Can you all help me understand how emptiness applies to the innately luminous and pure nature of awareness? When reading about Dzogchen, it seems (to the ignorant such as myself) that it is being implied that there is a fundamental ground to reality or basis of existence.
Is the innate luminosity of awareness the same as emptiness? Is it an expression of emptiness?
Any help is greatly appreciated!
I ask this not to be confrontational, but as a question from a respectful Buddhist.
This might be a bit confusing, so I'll try to go straight to the point.
I used to have prejudice against Mahayana, but luckily that has passed. One of the reasons I kept reading more about Mahayana were questions like "if there's no self/soul, what goes from one life to the next?" Almost all schools teach the not-self/no-self, but clearly there's something that gets rebirth.
Some teachers have a difficulty explaining what really goes from one life to the next. Mahayana teachers seem to have less of a problem with that. I wonder if this happens because of the need to keep using the via negativa when teaching the not-self/no-self doctrine in some schools of Buddhism.
Yes: I understand there's no unchanging self. I also understand that when I search for a self in my body, I don't find it anywhere. I'm not talking about an unchanging self. It took me a long time to find the concept of bhavanga. I wonder if this can be related to the concepts of bodhicitta, tathagatagarbha, luminous mind and very subtle mind.
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Are all of these concepts related to one another?
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Are they related to store-consciousness?
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Is that the "flame" that passes from "candle to candle" (different bodies after we die), and is that flame what needs to me Awaken and attain Enlightenment? (I know this is threading closely to defining atman, but come on...)
Bless to everyone.
"Luminous, monks, is the mind.[1] And it is defiled by incoming defilements."
"Luminous, monks, is the mind. And it is freed from incoming defilements."
"Luminous, monks, is the mind. And it is defiled by incoming defilements. The uninstructed run-of-the-mill person doesn't discern that as it actually is present, which is why I tell you that — for the uninstructed run-of-the-mill person — there is no development of the mind."
"Luminous, monks, is the mind. And it is freed from incoming defilements. The well-instructed disciple of the noble ones discerns that as it actually is present, which is why I tell you that — for the well-instructed disciple of the noble ones — there is development of the mind."
-AN 1.49-52
Didn't notice it until I looked at orangemushroom about the Heroes of Maple update. Who found that out without checking it up?
Coach Luminous walked up the podium in his signature, nonchalant fashion. With the room full of reporters and cameras facing him, his posture and demeanor remained unchanged. He pulled the plastic chair out from under the press conference table and slumped into it. He was in his typical press conference outfit – a cheap, tailored suit with a tie. Except this time, the tie was black, not vibrant Auburn orange. He leaned into the prepared mic.
“Hello everyone, I’m just gonna keep this short,” Luminous said, “but I will not be staying at Auburn.
I’ll be taking my talent back home to Fort Worth, Texas, where I will coach at Texas Christian University.”
When I stepped into his new TCU office, the set-up wasn’t too different from his Auburn office. There still was a picture of his family sitting on the desk, right next to a letter penned by Richard Spiller days before he got drafted and a clock given by Billy Jones’ family after recruiting him.
“I stand by everything I said in that press conference,” Luminous said.
Perhaps it was shocking that Luminous was going to leave behind everything he built at Auburn. He single-handedly resurrected the program that was in the gutter. To do it all over again at TCU? It seemed unnecessary.
However, perhaps the return back to home wasn’t as far-fetched as it sounds.
Texas is a special place for Luminous. He practically spent his entire life there prior to accepting the Auburn job. It is also where he fell in love with the game of basketball.
“My love for the sport came in my very early years,” Luminous said. “[when I was] maybe three or four, my dad would watch Spurs game every night”
Luminous soon realized how high of a wall you must climb to become a professional athlete. However, his disappointment did not linger long as he quickly found a love for coaching. With the San Antonio Spurs right in his backyard, it was obvious he found inspiration in Gregg Popovich.
“His system of basketball changed the sport as we know it,” Luminous said.
