Questions tagged [teachers]
Questions regarding general relations and interactions between students and teachers. Also questions regarding specific Buddhist teachers. Teachers can be contemporary or historical.
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Selling and use Dhamma as advertising
It's very common in South East Asia today that business people try to socialize with potential customers by appearing or pretending as Dhamma-teacher or Dhamma-friend.
Most meetings around the Gems ...
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Can't find much info on Tsem Rinpoche, was he a genuine lama?
Does anyone know anything about Tsem Rinpoche?
I watched a few of his talks on Youtube recently, and found him to be incredibly charismatic.
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Relying upon a Spiritual Guide, who created this idea? Is it actually a necessity for liberation?
I have a friend who is in/with the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT) and she states the importance of relying upon a spiritual guide.
I know that this meditation practice is a part of the Tibetan Lamrim ...
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Finding a Meditation Teacher
I am keen on finding a teacher that is experienced in Samatha meditation. I have come to understand meditation as a skill to be practiced and developed over time. This practice is something I plan to ...
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Are anagamis/arahants common (1000+) nowadays?
The question is likely inappropriate here, but I'll try anyway. Hopefully nobody will take offense.
Are anagamis/arahants common (1000+) nowadays?
"Uncommon" would be, for example, that all ...
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What is the actual status of the Dalai Lama in regard of Dhamma-Vinaya?
Since a Tibetan religious leader is often counted in the West and under modern people (yet actually known just in Tibet and as far as western modern media reach, unknown or not regarded in 95% of the ...
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Is it conventional to use third-person speech when conversing with a monk?
In this comment, Samana Johann wrote,
worthy to raise a question on it and it's perfect training to use only 3-person and no calling of names, adressing just proper positions
The topic is, using &...
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Is there any skillful use of using 'we' in addressing certain opinion?
As possible also observed, when teaching, the address of ones position by 'we' is hardly found in the teaching of the Buddha and his disciples.
It seems that this often used way of using 'we' in ...
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Finding a Vipassana Teacher in a pandemic
I have been having questions from time to time about my practise. I do the cushion practise once a day in the morning for half an hour and try to follow the five precepts through the day.
A lot of ...
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The Oldest Traditional Buddhist Lineage?
In Hinduism the traditional master-disciple relationship in the transmission is very important, which means that a student can go and learn from a teacher whose initiatory lineage goes back directly ...
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Are there "safe" practices to follow before meeting one's teacher?
I sincerely want to practice Tibetan Buddhism. It is a tradition which places great emphasis on one's relationship with their teacher. This makes a lot of sense to me. I plan to visit a Karma Kagyu ...
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Is it a bad heavy karma to criticize or give up your guru?
"However it is said in the Guhyasamaja Root Tantra:"
"If sentient beings commit an action
As grave as the five heinous crimes
He [still] can attain the superior Vajra Vehicle,
But who from within ...
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If teacher punishing student is also supposed bad karma?
Either school teacher or Buddhist teacher in monastery, if they would punish their students is also supposed bad karma even if it cause of bad behavior of students?
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Are there Bad teachers? Is Mara in the Sanga?
I have had an experience with a top teacher, Regional Assistant Teacher, and Center Manager acting in ways very disturbing to the path. Later I saw clearly that they were controlled by Mara or had ...
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What to do that wise would not disappear again?
My person, just seeing that you are certain gifted to be, possible not so aware, gifted to have another Noble one around here thought it would be good to be asked an importand question:
What needs to ...
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Ex-monk reliable Teacher?
While even most teacher today are ex-monks (someone who rejected the refuge and went back to the lower life), isn't it clear that such a person has own problems with his faith? How could one ...
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Can an answer, while sakayaditthi is present, be intentional free of bias?
Aside of the trap of self-overestimating, theoretical (abhidhamma in action):
When one is asked a question and brings his person, his estimate, into play, is it possible to give an answer which is ...
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Is there any forwarding benefit to ask equal?
Or is it just to maintain ones home, dwelling, without any fruits toward liberation?
Given one is in debt, is it wise to seek advices by those in debts or wouln't it be smarter to ask those having ...
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Who said 'if you haven't started on the Buddhist path then don't start at all'?
I recall a story that goes something like this
A Buddhist monk was giving a lecture on Buddhism. At the start he said
'Who hasn't yet started on the Buddhist path?' Half the audience
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Looking for a teacher in Australia
If you live in Australia and can be my teacher please get in touch. I feel I'm at a stage where I need one. Or perhaps you can recommend someone for me?
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Is finding a teacher necessary to practise dhamma?
Many times I hear people say it's neccessary to have a teacher. I'm a bit lost as how one finds one. I've been to sanghas, talks, retreats but haven't met anyone who ive felt I could approach and ask ...
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Finding a dharma teacher
I am examining ways of going further on my dharma road. At this point i am entirely self taught, for better and worse. I strongly believe that from here, some form of guidance from a more experienced ...
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Who was Ming Peu?
This print was my father’s. He wrote on the back ‘Ming-Peu 13th century priest’. Who was Ming Peu?
I don’t think ‘Peu’ is either pinyin or Wade-Giles.
He appears to be wearing Japanese dress. The ...
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How can I find a teacher who is a stream entrant?
How can I find a teacher who is a stream entrant?
Any suggestions? Recommendations?
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What does it mean to find a teacher?
I have seen people beeing adviced to find a teacher countless time.
I am interessed in the practicalities of finding a teacher, since I live in France and I have never met any buddhist in my entire ...
