tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85499713543918687862024-03-17T23:03:04.626-04:00Rational Nation USASpreading Buddhist Wisdom and Practice For a Better WorldLes Carpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.comBlogger5453125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-47290359648445077692024-03-17T21:00:00.006-04:002024-03-17T21:00:00.205-04:00Recite With Us the Full Sutra of Tara...<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEib0CuHKnZPKtka0x-i3XTXqjhupBMMJovw4gdG_56c5eQvQnwYM8W3L7DjQVqrDkX163HzpNH3pna3MITJdOIQhbL1Gi5RDp6j1kY4_N2FtnVVGvh7HXlpexC3eV4-CsbFB11NKfyxa4_MO7lZjd5B9sSw_C42Xm0bfuhGHWO2Kbr22ceB6XITVFvKatA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="512" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEib0CuHKnZPKtka0x-i3XTXqjhupBMMJovw4gdG_56c5eQvQnwYM8W3L7DjQVqrDkX163HzpNH3pna3MITJdOIQhbL1Gi5RDp6j1kY4_N2FtnVVGvh7HXlpexC3eV4-CsbFB11NKfyxa4_MO7lZjd5B9sSw_C42Xm0bfuhGHWO2Kbr22ceB6XITVFvKatA=w640-h458" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">"Buddhanature is the innate primordial freedom of the mind, which is naturally imbued with wisdom, compassion, power, and bliss." </span><span style="font-size: medium; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">Karl Brunnholzl</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><p></p><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2Ec8RKV1A8E?si=sokO_wLL00lbkTIn" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p>Les Carpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-25376526605801968042024-03-17T20:00:00.032-04:002024-03-17T20:00:00.198-04:00Simple Truths...<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">"Buddhanature is the innate primordial freedom of the mind, which is naturally imbued with wisdom, compassion, power, and bliss." </span><span style="font-size: medium; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">Karl Brunnholzl</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">Beneath the veils of ignorance </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">Rest wisdom</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="font-size: large; text-align: center;">Hidden by greed </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="font-size: large; text-align: center;">Lies charity</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="font-size: large; text-align: center;">Obscured by hate</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="font-size: large; text-align: center;">Love is forgotten</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="font-size: large; text-align: center;">Overpowered by fear or anger</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="font-size: large; text-align: center;">Calm has no home</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="font-size: large; text-align: center;">Stoking ones pride</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="font-size: large; text-align: center;">Humility is lost</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="font-size: large; text-align: center;">Concealed by the ego</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="font-size: large; text-align: center;">Truth can not be found</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="font-size: large; 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margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="512" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh6AFUQ9-utxcuJg3oU74boOng1VhmdRh8kvZ3TpRzgqZOCe2DBscBiS9YGhSQpMVI-iNKjU1sMxRJL9NXz75fP_Ihge5FTpkp8vsu-tye_0sh7j1goUKeCTj3eLBBzCxj2B-hBnFXCgyGAwWWwzLVwf1Lr7nw43fgLJ0UVuiMxqexJNMhsX8e8iReLrFs=w640-h458" width="640" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">"Buddhanature is the innate primordial freedom of the mind, which is naturally imbued with wisdom, compassion, power, and bliss." </span><span style="font-size: medium; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">Karl Brunnholzl</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj6HWA-JI62vef5OG89boWwXXbAVdlTaJ9h-u4-fhL13tJgceTfKrP3RkmpVZtdnGbh1NQe_410z1i6TjeSLhYB0OeZyg7IPy6VKQXP46hUxG9befhFxQ5eTXTcaE_-HIdda7PnWANM6AFBcW62qlNzL6Ecv0058mAdyuvKrqlgJoWE5gK4zrcMHC3uR3s" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj6HWA-JI62vef5OG89boWwXXbAVdlTaJ9h-u4-fhL13tJgceTfKrP3RkmpVZtdnGbh1NQe_410z1i6TjeSLhYB0OeZyg7IPy6VKQXP46hUxG9befhFxQ5eTXTcaE_-HIdda7PnWANM6AFBcW62qlNzL6Ecv0058mAdyuvKrqlgJoWE5gK4zrcMHC3uR3s=w427-h640" width="427" /></a></div><br /><br /></div>Les Carpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-49770496883818542722024-03-15T19:00:00.060-04:002024-03-15T19:00:00.130-04:00Illusion, Delusion and Confusion - London 03.2020...<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhh2xi_akhx35XrFYDa-PVZft9qSO5RaagMpGx5I79r2K2NIMpZPWp5OW45LuORY5JcjXTC4MZmDrXVvaR2_CyzTOaJzgOiNdEl1mJH3lQH3L1cWdcIzwAQQRfvnsMKqgWiJjQoTft1h5x3QBEhzp8L3up7hoV_YUAvjocRLrrwmne3brcJXUP91uawwrg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="512" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhh2xi_akhx35XrFYDa-PVZft9qSO5RaagMpGx5I79r2K2NIMpZPWp5OW45LuORY5JcjXTC4MZmDrXVvaR2_CyzTOaJzgOiNdEl1mJH3lQH3L1cWdcIzwAQQRfvnsMKqgWiJjQoTft1h5x3QBEhzp8L3up7hoV_YUAvjocRLrrwmne3brcJXUP91uawwrg=w640-h458" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">"Buddhanature is the innate primordial freedom of the mind, which is naturally imbued with wisdom, compassion, power, and bliss." </span><span style="font-size: medium; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">Karl Brunnholzl</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">The video you are about to watch is approximately eight hours long. As such it should be listened to, and contemplated, in shorter segments which will become clear as you listen to the video.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">The information and wisdom contained in this video is exceptional and therefore worth the time and effort to listen, reflect on, and contemplate in meditation.</span></div><br /><p></p><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-h7FkECM2xA?si=y5mOeEsuFI8WEgq7" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p>Les Carpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-91885600769947606502024-03-15T15:30:00.001-04:002024-03-15T15:30:00.242-04:001 Simple Way to Overcome Burnout...<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEisIZnp_CDoz6QUQ0bk88YvXbwvb5y5t1CwQmbOtk-NkFHQHtOH84L-LW9uRE92Q9i7Z-FhrJ4YecYbY7LJEpb__WtAfUe2Z-dTUzStRFL8h9JmZ9NIA4SCU0dkwZbViysEgQpqajq1LLvYsJL0ihJemtBZw-6CQxPN6UxPa4YcKJ6m8sy4iJwj_Mb3Flk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="512" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEisIZnp_CDoz6QUQ0bk88YvXbwvb5y5t1CwQmbOtk-NkFHQHtOH84L-LW9uRE92Q9i7Z-FhrJ4YecYbY7LJEpb__WtAfUe2Z-dTUzStRFL8h9JmZ9NIA4SCU0dkwZbViysEgQpqajq1LLvYsJL0ihJemtBZw-6CQxPN6UxPa4YcKJ6m8sy4iJwj_Mb3Flk=w640-h458" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">"Buddhanature is the innate primordial freedom of the mind, which is naturally imbued with wisdom, compassion, power, and bliss." </span><span style="font-size: medium; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">Karl Brunnholzl</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><p><br /></p><p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Mt_c9vWmUhk?si=l7L2IwFNNPchajaO" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>Les Carpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-62173417889765862372024-03-15T05:30:00.002-04:002024-03-17T18:45:55.593-04:00In The Ultimate Prayer There is no Me...<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh6AFUQ9-utxcuJg3oU74boOng1VhmdRh8kvZ3TpRzgqZOCe2DBscBiS9YGhSQpMVI-iNKjU1sMxRJL9NXz75fP_Ihge5FTpkp8vsu-tye_0sh7j1goUKeCTj3eLBBzCxj2B-hBnFXCgyGAwWWwzLVwf1Lr7nw43fgLJ0UVuiMxqexJNMhsX8e8iReLrFs" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-style: italic; text-align: center;">Karl Brunnholzl</span></p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rwkAo6m87ms?si=nloHY4mmqPh8e52h" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p>Les Carpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-75964167218285414792024-03-12T19:00:00.001-04:002024-03-12T19:00:00.222-04:00Looking Within and Exploring The Potentials of Consciousness...