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</table>DanielWhttps://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Charnel_ground&diff=68121&oldid=prevSébastien at 16:27, 30 January 20122012-01-30T16:27:28Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:Right now, our minds are very fickle. Sometimes you like a certain place, and it inspires, and yet with that same place, if you stay too long, it bores you. […] As you practise more and more, one day this kind of habit, this fickle mind will just go. Then you will search for the bindu interpretation of the right place, and according to the classic tantric texts, that is usually what they call the “eight great charnel grounds”. So then, you have to go to a cemetery, especially to one of the eight cemeteries. There, under a tree, in the charnel ground, wearing a tiger skin skirt, holding a [[skull-cup|kapāla]] and having this indifference between relatives and enemies, indifference between food and shit, you will practise. Then your bindu will flow. At that time, you will know how to have intercourse between emptiness and appearance.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:Right now, our minds are very fickle. Sometimes you like a certain place, and it inspires, and yet with that same place, if you stay too long, it bores you. […] As you practise more and more, one day this kind of habit, this fickle mind will just go. Then you will search for the bindu interpretation of the right place, and according to the classic tantric texts, that is usually what they call the “eight great charnel grounds”. So then, you have to go to a cemetery, especially to one of the eight cemeteries. There, under a tree, in the charnel ground, wearing a tiger skin skirt, holding a [[skull-cup|kapāla]] and having this indifference between relatives and enemies, indifference between food and shit, you will practise. Then your bindu will flow. At that time, you will know how to have intercourse between emptiness and appearance.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><ref></ins>[[Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche]], from ''Longchen Nyingtik Practice Manual'' (page 66).<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ref></ins></div></td></tr>
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</table>Adamhttps://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Charnel_ground&diff=19669&oldid=prevAdam at 09:15, 26 July 20092009-07-26T09:15:48Z<p></p>
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</table>Adamhttps://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Charnel_ground&diff=14626&oldid=prevSébastien at 20:07, 25 December 20082008-12-25T20:07:47Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:Right now, our minds are very fickle. Sometimes you like a certain place, and it inspires, and yet with that same place, if you stay too long, it bores you. […] As you practise more and more, one day this kind of habit, this fickle mind will just go. Then you will search for the bindu interpretation of the right place, and according to the classic tantric texts, that is usually what they call the “eight great charnel grounds”. So then, you have to go to a cemetery, especially to one of the eight cemeteries. There, under a tree, in the charnel ground, wearing a tiger skin skirt, holding a [[kapāla]] and having this indifference between relatives and enemies, indifference between food and shit, you will practise. Then your bindu will flow. At that time, you will know how to have intercourse between emptiness and appearance.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:Right now, our minds are very fickle. Sometimes you like a certain place, and it inspires, and yet with that same place, if you stay too long, it bores you. […] As you practise more and more, one day this kind of habit, this fickle mind will just go. Then you will search for the bindu interpretation of the right place, and according to the classic tantric texts, that is usually what they call the “eight great charnel grounds”. So then, you have to go to a cemetery, especially to one of the eight cemeteries. There, under a tree, in the charnel ground, wearing a tiger skin skirt, holding a [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">skull-cup|</ins>kapāla]] and having this indifference between relatives and enemies, indifference between food and shit, you will practise. Then your bindu will flow. At that time, you will know how to have intercourse between emptiness and appearance.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Sébastienhttps://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Charnel_ground&diff=8559&oldid=prevAdam at 13:40, 24 September 20072007-09-24T13:40:49Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the life in which a [[pratyekabuddha]] attains the fruit of their path, they are naturally drawn to charnel grounds. When reflecting on the bones found there, they ask "Where do these bones come from?" This awakens their many lifetimes of investigation into the [[Twelve nidanas|twelve links of dependent origination]]. These twelve links then unfold in their understanding, in forward and reverse order, and on the basis of that they gain realisation.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the life in which a [[pratyekabuddha]] attains the fruit of their path, they are naturally drawn to charnel grounds. When reflecting on the bones found there, they ask "Where do these bones come from?" This awakens their many lifetimes of investigation into the [[Twelve nidanas|twelve links of dependent origination]]. These twelve links then unfold in their understanding, in forward and reverse order, and on the basis of that they gain realisation.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Adamhttps://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Charnel_ground&diff=5825&oldid=prevAdam: New page: '''Charnel ground''' (Skt. śmāśāna; Tib. ''durtrö''; Wyl. ''dur khrod'') - On the ordinary level, the charnel ground is simply a place where bodies are disposed of, either by crem...2007-06-28T06:14:05Z<p>New page: '''Charnel ground''' (Skt. śmāśāna; Tib. ''durtrö''; <a href="/index.php?title=Wyl." class="mw-redirect" title="Wyl.">Wyl.</a> ''dur khrod'') - On the ordinary level, the charnel ground is simply a place where bodies are disposed of, either by crem...</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Charnel ground''' (Skt. śmāśāna; Tib. ''durtrö''; [[Wyl.]] ''dur khrod'') - On the ordinary level, the charnel ground is simply a place where bodies are disposed of, either by cremation or burial. From a spiritual point of view however, the charnel ground is full of significance. It represents the death of ego, and the end of: <br />
* attachment to this body and life<br />
* craving for a body and life in the future<br />
* fear of death<br />
* and aversion to the decay of [[impermanence]].<br />
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They are terrifying places, full of roaming spirits and hunting ghosts. There are bodies everywhere: fresh bodies, decaying bodies, skeletons and scattered bones. There are rivers of blood, poisonous waterfalls, and dangerous wild beasts. But they are also peaceful places of solitude. There are pleasant groves, wild flowers and fruit, song-birds, tame lions and tigers, and the vast open sky above. There are no conventions to conform to and no distractions to be seduced by. Dakas and [[dakini]]s gather there to celebrate ceremonial [[tsok]] "feasts" (Skt. ''ganachakra''). The roar of [[Dharma]] discourses resound, and the light of the inner joy of bliss radiates.<br />
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:Right now, our minds are very fickle. Sometimes you like a certain place, and it inspires, and yet with that same place, if you stay too long, it bores you. […] As you practise more and more, one day this kind of habit, this fickle mind will just go. Then you will search for the bindu interpretation of the right place, and according to the classic tantric texts, that is usually what they call the “eight great charnel grounds”. So then, you have to go to a cemetery, especially to one of the eight cemeteries. There, under a tree, in the charnel ground, wearing a tiger skin skirt, holding a [[kapāla]] and having this indifference between relatives and enemies, indifference between food and shit, you will practise. Then your bindu will flow. At that time, you will know how to have intercourse between emptiness and appearance.<br />
:* [[Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche]], from ''Longchen Nyingtik Practice Manual'' (page 66).<br />
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In the life in which a [[pratyekabuddha]] attains the fruit of their path, they are naturally drawn to charnel grounds. When reflecting on the bones found there, they ask "Where do these bones come from?" This awakens their many lifetimes of investigation into the [[Twelve nidanas|twelve links of dependent origination]]. These twelve links then unfold in their understanding, in forward and reverse order, and on the basis of that they gain realisation.<br />
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