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Meditation, sleep paralysis, spinal vibration
I have meditated off and on since childhood, before I knew what it was, and since my 30s I have been interested in the spiritual concepts of Buddhism. I had an experience in 2010 wherein I awoke from ...
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Why did Tsongkhapa list guru devotion first in his Lamrim while Atisha did not?
Lama Atisha famously brought the teachings of Nalanda back to Tibet and authored his famous, A Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment upon which the new translation schools were founded. This seminal text ...
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Can humiliation be liberation?
Do you think that pointing out ego fixations publically serves to free students of their egos? What do you think are the advantages, and drawbacks of this teaching method? Why do you think it works or ...
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Would Siddhartha Gautama have agreed with modern forms of Buddhism?
Siddhartha Gautama accepted as its close disciples some secular.
They had the same chance to gain enlightenment, without practicing rituals, and without believing in everything he said or did.
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How comes that praising oneself and blame others is unskillful but the teacher of it does?
Coming from a closed, probably ill-intended and insulting question, or not, but anyway it's root is actually good to investigate:
How comes that praising oneself is unskillful but the teacher of it ...
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Would a wise and compassionate person advice one to figue things out by oneself?
If actually knowing the way to liberation, would one with ability to teach or knowing where to get taught, send another out to find out for one self?
If someone is doing so, send you into the dessert,...
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Sutta on the two kinds of (debt) giver, people of guṇā?
Thinking about the two kinds of goodness in giving, and about debt when we receive a gift (guṇā), my person just thought to ask if there is a Sutta which points the different kinds of debt to those ...
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How to find the right Dhamma teacher
The practice of Buddhism, as with any other spiritual development, largely relies on the guidance of a good master. With the large variety of traditions and practices out there, how should one go ...
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my meditation practice question
Would like to ask if my method of meditation(Mahasi method rising-falling) is correct. When some feeling arise in me, most of the time, i can noting the feeling was somewhere in the body( example: ...
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Why don't teachers just tell us the answers?
'Those who speak don't know, those who know don't speak.' (Zen aphorism)
Lots of posts on SE Buddhism seem to hover around the question 'what is your original face', or 'what is Buddha' etc. It ...
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Have any notable Buddhists commented on Krishnamurti's teachings? [closed]
Have any important Buddhists made any claim/s about Krishnamurti's teachings? Especially (caveat I know nothing about this) his claim that
"Tell them there is nothing to understand"
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In Buddhism can all we percieve / experience b used as teachers?
...I have been working on this one question for a while so can everything we experience in life internally and externally be used as our teachers from a Buddhist point of view?examples..
Anger = ...
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Ajahn Brahm versus others
I am practicing samadhi meditation using the breath as an object. Most teachers say to watch the breath at the tip of the nose. However, Ajahn Brahm says not to locate the breath anywhere. I find ...
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Are there buddhists who criticize Eckhart Tolle as it is not really a buddhist teach? If so, what is their critique?
Eckhart Tolle is a spiritual teacher who is influenced by Christianity and Buddhism etc. Now he says that there are Buddhists who claim that his teachings are not really Buddhist. But in what way are ...
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Are there any strict Soto Zen teachers online that I could listen to?
Recently, I have become interested in Soto Zen. I would like to go to a Soto Zen center, but I live to far away from one. This leaves me with the option for listening to online talks. Are there any ...
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How to deal with people giving reviews to the teaching?
I recently asked a question here and like always some good friends helped me, Their references were right on point and they referred the correct Sutras and i'm forever thankful for that. But when i ...
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In Depth Study of today's Dharma Teachers teachings
Does anyone know of any site on the internet (or elsewhere) that studies profoundly and carefully, the works of Dharma teachers? Like Mahasi Sayadaw,or Ajahn Chah, or any Dharma teacher for that ...
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What should you do when someone teaches false Dharma?
I was part of a religious group that claimed to be everything that the Buddha teaches. But, when you listen to their teachings, you can tell discrepancies between their teachings and Buddhist ...
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Which traditions have gurus?
On the site I often read posts referencing gurus. My Buddhist group (Triratna) doesn't really have a concept of gurus - certainly no-one uses the term. Which traditions have gurus? I most associate it ...
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Did the Buddha work with teachers from other spiritual traditions?
Within the Pali canon the Buddha often vigorously debates with Brahmin priests. However in the Buddha's time there were a lot of other spiritual traditions too. Did the Buddha have more cordial ...
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Any advice for beginners about Vipassana traditions?
There are many Theravada Vipassana traditions according to this wikipedia page and more according to this answer.
My questions are:
Are any, or all, of these traditions suited to beginners?
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How do buddhist monks who are teachers have time for their own practice?
For a while now i have been wondering about how buddhist monks have time for their own practice. When i see buddhist monks like Ven. Yuttadhammo, Ajahn Brahm and Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi who contribute so ...
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What is the appropriate use for the term bhante?
I've noticed on the site that quite a few people address Yuttadhammo as bhante. I'm aware that this means teacher. However in my sangha (Triratna Buddhist Community) the term is used differently. ...
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What are Bhavanga and Javana?
Will someone explain Bhavanga and Javana in simple way?
At times, they seem non-comprehensible.
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Did the Buddha ever 'thunder' during a Fire Sermon?
If I recall correctly, I once read (in a book which I no longer have) that:
The Fire Sermon happened (soon) after the Setting the Wheel of Dhamma in Motion
The Buddha spoke it to a believer/theorist/...
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