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**Lorionasodi** · 04-10-2010, 06:26 AM

Another guru stuck in infatuation with consciousness, who has not sought to verify the big questions the buddha answered.

This is what happens when one does not rely on an appropriate guide or map.

I'm assuming that you must have studied with Ponlop Rinpoche for quite some time, or at least you're very familiar with his extensive and thorough teachings ranging from beginner level to atiyoga level that are based on his training that began when he was 12 years old, and his 16 years of monastic study that resulted in the equivalent of a ph.d. in the study of the sutras - in order to have arrived at these rather dismissive conclusions?

Surely you didn't arrive at your conclusions about him and what he has/hasn't done, based on that brief article in the Washington Post that was aimed at a general non-buddhist reading audience, right?

If so, then your comments sound like they are directed at some straw man in your imagination...

04-10-2010, 06:26 AM	#14
Lorionasodi Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 480 Senior Member	Another guru stuck in infatuation with consciousness, who has not sought to verify the big questions the buddha answered. This is what happens when one does not rely on an appropriate guide or map. I'm assuming that you must have studied with Ponlop Rinpoche for quite some time, or at least you're very familiar with his extensive and thorough teachings ranging from beginner level to atiyoga level that are based on his training that began when he was 12 years old, and his 16 years of monastic study that resulted in the equivalent of a ph.d. in the study of the sutras - in order to have arrived at these rather dismissive conclusions? Surely you didn't arrive at your conclusions about him and what he has/hasn't done, based on that brief article in the Washington Post that was aimed at a general non-buddhist reading audience, right? If so, then your comments sound like they are directed at some straw man in your imagination...
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