08/buddhistiska-tempel-beskattas-for.html |
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| | + | It,s a [[shame]] to take a [[money]] from [[buddhist monks]]. [[Interesting]] how much {{Wiki|Swedish}} government pays for [[Christian]] {{Wiki|church}} to keep it alive. |
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| − | and hold it in front, like this, slightly on the right side, then we take the [[bell]] in its place, in the level of our {{Wiki|chest}}, then we start ringing the [[bell]] while we recite this [[mantra]] [[OM]] DHAMARA SAMBARA...and so on. To be precise, it says that when we ring the [[bell]] we should ring in such a way that the clapper touches the [[four directions]] and semi-directions inside the [[bell]]. So that is the proper way to ring, but if we try it may just end up circling around. So
| + | it shows specifically how the {{Wiki|Swedish}} government and [[people]] view [[Buddhism]]. You could say frankly that they [[hate]] [[Buddhism]] |
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| − | actually the proper [[bell]], for a proper [[bell]] the clapper should have eight facets. So there are different, for the [[bell]] there are actually many different kinds like this one here has many [[wheels]], many [[wheel]] [[symbols]]. That is called [[Vairocana]] [[bell]] designs then there are others which have all different decorations, designs with all the implements of the five [[Dhyana]] [[Buddhas]], this is called General [[Bell]]. Then there are still many other types of [[bell]] like
| + | It shows how wrong country I chose when I was expelled from the {{Wiki|Soviet Union}} by [[Gorbachev]] when I made, first time in [[Soviet]] history, an [[opposition]] party against [[Communist Party]], My [[idea]] that erupted the {{Wiki|Soviet Union}} and perestroika. |
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| + | Having lived in {{Wiki|Sweden}} for years, I did not come to the [[idea]] or [[understanding]] that {{Wiki|Sweden}} does not like a [[Buddhism]] because I was not involved in promoting [[Buddhism]] in {{Wiki|Sweden}}. |
| − | that means [[sound]] or to produce, [[vajra]] means [[vajra]], [[dharma]] means [[teaching]] [[dharma]], RANITA means to make [[sound]]. So make the [[sound]] of the [[Vajradharma]] [[OM]] [[VAJRA]] [[DHARMA]] RANITA. So PRARANITA means, Pra- means very or completely very and Ranita means make [[sound]], make that very [[sound]], that is to {{Wiki|emphasize}}. SARVA [[BUDDHA]] KITRA PRASALENE that means SARVA [[BUDDHA]] means all the [[Buddhas]], Kitra means all the [[Buddha fields]] or [[Buddha]] abode, Prasalene means move, so make such a loud | |
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| − | [[sound]] so that all the [[Buddha fields]] will completely shake. Then Prajnamita that means the [[perfection]] of the [[wisdom]]. NADA SO BAWA, [[Nada]] mean [[sound]], SOBAWA means [[entity]], SOBAWA means [[nature]]. So it means make the {{Wiki|sounds}} of the [[Prajnaparamita]], make the [[sound]] of the [[perfection of wisdom]]. And [[Vajrasattva]] that means calling the [[Vajrasattva]]. HUDAYA means [[essence]] or the [[heart]], the [[essence]]. So that means make the {{Wiki|sounds}} in order to move the [[heart]], the [[essence]] of the | + | I have been actively involved in [[Buddhism]] for 45 years, I established the [[Nyingma]] [[Buddhist tradition]] in {{Wiki|Estonia}}, built 5 [[stupas]] there, My friends also actively contributed to the translation of a large amount of [[Buddhist literature]]. [[Soviet]] times nobody paid [[attention]] to my work in field of [[Buddhism]]. |
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| − | [[Vajrasattva]]. So here the [[Vajrasattva]] doesn't apply to the [[deity]] [[Vajrasattva]], it is applied to -- so here the [[Vajrasattva]] applies to that [[state of mind]], the union of the [[bliss]] and [[void]], that is the [[Prajnaparamita]], which we try to generate, we try to develop in us, and that is applied to that. So that means make the [[sound]] to exhort that or to exhort that. [[Vajrasattva]] means to exhort to [[urge]] to develop this union of [[bliss]] and [[void]] in us, in our [[mind]]. So with this
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| − | [[mantra]] then the [[consecration]] or [[blessing]] of the [[bell]] and [[vajra]] is completed. With [[understanding]] of these meanings, remember these meanings in our [[mind]], if we use our [[bell]] and [[vajra]], just ringing the [[bell]] and so on itself is very great way to [[accumulate]] [[merit]]. After the [[consecration]] of the [[bell]] and [[vajra]] now we move to the [[consecration]] of the [[inner offering]], that liquid we have in front of us. So for the [[blessing]] of the [[inner offering]] or other [[offerings]], like
| + | They hold me in jail two days until {{Wiki|swedish}} ambassador Dag Hartelius called to the police. Why it's happened? Because in {{Wiki|Estonia}} old [[Wikipedia:Communism|communists]] are still in power. And they [[hate]] me because I destroyed the {{Wiki|Soviet Union}}. |
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| + | At the same time, the {{Wiki|University of Tartu}} in {{Wiki|Estonia}} was extremely contemptuous of my [[activities]], led by Linnart Mäll,who was a chronic alcoholic plus his students Märt Läänemets and Maret Kark supported him. |
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| − | So that is the [[name]] of that guardian. So that is the power of [[mantra]] we are using [[OM]] [[AH]] BENITA DE [[HUM]], and at the same time we also must use the power of [[meditation]] so we should [[visualize]] from the [[HUM]] in our {{Wiki|chest}}, now we are in the [[form]] of the [[Guhyasamaja]], from the [[HUM]] in our {{Wiki|chest}} these guardian [[form]], the BENITADE, either in the countless [[form]] or in ten [[forms]] or just in one [[form]], they go out towards the [[offering]]. So the BENINDATI this Mahakroda has the [[dark blue]] [[body]] and it has also three faces, the [[dark blue]] in the center, white on the right and left is [[red]], six arms, the right hands the first hand is holding a cross [[vajra]], the second [[a wheel]], and the third he holds, what do you call these {{Wiki|Indians}} are using to chop {{Wiki|rice}} and so on - it is a kind of stick, narrow in the center, {{Wiki|rice}} [[chopper]], pestle -- the third holding a pestle. The first left hand is holding a lasso in the gesture of {{Wiki|terrifying}} gesture. In the
| + | It is striking that instead of cooperation, there is an immediate denigration against [[Buddhist]] [[activities]] from [[scientific]] side . Now that everyone is talking about a multicultural {{Wiki|era}}, both freedom of {{Wiki|speech}} and freedom of [[religion]], the {{Wiki|Swedish}} government is asking to tax {{Wiki|donations}} to [[Buddhists]] . |
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| − | second a [[bell]], in the third an ax. This Mahakroda does not have the {{Wiki|crown}} of the skulls it has the [[precious]] {{Wiki|crown}}. All the ornaments are not made of [[bones]] but of [[precious]] golden and [[jewel]] ornaments. Its reddish [[hair]] is raising upward. Also the reddish [[eyebrows]] and mustache and beard are all raised upward. Endowed with the three completely open, three big [[red]] [[eyes]], and {{Wiki|mouth}} widely open with four fangs. All the ornaments are made of [[precious]] [[jewels]]. Instead of wearing silken garments to cover the lower part, he wears [[tiger skins]]. He is wearing as ornaments all the great [[nagas]], so in the [[hair]] is tied with a blue [[naga]], a blue {{Wiki|snake}}. In the [[ears]] together with these [[precious]] [[jewels]] there is also a ring of the {{Wiki|snake}}, [[red]] {{Wiki|color}} {{Wiki|snake}}. Also with the armlet he wears a {{Wiki|snake}} with striped {{Wiki|color}}. The anklet, the {{Wiki|snake}} for anklet and the necklace are white, [[white color]]. For bracelet are two {{Wiki|snakes}} for bracelets and they
| + | An example my secretary asked {{Wiki|Oxford University}} to participate on coming conference [[Buddhism]] and Nordland and she got such answer : |
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| | + | I am sorry to say that I cannot give you any encouragement. The OCBS is a small institute with very limited resources. We are not even able to pay any {{Wiki|academic}} salaries. We also have nobody here who [[knows]] anything about [[Buddhism]] and Nordland, so we cannot offer any expertise |
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| + | Yours sincerely, |
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| − | whitish [[form]]. His two {{Wiki|legs}} are stretched and [[standing]] and are not bended but stretched and all his limbs are all very thick, very strong and very thick and also with a very big belly. So sitting in the midst of [[fire]], in [[reality]] these [[wrathful deities]] as we see in the tankha, although the {{Wiki|artists}} paint the [[fire]] around the [[deity]] and the [[deity]] is in the center, but in [[reality]] the fires are coming from the force of the [[body]] coming out from everywhere, not only from the side but...
