#Khyentse Norbu

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Namkhai Norbu (Tibetan: ནམ་མཁའི་ནོར་བུ་, Wylie: nam mkha’i nor bu; 8 December 1938 – 27 September 2018) was a Tibetan Buddhist master of Dzogchen and a professor of Tibetan and Mongolian language and literature at Naples Eastern University. He was a leading authority on Tibetan culture, particularly in the fields of history, literature, traditional religions (Tibetan Buddhism and Bon), and Traditional Tibetan medicine, having written numerous books and scholarly articles on these subjects.

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Tashi Paljor, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (Tibetan: དིལ་མགོ་མཁྱེན་བརྩེ་, Wylie: dil mgo mkhyen brtse) (c. 1910 – 28 September 1991) was a Vajrayana master, scholar, poet, teacher, and recognized by Buddhists as one of the greatest realised masters. Head of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism from 1988 to 1991, he is also considered an eminent proponent of the Rime tradition.

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[heavenlyyshecomes]

2023 favourite first watches ! [letterboxd]

the godfather (1972) dir. francis ford coppola /carrie (1976) dir. brian de palma / memories of murder (2002) dir. bong joon-ho

the cup (1999) dir. khyentse norbu / on the beach at night alone (2017) dir. hong sang-soo / outside noise (2021) dir. ted fendt

tagging: @sensazioneultra @paandaan @66muse @soracities @clampd0wn @serpentgirls ^⁠_⁠^

[radical-revolution]

"Recently I spent time with my father, and my father is considered a great Mahasandhi master .. [ Thinley Norbu Rinpoche ]

......Something he said really struck me for days, for months..........

He said, pointing at me, " You will never achieve enlightenment in this life. " And I was sort of suprised and stunned.

And he said " Do you know why? Because you're so rational. You are trapped by so called rationalism."

That is so true. Because all the time, every time what I do, I do so that people will not be upset. So that people will like me. Almost so much so that sometimes I do things so that people will praise me.......

This is a spiritual cosmopolitan. It is a complete show. It is hypocrisy. Nothing inside.

All you are trying to do is to behave nice so that people will like you. You are deceiving yourself and you are deceiving others."

~ Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche,

from a talk called : The Three Levels of Perception.

[lingshanhermit]

Lingshan Hermit: Envy

Today, our topic is envy. Although we are talking about "envy among Buddhists," you know, this is not an emotion unique to Buddhists. It's not only Buddhists who experience envy; you can't even say it's an emotion unique to human beings.

If you have cats, you'll find that cats can be envious. If you bring a new cat home and show affection towards it, your original cat will be envious. It will hint at its envy through a cold attitude (such as refusing to be held by you). You could say that this is a universal emotion; every sentient being experiences envy.

We should be very familiar with envy. We often feel envious, and it is one of our most common emotions, but most people may not easily realize that they are envious. This is because envy disguises itself very well. It makes itself seem very reasonable.

Personally, I am someone who rarely envies others. Of course, I'm not implying that I've cultivated so well that this emotion has become rare for me. I rarely feel envy because I am a very arrogant person. For a while, I would occasionally feel a little envious of Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche and my other root guru. (How can he be so cool? Every movement is so graceful. Every word is so profound and pleasing to hear.) Because I believed they were the only people on this planet who were wiser than me among those still alive. You know the benefit of being an arrogant person? It's that you rarely experience envy.

Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Rgya mtsho Rinpoche is one of the two people on this planet who can make me feel threatened in my ego. When I envy him, I comfort myself this way: Look, he was born in 1961, and I was born in 1981. He is twenty years older than me. He was born into a Buddhist family. His grandfather was Dudjom Rinpoche, and his father was Thinley Norbu Rinpoche. He began receiving teachings at a very young age. He has studied under many great masters. Moreover, he started practicing at least twenty years earlier than me. If I had been born at the same time as him and my wisdom was inferior to his, only then should I feel ashamed. As for now, I have already done very well. After thinking this way, the ego feels very comfortable.

The reason we feel envy is that we believe someone is better than us, which threatens our ego. Someone stronger has appeared, and this person may take away the love, respect, or status that originally belonged to us. It makes us lose our luster and no longer be the center of attention. Sometimes, we envy because we think we have suffered unfairness—for example, I put in more effort, but he got more than me. But in fact, Buddhists should be the least envious people. Buddhists believe in cause and effect. If you believe in cause and effect, why would you be envious?

