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Dharma 24 Jun 2013 20:13 #61

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At the beginning of the practice, one recites the Purification Mantras to purify one's speech, body, and mind: "Om, syo-lee, syo-lee, ma-ha syo-lee, syo-syo-lee, so-ha," "Om, syo-do-lee, syo-do-lee, syo-mo-lee, syo-mo-lee, so-ha," and "Om, fo ri la dam, ho ho hum." One also recites the Local Earth Spirit Mantra, "Namo sam-man-do, moo-toh-nam, om, do-lo do-lo de-wei, so-ha" to invite all earth spirits to come and guard and support one during the practice. Question has been raised as to whether these mantras need to be accompanied by mudras and visualizations. Actually in Tantric rituals, mantras are, indeed, often recited simultaneously with mudras and visualizations. This is referred to as the Unification of the Three Secrets.

In certain schools, the recitation of the Purification Mantras, is done without any mudras or visualizations because, prior to the chanting of the Purification Mantras, one already has purified the body, mind, and speech. By taking ablution and consuming only a simple meal, one has already purified the body. By rinsing one's mouth and brushing one's teeth, one has already purified the speech. By leaving worries, wrath, and turbulent thoughts at the door of the Tantric shrine, one has already prepared and purified one's mind. Therefore, when one actually enters the Tantric shrine, the body and mind are completely relaxed, and the mind does not harbour any thoughts...

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Dharma 24 Jun 2013 20:23 #62

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Next is the step of invocation. In general, one joins the palms and recites "Om ah hum, so ha" 3 times, then invokes the Principle Deity in one's shrine, and all the Buddhas and deities and their retinues. Or, by addressing them collectively as "All Buddhas in the Ten Directions and 3 Times and All Bodhisattvas and Mahasattvas," one invokes all of them. One can invoke Buddha Shakyamuni, Amitabha of Sukhavati, or whichever Principle Deity is enshrined at one's own shrine...

Invocation by Mind.. In Tantric practice, invocation is accompanied by mudra, mantra, and visualization. We join our palms while we recite the Invocation Mantra. While the palms are joined, one visualizes the heart charka open up to transform into a lotus. On the lotus is a moon disc bearing the seed syllable of the Personal Deity on which one is meditating. If the deity is Amitabha, then the seed syllable is "hri". The seed syllable emits 3 beams of light in the colour that corresponds to the particular deity. In the case of Amitabha, the colour is red. These 3 beams of red light then travel through the middle channel of the body and leave the crown to shine into the Empty Space above. This projection of the red light 3 times into the spiritual realm is an invocation by mind or visualization. While one is invoking the deities by speech, i.e. by chanting 3 times "Om ah hum, so ha," one is at the same time using the mind to open up the heart lotus. On the lotus is the moon disc bearing the seed syllable which 3 times emits a colored light. This is invocation by mind...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amit%C4%81bha

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Invocation by speech is the chanting of the mantra and the names of the various deities, such as Amitabha..Every time, before I partake of a meal, I also do an invocation. Actually my invocation is very simple. Sometimes I don't even recite any mantra because it can be quite tedious chanting "Om ah hum, so ha" every single time. Since the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas are right around me, I join my palms and say 3 times, "Please enjoy the meal." It is just this simple and the deities hear of it immediately. As long as one sends out a message of the mind, the deities will respond very quickly, as they are actually very close to us. It is a very ordinary phenomenon..

We recite "Om ah hum, so ha." Why do we recite this particular mantra? This is because it is the greatest mantra for invocation. "Om" represents the Universe, "Ah" represents the Buddha, and "Hum" represents ?ruition or accomplishment." Together they mean "to attain the accomplishment of all Buddhas in the Universe." "So ha" is "amen," or "may it be so!" It is one's desire and goal to arrive at the same level of accomplishment as that of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in the Universe. This is why one invokes them to descend to one's shrine. This was originally a mantra used to invoke the 5 Dhyani Buddhas,when one recites this mantra, any deities below the 5 Dhyani Buddhas also hear of it and come. This makes it the greatest mantra for invoking all the divine beings in the Universe...