<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgOqk1jdvIHGN9-Quotyc85kKbYVu623sD9gq8zk3jS2i2gsadDsSn7nnmAJ4084W-MYrNh1R_S81t1m-QknkhhtVrKx1R6bM5AZ5mt3S-PfukxzQD7GPonoaoosUAo0GN0MdDVB9ewsy678Xfe_-qkTLBT7fdlInZYrJx19r0uR12Y0yiJzdGBWXfOA6E" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="512" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgOqk1jdvIHGN9-Quotyc85kKbYVu623sD9gq8zk3jS2i2gsadDsSn7nnmAJ4084W-MYrNh1R_S81t1m-QknkhhtVrKx1R6bM5AZ5mt3S-PfukxzQD7GPonoaoosUAo0GN0MdDVB9ewsy678Xfe_-qkTLBT7fdlInZYrJx19r0uR12Y0yiJzdGBWXfOA6E=w640-h458" width="640" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">"Buddhanature is the innate primordial freedom of the mind, which is naturally imbued with wisdom, compassion, power, and bliss." </span><span style="font-size: medium; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">Karl Brunnholzl</span></p><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; 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James Low<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgOqk1jdvIHGN9-Quotyc85kKbYVu623sD9gq8zk3jS2i2gsadDsSn7nnmAJ4084W-MYrNh1R_S81t1m-QknkhhtVrKx1R6bM5AZ5mt3S-PfukxzQD7GPonoaoosUAo0GN0MdDVB9ewsy678Xfe_-qkTLBT7fdlInZYrJx19r0uR12Y0yiJzdGBWXfOA6E" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="512" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgOqk1jdvIHGN9-Quotyc85kKbYVu623sD9gq8zk3jS2i2gsadDsSn7nnmAJ4084W-MYrNh1R_S81t1m-QknkhhtVrKx1R6bM5AZ5mt3S-PfukxzQD7GPonoaoosUAo0GN0MdDVB9ewsy678Xfe_-qkTLBT7fdlInZYrJx19r0uR12Y0yiJzdGBWXfOA6E=w640-h458" width="640" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">"Buddhanature is the innate primordial freedom of the mind, which is naturally imbued with wisdom, compassion, power, and bliss." </span><span style="font-size: medium; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">Karl Brunnholzl</span></p><div><span style="font-size: medium; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VQjeUUwpjIU?si=92a0hGojVc-GH6cP" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@jameslow" rel="nofollow">SOURCE</a></b></p>Les Carpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-90496375700389274552024-03-12T15:17:00.001-04:002024-03-12T15:17:29.945-04:00Instruction on Mahamudra Vipashyana Meditation by Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche...<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_BcCbDhTHBGzCvPZ3bZ7aL6bN0N4JN-wpB7gc1YEn7jWFNIzHWVyXYFScyKBJPiq5P6r0ssFrMCjKbsg4p37bNLHVlgNmmEJP4n7VMoOoG2T0m6F_6jp4OwjUG-_bpC4vuyS9okeOrT3sGlC7t3bLZVZDdK5yGBLa03J_11pL8a3SOvXrx7QMYMu_v9o" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="512" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_BcCbDhTHBGzCvPZ3bZ7aL6bN0N4JN-wpB7gc1YEn7jWFNIzHWVyXYFScyKBJPiq5P6r0ssFrMCjKbsg4p37bNLHVlgNmmEJP4n7VMoOoG2T0m6F_6jp4OwjUG-_bpC4vuyS9okeOrT3sGlC7t3bLZVZDdK5yGBLa03J_11pL8a3SOvXrx7QMYMu_v9o=w640-h458" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">"Buddhanature is the innate primordial freedom of the mind, which is naturally imbued with wisdom, compassion, power, and bliss." </span><span style="font-size: medium; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">Karl Brunnholzl</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.32px;"><i>The two meditation practices of shamatha and vipashyana each have their place within Mahamudra practice, but they do not have the same objective. Shamatha’s aim is temporary, immediate. When our minds are disturbed or restless, they are not at peace. Cultivating the settled state of shamatha, we find that we are able to be more steady, more tranquil. That is the purpose of shamatha. Shamatha is not sufficient unto itself to attain enlightenment, but it is a support for Mahamudra practice and is therefore imperative.</i></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><i style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; letter-spacing: 0.32px; line-height: 2rem; margin-block: 1.5rem 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-left: auto !important; margin-right: auto !important; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 50rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start;">What then is vipashyana, which literally means “clear seeing,” in the context of Mahamudra? First of all, we have bewildered ourselves into samsara. During this confused state, we do not see clearly the true nature of things, what reality is. The practice of vipashyana develops the ability to see clearly the actual state of affairs, to see the basic condition of <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">what is</span>. Training in vipashyana eliminates negative emotions and clarifies our lack of knowing, our ignorance. It also deepens our insight and wisdom.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; letter-spacing: 0.32px; line-height: 2rem; margin-block: 1.5rem 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-left: auto !important; margin-right: auto !important; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 50rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start;">Right now, while adrift on samsara’s ocean, we are confused about what is real, about the nature of things. In this state, there are many worries and a lot of fear and uneasiness. To be free of these we need to be free of the bewilderment and confusion. When you are free of confusion, the uneasiness, worry and fear evaporate all by themselves. For example, if there is a rope lying on the ground and someone mistakes it for a poisonous snake, he will be frightened. He worries about the snake and it creates a lot of anxiety. This uneasiness continues until he discovers that it is actually not a snake, but simply a rope. It was merely a mistake. The moment we realize the rope is just a rope, not a snake, our uneasiness, fear and anxiety disappear. In the same way, upon seeing the natural state of what is, all the suffering, fear and confused worries that we are so engrossed in will disappear. The focal point of vipashyana training is seeing what is real.</p><h2 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.32px; line-height: 1.4; margin-block: 1.5rem 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto !important; margin-right: auto !important; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 50rem; padding: 1.5rem 0px 1rem; text-align: start; width: 800px;">The Paths of Reasoning and Direct Perception</h2><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; letter-spacing: 0.32px; line-height: 2rem; margin-block: 1.5rem 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-left: auto !important; margin-right: auto !important; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 50rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start;">The pivotal difference between the path of reasoning and the path of direct perception is whether our attention faces out, away from itself, or whether the mind faces itself, looking into itself. The path of reasoning is always concerned with looking at something “out there.” It examines using the power of reason until we are convinced that what we are looking at is by nature empty, devoid of an independent identity. Whether on a coarse or subtle level, it is definitely empty. However, no matter how long and how thoroughly we convince ourselves that things are by nature empty, every time we stub our toe on something it hurts. We are still obstructed; we cannot move our hands straight through things, even though we understand their emptiness. The path of reasoning alone does not dissolve the mental habitual tendency to experience a solid reality that we have developed over beginningless lifetimes.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; letter-spacing: 0.32px; line-height: 2rem; margin-block: 1.5rem 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-left: auto !important; margin-right: auto !important; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 50rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start;">It is not that a particular practice transforms the five aggregates—forms, sensations, perceptions, formations and consciousnesses—into emptiness. Instead it is a matter of acknowledging how all phenomena are empty by nature. This is how the Buddha taught in the sutras. A person presented with such a teaching may often understand the words and trust the teachings, but personally he does not experience that that is how it really is. Nagarjuna kindly devised the Middle Way techniques of intellectual reasoning in order to help us understand and gain conviction. By analyzing the five aggregates one after the other, one eventually is convinced, “Oh, it really is true! All phenomena actually <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">are</span> empty by nature!”