"Mastering others is power. Mastering the self is empowerment. ✌❤"

"I have preached the truth without making any distinction between *exoteric and esoteric* doctrine; for in respect of the truths, Ananda, the Tathagata has no such thing as the closed fist of a teacher who keeps something back". ~ Mahaparinibbana Sutta

When the Thunderbolt strikes you, you see that you saw everything wrong. Seeing things properly (without Avidya) allows you to see what is "secret". Not because it is hidden on purpose, but because not seeing is the most literal meaning of Avidya (Ignorance)

They are secret because if you do it without initiations, empowerments from a guru and guided by him, it may cause you to go mad. Wherever you read on the internet about the secret teachings is basically the introductions, a mere taste. They are not to attract followers as in Buddhism it is said that the one’s who want to walk will find the path, the path will not find the walker.

@carloselfrancos7205

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, congrats, you're the greatest disciple ever. This is a scientific presentation, not a dogmatic teaching.

@murrik

3 ай бұрын

If you say this, then might aswell explain a little taste HOW one might go mad from such practices wothout guru or empowerment? I really wonder Because really alot of people say that they tried and thats nonsense, and they are proving this so far by their peacefulness and happiness and succes

@RaBjr.

Ай бұрын

and ..who is the guru?

@RaBjr.

Ай бұрын

The real question is WHO IS THE GURU?

Love these videos! Would love to see a video about Vajrayāna or even particular emanations like Vajrayogini, Vajravirahi, Vajrapani, etc. Keep up the awesome work!