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| + | The same time we have big site in [[Internet]] dedicated to this conference. |
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| − | Or we create all ten such karodas and they chase the interfering forces into [[ten directions]]. Or we create countless [[forms]] of the Mahakroda and they chase all the [[existing]] interfering forces completely away, far away, that is no possibility ever to return, even ever to look at. At the end, all the guardians that we have created whatever their number may be must be taken back. That is something important each time, whatever we have created from our {{Wiki|chest}}, send out, must be collected at the end. So that is called, this process is called the "clearing away the interference". That is part of the [[consecration]]. Now
| + | The question arises as how [[Buddhists]] do not notice what other [[Buddhists]] are talking about [[Buddhism]] in their work on conference [[Buddhism]] and Nordland. |
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| − | for the [[purification]] of it, then we must {{Wiki|purify}} the ordinary [[appearance]] and the [[grasping]] of this [[offering]]. So here we should recite the [[mantra]] [[OM]] SHUNYA YANA [[VAJRA]] SWABA HAWA ATMA KUWA [[HUM]]. [[OM]] SHUNYA, that means [[emptiness]], the [[shunyata]]. YANA means [[wisdom]]. [[VAJRA]] is the [[vajra]]. SWABA HAWA means [[entity]] or the [[nature]]. ATMA KUWA [[HUM]] that means I am or I am the {{Wiki|personification}} or I am the [[embodiment]] of that. So here those who can read [[Tibetan]], there is a funny {{Wiki|syllable}} in that [[mantra]], something like a NUA in [[Tibetan]], but it is not NUA, we shouldn't read it as a NUA but it is a [[Sanskrit]] sign. So here one should
| + | It shows the [[stupidity]] and short-sightedness of the {{Wiki|Europeans}} and its [[universities]], And we talk about [[religious]] freedom here . Compared to the {{Wiki|University}} of [[Berkeley]], who immediately agreed to collaborate with leading [[professor]] [[Lewis Lancaster]] .The only company that is actively involved in translating texts and spreading [[knowledge]] about Buddhism,in our days which is [[Lotsawa house]] and its a very big contribution to {{Wiki|European}} [[Buddhism]], |
| − | make the [[sound]] long, instead of saying ATMAKUWA [[HUM]] say on must ATMA KU [[HUM]]. Then here for [[purification]] while we recite this [[mantra]] then we should think that ordinary [[substance]] whatever it is, tea or [[water]] or something in the container, that whole [[object]] basis becomes completely [[void]] by [[meditating]] upon the [[void]] of [[inherent existence]] of this [[object]]. With this [[thought]] in the [[mind]] this become completely [[empty]]. So the [[substance]] with the container becomes completely [[void]] and disappears in the [[space]]. So this purifies the ordinary [[grasping]] and [[appearance]]. So when we [[meditate]] on the [[shunyata]] [[nature]], then that
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| − | clears away the [[grasping]] for the [[true existence]] and when we make it completely [[empty]], when we destroy each [[form]], then the ordinary [[appearance]] or the [[grasping]] is disappeared. After the [[emptiness]] when then all the following, the [[amrita]], the container, when this starts to [[form]] then we should go on to hold all these [[phenomena]], all these [[objects]] as [[inseparable]] from the [[void]] [[nature]], not again making something which is [[inherently existent]], but all [[inseparable]] for the [[void]] [[nature]]. And in order to carry on this kind of view upon this [[object]], then we have made this [[purification]] at the beginning. So for the actual,
| + | https://www.lotsawahouse.org/ |
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| − | that is the [[purification]] part. Then comes the generation part. For the generation there is the generation of the container and the content. So then now we start [[to build]] first the container out of the {{Wiki|syllables}} [[OM]] YUM [[HUM]] YUM [[HUM]] YUM. We [[visualize]] a [[HUM]] and a YUM and [[HUM]]. So [[HUM]] then YUM and [[HUM]]. We can [[visualize]] them in [[Tibetan]] {{Wiki|syllables}} or in [[Sanskrit script]]. And this YUM, the center of the YUM is a [[light blue]] {{Wiki|color}}. Then this [[light blue]] YUM is [[transformed]] into a giant [[mandala]] of [[wind]], [[air]] [[mandala]]. Not [[wind]] blowing hard like the ordinary [[wind]], but it is of the [[nature]] of [[wind]], [[nature]] of {{Wiki|motion}}, but is not right now moving. So such a [[mandala]] in sort of a bow-shaped, that means like half of a circle. The {{Wiki|color}} is greenish-blue. Then those 11
| + | It,s [[interesting]] most of those [[people]] doesn't belong to {{Wiki|Europe}} who translate in [[Lotsawa House]]. I know {{Wiki|Erik Pema Kunsang}} because when I started with {{Wiki|Chinese}} {{Wiki|Encyclopedia}} he connected me and his relationship to my project was very positive and favorable. He is from {{Wiki|Denmark}} . And well known [[translator]] from [[Tibetan]]. |
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| − | two HUMs still remaining change into two [[vajras]] and they are [[standing]] on the two ends of this half circle. On top of that now appears [[letter]] [[HUM]] [[RAM]] and [[HUM]]. This [[RAM]] then changes into a [[fire mandala]], of [[red]] {{Wiki|color}} and triangle shaped. It is of [[fire]] [[nature]], sort of solid [[fire]] [[nature]], like if a brick is just
| + | https://lotsawahouse.blog/interviews/erik-pema-kunsang/ |
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| − | again there remains two HUMs and these two HUMs change into [[vajras]] and they are placed on the two points, the two other points not the one which is to your side, but the other two points, at the back. On top of now this triangle [[fire mandala]] then appears the [[letter]] [[OM]] [[AH]] and [[HUM]] also in sort of a triangle position. So these [[OM]] [[AH]] [[HUM]] are changed into three [[human]] heads. One head on each point of the [[fire mandala]], the three points, on top they are the [[human]] heads. They are all facing outward. Not dried or skeleton head, but a living head like from somebody just been cut, with [[eyes]] still very living and {{Wiki|teeth}}
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| − | of the [[skull]] appears the [[letter]] [[HUM]] which changes into a [[human body]] or corpse. This [[human]] corpse is right in the center, so there are two ways of [[visualizing]]. One with it facing sort of looking towards you or its head sort of directed towards you in front, and sort of {{Wiki|lying}} on the side. So it is {{Wiki|lying}} on the right side. On top of the left shoulder is the [[letter]] [[HUM]]. So it is generated from the {{Wiki|syllable}} [[HUM]] and it sealed with the {{Wiki|syllable}} [[HUM]]. So the front part of the [[skull]] is facing to you. So the front part of the [[skull]] so now we are looking from the back, so the front part is always considered
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| − | {{Wiki|syllable}}. So those are called the five meats, five fleshes. So these five [[corpses]] of different [[animals]] they are, five different [[beings]] they are in their [[own]] respective shape externally, but if one touches it's already chopped so that one can take a piece, or soft, not flesh and [[bones]] and all separate, but all mixed. Then again the [[letter]] [[HUM]] appears in the center and which changes into various liquid {{Wiki|substances}}. So the first the [[letter]] [[HUM]] in the center changes into {{Wiki|urine}}. So the {{Wiki|urine}} is sort of fills the center part of this [[throne]]. Then at the [[East]] again the [[letter]] DRUM like the [[elephant]] before. The DRUM