</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; letter-spacing: 0.32px; line-height: 2rem; margin-block: 1.5rem 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-left: auto !important; margin-right: auto !important; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 50rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start;">While we use many tools to reach such an understanding, the reasoning of dependent origination is very simple to understand. For example, when standing on one side of a valley you say that you stand on “this” side, and across the valley is the “other” side. However, if you walk across the valley you will again describe it as “this” side, though it was the “other” side before. In the same way, when comparing a short object to a longer one, we agree that one is shorter and the other longer. Nevertheless, that is not fixed because if you compare the longer one to something even longer, it is then the shorter one. In other words, it is impossible to pin down a reality for such values; they are merely labels or projections created by our own minds.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; letter-spacing: 0.32px; line-height: 2rem; margin-block: 1.5rem 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-left: auto !important; margin-right: auto !important; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 50rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start;">We superimpose labels onto temporary gatherings of parts, which in themselves are only other labels superimposed on a further gathering of smaller parts. Each thing only seems to be a singular entity. It appears as if we have a body and that there are material things. Yet, just because something appears to be, because something is experienced, does not mean that it truly exists. For example, if you gaze at the ocean when it is calm on a clear night you can see the moon and stars in it. But if you sent out a ship, cast nets and tried to gather up the moon and stars, would you be able to? No, you would find that there is nothing to catch. That is how it is: things are experienced and seem to be, while in reality they have no true existence. This quality of being devoid of true existence is, in a word, emptiness. This is the approach of using reasoning to understand emptiness.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; letter-spacing: 0.32px; line-height: 2rem; margin-block: 1.5rem 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-left: auto !important; margin-right: auto !important; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 50rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start;">Using reasoning is not the same as seeing the emptiness of things directly and is said to be a longer path. Within the framework of meditation, the intellectual certainty of thinking that all things really <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">are</span> emptiness is not a convenient method of training; it takes a long time. That is why the <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Prajnaparamita</span> scriptures mention that a Buddha attains true and complete enlightenment after accumulating merit over three incalculable eons. Yet, the Vajrayana teachings declare that in one body and one lifetime you can reach the unified level of a vajra-holder; in other words, you can attain complete enlightenment in this very life. Though they would appear to contradict each other, both statements are true. If one uses reasoning and accumulates merit alone, it does take three incalculable eons to reach true and complete enlightenment. Nevertheless, by having the nature of mind pointed out to you directly and taking the path of direct perception, you can reach the unified level of a vajra-holder within this same body and lifetime.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; letter-spacing: 0.32px; line-height: 2rem; margin-block: 1.5rem 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-left: auto !important; margin-right: auto !important; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 50rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start;">Taking direct perception as the path, using actual insight, is the way of the mind looking into itself. Instead of looking outward, one turns the attention back upon itself. Often we assume that mind is a powerful and concrete “thing” we walk around with inside. But in reality it is just an empty form. When looking into it directly to see what it is, we do not need to think of it as being empty and infer emptiness through reasoning. It is possible to see the emptiness of this mind directly. Instead of merely thinking of it, we can have a special experience—an extraordinary experience—and discover, “Oh, yes, it really is empty!” It is no longer just a conclusion we postulate. We see it clearly and directly. This is how the great masters of India and Tibet reached accomplishment.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; letter-spacing: 0.32px; line-height: 2rem; margin-block: 1.5rem 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-left: auto !important; margin-right: auto !important; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 50rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start;">Instead of inferring the emptiness of external phenomena through reasoning, the Mahamudra tradition taught by Tilopa, Naropa, Marpa and Milarepa shows us how to directly experience emptiness as an actuality. Since we habitually perceive external objects as always having concrete existence, we do not directly experience them as being empty of true existence. It is not very practical to become convinced of the emptiness of external objects such as mountains, houses, walls, trees, and so forth. Instead, we should look into our own mind. When we truly see our mind’s nature, we find it has no concrete identity whatsoever. This is the main point of using direct perception: look directly into your own mind, see in actuality that it is empty, and then continue training in that.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; letter-spacing: 0.32px; line-height: 2rem; margin-block: 1.5rem 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-left: auto !important; margin-right: auto !important; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 50rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start;">This mind, the perceiver, <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">does</span> experience a variety of moods. There are feelings of being happy, sad, exhilarated, depressed, angry, attached, jealous, proud or close-minded; sometimes one feels blissful, sometimes clear or without thoughts. A large variety of different feelings can occupy this mind. However, when we use the instructions and look into what the mind itself really is, it is not very difficult to directly perceive the true nature of mind. Not only is it quite simple to do, but it is extremely beneficial as well.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; letter-spacing: 0.32px; line-height: 2rem; margin-block: 1.5rem 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-left: auto !important; margin-right: auto !important; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 50rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start;">We usually believe that all of these different moods are provoked by a material cause in the external environment, but this is not so. All of these states are based on the perceiver, the mind itself. Therefore, look into this mind and discover that it is totally devoid of any concrete identity. You will see that the mental states of anger or attachment, all the mental poisons, immediately subside and dissolve—and this is extremely beneficial.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; letter-spacing: 0.32px; line-height: 2rem; margin-block: 1.5rem 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-left: auto !important; margin-right: auto !important; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 50rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start;">To conclude this section, I will restate my previous point. On the one hand, we hear that to awaken to true and complete enlightenment, it is necessary to perfect the accumulations of merit through three incalculable eons. Then on the other hand, we hear that it is possible to attain the unified level of a vajra-holder within this same body and lifetime. These two statements appear to contradict one another. Truthfully, there is no way one could be enlightened in one lifetime if one had to gather accumulations of merit throughout three incalculable eons. However, if one could be enlightened in a single lifetime then there seems to be no need to perfect the accumulation of merit throughout three incalculable eons. Actually, both are right in that it <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">does</span> take a very long time if one takes the path of reasoning. Whereas it <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">is</span> possible to attain enlightenment within a single lifetime if one follows the tradition of the pith instructions, using direct perception as the path.