[Buddha-l] Re: Magic

[Vicente Gonzalez]

this thread appears in right moment.

Are there some texts with rules for Tantrics to avoid black magic?.

These days I'm sharing some talks with a young man who recently leave
an strange group who are mixing Tibetan Buddhism with black magic of a
probable Brazilian origin. They are not Tibetans but they use Tibetan
Buddhism to guess their own practices.
This man is quite confused about what he did. Besides the emotional
part, another problem is that he doesn't know what practices were
truly part of Tantric Buddhists or not. He know some obvious things
like  the use of chickens. However, other things performed by that people
(visualizations of light doors, etc..) are not clear to him.
It will be great knowing some reading so he can be aware of what was a
real Buddhist Tantric practice or not. Also specially some to underlay
the right behavior in a Tibetan Tantric context of master and disciple.

Any comment will be really welcome.


thanks in advance.