| + | Another [[person]] who has helped me a lot is from [[Holland]]. I asked [[money]] to buy a new {{Wiki|computer}} and new glasses for myself because the old {{Wiki|computer}} is too old and slow he reacted immediately . The rest of the {{Wiki|europe}} was quiet. |
| − | changes into a heap of excrement. So then on the [[South]] out of [[letter]] AUM, [[red]] AUM appears {{Wiki|blood}}, a circle of {{Wiki|blood}} there which is also sealed with the same [[letter]]. Then on the [[West]] out of [[letter]] ZIM appears a heap of white sperm which is also sealed with the same {{Wiki|syllable}}. Now on the [[North]] out of the [[letter]] KUM appears what is called the great flesh. So this great flesh can be applied to three {{Wiki|substances}}, the best is {{Wiki|brain}}, then the {{Wiki|medium}} is the marrow inside the spine, and third is ordinary marrow in like in the leg bone. So here we [[visualize]] the {{Wiki|brain}}. So we [[visualize]] a rather large [[skull cup]] containing all
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| + | I understand because it,s a [[war]] in our days accely between [[christianity]] and [[Buddhism]] what has found new territories here in {{Wiki|Europe}},. |
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| − | {{Wiki|substances}}, those liquids they are also [[gathered]] in their [[own]] places. But they are not mixed with each other, they are completely separate and {{Wiki|distinct}}. So although these {{Wiki|substances}}, these fleshes and liquids, they are in their [[appearance]] very ordinary [[appearance]], {{Wiki|urine}}, excrement and this and that. But in their [[nature]] they are not just ordinary, dirty {{Wiki|substances}}, but they are all of the [[nature]] of the five [[Dhyana]] [[Buddhas]] and [[five wisdoms]]. So these different {{Wiki|syllables}} that we have [[visualized]], they are the {{Wiki|syllables}} for the five [[Dhyana]] [[Buddhas]]. The [[HUM]] in the center is blue for [[Akshobya]] and the DRUM in the [[East]]
| + | When I was 11 years old I read the [[book]] about [[Buddhism]] and it was written that [[Buddha]] was talking about huge amount of other [[worlds]] and [[universes]] the same time I head in school that {{Wiki|Galileo}}, on the other hand, was tried by the Inquisition after his [[book]] was published. |
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| − | is white for [[Vairocana]] and the AUM on the [[South]] is [[yellow]] for Ratnasambava and ZIM on the [[West]] for [[Amitaba]] is [[red]] and the KUM on the [[North]] is [[green]] for [[Akshobya]]. All those, the liquids, they are all sealed with the [[letter]] [[OM]]. Now all the ingredients for this cooking is ready and now we should [[visualize]] above the [[skull]] in the [[space]] a very brilliant [[red]] {{Wiki|sun}} disk. On top of that, above the [[red]] {{Wiki|sun}} disk of the [[letter]] white [[HUM]]. That white [[HUM]] changes into a white [[vajra]]. This a white [[vajra]] and in the center of the [[vajra]] there is again a [[HUM]] which is also white. So with this [[visualization]] we have now completed
| + | He said that the [[Earth]] revolved around the {{Wiki|sun}}, a {{Wiki|theory}} now known to be true, I understood immediately value of the [[christianity]] who was telling such rubbish about [[cosmology]] . [[Buddhism]] for me as always been a [[science]] and I don't understand why others haven't found such values in [[Buddhist teachings]]. |
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| − | the generation part of the [[consecration]], the ingredients and everything is now generated. Now from the [[HUM]] above there [[rays of light]] go down and {{Wiki|touch}} the [[fire mandala]] and it activates the [[fire]]. The [[fire]] starts to burn very violently and then the ingredients in the [[skull cup]] start to boil. Then they boil for some time and by boiling all together then they get completely mixed and become change into a kind of a liquid like a soup, sort of like tea {{Wiki|color}} and then the steam, the vapor coming up from the [[skull]]. So by this steam coming very strongly from this [[skull]], then it [[causes]] the {{Wiki|sun}} disk and the [[vajra]] fall into | + | And {{Wiki|Europe}} still holds the same {{Wiki|principles}} as you can see here in {{Wiki|Sweden}}. For them {{Wiki|Sweden}} is a center of the [[universe]] with his 10.23 million (2019) population. So narrow minded [[people]] here.When you use your {{Wiki|brain}} at least little bit you can understand who,ll be the winner in this [[war]]. |
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| − | the soup. By this it completely changes the [[appearance]], the {{Wiki|taste}}, the {{Wiki|smell}} and everything of the [[substance]] and it becomes very agreeable, completely white radiant, white [[amrita]], very beautiful to look at and also very delicious [[celestial]] [[nectar]], very tasteful and also very cooling, not [[hot]] burning [[sensation]], but it gives a very cooling [[blissful]] [[sensation]]. When the [[vajra]] falls into it, it turns around and completely melts into it and this transforms the whole [[appearance]] and everything of the [[substance]] and it becomes so, purifies all the faults of the [[substance]] such as the {{Wiki|smell}}, the {{Wiki|color}} and
| + | [[Buddhist psychology]] has existed two thousand years , {{Wiki|Europe}} discovered it just couple of hundred years back. It seems now that {{Wiki|European}} way of [[thinking]] is really slow and and related to [[Christian]] [[thought]]. |
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| − | everything and it becomes so [[pure]] and clear and [[pure]] like {{Wiki|crystal}}. So what still remains is the [[lotus]] at the bottom of the [[skull]], the [[lotus]] which has the [[letter]] [[AH]], the [[red lotus]] with 8 petals, that also will not melt, start melting, and get mixed with the soup. By this integrating with the [[substance]] then start to produce [[rays of light]] which go out in all [[directions]] which fills the whole [[space]]. That changes the [[substance]] completely into actual [[nectar]], actual [[amrita]]. Then from the [[letter]] [[OM]] [[emanates]] [[rays of light]]. These [[rays of light]] then bring back all the [[blessings]] and all the [[powers]] of the [[Buddhas]] from every
| + | One thing is a [[religion]] another is [[scientific]] approach. [[Buddhism]] is [[science]] because it helps you to understand yourself [[Christianity]] reveals that {{Wiki|Jesus}} is your liberator. In [[Buddhism]] you have to {{Wiki|liberate}} yourself. It means different way of [[thinking]] and [[understanding]] about the [[world]] and about your [[own mind]]. |
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| − | [[direction]] and they are all absorbed into the [[amrita]]. So when the {{Wiki|sun}} disk and the [[vajra]] falls into it, it completely purifies all the faults of the [[substance]], the {{Wiki|smell}}, the {{Wiki|color}}, the shape, everything are all completely [[purified]]. The [[lotus]] and the [[AH]] from the bottom melting with the [[substance]] is changed completely into [[nectar]], that is changing, first is purifying then is changing. Then the [[letter]] [[OM]] sending out rays 12 | + | Now you can see in web often [[word]] [[tantra]] what [[Christianity]] uses for [[own]] purposes it means borrowing from [[Buddhism]], but I havent noticed that [[Buddhism]] is using [[christian]] {{Wiki|terminology}}. It means {{Wiki|Europe}} and {{Wiki|European}} [[knowledge]] has nothing to offer anymore new [[ideas]] in field of [[spirituality]] and for a person’s personal [[spiritual]] development,Christianity has only one most important [[book]] the Bible [[Buddhism]] has them thousands. |