</p></i></span></div><br /><p></p><p></p><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Article Continues</span> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="https://www.lionsroar.com/directly-experience-the-nature-of-mind/" rel="nofollow">BELOW the FOLD</a></i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.lionsroar.com/directly-experience-the-nature-of-mind/" rel="nofollow">SOURCE</a></span></b></div>Les Carpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-11026101611658887662024-03-07T19:00:00.004-05:002024-03-07T19:00:00.141-05:00You Are God... Embracing Your Divine Nature <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgtogBlhIDgw__O6X3FB7Sop1Iv7PClMZmhLYSrnqxhMnCWDxMnBsbCD95RB1DIpvQTKfPbMbzQjQUxJioLqmkpqe-zcsjicMwWLhO1cDGOls0wFuzn_hWqHGrBErUGdRO4G-eu9mzBf_m9fQlETIZdaBEaJKwZCnFwaSOxd5zeP16TRGN8iF5O0R-t6l4" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="512" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgtogBlhIDgw__O6X3FB7Sop1Iv7PClMZmhLYSrnqxhMnCWDxMnBsbCD95RB1DIpvQTKfPbMbzQjQUxJioLqmkpqe-zcsjicMwWLhO1cDGOls0wFuzn_hWqHGrBErUGdRO4G-eu9mzBf_m9fQlETIZdaBEaJKwZCnFwaSOxd5zeP16TRGN8iF5O0R-t6l4=w640-h458" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">"Buddhanature is the innate primordial freedom of the mind, which is naturally imbued with wisdom, compassion, power, and bliss." </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Karl Brunnholzl</span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><p><br /></p><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0Hvru80PTmc?si=Vr_GAHQ3i7qEgz2B" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@SimplyArt-Inspire" rel="nofollow">SOURCE</a></b></p>Les Carpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-63403880362348620732024-03-07T17:00:00.003-05:002024-03-07T17:00:00.129-05:00How to Tap into Your Awareness...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgOqk1jdvIHGN9-Quotyc85kKbYVu623sD9gq8zk3jS2i2gsadDsSn7nnmAJ4084W-MYrNh1R_S81t1m-QknkhhtVrKx1R6bM5AZ5mt3S-PfukxzQD7GPonoaoosUAo0GN0MdDVB9ewsy678Xfe_-qkTLBT7fdlInZYrJx19r0uR12Y0yiJzdGBWXfOA6E" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="512" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgOqk1jdvIHGN9-Quotyc85kKbYVu623sD9gq8zk3jS2i2gsadDsSn7nnmAJ4084W-MYrNh1R_S81t1m-QknkhhtVrKx1R6bM5AZ5mt3S-PfukxzQD7GPonoaoosUAo0GN0MdDVB9ewsy678Xfe_-qkTLBT7fdlInZYrJx19r0uR12Y0yiJzdGBWXfOA6E=w640-h458" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">"Buddhanature is the innate primordial freedom of the mind, which is naturally imbued with wisdom, compassion, power, and bliss." </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Karl Brunnholzl</span></i></p></div></div><br /></div><br /><p></p><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LDVyOnf0t9M?si=RGCyQZOSU_rwmUBL" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@TED" rel="nofollow">SOURCE</a></b></p>Les Carpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-5605276032406982002024-03-07T15:11:00.006-05:002024-03-07T16:37:55.081-05:00The TRUTH About Humans Will SHOCK You! The Purpose of Life on Earth! ...<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjyiK6bx1QNc5v7fri7PFNE1cGzaduoVh9C1xAMavrWJ8cKn_K_ES3Zmm99G7o-h0Mu35IEA7Mmxt8OvM6wwxuWz5grxVJTPXBB0HOjQ6IsXwWW7SPanyxJUkcNMD3vmTjJtyBoPLmOLq9plHYWoPu5HnbkOVcHLkTITVGFsDnSGnPq5h77eb3uAQfjunc" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="512" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjyiK6bx1QNc5v7fri7PFNE1cGzaduoVh9C1xAMavrWJ8cKn_K_ES3Zmm99G7o-h0Mu35IEA7Mmxt8OvM6wwxuWz5grxVJTPXBB0HOjQ6IsXwWW7SPanyxJUkcNMD3vmTjJtyBoPLmOLq9plHYWoPu5HnbkOVcHLkTITVGFsDnSGnPq5h77eb3uAQfjunc=w640-h458" width="640" /></a></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">"Buddhanature is the innate primordial freedom of the mind, which is naturally imbued with wisdom, compassion, power, and bliss." </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Karl Brunnholzl</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1NGjxx0UbgA?si=ukpRFwMtIweebLCB" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@EternalLife7" rel="nofollow">SOURCE</a></b></p>Les Carpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-44759772557009941152024-03-02T15:14:00.002-05:002024-03-04T16:17:02.234-05:00The Corrupt SCOTUS...<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZLOH6ajs1qhsXt4mrpL_sBDxNJJmrOUYeoDWDFetyJsfsbBTprdZSK4hBORicctkkV-Xh6u7_1NgEgIemkVVzhCuVwAglNlTaRuK40i2MIGJtOBq92qtmKJefqFZzOCXDpfIiY-gMzz62ItYm9gk-NiVDLm6jNMeXN3VBbDlfwEymPWW90yY6dTCfcEE" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="512" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZLOH6ajs1qhsXt4mrpL_sBDxNJJmrOUYeoDWDFetyJsfsbBTprdZSK4hBORicctkkV-Xh6u7_1NgEgIemkVVzhCuVwAglNlTaRuK40i2MIGJtOBq92qtmKJefqFZzOCXDpfIiY-gMzz62ItYm9gk-NiVDLm6jNMeXN3VBbDlfwEymPWW90yY6dTCfcEE=w640-h458" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">"Buddhanature is the innate primordial freedom of the mind, which is naturally imbued with wisdom, compassion, power, and bliss." </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Karl Brunnholzl</span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhOFoti3tp1guCihiPOvMkgGm1Y1q5UJJGbTpYs8drXZB8TpCvdsm1p7_6d0u8KM9vDx3c3XKxkKZlVIuB2PvvAfoBHhs7Uc28yx2YXVVckYr-BZbl8amtRYkWZSZampGNInvpUBfdKC2getmfhktDpAFSCkt21ZwaHzuKjzi13R4iUpkEL_tTRGRysm1U" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="768" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhOFoti3tp1guCihiPOvMkgGm1Y1q5UJJGbTpYs8drXZB8TpCvdsm1p7_6d0u8KM9vDx3c3XKxkKZlVIuB2PvvAfoBHhs7Uc28yx2YXVVckYr-BZbl8amtRYkWZSZampGNInvpUBfdKC2getmfhktDpAFSCkt21ZwaHzuKjzi13R4iUpkEL_tTRGRysm1U=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span class="image-caption" face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; 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color: #2b2b2b; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></p><p><span class="image-caption" face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-size: 12px;">Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito attend a private ceremony for retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor before public repose in the Great Hall at the Supreme Court on December 18, 2023 in Washington, DC. A petition, created by a large online religious community, is condemning Thomas and Alito amid “corruption” claims.</span><span class="image-attribution image-attribution-ux-impr" face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-size: 12px; opacity: 0.65; padding-bottom: 4px;">© Jacquelyn Martin-Pool/Getty Images</span></p><p><br /></p><h1 class="viewsHeaderText" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Eb Garamond"; line-height: 40px; margin: 0px; max-height: 160px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 12px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Thousands Sign Christian Petition Rebuking Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito</i></span></h1><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><br /></i></span></div><div><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span class="dropcap-element-slot" style="float: left; font-family: "Eb Garamond"; font-size: 64px; line-height: 52px; margin-inline-end: 8px;"><i style="background-color: #eeeeee;">A</i></span><i style="background-color: #eeeeee;">petition created by Faithful America on Wednesday is condemning U.S. <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" href="https://www.newsweek.com/topic/supreme-court" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Supreme Court</a> Justices <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" href="https://www.newsweek.com/topic/clarence-thomas" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Clarence Thomas</a> and <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" href="https://www.newsweek.com/topic/samuel-alito" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Samuel Alito</a> amid "corruption" claims.