If someone appears to be more attractive than you, has a larger chest, and is more appealing to men, then she must have accumulated more cause and effect in this regard than you. If someone attains enlightenment before you, then they must have accumulated corresponding merit and wisdom. There is no such thing as you having more merit than them, yet they attain enlightenment before you. If you are resentful of someone's gains, you should examine whether you truly believe in cause and effect.

Envy is a common problem. It is especially prevalent among Buddhists. Most Buddhists hide their envy very well. They hardly consider themselves to be envious. You know what they do? If a woman is envious of another woman because she is not as beautiful as the other, what will she do? She will say: Oh, look, her nose is not very straight. Her pores are a bit too large. I heard she has a dozen boyfriends. She must be promiscuous. Her buttocks are perky but too big, and the shape is not very good. It would be better if they were smaller. After thinking or talking about it this way, she is satisfied and can go do other things. Buddhists are the same. When Buddhists are envious, they will also find fault with the other person until they are satisfied. Otherwise, they will feel very uncomfortable. When the ego is threatened, it automatically activates its self-protection mechanism. The above process is the process of self-protection. Through this process, we regain confidence in the "self." But this confidence usually lasts for a very short time. The "self" is very insecure and needs constant affirmation—in various ways.

Those non-Buddhists will be envious because others earn more money than you, will be envious because someone is more favored by the boss than you, will be envious because someone's car color is more dazzling than yours. Of course, Buddhists will also be envious for the same reasons. But what I want to talk about here is the envy among Buddhists within the Buddhist community. Buddhists will be envious because you received a special empowerment and they didn't, will be envious because the teacher treats you better than them, will be envious because they have accumulated more preliminary practices than you, and will even be envious because they are the only one who did not receive the teacher's New Year blessing text message.

If you are a Buddhist, you should understand cause and effect. If you are the only one who did not receive the guru's New Year blessing, then you should think: The guru is reminding you that you have not accumulated enough merit. Buddhists should believe in cause and effect, which means you should believe that if you pour a packet of sugar into coffee, it cannot become salty. If someone appears to be better than you, then they must have accumulated more merit than you; you just haven't seen it. I don't know how many Buddhists truly understand cause and effect. Here, I intentionally do not use the word "believe" because "believe" has a sense of wishful thinking. "Understand" is the result of objective observation. If you understand cause and effect, you cannot not believe it. If you are still complaining, it means you do not understand cause and effect.

This emotion has accompanied us since the beginning of life. In the well-known stories of Buddhist history, Bodhidharma was poisoned multiple times because he aroused the envy of some Buddhists. In Tibet, Milarepa was also envied for being too outstanding, and he was also poisoned by those who envied him. After the Sixth Patriarch Huineng attained the Dharma, he was asked by the Fifth Patriarch to quickly leave Huangmei because if he did not leave, those controlled by envy would harm him. Those bhikkhus who had studied under the Fifth Patriarch Hongren for many years showed us their lack of understanding of cause and effect. Therefore, they could not accept that a lay practitioner who had only arrived a few days ago received the robe and bowl and became the sixth patriarch of Chan Buddhism. Moreover, that person was a half-barbarian from a barbaric land, perhaps only slightly more civilized than cannibals. They believed they were far more senior than that layperson, and the Fifth Patriarch's decision made them feel utterly disgraced. Therefore, they could not restrain their desire to snatch the Dharma robe.

This emotion of envy remains prevalent today. Basically, I don't expect you to be able to make envy disappear after reading this article, but I hope, and this is very crucial, that you know when you are envious. You need to admit that you are envious. If you can admit that you are envious, that is a very great turning point. Most of the time, we neither know nor admit that we are envious. If you can know immediately that you are envious, you can avoid being controlled by envy and avoid doing stupid things later. Most Buddhists do stupid things when they are led by envy. When you are led by envy, you have already failed. You only envy those who are better than you. When you envy, you are indirectly admitting that you are not as good as them.

But if you want to know immediately that you are envious, you may need the support of some samadhi power. If you haven't practiced meditation, you cannot possess the ability to instantly discover what you are doing.

Envy is one of the countless children of the ego. We have an ego, and the "self" has a habitual system of protecting itself. When we encounter those who are superior to us, even though they may not have done anything, we will feel that the status of the ego is threatened. We cannot see cause and effect. We cannot see what the person we envy did to achieve their accomplishments today. We cannot see what they did in their past lives for this, nor can we see what they did in this life. We only see the dazzling achievements—which we do not have, so we are envious.

First published on October 31, 2012.

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[mahayanapilgrim]

"Recently I spent time with my father, and my father is considered a great Mahasandhi master ..

[Thinley Norbu Rinpoche]

.... Something he said really struck me for days, for months....

