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Today is the last day of the kids' spring break, which means I will be able to start doing homework as usual.
Sunday we had our last Sanga class and we got our malas blessed by the Dalai Lama - which was cooler than cool. But, our last discussion was on empowerments - very interesting. However it did not answer all my questions, so I will either e-mail Alan or see if he would let me buy him lunch and pick his brain in many pieces! However, I think Lama Chuck misinterpretted me, which is easy to do if you dont' know Tephy speak, I told him I was excited about the morning discussion becasue I was (am) planning on taking the
empowerment when Lama Lodu comes at the end of April. He looked puzzled so I told him of how Alan had given us the short practice with the gerneration taken out in the Beginning TB clas and when even I feel like I am getting a cold or flu, I do it and it is gone. Later he specified the tantra is not magic. I looked at him with raised eyebrows and he moved on.
See, I believe firmly that colds, flus ect.. are cloggins of the mental state. Pretty much the attachment to something that is harmful... In my case: usually negative self talk that brings on an insurmountable amount of stress that if left to it's own devices starts to manifest in illness, ie.. colds, flus, ect... Sometimes I am aware of this and sometime I am absent-mindedly blundering through my life. I have found when I become aware of the pre-illness feelings if I make the committment to sit and do the Varjasattva practice, my mind becomes clear therefor clearing away the crap that brewed from my negative self-talk. I know it is not magic and if I had allowed the illness to progress I would not deny medical attention.
I see cleaning out my mind by doing Varjasattva pracitce is like taking vitamin C or airborne at the slightest hint of symptoms..
Perhaps in the future, I must be careful to mean exactly what I say, lest being misunderstood.
(sigh)
It does not change my excitment in gaining the Vajrasattva empowerment.
I am ecited that Lama Chuck said that the Varjasattva empowerment is key to performing
. Which I do hope to do at some point in my life.
Sunday we had our last Sanga class and we got our malas blessed by the Dalai Lama - which was cooler than cool. But, our last discussion was on empowerments - very interesting. However it did not answer all my questions, so I will either e-mail Alan or see if he would let me buy him lunch and pick his brain in many pieces! However, I think Lama Chuck misinterpretted me, which is easy to do if you dont' know Tephy speak, I told him I was excited about the morning discussion becasue I was (am) planning on taking the
empowerment when Lama Lodu comes at the end of April. He looked puzzled so I told him of how Alan had given us the short practice with the gerneration taken out in the Beginning TB clas and when even I feel like I am getting a cold or flu, I do it and it is gone. Later he specified the tantra is not magic. I looked at him with raised eyebrows and he moved on.
See, I believe firmly that colds, flus ect.. are cloggins of the mental state. Pretty much the attachment to something that is harmful... In my case: usually negative self talk that brings on an insurmountable amount of stress that if left to it's own devices starts to manifest in illness, ie.. colds, flus, ect... Sometimes I am aware of this and sometime I am absent-mindedly blundering through my life. I have found when I become aware of the pre-illness feelings if I make the committment to sit and do the Varjasattva practice, my mind becomes clear therefor clearing away the crap that brewed from my negative self-talk. I know it is not magic and if I had allowed the illness to progress I would not deny medical attention.
I see cleaning out my mind by doing Varjasattva pracitce is like taking vitamin C or airborne at the slightest hint of symptoms..
Perhaps in the future, I must be careful to mean exactly what I say, lest being misunderstood.
(sigh)
It does not change my excitment in gaining the Vajrasattva empowerment.
I am ecited that Lama Chuck said that the Varjasattva empowerment is key to performing
. Which I do hope to do at some point in my life.