TLDR: Esoteric Buddhism in East Asia involves secret rituals, visualizations, and mantras, emphasizing the importance of a teacher's guidance and the integration of esoteric arts to realize buddhahood within and animating reality. 1. 00:00 🔮 Esoteric Buddhism in East Asia involves ritual practices, visualizations, and mantras, with an emphasis on secret teachings and the importance of a teacher's guidance. 1.1 Esoteric Buddhism, particularly in the East Asian context, is related to Tantra and various discourses around the tantras, with many genres of ritual manuals. 1.2 Esoteric Buddhism involves ritual practices, visualizations, and mantras, with the term "vadrayana" associated with the indestructible nature of Buddha and the rapid attainment of buddhahood. 1.3 Esoteric Buddhism involves secret teachings with inner and outer meanings, requiring initiation and a teacher to practice. 1.4 Esoteric Buddhism emphasizes the importance of a teacher's guidance, but the idea of secrecy may be a marketing tactic to draw people in. 2. 05:21 🕉 Esoteric Buddhism uses secret rituals and imagery to visualize oneself as a divine king, call upon Buddhas and bodhisattvas, and emphasize the corporeality of Awakening, with a focus on divine sexual union and the use of mudras in ritual practices. 2.1 Esoteric Buddhism uses secret or esoteric rituals and imagery to draw people in and grow the tradition, with a focus on visualizing oneself as a divine king and calling upon the power of Buddhas and bodhisattvas. 2.2 The rituals of Esoteric Buddhism involve setting a perimeter, using mantras and visualizations for protection, and calling upon a deity to enter the ritual space, followed by offering various items and aligning one's body, speech, and mind with Ultimate Reality. 2.3 After completing a ritual, one can gain the power of a deity to perform various actions in the world, and in some cases, it is understood that ordinary beings and divine bodhisattvas are one and the same, with an emphasis on the corporeality of Awakening. 2.4 Human sexuality and amorous relationships are seen as expressions of Ultimate Reality and the bodhisattva of compassion in Esoteric Buddhism, often depicted through common images such as the vajra and the Lotus. 2.5 The concept of divine sexual union in Esoteric Buddhism represents Cosmic Unity and emphasizes non-dualism, with a strong emphasis on female sexuality and the use of mudras in ritual practices. 2.6 Hand positions and mantras are used in Esoteric Buddhism to manifest the presence of Buddhas and bodhisattvas in oneself and in ritual environments. 3. 12:24 📿 Esoteric Buddhism uses mantras, mandalas, and rituals to affect the world, gain magical powers, and transform impure substances into pure ones. 3.1 Mantras and Vidya are vocal utterances used in esoteric Buddhism to affect the world, with the Mantra of light being recited while sprinkling divinely charged sand over a corpse to send them to the pure land, and in Japanese Buddhism, the script for writing the mantras known as siddam was preserved. 3.2 Mandalas are considered a form of religious technology and a visualization practice, often associated with meditation and depicted as a palace with different deities, with the Buddha at the center. 3.3 Mandalas are objects of devotion and worship, with the idea of visualizing oneself as the Buddha in the center. 3.4 Votive fire rituals in esoteric Buddhism involve invoking a deity and practitioner to become one through sacred fire rituals. 3.5 People write wishes on wood and burn it in temples to transmit their wishes to the Buddha for various needs, including healing and success, and the practice of tantras is said to transform human potential and may lead to magical powers. 3.6 Esoteric Buddhism involves gaining magical powers, using tales of magic and mystery to explain enlightenment and emptiness, and transforming impure substances into pure ones through tantric texts. 4. 18:59 📜 Esoteric Buddhism, also known as Me Zhao or mikyo, influenced various traditions in South Central and East Asian kingdoms, integrating into Chinese religion and dominating the Tiantai tradition in China and Japan. 4.1 Esoteric Buddhism was widely circulated and influenced various traditions within the political realm of South Central and East Asian kingdoms, with scholars examining its influence on Chon and the teacher-student relationship. 4.2 Esoteric Buddhism, also known as Me Zhao or mikyo, is a debated aspect of Mahayana Buddhism that has been integrated into Chinese religion through the influence of Tibetan esoteric Buddhism. 4.3 Japan sought to update its Buddhism based on the Chinese model, sending a mission to China led by monk Saicho, who ended up in Eastern China and established the ryakuji Temple on Mount. 4.4 Sideshow fought for institutional autonomy from the Nara institution, emphasizing esoteric Buddhism and training his monks his way, which paid off despite the gamble. 4.5 Esoteric Buddhism in China and Japan is dominated by the Tiantai tradition, which was founded by the monk Jeri and developed a comprehensive meditation and doctrinal system to make sense of the diversity of Chinese Buddhism. 5. 24:49 📿 Esoteric Buddhism in Japan encompasses diverse practices and teachings, including meditation, prayer, rituals, and the integration of esoteric arts, with the belief that buddhahood is already within and animating reality. 5.1 The diversity of the Buddhist tradition is unified by the idea of the single vehicle, and Buddha is seen as an aspect of reality guiding sentient beings to awaken. 5.2 Different teachings are given to people based on their needs, leading to a comprehensive approach to Buddhism in Japan that includes monastic precepts, meditation, and pure land practices, as well as the integration of esoteric ritual practice into the tianti system. 5.3 Esoteric Buddhism in Japan encompasses a wide range of practices and teachings, including meditation, prayer, rituals, and the study of different areas of knowledge. 5.4 Kukai returns from studying esoteric Buddhism in China, where he also learned Sanskrit and excelled in calligraphy, and introduces esoteric arts to Japan. 5.5 Kukai establishes esoteric Buddhism as part of the ritual program of elite temples and teaches contemporaries that buddhahood is already within and animating reality. 6. 30:09 🔍 Esoteric Buddhism teaches progression of thinking, realization of buddhahood through esoteric arts, emphasis on ritual over doctrine, and the significance of experience in mandala initiation. 6.1 Levels of thinking in Esoteric Buddhism progress from animalistic to understanding the interdependence of all beings and the recognition of the mind as originally unborn. 6.2 The esoteric tradition of Buddhism teaches that buddhahood is already present in all things and can be realized through studying the esoteric arts and entering into a relationship with a teacher. 6.3 Doctrine is considered less important than ritual in Esoteric Buddhism, as the ritual helps one realize their participation in Buddha reality. 6.4 Initiation into mandalas connects individuals with cosmic Buddhas, but the significance lies in the experience, not in obtaining a special Buddha. 7. 34:27 📿 Kukai established Mount Koya as a pilgrimage site for esoteric Buddhism, preserving lineages during the Warring States period and practicing chanting and rituals. 7.1 Kukai established a pilgrimage site on Mount Koya for esoteric Buddhist practice, where he is revered as a bodhisattva and the site is connected to different pure lands within Earth. 7.2 Koyasan became a major pilgrimage site for esoteric Buddhism, dominated by the Shingon tradition, and was able to preserve esoteric lineages during the Warring States period. 7.3 Esoteric Buddhism involves wandering Aesthetics practicing chanting and esoteric rituals, with unorthodox practices being banned and Mount Hiei's burning negatively affecting the Tendai tradition. 8. 38:07 🔍 Tendai Buddhism was put in check, leading to the dominance of esoteric Buddhism by monks from the Shingon lineage.