Invocation by mind or visualization is an extremely powerful method. It is an integral part of Tantric cultivation. When one very clearly visualizes the heart chakra opening to form the lotus, moon disc, seed syllable, and the radiating of the light beams three times, the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will definitely descend...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Dhyani_Buddhas

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OM BENZA SATHO SAMAYA / MANU PALAYA / BENZAR SATHO TENO PA / THI DHA THIDDO MAY BHAWA / SUTHO KAYO MAY BHAWA / SUPO KAYO MAY BHAWA / ANU RHAKTO MAY BHAWA / SARWA SIDDHI MEPAR YA TSA / SARWA KARMA SU TSA MAY / TSITAM SHRI YAM KURU HUNG / HA HA HA HA HO / BHA GA WAN / SARVA TA THA GATA / BENZA MA MAY MUN TSA / BENZAR BHAWA MA HA SAMAYA SATHO AH..

The practice of purification is applied by using the 4 Opponent powers of the Vajrasattva: The Power of Regret, The Power of Reliance, The Power of Antidote and the Power of Promise...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajrasattva
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Invocation by Mudra.. "Joining of the palms" actually means "thus is my wish." Now one can transform the joining of the palms into the external handclasp and add a "hook" to turn it into the Vajra Hook Mudra. Sometimes, after one chants the mantra, the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas fail to come - perhaps due to one's lack of focus during the Purification and Invocation Mantras. If, after one does the visualization, the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas still do not come, perhaps one's visualization was not lucid enough, and the heart lotus was lopsided, allowing the light beams to exit through the skin pores instead of through the middle channel.. An incomplete visualization of the radiating light will not work. So, as a last resort, one can use the Hook Mudra..

The Vajra Hook Mudra is an invocation mudra. This is the Vajra Hook Mudra: the combination of the external handclasp and the bending of the right index finger to form a hook..This mudra is accompanied by visualization. While holding this mudra, one recites 3 times "Namo Vajra Hook Bodhisattva Mahasattva" and visualizes this hook rising very high up to reach to the Empty Space above and hook onto the clouds upon which the Personal Deity is sitting. Then, using the hook, one pulls the Personal Deity down from above. Do not make the mistake of hooking onto the collar of the Bodhisattva; one should only use this to hook onto the clouds, or throne, of the Bodhisattva..Although it begins as visualization, a kind of ritual, it will manifest into a reality. When one recites "Namo Vajra Hook Bodhisattva Mahasattva" three times and raises the hook up into the Empty Space to hook onto the cloud throne of the Buddha or Bodhisattva and pull it down, the deity will descend from above. This is the secret.."Grand Master, how do I know whether the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas I invoke each time have, indeed, descended or not?" One is finished if one does not know whether or not the divine beings come each time one does the practice! Where I one's mind at the time of invocation? When one invokes the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and other deities, of course they will come. If they don't come, it is because one has not put the mind totally into it. Invocations accompanied by mantra, mudra, and visualization are extremely subtle and effective. One has to treat one's practice seriously, with real attention. To practice inside the Tantric shrine is to be in complete Oneness with the Universal Consciousness...

By achieving Union with the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, one breathes in and out through the same nostril as the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. The Buddhas' exhalations and inhalations are one's own exhalations and inhalations; one's own exhalations and inhalations are the Buddhas' exhalations and inhalations - this is what is meant by breathing in and out through the same nostril. Inside the Tantric shrine, the Buddha and the cultivator are in union. It will not do if, after half a day, the Buddha is still the Buddha, and the cultivator is still the cultivator, and the cultivator has no idea if the Buddhas have descended or not. One is finished if one has no idea at all of their presence. That is why this teaching of invocation is very important. One has to know that it is not enough just to employ a hook to pull the Buddha down; one has to make the Buddha enter oneself. Even that is not enough; one has to transmute and become the Buddha. This is what Tantra and "spiritual response" is all about. When one practices the Guru Yoga or Personal Deity Yoga, one has to transmute and become indivisible with the Guru or the Personal Deity...Visualization of Movement ..There is another subtle point: one has to observe clearly whether the deity has descended or not. For instance, if Kuan Yin Bodhisattva is one's personal Deity, when he makes his appearance above the clouds in the Empty Space, one has to pay attention to see if the white celestial garment he wears and his eyes are moving, if his cloud throne is sailing down to one, and if his feet are moving or not. Making these observations is critically important. One uses the Vajra Hook to pull the deity down, then one uses the mind to visualize and observe him. One visualizes the celestial garment moving and water being poured out of the pure vase to give one Empowerment. One visualizes the feet of the deity gliding and moving. One observes the eyes of the deity gazing at one. One visualizes the deity's crown and robes waving in the wind. This is an alive and moving Bodhisattva. Because the Bodhisattva is moving, he can descend. This will become the reality...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudra

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Chakras play an important role in the main surviving branch of Indian Vajrayana, Tibetan Buddhism. They play a pivotal role in completion stage practices, where an attempt is made to bring the subtle winds of the body into the central channel, to realise the clear light of bliss and emptiness, and to attain Buddhahood...

The Vajrayana system states that the central channel (avadhūtī) begins at the point of the 3rd eye like of lord Shiva, curves up to the crown of the head, and then goes straight down to the lower body. There are 2 side channels, the rasanā and lalanā, which start at their respective nostrils and then travel down to the lower body. The apāna vāyu governs the lower terminations of the 3 channels. The lower end of the central channel ends in the rectum. The lower end of the lalanā ends in the urinary tract. The lower end of the rasanā channel emits semen..

The side channels run parallel to the center channel, except at locations such as the navel, heart, throat and crown (i.e. chakras) where the two side channels twist around the central channel. At the navel, throat and crown, there is a 2-fold knot caused by each side channel twisting once around the central channel. At the heart wheel there is a 6-fold knot, where each side channel twists around 3 times. An important part of completion stage practice involves loosening and undoing these knots..Within the chakras exist the 'subtle drops'. The white drop exists in the crown, the red drop exists in the navel, and at the heart exists the indestructible red and white drop, which leaves the body at the time of death. In addition, each chakra has a number of 'spokes' or 'petals', which branch off into thousands of subtle channels running to every part of the body, and each contains a Sanskrit syllable...Chakras, according to the Himalayan Bönpo tradition, influence the quality of experience, because movement of vayu cannot be separated from experience. Each of the 6 major chakras are linked to experiential qualities of 1 of the 6 realms of existence...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahamudra
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The 5 Wisdom Buddhas are a later development, based on the Yogācāra elaboration of concepts concerning the jñāna of the Buddhas, of the Trikaya (In Sanskrit, Tri is "3", kaya is "body") theory, which posits 3 "bodies" of the Buddha. The Wisdom Buddhas are all aspects of the dharmakaya or "truth-body", which embodies the principle of enlightenment. Initially 2 Buddhas appeared which represented wisdom and compassion - they were, respectively, Akṣobhya and Amitābha. A further distinction embodied the aspects of power, or activity, and the aspect of beauty, or spiritual riches. In the Sutra of Golden Light (an early Mahayana Sutra) the figures are named Dundubishvara, and Ratnaketu, but over time their names changed to become Amoghasiddhi, and Ratnasaṃbhava. The central figure came to be called Vairocana...

The 5 Wisdom Buddhas are protected by the 5 Wisdom Kings, and in Japan are frequently depicted together in the Mandala of the 2 Realms and are in the Shurangama Mantra revealed in the Shurangama Sutra.. They each are often depicted with consorts, and preside over their own Pure Lands..With regard to Emptiness, the massive size and brilliance of Vairocana statues serve as a reminder that all conditioned existence is empty and without a permanent identity...He is also mentioned as an epithet of the Buddha Śakyamuni in the Sutra of Meditation on the Bodhisattva Universal Virtue, who dwells in a place called "Always Tranquil Light"...

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Invocation at Times of Urgency,according to one Tantric rule, one can pat the right thigh once, and then the left thigh once. Why pat the thighs? Because the legs represent movement. By patting one's legs, one can call upon the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas to come into action..There is a saying that 5 hundred male sky dancers (Dakas) and 5 hundred female sky dancers (Dakinis) are hidden respectively in one's right and left thighs. These sky dancers are in tune with a Tantric practitioner's thighs. By patting the thighs during times of difficulties, a Tantric practitioner is calling upon the sky dancers to move into action to help. During urgent times, when there is no time to do formal invocation, one can pat the right and left thighs.. Generally, when we do invocations, we use mantra, mudra, and visualization. We visualize the deity's garment moving, hand implements moving, eyes moving, and feet moving...