</i></p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><i style="background-color: #eeeeee;">Thomas, who joined the Court in 1991 and is its most senior member, and his wife, <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" href="https://www.newsweek.com/topic/ginni-thomas" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Ginni Thomas</a>, have been scrutinized for questionable relationships with influential <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" href="https://www.newsweek.com/topic/republicans" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Republicans</a> in addition to Ginni allegedly trying to help former President <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" href="https://www.newsweek.com/topic/donald-trump" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Donald Trump</a> win the 2020 presidential election after he lost to <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" href="https://www.newsweek.com/topic/joe-biden" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Joe Biden</a>.</i></p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><i style="background-color: #eeeeee;">The <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" href="https://www.newsweek.com/kellyanne-conway-ginni-thomas-reaction-billing-scandal-1798704" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">relationships include ties to billionaire Republican donor</a> Harlan Crow and conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo, the co-chairman and former executive vice president of the conservative Federalist Society. The ties were further under fire as ProPublica released a report last year that found Thomas and his wife had taken <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" href="https://www.newsweek.com/biggest-bombshell-new-clarence-thomas-report-1793063" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">undisclosed trips, and received other benefits, paid for by Crow</a>. Thomas has defended the relationship as he previously said in a statement, describing Crow and his wife as "among our dearest friends." In addition, in reference to a 2019 trip, which involved flying to Indonesia on Crow's private jet and touring the islands on Crow's 162-foot yacht, Thomas said that he was "advised that this sort of personal hospitality from close personal friends, who did not have business before the Court, was not reportable."</i></p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><i style="background-color: #eeeeee;">Meanwhile, Alito, also part of the Court's conservative majority, was revealed to have <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" href="https://www.newsweek.com/democrat-calls-out-ethics-issues-supreme-court-justices-face-1826767" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">accepted a fishing trip to Alaska</a> from hedge fund founder Paul Singer that the justice did not detail in his mandatory annual financial disclosure forms. Separately, Alito faced pushback for owning individual company stocks while ruling on cases that impact the same industries. Alito has previously defended himself, saying that the flight to their Alaska trip was "the only occasion" where he accepted transportation for a social event.</i></p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><i style="background-color: #eeeeee;">The <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" href="https://www.newsweek.com/topic/supreme-court" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Supreme Court</a> announced this past November that it was introducing a new code of conduct for justices amid ongoing calls to implement an ethics code.</i></p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><i style="background-color: #eeeeee;">In its petition from Wednesday with a goal of 15,000 signatures, Faithful America, an organization of Christians supporting social justice causes while opposing "Christian nationalism," wrote that the Supreme Court is in "crisis, due in part to deep-seated corruption as religious-right activists and billionaires lavish gifts, houses, and vacations" on Thomas and Alito and called on the <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" href="https://www.newsweek.com/topic/senate" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Senate</a> Judiciary Committee to act.</i></p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><i style="background-color: #eeeeee;">"We are deeply concerned about corruption on our nation's highest court. We are pleased that you authorized subpoenas for religious-right activist Leonard Leo and billionaire Harlan Crow back in November. However, we are also disappointed that you have yet to actually issue the subpoenas. We ask that you act swiftly to issue the subpoenas so the nation can understand the full scope of wrongdoing by Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito," Faithful America wrote in its petition.</i></p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><b><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/thousands-sign-christian-petition-rebuking-clarence-thomas-and-samuel-alito/ar-BB1je34h?cvid=4957aacc28a144e6db2805a3486af699&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=16" rel="nofollow">CONTINUE ARTICLE BELOW the FOLD</a></b></p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><br /></p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">America is sliding into the abyss of ignorance, greed, and corruption. The result of conservative republican MAGA activity and criminality.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">91 felony indictments and the corrupt dishonest gop continues to stand behind their Orange Hued Demented Human Orangutan.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Odds are the corrupt SCOTUS will give the criminal Trump the green light to continue his assault on American institutions and our democratic republic itself.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Fascism is gaining popularity in the republican party and its supporters. The question is, do the rest of us have the strength and stamina to defeat the authoritarians at every turn?</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">I doubt it. The system has been, and is being, rigged for their eventual takeover of American democracy. When it happens, and it will, hopefully an escape path will be available.,</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><br /></p></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>Les Carpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-79719593256356495412024-02-29T15:00:00.005-05:002024-03-04T16:15:22.947-05:00Donald Trump, Suffering From Dementia of Is He Just a Pathological; Liar?...<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBFOlr1PXw0o9M48w9A8pOmuEzKggQRs0ERVs2qH4qXjMWo_Q48m34nyAgbT_dNMRyF_PRY_MPTJL1J18oiPJwiE3Gi2IDufNQ2SQT9ZdX2p_p39j0K9Mfj_qur9GIQGp9VJKbOFAHhhWlX2f_IxFYDecLKWwk5KytFoHWLnzznWWMOyi3WctI4TalHw4" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="512" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBFOlr1PXw0o9M48w9A8pOmuEzKggQRs0ERVs2qH4qXjMWo_Q48m34nyAgbT_dNMRyF_PRY_MPTJL1J18oiPJwiE3Gi2IDufNQ2SQT9ZdX2p_p39j0K9Mfj_qur9GIQGp9VJKbOFAHhhWlX2f_IxFYDecLKWwk5KytFoHWLnzznWWMOyi3WctI4TalHw4=w640-h458" width="640" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">"Buddhanature is the innate primordial freedom of the mind, which is naturally imbued with wisdom, compassion, power, and bliss." </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Karl Brunnholzl</span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">We break from our normal content to post critical information on Donald J. Trump's apparent decline in mental acuity.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Following is a complete short article, followed by an excerpt from more lengthy articles highlighting the growing deficiency in Trump's mental abilities.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Before voting for Trump again consider the nuclear launch codes in the hands of a person with dementia and the possibility of approaching Alzheimer's.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; font-family: "Hammersmith One"; font-size: 1.85rem; line-height: 2.2rem; margin: 0px;">Donald Trump is showing strong signs of dementia</h1><div><br /></div><div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">Here's a brief little timeline of Donald Trump's recent cognitive decline:</span></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: "Open Sans", Verdana, Geneva, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.75rem 0px 1.5rem 3rem; padding: 0px; quotes: "" "";"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"><i style="background-color: #eeeeee;">September 16: Says you need ID to buy a loaf of bread. (No you don't.)