Sat, 21 Oct 2006
Lama Returns
As I mentioned in my last post, Lama Gursam is back to visit in Baltimore. Thursday night he gave a Medicine Buddha empowerment at Breathe Bookstore, the local spiritual bookstore. There's a group that regularly does Medicine Buddha practice at the store and they were there along with the die hard Buddhist regulars. Afterwards I spoke a few words with Susan, the owner of the store. She remembers me from the days I was timer at the Sunday meditations at the Shambhala Center. It seems I built up a reputation as a good meditator solely on the ability to sit still in lotus position. Never before has such an undeserved reputation been built on such a small basis. Friday night Lama gave a talk on precious human birth. It was short, but had some good points. I have notes and they'll go up on Lama Gursam's web site in about a week. Today we got the empowerment for Vajrasattva practice and an explanation of the practice. I didn't have my Alphasmart with me, so I took notes on my Palm. I'll have to see how they come out. The Vajrasattva practice is taken from the Drikung ngondro practice that's done in three year retreat. TMC seems to be pushing this practice lately, maybe to build interest in the three year retreat. Tomorrow we'll have Vajrasattva practice. More later.
