Does the Dean expect you to only be able to teach from the writings of people who are perfect? If so, you can't teach anything at all. Ever. Show me one...
OK...I guess I'll stand on my head now. ... My point, though--and because I was writing quickly, I botched it--was that seemingly imperfect people sometimes...
... there was plenty of justification. merwin was being an elitist ass. unfortunately for the querent, his dean is also an elitist ass. so. ... nonsense. ... ...
... The Myth of Freedom."The issue of academic freedom is a good one, but to get the job done for your students at this time I'd like to suggest an end run...
Hello, It is telling a *lot* when people just see the one thing they think of as an error in a person, but at the same time refuse to see the thousands of good...
Hi katie - You said ... Could you describe this a bit more? I'm interested because before I encountered Tibetan Buddhism I was a Roman Catholic and for many...
Hi Cone - ... Another value to understanding other religions well, and respecting them is that one can provide support to people who follow those beliefs. That...
Thank you, dorjeshonnu, but what's your definition of "different"? I liked the poetry of your reply. But why do I get the feeling everyone's telling me to...
... I think it's because we are sometimes cautioned by our teachers to not mix and match from different paths, and also because there's a lot of mixing &...
Can you discuss the fairness of this censorship with the dean? It does seem rather strange to apply this here and not to other subject areas. English...
Thanks for responding Lu. I agree with you about the New Age stuff being "mix-n-match." I've been a Buddhist for going on ten years, and I don't think that...
Ive been watching with interest the development of this line of enquiry and I cant help but agree with Andy. If we delve too deeply into the 'questionable'...
... --oh i just had to open my mouth. apologies.If you're Nyingma like me, you know that "rainbow body" is specifically defined and can only happen in the...
... LOL The reference was the "local" deity as in "local deity makes good beyond all expectations" when it was used in my reference of it, a takeoff on local...
Trungpa Rinpoche was not a saint (at least not in moralistic terms). He was a mahasiddha who's goal was to plant the seeds for the flowering of true Dharma...
Kirt Undercoffer
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Nov 7, 2009 11:45 pm
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... I don't know what "the party" means as I was not part of that scene after the late 1970s and did not do vajrayana with them beyond some preliminary...
Yes but even many tulkus are not saints in a moralistic sense. Trungpa Rinpoche's use of unconventional behavior was personally perplexing to me for quite...
Kirt Undercoffer
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Nov 7, 2009 11:54 pm
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... Well those things were part of what the wild bunch side of his students brought to the table as their working basis. Trungpa was much the crazy wisdom...
... This is a really good point. Sentient beings bring their confusions and tendencies with them. If they are inherently flawed, how can any of them teach?...
Thanks Katie, Lu and others for this thread. Do you mind if I completely plagiarise these entries? I moderate on another buddhist list where 'the party'...
Grant Dollin
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Nov 8, 2009 9:56 am
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Hi Grant, you may of course plagiarize mine, but I also think it's good to keep in mind--as Paul so correctly pointed out--that there ARE teachers out there...
It would. But quite often that option is not available for a variety of reasons. I'm involved in helping re-write bio-ethics directives. First, we started out...
Read my earlier reply. I'm involved in writing bio-medical ethics directives for accommodating different religions groups. We started with non-traditional...
... hmm.. i'm not sure that "stainless" behaviour is a reliable measure of a human being's life. I give you Chagdud Tulku's life as an example. He was a devil...
... ah! vajrajana buddhists and possibly some mahayanists, desire three days of not being disturbed after death. Ideally practitioners would be allowed into...
... particular to cases and usage. it is possible to go into quite a bit of time-limited detail, since the characteristics of mental objects inevitably depend...
Agreed- Hospice & Palliative care are the big up & coming thing- Hospice has always been around- but more & more docs are getting into end of life/dying w...
I commented earlier in the thread as well -- but also just remembered my sister told me she had a Buddhist monk (not sure what type) in the hospital while she...
Yes, hospitals must respect religious beliefs (it is legally and ethically part of standard of care). Now with hi-tech medicine, quite often the technology is...
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