</i></p></blockquote></div><div><blockquote style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: "Open Sans", Verdana, Geneva, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.75rem 0px 1.5rem 3rem; padding: 0px; quotes: "" "";"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"><i style="background-color: #eeeeee;">September 18: Claims that under Biden, we would be in World War II. (World War II already happened.)</i></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"><i style="background-color: #eeeeee;">September 18: Says he beat Obama in 2016. (He beat Hillary Clinton in 2016.)</i></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"><i style="background-color: #eeeeee;">September 26: Tells a rally audience that Jeb Bush invaded Iraq. (George W. Bush led us into Iraq.)</i></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"><i style="background-color: #eeeeee;">October 8: Says Hannibal Lecter was a great actor. (Lecter was a fictional character played by the great actor Anthony Hopkins.)</i></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"><i style="background-color: #eeeeee;">October 13: Thinks Obama is currently president. (Joe Biden is the current president.)</i></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"><i style="background-color: #eeeeee;">October 14: Says Republicans "eat their young" when they attack him. (The teleprompter probably said "eat their own.")</i></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"><i style="background-color: #eeeeee;">These aren't examples of routine Trump crackpottery. He says crazy stuff all the time. These are examples of Trump flatly forgetting or confusing things that he once knew. He's losing it.</i></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><a href="https://jabberwocking.com/donald-trump-is-showing-strong-signs-of-dementia/" rel="nofollow">SOURCE</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><h1 class="PJLV PJLV-iirWFJy-css overrideStyles" data-qa="headline" data-testid="headline" id="main-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray20); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-headline); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-110); margin-bottom: var(--wpds-space-050); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 1000px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-025); text-align: center;"><span class="PJLV" data-qa="headline-text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">A ‘whale’ of a tale: Trump continues to distort cognitive test he took</span></span></h1><div><span class="PJLV" data-qa="headline-text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="PJLV" data-qa="headline-text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h2 class="font--subhead font-light offblack mb-sm pb-xxs-ns subheadline" data-qa="subheadline" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray20); font-family: Franklin, arial, sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px 0px 16px; max-width: 1000px; padding-bottom: 4px;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-size: medium;">The Montreal Cognitive Assessment, a test aimed at detecting dementia or cognitive decline, never included the combination of animals Trump identified this week</span></h2><div style="font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><a class="contextual_link" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/donald-trump/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2" style="border-bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">Donald Trump</a><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> this week bragged about purportedly acing a widely used cognitive test that was administered to him when he was president, suggesting that the test included identifying drawings of three animals.</span></span></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div class="teaser-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic;"><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">“I think it was 35, 30 questions,” the former president said in Portsmouth, N.H., of the test, which he said involved a few animal identification queries. “They always show you the first one, like a giraffe, a tiger, or this, or that — a whale. ‘Which one is the whale?’ Okay. And that goes on for three or four [questions] and then it gets harder and harder and harder.”</span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span></p></div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic;"></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-style: italic; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">The only problem: The creator of the test in question, called the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, or MoCA, said it has never included the specific combination of animals described by Trump in any of its versions over the years.</span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-style: italic; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span></p><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">In fact, Ziad Nasreddine, the Canadian neurologist who <a href="https://mocacognition.com/" style="border-bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">invented the test</a>, said the assessment — intended primarily to test for signs of dementia or other cognitive decline — has never once included a drawing of a whale.</span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-PJLV-bHCGeL-isStandardLayoutAd-true article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic;"></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-PJLV-bHCGeL-isStandardLayoutAd-true article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic;"></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-style: italic; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">“I don’t think we have a version with a whale,” said Nasreddine, who added there are three versions of the test currently in circulation.</span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-style: italic; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span></p><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">He and other physicians allowed for the possibility that Trump was just offering hypothetical examples. The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment.</span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">For nearly four years, Trump has periodically boasted about his performance on the cognitive test, always tweaking the questions he alleges he aced, from correctly reciting a series of words in order — “Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.” — to, most recently, identifying an animal — a whale — that did not appear on the test.</span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">Experts also note that the assessment is not an I.Q. or intelligence test, though Trump has often talked about it as if it was.</span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV wpds-c-PJLV-bHCGeL-isStandardLayoutAd-true article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic;"></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-style: italic; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">“It’s a very, very low bar for somebody who carries the nuclear launch codes in their pocket to pass and certainly nothing to brag about,” said Jonathan Reiner, a cardiologist and professor of medicine and surgery at the George Washington School of Medicine & Health Sciences.</span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-style: italic; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span></p><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">Addressing the crowd of supporters Wednesday night in Portsmouth, Trump continued with his riff on the test, seeming to wholly invent another hypothetical question.</span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-style: italic; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Then it’s multiply 3,293 times four, divide by 3,” Trump crowed. “They have plenty of tough stuff.” (The answer: 4,390.67).