Fri, 28 Jul 2006
Notes Gone Missing
There's a famous line in the movie King's Row where Reagan wakes up after an amputation and screams, "Where's the rest of me?" People who have visited the Dharma Teachings page before will notice that now there's lot less teachings on the page than there used to be. There's two main reasons. The first is that I've moved the notes from Lama Gyursam's talks over to his web site and the second is that I was asked to remove my notes from talks taken at Karma Triyana Dharmachakra. That was their right and I have no quarrel with their request. But I feel a little sad, because I believe the notes were very helpful. My reason for putting notes up on the web was my realization that information between book covers or on audio tapes doesn't matter any more. Everyone goes to the web first to search for information and if it's not there, it might as well not exist. Before I started posting the top page on the web about mahamudra was Bobby's Mahamudra, which is some guy relating his experiences after he fell on his head. I'm very happy that I've been able to get genuine and authoritative information on mahamudra on the web.
On the other hand, I'm attached to my web sites. Khenpo Tsultrim told a story about a monk who was a good practitioner, but was attached to his teacup. The abbot knew this and told a young novice to break the teacup. The monk became furious and chased the novice. The abbot was watching and stepped in, scolded the monk, and told him to look at his mind. And when the monk did so, he saw the nature of his mind. I'm hoping to use all my attachments in the same way. Losing what you're attached to is good practice.
I will be doing a weeklong meditation retreat to get ready for Thrangu Rinpoche's Phowa retreat. That means that this or tomorrow's post will be the last post for a week.