Why is the Vajrasattva Mantra also used for invocation? One knows that the Primordial Buddha - Adi Buddha - is also called the Principal Vajradhara and resides at the 16th Stage. Exoteric schools generally only mention gradations up to the 10th Stage. Adi Buddha is from the 16th Stage. The 5 Dhyani Buddhas are also known as the 5 Vajradharas. Vajrasattva, being formed from the combination of the 5 Vajradharas, is called the 6th Vajradhara. This is why the mantra of Vajrasattva can be used for invocation and is just as great as the invocation mantra of the 5 Dhyani Buddhas. These mantras can be traced to their source. Therefore, one first has to learn that Adi Buddha is the Primordial Buddha, or Samantabhadra Buddha. In Vajrayana, he is called the Principal Vajradhara. The 5 Dhyani Buddhas are the 5 Vajradharas and Vajrasattva is the 6th Vajradhara...

The suffix "sattva" comes from Bodhisattva, Kuan Yin, Cundi, and Padmasambhava are Bodhisattvas. The lineage of Vajrayana is traced to Vajrasattva because it was from Vajrasattva that Nagarjuna Bodhisattva had received the Vajrayana teachings after unlocking the Iron Tower and meeting with Vajrasattva. Nagarjuna Bodhisattva was the 1st human guru while Vajrasattva is the lineage holder of Vajrayana. This is why it is excellent to use the Vajrasattva Mantra as an invocation mantra...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adi-Buddha

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"When beings engage in the 10 non-virtues, causing warfare and committing immense sin, these negative activities will pollute the mother elements and give the spirits opportunities to become more powerful. Thus, the seasons will become unbalanced, the crops will fail, the weather patterns will bring disaster, diseases will multiply every year and even the best remedies will no longer have any effect..

Food and herbal medicine will loose their potency, requiring stronger dosages...at that time this mantra, which shall be known as the Vajra Armour, or ”Ngak-Bum Dorje Go-Drab” - the 1 Mantra That is the Source of the 100,000 Methods - will be needed to save beings from this immense suffering. If you place 100 percent trust in this mantra and if you receive the transmission from a true lineage holder and practice it according to the samayas, then this mantra will cure disease, protect and prevent illness, calamities, restore balance to the environment, and most importantly destroy the true cause of all suffering - anger, desire and ignorance.” - Padmasambhava...

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gadensamtenling.org/007-dharmapractice/0...b.TenNonVirtuous.htm
sanctumzone.co.uk/forum/todays-news/9242...-of-food.html#134543 "Anthony is going to have real trouble trying to find GM food as so many have now decided that GM food is not worth the risk. Let's hope that Monsanto or AgrEvo can rush him a hamper to keep him going."sanctumzone.co.uk/forum/Recommended-Read...html?start=20#134384 A new study has revealed that pesticide use has increased by a massive (33,112 metric tonnes) since US farmers started to grow GM crops commercially in 1996...sanctumzone.co.uk/forum/family-dynasties...ocieties.html#122094

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“When the guru partakes of sweet potatoes, one also partakes of sweet potatoes!”

In performing the Armour Protection, one forms the Vajra Handclasp Mudra and chants 7 times the mantra "Om, bo ru lan ze lee." The mudra is brought to touch the brow point, the throat, heart, left shoulder, right shoulder, and then back to the crown before it is released. At the moment of releasing the mudra, one visualizes the Vajrasattva or the Dharma Protector at one's shrine transforming into 4 bodies, guarding oneself in front and behind, and to the right and left sides. This is to protect one from evil forces. This step gives one the power of protection..

In general, Tantric practices consist of the three elements of mudra, mantra, and visualization. Mudra is the secret used to purify body, mantra is the secret used to purify speech, and visualization is the secret used to purify mind or habitual consciousness. The purification of body, mind, and speech is an inherent secret of Mahavairocana Buddha, the Great Sun Buddha. Utilizing this secret of the Tathagata, a tantrika can integrate the three secrets and purify karmic traces associated with the three existences of body, mind, and speech. Put more simply, by replacing the karmic traces of body, mind, and speech with the corresponding three secrets of mudra, mantra, and visualization, an ordinary person transmutes into a Tathagata. This method of purification of body, mind, and speech forms the entire basis of all Tantric practices..