</span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-style: italic; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><br /></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-style: italic; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><br /></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-size: large;">Either Trump is experiencing cognitive disfunction or he's a damn liar. Which, is something we already knew.</span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/19/trump-cognitive-test/" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></b></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/19/trump-cognitive-test/" rel="nofollow">CONTINUE READING BELOW the FOLD</a></b></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></div>Les Carpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-30955079696686064832024-02-29T13:00:00.002-05:002024-02-29T13:06:14.243-05:00Creation: A Non-dual Perspective...<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="512" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBHRpvebHEqN3OKpCvAHCFLnA1UvmUnV-eJH5uMVXYeNJcbXZbTTYFP4nCEoQsruwF9tEmOGuGHbgF2SR-PmJQtI7lIdOctaN3KVSSiIqWO_AkVgXPjUeMROEkdx7KgYlvLnyrQP4ADMLur_CfmUukUnUdgubaUiBSq50QC_d1jrjzo7skc-CTbRKQPUY=w640-h458" width="640" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">"Buddhanature is the innate primordial freedom of the mind, which is naturally imbued with wisdom, compassion, power, and bliss." </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Karl Brunnholzl</span></i></p><p><br /></p><h1 style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Marcellus, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 38px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 12px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Getting to Know the Four Schools of Tibetan Buddhism</span></h1><div><p class="issue" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #7b7b7b; font-family: "Nunito Sans", arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: right; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_25012" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; clear: both; color: #666666; float: right; font-family: "Nunito Sans", arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; height: auto; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px; max-width: 50%; outline: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 30px 45px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline; width: 330px;"><a href="https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2013/10/Capture10.jpg" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0088cc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><picture style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; text-size-adjust: none;"><source data-lazy-srcset="https://fpmt.org/wp-content/webp-express/webp-images/uploads/sites/2/2013/10/Capture10-320x458.jpg.webp" srcset="https://fpmt.org/wp-content/webp-express/webp-images/uploads/sites/2/2013/10/Capture10-320x458.jpg.webp" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; text-size-adjust: none;" type="image/webp"></source><img alt="Lama Tsongkhapa, the founder of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-25012" class="size-medium wp-image-25012 webpexpress-processed entered lazyloaded" data-lazy-src="https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2013/10/Capture10-320x458.jpg" data-ll-status="loaded" decoding="async" height="458" src="https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2013/10/Capture10-320x458.jpg" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: top;" width="320" /></picture></a><p class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-25012" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #999999; display: table; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lama Tsongkhapa, the founder of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism</p></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: "Nunito Sans", arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Over the hundreds of years that the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism </span>–<span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Nyingma, Kagyu, Sakya, and Gelugs </span>–<span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> have evolved out of their common roots in India, a wide array of divergent practices, beliefs, and rituals have come into being. However, there are significant underlying commonalities between the different traditions, such as the importance of overcoming attachment to the phenomena of cyclic existence, and the idea that it is necessary for trainees to develop an attitude of sincere renunciation. John Powers’ fascinating and comprehensive book,</span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: none !important; border-width: 0px !important; border: 0px none; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: inherit; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>Introduction to Buddhism<span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, re-issued by Snow Lion in September 2007, contains a lucid explanation of those similarities.</span></i></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: "Nunito Sans", arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="background-color: #eeeeee;">One important point of agreement lies in rules of monastic discipline: All orders of Tibetan Buddhism follow the vinaya of the Mula-Sarvastivada school, which has been the standard in Tibetan monasteries since the founding of the first monastic institution at Samye. In addition, they also share the same body of philosophical and liturgical texts imported from India, and all four orders present a path to awakening that incorporates practices of sutra and tantra systems.</i></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: "Nunito Sans", arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="background-color: #eeeeee;">They also share some common assumptions about the doctrines and practices they inherited from India. It is generally agreed that the Buddha provided divergent dispensations for various types of trainees, and these have been codified by Tibetan intellectual historians, who categorize Buddha’s teachings in terms of three distinct vehicles – the Lesser Vehicle (Hinayana), the Great Vehicle (Mahayana), and the Vajra Vehicle (Vajrayana) – each of which was intended to appeal to the spiritual capacities of particular groups.</i></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: "Nunito Sans", arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><i>… Indian Buddhism is also commonly divided by scholars of the four Tibetan orders into four main schools of tenets – Great Exposition School, Sutra School, Mind Only School, and Middle Way School. Each of these is associated with particular teaching lineages, texts, doctrines, and practices, and all are thought to have value for particular people and in particular contexts. Moreover, although the classification scheme is a hierarchical one, none of the practices and doctrines is disparaged, since all are thought to have been taught by Buddha and to be conducive to spiritual progress. </i></span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: "Nunito Sans", arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><a href="https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2007/10/getting_to_know_the_four_schools_of_tibetan_buddhism.pdf" rel="nofollow">Continue Reading Below the Fold</a></b></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: "Nunito Sans", arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px 0px 2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><a href="https://fpmt.org/mandala/archives/mandala-issues-for-2007/october/getting-to-know-the-four-schools-of-tibetan-buddhism/" rel="nofollow">SOURCE</a></b></p></div>Les Carpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8549971354391868786.post-12866760994838306332024-02-22T16:49:00.003-05:002024-02-22T16:49:51.260-05:00Yogachara, Or Mind Only School...