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| − | [[OM]] [[AH]] [[HUM]] seven times or one can recite three times also. That is the [[visualization]] for this [[consecration]] of the [[amrita]]. So if you do it as [[Rinpoche]] has now explained, then it is complete as it is in the text. But if one wishes to add some more [[visualization]] with this {{Wiki|syllable}} [[OM]] [[AH]] [[HUM]] then we should [[visualize]] in our {{Wiki|chest}} we are in the [[form]] of [[Guhyasamaja]] and in our {{Wiki|chest}} we should [[visualize]] a large {{Wiki|sun}} disk, on top of it all the [[sentient beings]] in the [[samsara]] of the [[six realms]], they are all sitting there in a big [[gathering]] on top, one should think they are all there on top of the {{Wiki|sun}} disk. When we say [[OM]] | + | [[People]] always like to have a rich friends then what about [[religion]]? [[Books]] consist [[ideas]] , teachings view of the [[world]] and I understand why [[people]] in our days who choose a [[buddhism]]. Because it has more real [[intellectual]] values then [[christianity]]. I understand how most of the [[people]] in {{Wiki|Europe}} and specially in {{Wiki|Sweden}} react on my words but someone have to be the first who says that [[king]] is naked. |
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| − | [[AH]] [[HUM]] three times, at that time we should think that all [[impurities]] of these [[sentient beings]], their [[obstacles]], their [[impurities]], everything, all the negative qualities of these [[sentient beings]] are in the [[form]] of like dirt of like dirty [[water]] or like dark [[rays of light]], they all go into are absorbed into the [[amrita]], go out and absorb into the [[skull]]. This is a very beneficial practice. So this is a practice very helpful for the [[benefit]] of the [[sentient beings]] to {{Wiki|liberate}} the [[sentient beings]]. In addition to that if anyone wants to do more elaborate [[visualization]], then we should think then [[rays of light]] going out
| + | I was first who told the [[truth]] in {{Wiki|Soviet Union}} publicly and I was expelled does it mean that {{Wiki|Europe}} or {{Wiki|Sweden}} will expel me too ? You can see everywhere the new {{Wiki|political}} approach to be friendly, [[peaceful]], not to protest or fight with the government. |
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| + | Why? Because the masses are being asked to be pushed into certain frames so that someone can [[calmly]] [[empty]] the people's pockets of [[money]]. Banks {{Wiki|rule}} everywhere, but if you ask them for [[money]] for their [[own]] [[activities]], you can [[die]] before they help you. |
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| + | If you look at governments, they are filled with politicians, [[people]] who do not even have a specific [[education]] to work in a given place or area, and they all always vote diligently in an area that is distant and incomprehensible to them. Recalling Alfred Nobel's message about {{Wiki|democracy}}, he can be said that he was a [[wise]] and the only Swede who understood the basic {{Wiki|principles}} of {{Wiki|democracy}} and expressed them exactly. |
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| + | Although he is highly valued and talked about by other countries. Not that he was in correspondence with {{Wiki|Hitler}}, but his [[scientific]] work is appreciated. I have [[realized]] over the years that I have lived in {{Wiki|Sweden}} and understood , Swedes are no longer Vikings but a {{Wiki|mass}} with whom the elective class does what they want. |
| − | of this external [[offerings]]. So again like before [[OM]] BENITA DEHUM PA we must recite that [[mantra]] of the guardian. Now at this time, since [[inner offering]] is already ready so we should take a drop with our ring finger of the left hand we take a drop and then we sprinkle. In some texts it says sprinkle with the {{Wiki|recitation}} and with the ringing of the [[bells]]. So if someone had a [[bell]] then hold the [[bell]] in this hand and then while one sprinkles then the [[bell]] also
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| + | if you do not belong to the official nomenclature does not support your work and [[activities]] it doesn't have any value for them, the same [[principle]] was chosen in the {{Wiki|Soviet Union}}, no authority in {{Wiki|Sweden}} responds positively to what I do. The {{Wiki|University}} of [[Berkeley]] immediately supported my [[activities]] in {{Wiki|Sweden}} they does not understand what it means. |
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| − | to one’s [[heart]]. After that [[OM]] SOBAWA SHUDA SARWA DARMA SOBAWA SHUDA [[HUM]] with this [[mantra]] then these [[offerings]], the external [[offerings]], the [[water]], [[flower]], etc. they all again become completely [[void]], by [[meditating]] on their [[shunyata]] [[nature]]. That is [[purification]], which means the [[purification]] of ones [[grasping]] them as [[true existence]] or ordinary [[appearance]]. Then out of the [[voidness]] then this, once the great [[blissful state of mind]] absorbs into the [[shunyata]],
| + | They have their [[own]] {{Wiki|Swedish}} opinion. expressed himself in very {{Wiki|Swedish}} wayas said Stefan Arvidsson |
| | + | [[Professor]] in the History of [[Religions]], Linnæus {{Wiki|University}} ;RELIGIONISTS OF DIFFERENT SORTS, NOT RARELY WITH DEEP THEOLOGICAL ERUDITION. He even didn't want to meet us a or ask what kind of [[education]] I have. No authority in {{Wiki|Sweden}} responds positively to what I do. The same way reacted {{Wiki|Swedish}} [[buddhists]] on facebook. |
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| − | [[meditating]] on the [[shunyata]], itself taking [[forms]] of ten very large skulls, that is the preparation of the container. Then in these [[empty]] containers, these skulls appears then all the {{Wiki|syllables}}, the initial {{Wiki|syllables}} of the [[name]] of these various [[offerings]]. For example AM for [[argham]] and PAM for padyam, and PUM for [[pushpe]] and etc. each of these initial {{Wiki|syllables}} of each [[offering]] appears into these skulls and they [[transform]] into various [[offerings]] , such as the two | + | The {{Wiki|University}} of [[Berkeley]] immediately supported my [[activities]] in {{Wiki|Sweden}} does not understand what it means. Why and what i do it for. which raises the question may be should the government choose [[people]] based on {{Wiki|IQ}} . |
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| − | waters, then the [[flower]], [[incense]], {{Wiki|light}}, etc. The first [[water]] is [[argham]], that is to be used also to drink, for drinking as well as to take bath. Then the [[water]] padyam, that is [[water]] for the feet, that is to clean the feet. Then there is [[water]] again, the third [[water]] that is anchymanam that is [[water]] to clean the {{Wiki|mouth}} to wash the {{Wiki|mouth}}. Then there is pratichyam. This is another kind of [[water]], sprinkling [[water]], perfumed [[water]] for refreshment, especially in the
| + | I have huge pile of different support letters from different [[universities]] and [[scientist]] who support my work and project. But {{Wiki|Sweden}} does not think so , Why? Because they have their [[own]] {{Wiki|Swedish}} opinion. It can be understood he has having more [[knowledge]] about [[Buddhism]] and about Eastern {{Wiki|culture}} as well than [[Berkeley]] and other [[universities]] in [[world]] , which I deeply [[doubt]]. |
