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This is also a very good metaphor for our normal lives, right? Perhaps that's the purpose of experiencing intense phenomena while meditating. It's easier to detach ourselves from something in a dream or meditation because we know, generally, that it's irrelevant to our daily, external lives...

Amen Z! To be completely honest I started following the NKT because they were the only active Buddhist group in my small town. I think it's a horrible shame what has happened between Geshe-la and HH the Dalai Lama. Before I started researching this, I really thought of Buddhism as a...

Ooh, I love this one! A while back I got interested in the idea of conscious creation. It basically theorizes that we all are creating our own reality. Once you really get into it, it starts to get interesting because most people, to some extent, would agree that we create our own reality...

Hello! I'm fairly new to CR. I haven't really seen too many practical, non-philosophical posts on this forum, and that's probably a good thing. However, I was wondering if anyone knew where I might be able to find instuctions on the cleaning, purification and filling of Buddha statues. I...

I too, am of a Mahayana tradition and have always been told that we (as your average human) don't even possess the ability to see a Buddha. Therefor to an enlightened person Buddha Shakyamuni would have appeared as 10'6", gold, etc.. To the average human, he would have appeared to have been...

I will be the first to admit that I may be biased in this case but... I can only speak from personal experience. I have also been going to NKT meditation classes for about a year now and was really bothered by all that I found on the internet about the Geshe Kelsang Gyatso and Dorje Shugden...