He said, pointing at me, "You will never achieve enlightenment in this life."

And I was sort of suprised and stunned.

And he said "Do you know why? Because you're so rational. You are trapped by so called rationalism."

That is so true. Because all the time, every time what I do, 1 do so that people will not be upset. So that people will like me.

Almost so much so that sometimes I do things so that people will praise me....

This is a spiritual cosmopolitan. It is a complete show. It is hypocrisy. Nothing inside.

All you are trying to do is to behave nice so that people will like you. You are deceiving yourself and you are deceiving others."

~ Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche,

from a talk called: "The Three Levels of Perception"

[apileofprofiles]

Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait

Di Khyentse Norbu

[pangolim]

Hoje assisti The cup do Khyentse Norbu e o filme prova que copa >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> olimpíadas

[nellie414]

Följer för mkt danska tumblrs men kan ej sluta intressera mig för dansk tumblr ungdom

Ave maria

Jag skäms över att jag har såntdär mobilskal men om jag inte har det går jag tillbaka till min gamla ”rutin” som är alla viktiga kort lösa i diverse fickor som slutar med att jag tappar bort allt

Venedig

Biennalen

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[somewatching]

‘Looking for a Lady with Fangs and a Moustache’ (2019) Review: Soul-searching chai Link: https://letterboxd.com/adeeshaey/film/looking-for-a-lady-with-fangs-and-a-moustache/

[yourguruisproblematic]

Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse

In August 2017, lama, filmmaker, and writer Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche (aka Khyentse Norbu), wrote a 10,000-word open letter that defended Sogyal Lakar’s clerical abuse (source: Patheos).

Points, directly quoted from the letter, include:

“However you describe Sogyal Rinpoche’s style of teaching, the key point here is that if his students had received a Vajrayana initiation, if at the time they received it they were fully aware that it was a Vajrayana initiation, and if Sogyal Rinpoche had made sure that all the necessary prerequisites has been adhered to and fulfilled, then from the Vajrayana point of view, there is nothing wrong with Sogyal Rinpoche’s subsequent actions. (By the way, ‘initiation’ includes the pointing out instruction which is the highest Vajrayana initiation, known as the fourth abhisheka.)“

“Frankly, for a student of Sogyal Rinpoche who has consciously received abhisheka and therefore entered or stepped onto the Vajrayana path, to think of labelling Sogyal Rinpoche’s actions as ‘abusive,’ or to criticize a Vajrayana master even privately, let alone publicly and in print, or simply to reveal that such methods exist, is a breakage of samaya.”

“There is no room whatsoever for even a glimmer of an impure perception.“

In the same letter, Khyentse also defends Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche:

“I found especially interesting the dynamics between the Tibetan lama, Trungpa Rinpoche, and his American students, all brimming with devotion and lacking in personal authority, and the parallel with dysfunctional family systems. Trungpa Rinpoche appears as a drunken, crazy surrogate for the dysfunctional families of the authors. The ploys used to keep the power differential operating in the community of Rinpoche’s followers mimic the betrayal and required secrets in the alcoholic family.”

Two months after this letter, Khyentse posted a 17-page “sex contract” for gurus and disciples on his Facebook page. The post (now deleted but preserved in screenshot form with the full contract), read:

I thought this might come in handy for Rinpoches like myself who are not omniscient, not omnipotent, and not well trained; who don’t give enough preparatory training on the prerequisites to their students; and who get carried away by their own self-agendas and, from time to time, by their hormones.

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[shamansdream]

"Magát az ösvényt végül el kell hagyni, Ahogyan a hajót is elhagyod. amikor elérjük a túlpartot. Ki kell szállnod, ha már megérkeztél. A teljes megvalósításkor, el kell engedned a buddhizmust... spirituális út egy átmeneti megoldás, egy placebó, amit használni kell, amíg az Ürességet meg nem érted." (Dzongszár Khjence Rinpocse)

[heavenlyyshecomes]

🎬- 1999, 🎶-2023, 🎶-2019, 🎬-2022, 🎬-2023

sorry this is a lot loll

it's fine I don't mind it !!

films in order: the cup dir. khyentse norbu, everything everywhere all at once dir. daniel (scheinert & kwan). No faves from 2023 I watched 7 movies from this year 4 of them were the roald dahl shorts like sorry for being a fake cinephile

music: exo hear me out and carly rae jepsen Julien!

[radical-revolution]

Invocation

Dewdrop, lamp, phantom, rainbow, oasis,

Such is my life and the lives of others –

I surrender to this truth.