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| − | [[hot]] season. [[Pushpe]], that is a [[flower]] to be just in [[form]] of garlands or [[flower]] just to give in the hand or like that, various [[flowers]], [[flower]] arrangements. And dhupe is [[incense]] of various {{Wiki|fragrance}} of various [[substance]] to give a very [[pleasant]] [[smelling]] [[sensation]]. Then [[aloke]] is the {{Wiki|light}}. That {{Wiki|light}} is the [[lamp]] and also the {{Wiki|light}} of the [[precious]] [[jewel]] and all this different kinds of {{Wiki|light}} to clear away the {{Wiki|darkness}}. [[Gandhe]], that is scented [[water]] like a [[perfume]] to | + | I call such [[phenomenon]] connected to [[stupidity]] Another words it's a {{Wiki|swedish}} [[knowledge]] about Eastern {{Wiki|culture}} and [[knowledge]] about [[Buddhism ]]. Most stupid last {{Wiki|political}} maneuver what {{Wiki|Sweden}} made with [[China]] - {{Wiki|Stockholm}} was grappling with [[China]] over a [[book]] publisher's imprisonment , unthinking what is useful or harmful for {{Wiki|swedish}} business . |
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| + | Like many countries, {{Wiki|Sweden}} shares significant trade and business dealings with [[China]] -- [[including]] {{Wiki|Chinese}} ownership of one of its most {{Wiki|iconic}} brands, Volvo Cars. Gui Congyou, [[China's]] ambassador in {{Wiki|Stockholm}}, warned of "bad {{Wiki|consequences}}" if it went ahead, {{Wiki|Swedish}} [[Prime Minister]] Stefan Lofven could be barred from visiting [[China]]. "We treat our friends with fine wine," Gui said on a {{Wiki|Swedish}} radio show. "But for our enemies we've got shotguns. |
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| − | KARAMAHAJAVA [[HUM]] and now for those two must be recited seven times [[Rinpoche]] said, seven times before one begins ones [[meditation]]. Then that is for multiplying the number of the [[mantras]] and so on, and the power. Now for the [[blessing]] of the {{Wiki|male}}: [[OM]] RUTZI RAMANA PARAVATA YA [[HUM]]. The [[mantra]] of the Mahakroda is: [[OM]] BIGNINDATI [[HUM]], [[OM]] BIGNINDATI [[HUM]], but actually how it is written is [[OM]] BIGNINTI GRITA [[HUM]] but in [[Tibetan]] we usually say BIGNINDATI [[HUM]] that is the [[mantra]] of the destroyer of interfering forces. All interference. The [[mantra]] of GUHYASAMAJA itself, the [[root mantra]] is [[OM]] [[VAJRA]] although mostly
| + | Now I understand why {{Wiki|Sweden}} does not like my work with [[Chinese Buddhist Encyclopedia]]. |
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| − | [[Tibetans]] say [[OM]] [[VAJRA]] DIK [[HUM]], but actual in written in the [[Sanskrit]] it is [[OM]] [[VAJRA]] DRIKHA [[HUM]]. [[OM]] [[VAJRA]] DRIKHA [[HUM]], that is the actual [[Sanskrit]]. Most [[people]], because it is written DRI with a "ritha" underneath so usually in [[Tibetan]] we read such [[letter]] DRI, so it became [[VAJRA]] DIK from [[VAJRA]] DRIK, [[VAJRA]] DRIKHA [[HUM]]. First we should generate the proper [[motivation]] of [[Bodhichitta]] to attain, for listening to this [[teaching]]. I should listen to this [[teaching]] to | + | [[China]] and [[Russia]] are friends now again what means its quite powerful [[friendship]]. [[China]] has plans to double his population on next 20 years. It means there,ll be 4 billion {{Wiki|chinese}}. [[China]] is building a aircraft mother ships. It seems they are planning to move to other continents soon. |
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| − | fulfill the {{Wiki|purpose}} of helping all [[sentient beings]], to [[attain enlightenment]] for the [[benefit]] of all [[sentient beings]]. So those [[prayers]] of the [[guru]] [[lineage]] can be recited before the actual [[meditation]] or one can omit it which doesn't make the [[meditation]] incomplete. However to do a [[guru]] [[prayer]] before the [[meditation]] is beneficial. So if one wishes to make a short [[guru]] [[prayer]] before then one should, one can include the whole [[guru]] [[prayer]] in three verses. The
| + | If they build ships for tourism then its a [[peaceful]] [[action]] it means they have an [[interest]] or need to explore other countries and continents but aircraft mother ships serve another {{Wiki|purpose}}, |
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| − | first verse is by Linso [[Lama]] [[Rinpoche]] and so on one verse. Then there is a second verse which is dedicated to the [[guru]] Vajradharmu Semju [[Pemba]] Lonjuso and so on. There are four lines which is dedicated to [[Vajradhara]]. Then to the rest of the [[gurus]] that we take a verse which is right at the end of the [[sadhana]] where we dedicate the [[merit]] or where we wish the [[auspicious]], where we generate the [[auspicious]] wishing, which is right at the end. In the Treshe or
| + | It's like {{Wiki|Sweden}} doesn't notice it. Maybe {{Wiki|swedish}} politicians doesn't understand what's going on in [[world]] because lack of [[education]] and {{Wiki|IQ}}. And {{Wiki|chinese}} have a lot of [[money]], And soon lot of [[people]] too. [[China]] has already [[worlds]] biggest {{Wiki|army}} . It means something especially in {{Wiki|politics}} soon. |
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| − | Treshepa, that is the end, generation of the [[auspicious]] wish. There is a verse dedicated to the [[guru]] and we take that and dedicate it to all the [[gurus]] and we take that and recite it at the beginning. So in four verses the [[guru]] [[prayer]] can be included, be shortened. After the [[guru]] [[prayer]], the longer or the shorter version, then we should recite the two following verses which is at the beginning or the first verse is the {{Wiki|confession}} for all the [[unwholesome]]
| + | Now about my [[own]] work . I understand that my {{Wiki|Chinese}} [[Buddhist]] Encylopedia has not the same [[quality]] to compare with Wikipedia where thousand [[people]] are working because I am alone and have to do everything myself. But I have totally different approach to compare with wikipedia. I want o educate [[people]] [[about buddhism]]. |
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| − | things one has done in the {{Wiki|past}} and then the second part is our making requests to the [[gurus]] to give the [[blessing]] and to give the [[siddhi]] to us in order to accomplish the [[state of enlightenment]] through mastering or through accomplishing the true [[stage of generation]] and completion. Then one more verse which is [[OM]] DEULALAMAGUTANG which is a [[prayer]] that may I never be separated in all my [[lives]] from a {{Wiki|perfect}} guide or {{Wiki|perfect}} [[guru]], and so on. After that follows then
| + | Like one {{Wiki|swedish}} politician said to me, that I am using material what others are have produced it,s not your work.He is totally right . Seems that He didn't know that Encyclopedias mostly are based on other peoples work. |
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| − | instant generation of the [[deity]] and then the [[blessing]] of the [[bell]] and [[vajra]] and [[consecration]] of the [[inner offering]] and [[outer offering]], which we have already completed yesterday. Now after the [[consecration]] of the [[outer offering]], then we should [[consecrate]] the [[torma offering]]. So although the [[object]] is different, the [[inner offering]] is liquid, and the [[torma offering]] can be a [[torma]], actually a [[torma]] made or bread or anything whatever the [[object]] is. The
| + | Only difference is that an {{Wiki|encyclopedia}} is a reference work or compendium providing summaries of [[knowledge]] either from all branches or from a particular field or [[discipline]]. {{Wiki|Encyclopedia}} entries are longer and more detailed than those in most dictionaries. |
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| − | [[object]] is different, the material [[object]] is different and the {{Wiki|purpose}} is different, but the [[consecration]] process is exactly the same. We take exactly the same {{Wiki|recitation}} and same [[visualization]] which we have done for the [[inner offering]], the same thing we should apply to the [[torma]] [[consecration]]. So after having [[consecrated]] the [[torma]] into [[amrita]], like in the [[inner offering]], now we should invite the guests to which we must offer this [[torma]]. They are the guardians.