<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBHRpvebHEqN3OKpCvAHCFLnA1UvmUnV-eJH5uMVXYeNJcbXZbTTYFP4nCEoQsruwF9tEmOGuGHbgF2SR-PmJQtI7lIdOctaN3KVSSiIqWO_AkVgXPjUeMROEkdx7KgYlvLnyrQP4ADMLur_CfmUukUnUdgubaUiBSq50QC_d1jrjzo7skc-CTbRKQPUY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="512" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBHRpvebHEqN3OKpCvAHCFLnA1UvmUnV-eJH5uMVXYeNJcbXZbTTYFP4nCEoQsruwF9tEmOGuGHbgF2SR-PmJQtI7lIdOctaN3KVSSiIqWO_AkVgXPjUeMROEkdx7KgYlvLnyrQP4ADMLur_CfmUukUnUdgubaUiBSq50QC_d1jrjzo7skc-CTbRKQPUY=w640-h458" width="640" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">"Buddhanature is the innate primordial freedom of the mind, which is naturally imbued with wisdom, compassion, power, and bliss." </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Karl Brunnholzl</span></i></p><div><br /></div><div><div class="post-content-head" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans"; font-size: 18px;"><div class="post-head-detail" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="post-info" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: #797979; padding: 20px 0px 15px;"><div class="post-info-author-date" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block;"><span class="post-info-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f8c700;"><span class="fa fa-user" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: FontAwesome; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: inherit; margin-right: 7px; text-rendering: auto; transform: translate(0px, 0px);"></span><a href="https://www.padmasambhava.org/author/dragpa/" rel="author" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #797979; outline: none !important; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Posts by Pema Dragpa">Pema Dragpa</a></span> <span class="post-info-date" style="box-sizing: border-box;">December 30, 2018</span></div></div><h3 class="post-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Droid Serif"; font-size: 28px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 27px 0px 20px;"><a href="https://www.padmasambhava.org/2018/12/principal-philosophy-of-the-mind-only-school/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; outline: none !important; text-decoration-line: none;">Principal Philosophy of the Mind Only School</a></h3></div></div><div class="post-content-desc" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans";"><div class="post-text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Question:</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span><i style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #797979;">Could you say a little bit more about how Yogachara Madhyamaka developed based upon the Cittamatra, or Mind Only school?</i></span><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #797979; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #666666;">Answer:</span></span> </b><i style="color: #797979;">“I think you all know that Yogachara is a synonym for the Mind Only school, which is called </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #797979; font-style: italic;">sem tsam pa</span><i style="color: #797979;"> in Tibetan. The terms Yogachara and Cittamatra are both Sanskrit words. Roughly translated, yoga refers to an inner state of concentration and is deeply connected with the mind. Chara means “conduct” or “action.” So Yogachara can be translated as “action of the mind.” The Mind Only schools sees everything in the world and beyond as none other than the emanations and activities of mind. There are two ways to understand this. First, all schools agree that one’s own perceptions, conceptions, and ideas are mind. These are associated with the perceiving subject. Next, we have to look at seemingly “objective” phenomena, such as mountains, the world, the galaxy, and other objects. What are these? You may wonder how these phenomenal objects could be projections of mind.</i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #797979; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><i>The Mind Only school teaches that our habits patterns of grasping to phenomena as substantially solid and inherently existent have been continually imprinted in the subconscious storehouse (Skt. alaya), or the eighth consciousness. Based upon these imprints, our perceptual habit patterns reflect back to ourselves and others as phenomenal appearances. Although objects seem to be distinct from mind, they all begin with mind. Generally, we have accumulated habit patterns: (1) the habit pattern of (perceiving things) as singular and solid, which is the universal habit pattern; (2) the habit pattern of perceiving phenomenal appearances, which are the objects of the senses; and (3) the habit patterns of individual, physical characteristics. Even though these three habit patterns appear to be different from mind itself, they are actually imprints that have been stored in the alaya for a very longtime. At the present time, these imprints (objects) are reflecting back to ourselves (subjects), despite the fact that they are manifestations of mind previously registered in the alaya. In this way, external objects and all phenomena are actually part of mind’s own display; on the absolute level, nothing substantially solid has ever existed throughout beginningless time. phenomena are like illusions or magic. This is the principal philosophy of the Yogachara schools.</i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #797979; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><i>The great Shantarakshita incorporated this Mind Only view of conventional reality in the Yogachara Madhyamaka school, which therefore describes relative reality in precisely the same manner as the Mind Only school. On the absolute level, however, Madhyamaka describes everything as empty. Even mind itself it seen to be empty and devoid of inherent self-existence. Shantarakshita united these two profound philosophical systems—the Yogachara view of conventional reality and the Madhyamaka view of absolute truth—without any hardship or contradiction. To summarize, on the relative level, everything is a display of mind; on the absolute level, everything is completely beyond all characteristics and complexity.</i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #797979; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><i>In the Madhyamakalankara, Khenchen Bodhisattva himself describes the Yogachara Madhyamaka school as “riding the chariot of two great philosophical systems, holding the reins of logic and reasoning.” And what are these two great chariots? They are the profound Madhyamaka system of Nagarjuna and the vast philosophical system of Asanga and Vasubandhu combined together in a single state of practice. Based upon this profound system of logic and reason— applied in meditation—we will proceed directly to the perfect state of buddhahood.”</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #797979; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #797979; font-size: 15px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;">Venerable Khenpo Rinpoches</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #797979;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Opening the Wisdom Door of the Madhyamaka School</em> (pgs 22-23)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #797979; font-size: 15px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://www.padmasambhava.org/chiso/books-by-khenpo-rinpoches/madhyamaka-school" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ac3048; outline: none !important; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">www.padmasambhava.org/chiso/books-by-khenpo-rinpoches/madhyamaka-school</a></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #797979; font-size: 15px;"></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #797979; font-size: 15px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;">Photo of Venerable Khenpo Rinpoches in India around the 1970s.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #797979; font-size: 15px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #797979; font-size: 15px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><b><a href="https://www.padmasambhava.org/2018/12/principal-philosophy-of-the-mind-only-school/" rel="nofollow">SOURCE</a></b></span></div></div></div><div class="clearfix" style="background-color: white; 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font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">"Buddhanature is the innate primordial freedom of the mind, which is naturally imbued with wisdom, compassion, power, and bliss." </span><span style="font-size: medium; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">Karl Brunnholzl</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><p></p><p><iframe src="https://assets.pinterest.com/ext/embed.html?id=1093108140784429698" height="901" width="600" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" ></iframe></p>Les Carpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.com0