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Alright so some of the Tibetans are doing mindfulness of breathing but others they dont teach that. |
So its just as the traditions have developed they have different meditation methods. |
little more common in Tibetan but its both of them have a lot of other practices that they feel are more important and more useful. |
So thats what mostly gets taught. |
Nagarjuna is for the Mayana, isnt it Nagarjuna is claimed by the Mayana to be one of its founders but it, Mayana Buddhism had arisen before Nagarjuna was born. |
And reading what he has to say would say he had a great deal of respect for the early teachings just from what he says in there. |
He really has a lot of respect for that and hes really talking against the Savastavadana Abhidharma. |
This was the one that went from Kashmir into Afghanistan and eventually to China. |
and they thought that the past and the future existed. |
So they wouldnt agree with me that time is an illusion. |
They thought that all three times existed past, present, and future. |
And that other things had essences. |
And so this is what Nagarjuna is talking about. |
And hes really trying to steer the discussion really back to the early teachings of the Buddha. |
So, yeah, he has Mahayana understanding of emptiness. |
Maybe its that Mahayana has a Nagarjuna understanding of emptiness. |
They picked it up from him. |
But he also has a great reverence for the early sutras and the teachings of the Buddha. |
So would say hes between the two. |
But the Mahayana wouldnt agree with me. |
They want to claim him as their own. |
But they dont have mindfulness practice. |
No, they do have mindfulness practices. |
And so there you wouldnt find necessarily a lot of practices being done, but being talked about. |
Theres also practices in the Golupa tradition that are practiced. |