If possible, could the professor do a video on the esoteric Buddhist deity Lord Fudò Myo-o? Just a suggestion as Fudo is revered in Shingon buddhism and a bit of an obsession of mine, personally. Thanks and great stuff, here!

@aaronproffitt3225

Жыл бұрын

Same here! I think that's a great idea. I'll see what I can put together.

Thank you for the lesson on the history of Tantra Buddhism. This information is hard to get by, this requires hard research work for most of us.

I really appreciate these videos, keep em coming

Thank you for the great lecture sir!

Thanks for sharing this, ,,very interesting, iv heard of similar types of this

Good job sir

Thank you! I took notes from this presentation; and I was particularly interested in your remarks on (1) militant, royal, and feminine imagery, (2) the cultivation of supernormal power, and (3) emphasis (both ritual and philosophical) on the unity and integrity of the multilevel cosmos .

Thank you for the sharing. It's so inspiring. 🙏👍

Inner circle

So wonderful thank you!!

Thanks for this video. I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge. I wonder if it would be possible for you to cover the The Theosophical Society and their connection to Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism? Early in 2023 I started studying with the local TS and now want more information from an outside source. After looking up some of the women who were being instrumental in creating the TS by being used as conduits for the Tibetan Masters to come through and dictate text to them. I find very interesting. Online and here on YT, I did read and watch a few very negative people who felt these women were trying to bring forth a Dark Demonic force into the World?. That they didn't know who they were channeling?. Also that they had help set up the UNITED NATIONS. But had also started up a paper called "Lucifer" the name was changed. But I'm sorry at this hour of the night, I can't remember what it was changed to, or find the video or paper I saw it in? Anyway I am very Curious what you know about the Society's origins and these 2 women. Also if you think they are worthwhile continuing studying with? They definitely are sharing some information I hadn't heard of before . Plus they have confirmed many things I knew already, but intuitively. I have been practicing Tibetan Buddhism for several decades now. Which I feel blessed to have been around. Thankfully many Tibetan families immigrated to our country and our city. They have built a rich welcoming vibrant community here. Yes I'm sorry they had to leave their homeland but grateful our Country is so welcoming. Thank you again for all you do creating and sharing these very informative video's 🕊💞 💫🕯📿 🇷🇪 🙏🏻

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As they say Sometimes the best secret is that which is in the open ,yes it's open for everyone to see but how many enter ?