Armor Protection is found only in Tantrayana and not in Sutrayana practices. There are many kinds of Armor Protection methods. For example in the Dream Mahamudra. In that particular method, one practices this skill of protection before one falls asleep: one assumes the Lion Posture, chants a mantra, and visualizes the Root Guru or Personal Deity appearing to emit light on one; then, from one's throat a red light is emitted and transformed into a red tent over oneself, providing a sacred space for Clear Light meditation during the sleep state. This is a protective force of the Dream Mahamudra...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Tent

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Dinah remembers sitting in the red tent with her mother and aunts, gossiping about local events and taking care of domestic duties between visits to Jacob, the patriarch of the family..Leah is depicted as capable but testy, Rachel something of a belle but kind and creative, Zilpah as mature and serious and Bilhah as the gentle and quiet one of the quartet...Weddings also require the Armour Protection. When one gets married, one's ancestor spirits come to participate and celebrate as they care very much about such major events in the lives of their descendants...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Knight
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Kinkara are special Dharma Protectors for practitioners of Heruka and Vajrayogini. They are emanations of Heruka and Vajrayogini who emanate as 2 skeletons. This appearance, devoid of flesh symbolizes that enlightened beings are completely free from self-cherishing..

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British occultist and Mason Lord Northampton, who has been atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem conducting "Temple studies," candidly has admitted in interviews, that he is an adherent of British Israelism, which holds that the British oligarchy has mystical powers, because England was colonized by one of the lost tribes of Israel. "I think the tradition of the Kabbalah is very strong in England, because I think one of the lost tribes came to England. And I think you can spot them, quite clearly, in old English families. I am sure you can. I know they came to Ireland, then to the North of Wales, and then down into England. And then that became some of the O-ldest families we have"...

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sanctumzone.co.uk/forum/Big-Brother--Gov...tml?start=100#134005 He is also director of the Canonbury Masonic Research Centre, of which Lady Pamela is also a director. The centre "supports the study of freemasonry and mystical and Esoteric traditions"... sanctumzone.co.uk/forum/Recommended-Read...html?start=60#135041

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Mandala offering (Tib. མཎྡལ་འབུལ་བ་, Wyl. maṇḍal 'bul ba) — a preliminary practice for accumulating merit, in which one symbolically offers the entire universe to the field of merit..The field of merit or, more literally, 'field of accumulation', is the focus, or object, before which we practise offering, prayer, prostrations, and so on, in order to accumulate merit and wisdom. The fact that our practice and positive actions are performed in the presence of, or directed towards, such powerful objects enhances their effect _________

The 37 Point Mandala Offering composed by Chögyal Pakpa is a famous practice of mandala offering..The 37 points Are...

1) Mount Meru / 2-5) The 4 continents \ 6-13) The 8 subcontinents 14) / The jewel mountain \ 15) The wish-fulfilling tree / 16) The wish-fulfilling cow \ 17) The harvest which needs no sowing / 18-24) The 7 attributes of royalty \ 25) The vase of great treasure / 26-33) The 8 offering goddesses \ 34) The Sun / 35) The Moon \ 36) The precious umbrella / 37) The royal banner victorious in all directions...

www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Mount_Meru
www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Thirty...int_Mandala_Offering

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In Tibetan Buddhism, the Refuge Tree, (Refuge Field, Merit Field, Field of Merit: 'field' is a rendering of the Sanskrit "kshetra"), may be represented on a thangka as a mnemonic device and precursor to being fully visualized by the sadhaka during advanced Refuge Formula or evocation, the lineage of gurus and transmission of teachings is depicted in visual form as a visual mind map.. Refuge tree and merit fields, as mandala, are Pure lands...

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In Buddhist iconography, the tantric initiation goddesses, the dakinis are represented dancing within a fiery circle of flame. These are supernatural female beings encountered by the yogi on his initiatory journey who assist him in his spiritual development.. Translated, dakini means “sky-going one” or “woman who flies” or “sky dancer”..