To the one who spoke this truth,

The Prince of the Shakyas

I offer my adoration.

To all those who take this truth to heart,

I offer my allegiance.

With determination, I remind myself:

No emotion, just peace,

No ignorance, just awareness,

No anxiety, just serenity,

No weakness, just strength,

No fear, just tranquillity.

With this attitude and free from doubt,

I alone will liberate the world’s living creatures,

Plants, water and atmosphere.

Appearances are deceptive, I shall mistrust them.

Nothingness is just a point of view, I shall not to get entangled in it.

Living beings are, by nature, stainless, I shall treasure that stainlessness.

Reality is the bait, I shall not be lured into conformity.

Only in darkness can I see light,

Only in mud can I find a lotus,

Only in defilements can I see Buddha.

Humbly, without a trace of hypocrisy,

I solemnly promise all living beings

That from this day forward,

I will never abandon you.

Wherever you are, may I always be beside you.

Past is now, future is now,

Now is an illusion,

Illusion is luminous.

Such boundlessness is mind:

Other than mind, there is no Buddha.

I beseech you, O Mind!

May I be free from death, old age and sickness.

May I be free from ideas and opinions,

May I be free from time,

May I be free from space,

And may I free all others from their limitations.

Written in response to a number of requests, on the last day of the tumultuous year of 2022, by one on whose five aggregates the label ‘Khyentse Norbu’ has been adhered.

[mahayanapilgrim]

DZONGSAR KHYENTSE RINPOCHE

Invocation

Dewdrop, lamp, phantom, rainbow, oasis,

Such is my life and the lives of others -

I surrender to this truth.

To the one who spoke this truth,

The Prince of the Shakyas

I offer my adoration.

To all those who take this truth to heart,

l offer my allegiance.

With determination, I remind myself:

No emotion, just peace,

No ignorance, just awareness,

No anxiety, just serenity,

No weakness, just strength,

No fear, just tranquillity.

With this attitude and free from doubt, I alone will liberate the world's living creatures,

Plants, water and atmosphere.

Appearances are deceptive, I shall mistrust them.

Nothingness is just a point of view, I shall not to get entangled in it.

Living beings are, by nature, stainless, I shall treasure that stainlessness.

Reality is the bait, I shall not be lured into conformity.

Only in darkness can I see light,

Only in mud can I find a lotus,

Only in defilements can I see Buddha.

Humbly, without a trace of hypocrisy, I solemnly promise all living beings

That from this day forward,

I will never abandon you.

Wherever you are, may I always be beside you.

Past is now, future is now,

Now is an illusion,

Illusion is luminous.

Such boundlessness is mind:

Other than mind, there is no Buddha.

I beseech you, O Mind!

May I be free from death, old age and sickness.

May I be free from ideas and opinions,

May I be free from time, May I be free from space,

And may I free all others from their limitations.

Written in response to a number of requests, on the last day of the tumultuous year of 2022, by one on whose five aggregates the label 'Khyentse Norbu' has been adhered.

[vajranam]

No Buddhist

Kalu Rinpoche

"My advice,

don't be a Buddhist.

In the end it's all about personal gain,

fame and business.

Just be a person with a good heart,

that's the meaning

of a truthful Dharma practitioner.

We live in illusion

and the appearance of things.

There is a reality. We are that reality.

When you understand this,

you see that you are nothing,

and being nothing, you are everything.

That is all."

"His Eminence Kalu Rinpoche was one of the great wisdom masters of our age. He was born in 1905 in the district of Tresho Gangchi Rawa in the Hor region of far eastern Tibet. His father was Legshey Drayang, the thirteenth tulku of Ratak Palzang. His mother, Drolkar, was a disciple of Jamgon Khyentse Wangpo, Jamgon Kontrul Lodro Thaye, and the renowned Lama Mipham Namgyal. Both his father and mother were devoted to religion, and shortly after their marriage they spent time in retreat together. It was during that retreat that Drolkar became pregnant. Kalu Rinpoche's father, not yet knowing that his wife was pregnant, had a startling vivid dream of his teacher Kontrul Rinpoche. In this dream or vision, Kontrul announced that he was coming to stay with them and that they should prepare a place for him. The meaning of this dream appeared to make itself clear some time later, when His Holiness the Gyalwa Karmapa recognized the child as the activity incarnation of the great Kontrul Rinpoche.

