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by Tara
Fri Mar 13, 2020 12:47 am
Forum: We're Not in Lhasa Anymore
Topic: Random Spiritual Thoughts
Replies: 17
Views: 207042

Re: Random Spiritual Thoughts

We dream of both the living and the dead, and other people as well that we’ve never met in real life before. But when we dream of our loved ones who are still alive, whether the dream is happy or sad or somewhere inbetween, when we wake up, we think “Oh, that was just a dream – forget about it!” We ...
by Tara
Mon Mar 09, 2020 3:43 am
Forum: We're Not in Lhasa Anymore
Topic: Random Spiritual Thoughts
Replies: 17
Views: 207042

Re: Random Spiritual Thoughts

It's rather ridiculous to think of India as any kind of spiritual leader when they still have a caste system, which is another form of slavery, and child labor in the most dangerous of occupations: mining. This absolutely should not be allowed. The world community should refuse to let India sit at t...
by Tara
Sun Mar 08, 2020 11:58 pm
Forum: We're Not in Lhasa Anymore
Topic: Random Spiritual Thoughts
Replies: 17
Views: 207042

Re: Random Spiritual Thoughts

Breathing has a lot of power. When you meditate on your breath going in and out, other thoughts disappear, because they aren't real, while your breath is real. That's why breath has power. Real things always have power over unreal things. We can pretend that the real doesn't exist, and assert our ri...
by Tara
Sun Mar 08, 2020 11:36 pm
Forum: We're Not in Lhasa Anymore
Topic: Random Spiritual Thoughts
Replies: 17
Views: 207042

Random Spiritual Thoughts

It's rather a sadistic thought to wish that your loved ones will still be alive somewhere after death. I don't want to think that my loved ones who have died are wandering around in unknown places, lost and feeling pain, like they are doing sometimes when you dream of them. Where did we get this ide...
by Tara
Wed Jan 01, 2020 10:35 pm
Forum: We're Not in Lhasa Anymore
Topic: The Myth of "Enlightened Society"
Replies: 5
Views: 60522

Re: The Myth of "Enlightened Society"

Whatever respect I had for Tibetan Buddhism, whatever love I had for my lama, Gyatrul Rinpoche, I hereby now violently repudiate for all time in the light of this new evidence that I have come upon of Tibetan cultural/political/religious corruption at the highest (lowest) level, which can in no way ...
by Tara
Sat Nov 09, 2019 6:45 pm
Forum: We're Not in Lhasa Anymore
Topic: The Way I See Trungpa Now
Replies: 23
Views: 167898

Re: The Way I See Trungpa Now

So Trungpa turned Buddhism into Pure Pornography. What do we think about that? I feel gurglings of anger bubbling up inside me. He was obviously inspired by Aleister Crowley . As soon as he got out of Tibet, he was surrounded by his cadre. When I first read Rexroth's introduction to the "Great Narop...
by Tara
Fri Nov 08, 2019 9:23 pm
Forum: We're Not in Lhasa Anymore
Topic: The Way I See Trungpa Now
Replies: 23
Views: 167898

Re: The Way I See Trungpa Now

Just think about it: By not having babies, you get rid of birth, old age, suffering and death in "no-longer future" generations. Isn't that compassion? That's a way better choice than voting for Trump!
by Tara
Fri Nov 08, 2019 8:23 pm
Forum: We're Not in Lhasa Anymore
Topic: The Way I See Trungpa Now
Replies: 23
Views: 167898

Re: The Way I See Trungpa Now

Humans are not animals; we are not frogs mindlessly copulating. Humans have minds; we have compassion and love, and the ability to think things out. That makes all the difference in the world. I totally object to anyone comparing us humans with animals. That's usually done by people who don't want u...
by Tara
Fri Nov 08, 2019 7:41 pm
Forum: We're Not in Lhasa Anymore
Topic: The Way I See Trungpa Now
Replies: 23
Views: 167898

Re: The Way I See Trungpa Now

This passage has just been bothering me ever since I read it. Why in the world would you have groveling respect for a man like this? What is wrong with John Riley Perks? We were in Boston, where Rinpoche had finished a teaching weekend on Tilopa. Our plane to Denver was leaving at 10:20 a.m. I was f...
by Tara
Sat Oct 19, 2019 12:35 am
Forum: We're Not in Lhasa Anymore
Topic: The Myth of Enlightenment
Replies: 1
Views: 43190

Re: The Myth of Enlightenment

The myth of enlightenment is one of the most diabolical creations ever. What better way is there to mentally enslave people than that? Under the cover of “desirelessness”, people’s desire to find meaning in a life where there is no meaning, is magnetized, a situation so dire and existential, that an...