In the dakini’s heart lies the secret of enlightenment and thus of universal power. She is the “Queen of Hearts” just like Diana, Princess of Wales..Vajrayogini is the most important female divine figure in the highest yogic practices of Tibetan Buddhism.. The goddess is worshipped as, among other things, “Mistress of the World”, the “Mother of all Buddhas”, “Queen of the Dakinis”, and a “Powerful Possessor of Knowledge”...Lama Govinda also makes reference to a fiery sacrificial apotheosis of the dakini when he proclaims in a vision that all feminine forces are concentrated in the sky walkers, “until focused on a point as if through a lens they kindle to a supreme heat and become the holy flame of inspiration which leads to perfect enlightenment”...

“And I offer most attractive illusory mudras, a host of messengers born from places, born from mantra, and spontaneously born, with tender bodies, skilled in the 64 arts of love” ...“Now you are entering into the lineage of all yoginis.. You should not mention these holy secrets of all the yoginis to those who have not entered the mandala of all the yoginis or those who have no faith”...

Messier object M64, a magnitude 9.0 galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices, also known as the Black Eye Galaxy..The maximum number of strokes in any Chinese character...Number of codons in the RNA codon table under genetic code...

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sanctumzone.co.uk/forum/spirituality-rel...html?start=20#136210In chess 64 is the total number of black and white squares O-n the game board...Number of sexual positions in the Kama Sutra...The code for direct dial calls to New Zealand...sanctumzone.co.uk/forum/family-dynasties...html?start=20#135262

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Aggañña Sutta is the 27th Sutta of Digha Nikaya collections.. The sutta describes a discourse imparted from the Buddha to two brahmins, Bharadvaja and Vasettha, who left their family and caste to become monks.. The two brahmins are insulted and maligned by their own caste for their intention to become member of Sangha... The Buddha explains that caste and lineage can not be compared to the achievement of morality practice and the Dhamma, as anyone from the four castes can become a monk and reached the state of Arahant. Then, he explains about the beginning of the Earth, and the birth of social order and its structure, including the castes. The Buddha emphasizes the message of universality in the Dhamma and how the Dhamma is the best of all things...

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Dharma 07 Jul 2013 01:18 #78

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The most blissful moment -- when you cannot find yourself
Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

WHEN I SIT IN FRONT OF YOU AND LISTEN TO YOU SPEAK, I FEEL AS IF A
PROCESS OF OSMOSIS IS HAPPENING. I FIND I DON'T INTELLECTUALLY
LISTEN. IS THIS THE RIGHT WAY OR AM I MISSING SOMETHING?

This is the right way.

If you listen to me intellectually you miss, not something, but all. Intellectual listening is a kind of deafness. When I say something, you can listen to the word. You have a mind, a library in the mind of all your prejudices, philosophies, ideologies. The word has to go through all those preconceived patterns, and by the time it reaches to you it is no longer the same.

It has changed so many times, passing through the whole process of intellectual listening, that when it comes out it is absolutely something else. And yet it appears to be rationally the right thing; it fits with your mind. The process of listening has managed to cut it here and there, change it here and there; to color it here and there, to make it what you want it to be, not what it is. And you will agree with it; it is your own idea, it has nothing to do with me.

Listening intellectually is not listening at all. It is a way of avoiding. The right way is that you don't bring your mind in and you let me go into your innermost being without being hindered. Then there will be an understanding. Then there will be a communion, a real listening, because in the very process of listening, you have changed.

Now the agreement that arises in your being is not agreeing with your mind, it is agreeing with something new, which your mind knows nothing of. The mind is always old, and the truth is always new; they never meet, they never coexist.

You are fortunate that you can listen the right way -- putting the mind aside, just allowing me to sink deeper and deeper within you. Then even though words have been used, silence has been conveyed. Even though words have been used, that which cannot be said has been said -- at least has been heard. And saying is not important, hearing is important.

Right listening means you will never ask how to do it. For example, if I am talking about silence and you are listening the right way, you will never ask how to be silent, because in the very listening you would have tasted it. In the very listening you will have experienced it -- the window has opened.