| + | Historically, both encyclopedias and dictionaries have been researched and written by well-educated, well-informed content experts. {{Wiki|Encyclopedia}} article is typically not limited to simple definitions, and is not limited to defining an {{Wiki|individual}} [[word]], but provides a more extensive meaning for a [[subject]] or [[discipline]]. |
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| − | The [[protectors]]. There are 15 [[protectors]] and they are called [[directional protectors]] and they are exactly the same as those [[protectors]] which are in the [[Yamantaka]] and here in [[Guhyasamaja]]. So first of the 15 [[protectors]] is [[Indra]]. So there is one [[Indra]] which is the [[worldly]] [[god]] which {{Wiki|rules}} the [[celestial]] [[heavens]]. But there is another level of [[Indra]] which has [[attained]] the aurea stage through receiving the [[teaching]] of [[dharma]] from the [[enlightened Buddha]]. Also
| + | It seems that this politician doesn't use wikipedia what quite exactly explains lot of things and meanings in our days in our [[world]]. And he is a politician.I was away from sweden years and so much has changed here during this time. {{Wiki|Swedish}} {{Wiki|politics}} has changed, everything cost more , prizes has been doubled , [[life]] costs more but [[people]] earn the same amount [[money]] as before . |
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| − | there is still a higher level of [[Indra]] which has actually [[attained]] [[full enlightenment]]. There is an [[Indra]] which is one of the interference which is called [[Deva]] Interference. The lord of this particular interfering is also called [[Indra]]. Like that there are like [[Indra]] in many many different levels, many different kinds. In the same way [[Brahma]] and other [[protectors]] and guardians are also in many different kinds, many different levels. Some are [[enlightened]],
| + | Totally different country is {{Wiki|Sweden}} now to compare when I arrived here. The general opinion today is that one should not be critical about anything or negative then you are enemy of the [[state]]. |
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| − | some are unenlightened, some are interfering forces and some are protecting [[gods]] and so on. The fully [[enlightened]] [[Indra]] is not here one of the guests we invite not. Of course the fully [[enlightened]] [[manifestation]] is as one with the [[Guhyasamaja]], there is no difference. So that [[Indra]] will be [[visualized]] in one of those {{Wiki|cemeteries}} which will be created afterwards in the [[mandala]]. That [[Indra]] which will come later is the [[enlightened]] [[form]]. Then there are 15 [[worldly protectors]] or guardians [[Indra]] and so on, which are helpful for the [[practitioner]] of [[dharma]]. Those are in one group and then there is another group of the 15 with the same names which are interfering forces which are causing interference to a [[practitioner]] of [[dharma]] So there are two sides, The guests, 15 guests
| + | There is a {{Wiki|mass}} of [[people]] in our days who has the same opinion about everything as the [[state]] dictates and at the same time we speculate on freedom of {{Wiki|speech}}. I [[wonder]] what it is about. We saw what happened when [[people]] in {{Wiki|Germany}} started to protest against Coronavirus. Police used [[water]] cannons against demonstrators. |
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| − | which we are inviting for this [[torma offering]] is -- the first group, the first 15 guardians, [[Indra]] and so on, who are [[worldly]] guardians but who are helpful to the [[practitioner]] of the [[dharma]], who are [[protectors]], to [[protector]] the [[practitioner]], those are the guests in this invitation. Those 15 interfering forces will be later in the [[sadhana]] will be summoned by the power of the [[deity]] and will be conquered or defeated and then put into a cell, will be like imprisoned. That follows later on. So all the helpful, they are called the [[wholesome]] forces, [[worldly]] forces, that is around in the [[world]], they are all included in these 15 guardians. Those all the interfering forces, all the interfering [[spirits]], interfering [[gods]] whatever they are, those are all included
| + | It's called freedom and free {{Wiki|speech}} but for whom? Only government has right to express free {{Wiki|speech}} and those who are against it are enemies. of the [[state]] , In {{Wiki|Soviet Union}} was very popular to use psychiatric hospitals for those. It's time to use the same tactics in our days. Nothing new in here. Totalitarian way of [[thinking]] is flourishing everywhere . |
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| − | into this negative group. So we invite these guests and we make the [[offering]] of [[torma]] and request to them to {{Wiki|protect}} us, to help us during ones practice of [[dharma]]. First these guests must be invited, must be summoned, invited to this feast. So that starts now. What [[Je Rinpoche]] has explained so far is just the general [[condition]] or the general situation of these guardians. Now begins the actual work, the actual work or invitation. Then so we should [[visualize]] with this gesture, we should [[visualize]] all the [[rays of light]] going out, [[red]] colored [[rays of light]] going out from the [[HUM]] in your {{Wiki|chest}}, going to all [[directions]] and [[touching]] all the, reaching all the guardians in [[ten directions]] Then they are attracted, they are drawn back like a magnet picks up or draws back a
| + | Bunch of [[people]] without [[special knowledge]] deciding what is useful and what is not. It's called sick [[society]] and [[sickness]] comes not from [[people]] but from the government side .Why because bunch of elected politicians vote and decide what to do and how. |
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| + | How they know what's best for me when they even don't know how I think and digest intellectually. When we go to the restaurant we choose what to order. Soon it,ll change we all have to eat the same [[food]] and drink the same drink not drinks. The difference enriches the {{Wiki|culture}}, [[society]] and people's [[minds]] . Everything is dictated by government. We call it {{Wiki|democracy}}. But is it? |
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| + | Small businesses have disappeared thanks for coronavirus. It means [[society]] or [[people]] get poorer and some of them get richer. It's called {{Wiki|democracy}}. I wrote to 60 politicians and got no {{Wiki|reaction}} it's called {{Wiki|democracy}}. I don't blame [[society]] . I talk about government who likes to feed [[people]] with slogans what are fake. |
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| − | [[upper gods]]. Next to the [[Yaksha]] which is on the [[North]] we should also place the Ghanasha. So in between Maruna the [[water god]] which is on the [[West]] and the Rackshas which is on the [[Southwest]], in between the two we should place the lord of the Ashudas and the [[goddess]] of the [[Earth]]. So this completes the 15 guardians, so there are 2 [[gods]] in the [[East]] and they are called Eastern [[gods]], that is [[Indra]] and [[Vishnu]]. In the [[South]] there is the [[god of death]], [[Yama]], and the [[West]] is Maruna [[water]] go, and in the [[North]] there is the [[Yaksha]] the [[wealth]] [[god]] as well as Ghanasha. Then on the [[Southeast]] there is the [[fire god]], and on the [[Southwest]] there is the Rackshas, and [[Northwest]] is the [[wind]] [[god]], and [[Northeast]] is [[Ishvara]]. So there are 10 [[gods]], 4 [[gods]] in the 4 [[directions]] and 4 in the | + | I talk [[about buddhism]] what is not welcome to {{Wiki|Sweden}}. It's strange we talk about free {{Wiki|speech}} but it seems that we have forgotten about what is free [[thinking]]. And [[education]] looks different. Stefan Arvidsson is a product of [[education]] system who has [[taught]] him that [[religion]] is {{Wiki|opium}} for [[people]]. |
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| − | ZHI PO-KYI...the usual [[offering]]. We are [[offering]] this [[mandala offering]] to ones [[root guru]]. So we are making this [[offering]] in order to receive the permission, we are asking for the permission of the, the [[blessing]] and permission of the [[guru]] to practice, engage ourself in this [[practice of Guhyasamaja]]. Even if one is practicing something very great, something very advanced, something very [[great practice]] of [[dharma]], one should always ask permission of the [[guru]] to do so. So like when so here one can insert the [[Vajrasattva meditation]] as it is usually done in the beginning of the [[sadhana]]. [[Visualizing]] [[Vajrasattva]] and then reciting the [[mantra]] and making a sort of thorough [[purification]] practice, but [[Rinpoche]] will not explain it at this time. So [[Je Rinpoche]]
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| + | I understand what {{Wiki|reaction}}, ll be on my article from so called politicians side. So what I give a F,, as I did in {{Wiki|Soviet Union}}. {{Wiki|Brain}} of the [[human]] is magnificent and able to do things which seem impossible at first glance. As one [[professor]] at the {{Wiki|University}} of [[Berkeley]] said to me; how you were the only one who came up with such [[idea]] to dismantle the {{Wiki|Soviet Union}} and no one else wanted to do it. |
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Buddhism in Sweden
Couple of weeks ago I found a page in Facebook called or group of people called Buddhism in Sweden . I wrote couple of words myself an english on their page and immediately reacted on my words site Admin Peter Olin and told that everybody here on this page have to use only Swedish because it's a swedish buddhist site. He sound quite convincible.
I explained to Olin that I have been doing the Chinese Buddhist Encyclopedia for 18 hours every day for 8 years After which he started to explain to me that many links in Chinese Buddhist Encyclopedia what are linked to Wikipedia are suspicious and may change over time, and what,ll happened with these articles in my encyclopedia when there,ll be changes in Wikipedia , He seemed quite excited and determined in their own deliberations and positions.
