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Thanks so Song Dyn for widespread use of term for a set of practices- is this what you mean by a modern invention?

isn’t the term neidan used in the cantong qi (sp?)

Apart from anything else Marpa obtained the Mahamudra lineage from Maitripa and not Naropa. Zouwang is first mentioned in zhuangzi and is probably much older thus pre- dating the Buddha.

I did but it did take a fairly large amount of alentejo red wine.

That would be acceptable.

oh ok … but your bookcase is otherwise impressive. So thank you.

Well! Where’s your copy of Childe Harold?

What exactly have you got against Lord Byron?

Ah the children of the night - how they sing.

Sing goddess the anger of Achilles son of Peleus! …. Etc

I, being I in this clouded world, Am drawn by base desire and some malevolent duty, To thrust my naked self into the Waterfall, Deluged there by reckless beauty, Submerged in sandy shores and, Named Sharon mysteriously, Washed up on distant shores, Not dead but yet a surrogate corpse, The body of an unborn kind, Transmigrated from this world to the next, Timeless and yet waiting, For the late night bus.

there’s no shame in being a fed

could you give me the serious answer about malevolence? I don’t really get it. Thanks.

wot? Why the malevolence?

buddhatantra and naldjor ( yogic practices)