The people who listen intellectually are bound to ask later on how to do it. Their question about how to do it signifies that they have missed what was conveyed to them.

It is not only words that I am saying to you -- I am conveying my very heart. The words are only vehicles. Through the intellect the vehicles will reach, but I will be left behind.

When you are listening without the mind, the vehicle becomes unimportant; its only use is that it helps me to reach to you. It is my outstretched hand, so that I can touch your heart.

OSHO, BEYOND PSYCHOLOGY

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The Buddhas of Bamiyan (Pashto: د بامیان بوتان - "de bámiyán botán", Persian: بت های باميان‎ – but hay-e bamiyan) were two 6th century monumental statues of standing buddha carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, 230 km (140 mi) northwest of Kabul at an altitude of 2,500 meters (8,202 ft). Built in 507 AD, (smaller), and 554 AD, (larger) the statues represented the classic blended style of Gandhara art...

They were dynamited and destroyed in March 2001 by the Taliban, on orders from leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, after the Taliban government declared that they were idols..International opinion strongly condemned the destruction of the Buddhas, which was viewed as an example of the intolerance of the Taliban. Japan and Switzerland, among others, have pledged support for the rebuilding of the statues...The destruction of the Bamyan Buddhas became a symbol of oppression and a rallying point for the freedom of religious expression. Despite the fact that most Afghans are now Muslim, they too had embraced their past and many were appalled by the destruction...

In 1221 with the advent of Genghis Khan "a terrible disaster befell Bamiyan," nevertheless, the statues were spared. Later, the Mughal emperor, Aurangzeb, tried to use heavy artillery to destroy the statues. Another attempt to destroy the Bamiyan statues was made by the 18th century Persian king Nader Afshar, directing cannon fire at them..The enormous statues, the male Salsal ("light shines through the universe") and the (smaller) female Shamama ("Queen Mother"), as they were called by the locals, did not fail to fire the imagination of Islamic writers in centuries past. The larger statue reappears as the malevolent giant Salsal in medieval Turkish tales...

On 8 September 2008 archeologists searching for a legendary 300-metre statue at the site of the already dynamited Buddhas announced the discovery of an unknown 19-metre (62-foot) reclining Buddha, a pose representing Buddha's Parinirvana...

Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame (Persian:بودا از شرم فرو ریخت : Buda az sharm foru rikht) is a 2007 Iranian film directed by Hana Makhmalbaf..The story takes place in modern Afghanistan following the removal of the Taliban and revolves around a 5-year-old Afghan girl who wants to attend a newly opened school.. The girl Bakhtay, portrayed by Nikbakht Noruz, lives in the caves under the remains of the Buddhas of Bamiyan which were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001. Bakhtay becomes obsessed with the idea of going to school but must fight against a society influenced by conditions suffered during the strict Taliban rule including male domination, war, poverty and dire children's games...

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Impermanence (Pāli: अनिच्चा anicca; Sanskrit: अनित्य anitya; Tibetan: མི་རྟག་པ་ from Pali "aniccaŋ") is 1 of the essential doctrines or 3 marks of existence in Buddhism.. The term expresses the Buddhist notion that all of conditioned existence, without exception, is in a constant state of flux. The Pali word anicca literally means "inconstant", and arises from a synthesis of 2 separate words, 'Nicca' and the "privative particle" 'a'... Where the word 'Nicca' refers to the concept of continuity and permanence, 'Anicca' refers to its exact opposite; the absence of permanence and continuity...

Conditioned phenomena can also be referred to as compounded, constructed, or fabricated. This is in contrast to the unconditioned, uncompounded and unfabricated nirvana, the reality that knows no change, decay or death...

The 5 aggregates, monks, are anicca, impermanent..

All is impermanent. And what is the all that is impermanent? The eye is impermanent, visual objects [ruupaa]... eye-consciousness... eye contact [cakku-samphassa]... whatever is felt [vedayita] as pleasant or unpleasant or neither-unpleasant-nor-pleasant, born of eye-contact is impermanent...[Likewise with the ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind] (SN 35.43/vol. iv, 28)

All formations are impermanent..

Whatever is subject to origination [samudaya] is subject to cessation [nirodha] (MN 56)...

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