When he began to look for potential suitors, Luminous went on record to say that Texas Tech was his initial primary choice.
“What really made Texas Tech more appealing was the fact that I grew up in Texas and I’m a pretty loyal dude,” Luminous said.
He realized that the Red Riders were not an option and quickly moved on to Auburn, where he began his coaching career. When Luminous first arrived on campus, the Tigers were not exactly a powerhouse in the SEC. They combined for onl
... keep reading on reddit ➡Luminous is the mind, brightly shining, but it is coloured by the attachments that visit it. This unlearned people do not really understand, and so do not cultivate the mind. Luminous is the mind, brightly shining, and it is free of the attachments that visit it. This the noble follower of the way really understands; so for them there is cultivation of the mind.
So, here's my issue.
I've had my Vita many years ago, but had to sell it back then because I've had terrible financial problems. I really loved Lumines Electronic Symphony (got all trophies even!), and there was this song in particular that I've really liked, but I can't find it anywhere on the internet. It's an original BGM that plays during the Stopwatch mode only, an original composition for the game. The complete version of the song plays during the 300 seconds time-limited mode.
And I've tried everything I could think of
- Asked for the help of 2 devs to try drilling into the game's files and fish the song out, but in the end, it wasn't possible due to lack of tools. Got VERY close to obtaining the raw, playable file though, it was really frustrating.
- Tried emulating it with Vita3K to record it myself, but the emulator is in a very experimental stage, and it can't run the game. My notebook is also kinda old, which could also be a problem.
- Trying going into more obscure websites, but they only have the songs from normal gameplay and bônus skins you unlock
So my last resort would be to record audio from a Vita playing the game - IF the game allows you to mute SFX during gameplay, a thing that I don't really remember if it's possible - should be though, as it's a musical game. Vitas are really expensive where I live, and I don't really want to spend that much money because of an audio file, so all that remains is to try to find someone willing to help.
I'd be extremely grateful if I could get that damn song. It's only an instrumental arrangement, but those drums, man. Those drums are sick.
Title.
Genshin's usage of the Traveler in the storytelling sense is rather inconsistent. They have a set personality, beliefs, and goals; their journey is very personal to them as it's about reuniting with their twin turned evil; they know things that we, the players, don't, like information about Khaenri'ah and their relationship with their twin; and so on. Yet, they insist on making us "self-insert" into them and treat them as a blank slate with Paimon speaking and repeating for threm all the time, despite them being their own person with their own journey which is literally what the game revolves around. They aren't some bystander just in the right place at the right time, but someone whose journey has high personal stakes both in the fate of their sibling and Teyvat as a whole.
This has caused a myriad of problems.
For one, it's HIGHLY inconsistent, as they have voiced dialogue in their profile menu and they spoke during the entire intro scene complete with a monologue, conversations with Paimon listening to their story, and the emotional weight of losing family all in a two-three minute prologue. This leads to a false expectation of a fully voiced protagonist, which was immediately destroyed by the Traveler being reduced to grunting in cutscenes and having little to no expression, which is kind of an immersion breaker.
Two, it makes it hard to get attached to the Traveler and their story, leading to a rather anticlimactic scene during the two twins finally meeting again. Outside of the occasional angry Lumine pose, the Traveler barely has any expression and becomes rather forgettable in cutscenes. This gets more obvious during the twins' reunion, where the player Traveler's lack of voice when it's their ACTUAL TWIN talking to them broke the emotional weight of the scene.
Another issue is that you can't self-insert to existing character relationships like siblings, since the player doesn't even know much about their relationship compared to say, Aether, who does know WAY more about Lumine than we do (referring back to the "Traveler knows way more than we do").
Three, Paimon's role gets affected negatively, and the dialogue choices (which are the Traveler's way of "talking") feels kinda half-assed. Because of the silent protagonist, Paimon becomes the Traveler's "voice", at the expense of her hogging the cutscenes with constantly repeating whatever was said a few seconds ago. While this is to help players without to
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