The young child showed remarkable compassion to all beings and his intellect proved to be exceptional. He began his monastic career by his own wish at the age of thirteen, entering the glorious Palpung Monastery of His Eminence Tai Situ Rinpoche. At that time Tai Situ Pema Wangcho Gyalpo gave him his getsul ordination, naming him Karma Rangjung Kunchyap. The prefix "Karma" identified him as a practitioner of the Karma Ka'gyu tradition.

At Palpung and elsewhere in eastern Tibet, Kalu Rinpoche studied the teachings of the sutras and tantras, receiving instruction from many different wise Lamas.

At sixteen, Kalu Rinpoche entered Kunzang Dechen Osal Ling, the retreat center originally founded by Jamgon Kontrul Lodro Thaye. It was at Kunzang Dechen that he completed the traditional three year retreat under the direction of venerable Lama Norbu Thondup. During that retreat Kalu Rinpoche received the complete transmission of the Karma Ka'gyu and Shangpa Ka'gyu lineages, in particular the transmission of the Five Golden Dharmas of the great Siddha Khungpo Naljor.

At the age of twenty-five his heartfelt desire was to practice meditation in a wilderness retreat in the mountains. Leaving everything behind, Rinpoche departed to do an extended solitary retreat in the desolate wilderness, forests and mountains of eastern Tibet, living the ascetic life of a wandering yogin. For twelve years he lived in that manner, imitating the eremetical life of Milarepa, Tibet's great yogi. Occupying lonely caves, he spent his time in spiritual practice and meditation.

In the 1940s Kalu Rinpoche began visiting monasteries, traditional centers of learning and practice, all over Tibet. He was now a recognized wisdom master, called from his retreat by Tai Situ Rinpoche and blessed by the supreme custodian of the Ka'gyu lineage, His Holiness the Karmapa. An accomplished master of the Five Golden Dharmas of the Shangpa school, he bestowed ripening empowerments and instruction on a vast number of yogis and yoginis. On a visit to Lhasa, around 1948, he was asked to grant teachings on the Regent of the young Dalai Lama.

In 1955, a few years prior to the Chinese Communist conquest of Tibet was about to take place, Rinpoche visited His Holiness the Karmapa at Tsurphu. The Karmapa asked Kalu Rinpoche to deliberately leave Tibet in order to prepare the ground in India and Bhutan for the inevitable exile of His Holiness. Thus in 1957, Kalu Rinpoche was appointed the abbot of Jangchub Choling Monastery in Bhutan. He became the personal chaplain of the royal family.

In 1965 Rinpoche established his own lineage monastery of Samdrup Targye Ling at Sonada, not far from Darjeeling, in India. A few years after that foundation he was able to establish a three year retreat complex there. In this manner he was able to preserve the Shangpa and Kamtsang lineage teachings through definite practice of meditation.

Kalu Rinpoche and Namgyal RinpocheIn 1973, at the request of His Holiness the 16th Karmapa, Kalu Rinpoche bestowed the full Ka'gyu transmission on the four regents Shamar Rinpoche, Tai Situ Rinpoche, Jamgon Kontrul Rinpoche, Gyaltsap Rinpoche, and also, at the same time, on the exceptional Canadian Lama Namgyal Rinpoche. These teachings included all the Ka'gyu major empowerments, instruction in Mahamudra and the six doctrines of Naropa, along with full inner explanation.

From 1971 onwards Kalu Rinpoche traveled extensively at the request of His Holiness the Karmapa, establishing Dharma Centers and three-year retreat facilities in Europe, the USA, Canada and Southwest Asia. Kalu Rinpoche founded more than 20 retreat centers worldwide and an innumerable number of Dharma centers.

In 1988 Rinpoche began the construction of a great stupa in Salugara, near Siliguri, in the eastern part of India.

In 10th May 1989 Kalu Rinpoche, loved by a vast flock of disciples, passed away. He was reborn on 17th September 1990, the offspring of Lama Gyaltsen and Kalzang Drolkar, to continue his undying work in the world."

[blackbloodunderthemoonlight]

14 MOVIES WORTH CHECKING OUT - NORTH AMERICA RELEASES APRIL 2021

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Moffie (2019) dir. Oliver Hermanus - A young man in 1981 South Africa must complete his brutal and racist two years of compulsory military service while desperately maintaining the secrecy of his homosexuality. - Release Date (Theaters): Apr 9, 2021 - RT & IMDb

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Jakob's Wife (2021) dir. Travis Stevens - Anne, married to a small-town Minister, feels her life has been shrinking over the past 30 years. Encountering "The Master" brings her a new sense of power and an appetite to live bolder. However, the change comes with a heavy body count. - Release Date (Theaters): Apr 16, 2021 - RT & IMDb

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