Then I posted couple of thangkas made by me and lot of critics or by other words a large avalanche of criticism arrived at my address. compared to my attitude towards the Encyclopedia and other activities in Asia, Sweden had an extremely negative and rusty cold attitude.
With this, I felt like the admin's ironic logic killed me wanting to participate in this site on Facebook and of course since the admin of the page was quite specific in his attitude, I asked him what have you done for Buddhism yourself? He didn't answer. At the end I just left the swedish group of buddhists..
I spend there on site just 2 days. And then left because people started to scream about my work with Chinese Buddhist Encyclopedia. My secretary who has been a member of this group started to defend me and almost all people on the page started to talk that I serve the interests of the Chinese government and they pay me for that.
I started the encyclopedia in Australia and interestingly there were no negative attitude towards my work . Australia gave me a Distinguished Talented Visa for my activities and work in Buddhism .
I am struck by how two countries may have so different views on Buddhism. I arrived back to Sweden a year ago and turned to Swedish government and asked if they would like to help me with the encyclopedia. I also wrote to the Swedish Academy of Sciences and asked them for a positive attitude towards my work. I wrote to 60 politicians in the government but did not receive any response to my letters at all.
The Academy of Sciences was silent in Swedish way. I thought when I arrived first time to Sweden most of the world's press was present and even Swedish journalists but now it seemed embarrassing for Sweden that they gave me swedish citizenship, Which shows that my political activities suited them but not Buddhist .
I have organized a major international Buddhist conferences and (Buddhism and Nordland) and (Buddhism and Australia) what lasted 9 years. I myself have attended other conferences at the University of Berkeley, but I have never seen such a derogatory and monotonous attitude as in Europe, and especially in Scandinavia haven't seen such negative attitude anywhere in world. We can say openly Sweden denies Buddhism.
This summer, I approached the University of Kalmar with a proposal to hold an international conference on Buddhism. In a month's time, my secretary, Marju Broder, sent them letters with a proposal to meet to discuss cooperation and activities in connection with the conference.
the university replied to me w month later with such this letter;
Dear Marju Broder,
I’m professor in the study of religions and like all my colleagues in the study of religions we are regularly contacted by, besides of course scholars of religions, RELIGIONISTS OF DIFFERENT SORTS, NOT RARELY WITH DEEP THEOLOGICAL ERUDITION.
Stefan Arvidsson
Professor in the History of Religions, Linnæus University
At least someone dared to answer and say what is thought about of Buddhist activities in Sweden . It is interesting that Sweden is talking about religious freedom. How to understand it ?
This freedom seems to exist only for Christians but not for Buddhists . In addition, we wrote to many other Swedish organizations, but the answer was silence
My secretary Marju Broder also wrote to others in Scandinavia, but the answer from them was either silence or a negative attitude. The same attitude was observed by those Swedes on Facebook who call themselves a Buddhists.
That's what they wrote in Swedish newspaper;
Buddhism is a relatively small religion in Sweden, but has seen an increase in recent years. The number of Buddhists in April 2011 is estimated at around 45,000 people or close to 0.5% of Sweden's population, making it Sweden's third largest religion after Christianity and Islam. Most practitioners have an Asian background and come mostly from Thailand, China or Vietnam.
In addition, the Swedish government requested that donations to Buddhists be taxed on the basis of income.
http://religionsvetenskapligakommentarer.blogspot.com/2012/09/strukturell-diskriminering-nar.html
http://religionsvetenskapligakommentarer.blogspot.com/2019/08/buddhistiska-tempel-beskattas-for.html
It,s a shame to take a money from buddhist monks. Interesting how much Swedish government pays for Christian church to keep it alive.
it shows specifically how the Swedish government and people view Buddhism. You could say frankly that they hate Buddhism
It shows how wrong country I chose when I was expelled from the Soviet Union by Gorbachev when I made, first time in Soviet history, an opposition party against Communist Party, My idea that erupted the Soviet Union and perestroika.
Having lived in Sweden for years, I did not come to the idea or understanding that Sweden does not like a Buddhism because I was not involved in promoting Buddhism in Sweden.
I have been actively involved in Buddhism for 45 years, I established the Nyingma Buddhist tradition in Estonia, built 5 stupas there, My friends also actively contributed to the translation of a large amount of Buddhist literature. Soviet times nobody paid attention to my work in field of Buddhism.
Now when I went back to Estonia and started to build a new stupa the new Estonian government arrested me and my friends and accused me that I am hiding weapons in my country house what I haven't visited already 15 years .
They hold me in jail two days until swedish ambassador Dag Hartelius called to the police. Why it's happened? Because in Estonia old communists are still in power. And they hate me because I destroyed the Soviet Union.
I built a stupa and large prayer wheel then left Estonia., 1982 I build 4 stupas with my friends in Estonia, first Buddhist thangkas were made by Arno Arrak it was the start for Buddhism in Estonia.
At the same time, the University of Tartu in Estonia was extremely contemptuous of my activities, led by Linnart Mäll,who was a chronic alcoholic plus his students Märt Läänemets and Maret Kark supported him.
It is striking that instead of cooperation, there is an immediate denigration against Buddhist activities from scientific side . Now that everyone is talking about a multicultural era, both freedom of speech and freedom of religion, the Swedish government is asking to tax donations to Buddhists .
An example my secretary asked Oxford University to participate on coming conference Buddhism and Nordland and she got such answer :
I am sorry to say that I cannot give you any encouragement. The OCBS is a small institute with very limited resources. We are not even able to pay any academic salaries. We also have nobody here who knows anything about Buddhism and Nordland, so we cannot offer any expertise
Yours sincerely,
Richard Gombrich
And it is a solid old university with English traditions.
The same time we have big site in Internet dedicated to this conference.
The question arises as how Buddhists do not notice what other Buddhists are talking about Buddhism in their work on conference Buddhism and Nordland.
It shows the stupidity and short-sightedness of the Europeans and its universities, And we talk about religious freedom here . Compared to the University of Berkeley, who immediately agreed to collaborate with leading professor Lewis Lancaster .The only company that is actively involved in translating texts and spreading knowledge about Buddhism,in our days which is Lotsawa house and its a very big contribution to European Buddhism,
https://www.lotsawahouse.org/
It,s interesting most of those people doesn't belong to Europe who translate in Lotsawa House. I know Erik Pema Kunsang because when I started with Chinese Encyclopedia he connected me and his relationship to my project was very positive and favorable. He is from Denmark . And well known translator from Tibetan.
https://lotsawahouse.blog/interviews/erik-pema-kunsang/
Another person who has helped me a lot is from Holland. I asked money to buy a new computer and new glasses for myself because the old computer is too old and slow he reacted immediately . The rest of the europe was quiet.
I understand because it,s a war in our days accely between christianity and Buddhism what has found new territories here in Europe,.
When I was 11 years old I read the book about Buddhism and it was written that Buddha was talking about huge amount of other worlds and universes the same time I head in school that Galileo, on the other hand, was tried by the Inquisition after his book was published.
He said that the Earth revolved around the sun, a theory now known to be true, I understood immediately value of the christianity who was telling such rubbish about cosmology . Buddhism for me as always been a science and I don't understand why others haven't found such values in Buddhist teachings.
And Europe still holds the same principles as you can see here in Sweden. For them Sweden is a center of the universe with his 10.23 million (2019) population. So narrow minded people here.When you use your brain at least little bit you can understand who,ll be the winner in this war.
Buddhist psychology has existed two thousand years , Europe discovered it just couple of hundred years back. It seems now that European way of thinking is really slow and and related to Christian thought.
One thing is a religion another is scientific approach. Buddhism is science because it helps you to understand yourself Christianity reveals that Jesus is your liberator. In Buddhism you have to liberate yourself. It means different way of thinking and understanding about the world and about your own mind.