" Buddha does not talk about some great mysteries, hidden secrets, esoteric knowledge. He does not believe in mythology; he is not an occultist. He is a very simple man, very ordinary. He believes in the ordinary existence. He says your day-to-day life is all there is. If you can live it joyfully, silently, understandingly, watchfully, there is nothing else to be done. Your very ordinary life starts becoming extraordinary. Drink and eat according to your true nature. Just remember: don’t distort your nature, remain true to your nature. Listen to your own nature and follow it. Don’t follow anybody else. Buddha says, “Even if you meet me on the way, kill me immediately.” He is saying: Don’t follow me, just take the hints. Try to understand, imbibe the spirit. Feel my presence and then go on your way. Live according to your own light, howsoever small it is; but if it is yours and you live according to it, it will go on growing. Buddha says, “Be a light unto yourself.” That is his greatest message. Nobody else in the whole world, in the whole history of humanity, has been so respectful towards others as Gautam the Buddha. “Be a light unto yourself.” Buddhas only point the way - fingers pointing to the moon. You have to follow, and you have to follow according to your nature. You have to be silent, quiet, so you can listen to the still small voice within you, and then follow it. Wherever it leads it is good. Go in deep trust, following your own voice. Be spontaneous, natural, ordinary. This is the way of being extraordinary. Be ordinary but aware, and the ordinary becomes the sacred. All things in the universe are impermanent… So don’t be worried. All things are impermanent: pleasure and pain, friendship and enmity, poverty and richness, success and failure, birth and death. All is in a flux, all is impermanent, so why be worried? Everything goes on changing. Don’t cling - clinging brings misery, clinging shows your misunderstanding. The moment you cling to something you are living with the idea that it can be permanent. Nothing can be permanent, and nothing can be done about it. It is just the nature of things to be impermanent. You are trying to catch hold of rainbows. They are beautiful, but you cannot catch hold of them - one moment they are there and another moment they are gone. So don’t cling to anything because everything is impermanent. And don’t desire anything because even if you get it, you will lose it. If you don’t get it, you will be frustrated. If you get it and lose it, you will be frustrated. Either way you will be in misery, you are inviting misery. So don’t desire anything and don’t cling to anything. Whatsoever comes, accept it. Buddha calls it tathata, suchness. Just accept it, live through it silently, without being disturbed by it. Misery comes, it will go. Happiness comes, it will go. Everything passes away, nothing abides, so there is nothing to worry about. Go on passing through all kinds of experiences, and then you will know that one can pass through the world uncontaminated, uncorrupted. One can live in the palaces without clinging, then he is a sannyasin; and one can live in a hut and can cling to the hut, then he is not a sannyasin."

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Does the recitation of Sutras have an influence on the spirits of places? If so, which ones? These which are not very friendly beings, the souls of our ancestors and beings that were never human

The real question one must ask is..WHO IS THE GURU?

@AmericanBuddhistStudyCenter

Ай бұрын

Hmm?

@RaBjr.

Ай бұрын

@@AmericanBuddhistStudyCenter i know the answer and I know you do not.

@RaBjr.

Ай бұрын

@@AmericanBuddhistStudyCenter Who is the guru?Ancient practice called: CALLING THE GURU FROM AFAR. if you want to find the perfect adept guru ,this practice will manifest it.

Esoteric lineage (tradition) HERE, via South Korea, as well. What's up w/ all the DORJES, anyway? Hmmmmmmm ........

t is taught in the sutras: There are two types of heroes in this world: those who do not commit transgressions and those who, having done so, are capable of repentance. The word “repentance” should spring from the depth of the mind. If you do not truly repent and change your ways, whatever you say is useless. It is like reading the label on a medicine bottle but refusing to take the medicine. How can your illness be cured? If you take the medicine according to instructions, the disease will certainly be cured - with body and mind calm and at peace. I only fear for those who, lacking strong and determined will, put things out in the sun to warm for one day and then let them freeze for ten days. All they get is empty fame and no true benefits! Letters from Patriarch Yin Kuang - Letter 25 We sincerely thank you so much and wish everybody to be in Amitabha Buddha's light. Namo Amitabha Buddha 🙏 Amituofo

Great video but the "secrecy is a marketing tactic" theory was cringe. Vajrayana was widely known, yes, but practicing it was prohibited until someone was qualified and underwent the requisite initiations. It is in that sense that the tradition is "secret" or "esoteric". Also the proliferation of twilight language which is the buddhist way of saying code-speak renders the tantras incredibly difficult to interpret if one is estranged from the tradition behind them. My guess is that gurus are thus more emphasized in the vajrayana for that very reason.

@AmericanBuddhistStudyCenter

Ай бұрын

Thank you for your comments.

Farang might be smart be doesn't understand the heart and soul not a master don't listen to him listen to an ordained master

You just don’t have a good understanding about Buddhism and Hindu Tantra!

@RaBjr.

29 күн бұрын

I don't know where these people get their info.

@COURRUPTIONCOIN

27 күн бұрын

Yes l was wondering why this term ( Hindu term ' Tantra ) Siddah Yoga....

@joyjitg

25 күн бұрын

@@COURRUPTIONCOIN what is your question?

@COURRUPTIONCOIN

18 күн бұрын

i do not have a question , i am an Adept, Tantra is associated , with Hindu Deity"s