Now you can see in web often word tantra what Christianity uses for own purposes it means borrowing from Buddhism, but I havent noticed that Buddhism is using christian terminology. It means Europe and European knowledge has nothing to offer anymore new ideas in field of spirituality and for a person’s personal spiritual development,Christianity has only one most important book the Bible Buddhism has them thousands.
People always like to have a rich friends then what about religion? Books consist ideas , teachings view of the world and I understand why people in our days who choose a buddhism. Because it has more real intellectual values then christianity. I understand how most of the people in Europe and specially in Sweden react on my words but someone have to be the first who says that king is naked.
I was first who told the truth in Soviet Union publicly and I was expelled does it mean that Europe or Sweden will expel me too ? You can see everywhere the new political approach to be friendly, peaceful, not to protest or fight with the government.
Why? Because the masses are being asked to be pushed into certain frames so that someone can calmly empty the people's pockets of money. Banks rule everywhere, but if you ask them for money for their own activities, you can die before they help you.
If you look at governments, they are filled with politicians, people who do not even have a specific education to work in a given place or area, and they all always vote diligently in an area that is distant and incomprehensible to them. Recalling Alfred Nobel's message about democracy, he can be said that he was a wise and the only Swede who understood the basic principles of democracy and expressed them exactly.
Sweden uses his money to share prizes in science, but does not notice when someone is trying to spread knowledge about Buddhism. I was told in Öland by local politicians who need this encyclopedia of no use or need for the people. Then I immediately understood what the term politician means today, Sven Hedin, who was an eastern investigator, has been overlooked by the Swedish government because he had correspondence with Hitler.
Although he is highly valued and talked about by other countries. Not that he was in correspondence with Hitler, but his scientific work is appreciated. I have realized over the years that I have lived in Sweden and understood , Swedes are no longer Vikings but a mass with whom the elective class does what they want.
if you do not belong to the official nomenclature does not support your work and activities it doesn't have any value for them, the same principle was chosen in the Soviet Union, no authority in Sweden responds positively to what I do. The University of Berkeley immediately supported my activities in Sweden they does not understand what it means.
They have their own Swedish opinion. expressed himself in very Swedish wayas said Stefan Arvidsson
Professor in the History of Religions, Linnæus University ;RELIGIONISTS OF DIFFERENT SORTS, NOT RARELY WITH DEEP THEOLOGICAL ERUDITION. He even didn't want to meet us a or ask what kind of education I have. No authority in Sweden responds positively to what I do. The same way reacted Swedish buddhists on facebook.
The University of Berkeley immediately supported my activities in Sweden does not understand what it means. Why and what i do it for. which raises the question may be should the government choose people based on IQ .
I have huge pile of different support letters from different universities and scientist who support my work and project. But Sweden does not think so , Why? Because they have their own Swedish opinion. It can be understood he has having more knowledge about Buddhism and about Eastern culture as well than Berkeley and other universities in world , which I deeply doubt.
I call such phenomenon connected to stupidity Another words it's a swedish knowledge about Eastern culture and knowledge about Buddhism . Most stupid last political maneuver what Sweden made with China - Stockholm was grappling with China over a book publisher's imprisonment , unthinking what is useful or harmful for swedish business .
Like many countries, Sweden shares significant trade and business dealings with China -- including Chinese ownership of one of its most iconic brands, Volvo Cars. Gui Congyou, China's ambassador in Stockholm, warned of "bad consequences" if it went ahead, Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven could be barred from visiting China. "We treat our friends with fine wine," Gui said on a Swedish radio show. "But for our enemies we've got shotguns.
Now I understand why Sweden does not like my work with Chinese Buddhist Encyclopedia.
China and Russia are friends now again what means its quite powerful friendship. China has plans to double his population on next 20 years. It means there,ll be 4 billion chinese. China is building a aircraft mother ships. It seems they are planning to move to other continents soon.
If they build ships for tourism then its a peaceful action it means they have an interest or need to explore other countries and continents but aircraft mother ships serve another purpose,
It's like Sweden doesn't notice it. Maybe swedish politicians doesn't understand what's going on in world because lack of education and IQ. And chinese have a lot of money, And soon lot of people too. China has already worlds biggest army . It means something especially in politics soon.
Now about my own work . I understand that my Chinese Buddhist Encylopedia has not the same quality to compare with Wikipedia where thousand people are working because I am alone and have to do everything myself. But I have totally different approach to compare with wikipedia. I want o educate people about buddhism.
Like one swedish politician said to me, that I am using material what others are have produced it,s not your work.He is totally right . Seems that He didn't know that Encyclopedias mostly are based on other peoples work.
Only difference is that an encyclopedia is a reference work or compendium providing summaries of knowledge either from all branches or from a particular field or discipline. Encyclopedia entries are longer and more detailed than those in most dictionaries.
Historically, both encyclopedias and dictionaries have been researched and written by well-educated, well-informed content experts. Encyclopedia article is typically not limited to simple definitions, and is not limited to defining an individual word, but provides a more extensive meaning for a subject or discipline.
It seems that this politician doesn't use wikipedia what quite exactly explains lot of things and meanings in our days in our world. And he is a politician.I was away from sweden years and so much has changed here during this time. Swedish politics has changed, everything cost more , prizes has been doubled , life costs more but people earn the same amount money as before .
Totally different country is Sweden now to compare when I arrived here. The general opinion today is that one should not be critical about anything or negative then you are enemy of the state.
There is a mass of people in our days who has the same opinion about everything as the state dictates and at the same time we speculate on freedom of speech. I wonder what it is about. We saw what happened when people in Germany started to protest against Coronavirus. Police used water cannons against demonstrators.
It's called freedom and free speech but for whom? Only government has right to express free speech and those who are against it are enemies. of the state , In Soviet Union was very popular to use psychiatric hospitals for those. It's time to use the same tactics in our days. Nothing new in here. Totalitarian way of thinking is flourishing everywhere .
Bunch of people without special knowledge deciding what is useful and what is not. It's called sick society and sickness comes not from people but from the government side .Why because bunch of elected politicians vote and decide what to do and how.
How they know what's best for me when they even don't know how I think and digest intellectually. When we go to the restaurant we choose what to order. Soon it,ll change we all have to eat the same food and drink the same drink not drinks. The difference enriches the culture, society and people's minds . Everything is dictated by government. We call it democracy. But is it?
Small businesses have disappeared thanks for coronavirus. It means society or people get poorer and some of them get richer. It's called democracy. I wrote to 60 politicians and got no reaction it's called democracy. I don't blame society . I talk about government who likes to feed people with slogans what are fake.
I talk about buddhism what is not welcome to Sweden. It's strange we talk about free speech but it seems that we have forgotten about what is free thinking. And education looks different. Stefan Arvidsson is a product of education system who has taught him that religion is opium for people.
In Marxism it's very popular view. So I got answer from communist who declares that he knows Buddhism better than me. It's the same view had so called university workers in Estonia in Taru university. But then it was Estonia part of the Soviet Union. Coming back to Sweden after 10 years I feel as I returned back to Soviet Union.
I understand what reaction, ll be on my article from so called politicians side. So what I give a F,, as I did in Soviet Union. Brain of the human is magnificent and able to do things which seem impossible at first glance. As one professor at the University of Berkeley said to me; how you were the only one who came up with such idea to dismantle the Soviet Union and no one else wanted to do it.
My answer to him was; My idea was that religion was banned in the Soviet Union and the only way for Buddhism to re-emerge as a source of knowledge for many Buddhists was to change this social order. Interesting when such an idea will come in connection to Sweden ? As a monk I have no right to think about this because we live in sansara and big changes in society will bring a lot of problems in my next life. So I am already doomed.
I hope Chinese Buddhist Encyclopedia will be as the lifebuoy for me but Swedish society and government doesn't want to help me with mu problems because they are doomed too I think. Sooner or later there must be certain reforms otherwise there ,ll appear someone who wants to change something in social order. I understand that my talk and thoughts seem absurd and out of mind for Sweden but it,s a life what dictates our actions and survival.
