Sun, 13 Jul 2008
Golden Chains
There's a Buddhist saying that goes "chains of gold bind you as tightly as chains of iron." The usual sense of the saying is that noble, uplifting thoughts bind you samsara just as much as negative thoughts because all conceptual thought is delusion, and being bound by delusion is samsara. But I'm using it in a different sense. I can't go on vacation right now, because I'm too busy at work to take time off. I missed most of the Karmapa's visit, most of the Spring Retreat at TMC, the ten day retreat at KTD, and the Dalai Lama's teaching at Lehigh. I probably won't be able to take vacation until August or Spetember. I'm not so much interested in attending teachings as I am in doing retreat. I'm going to be doing a week long retreat in November at TMC and there's a chance that Lama Gursam will do a Phowa retreat when he visits Baltimore in September.Until then, I can only go on vacation vicarioisly. Hun Lye is leading another tour two India and Tibet and he's blogging about the tour, as is one of his students. So far they've visited Delhi and Ladakh and met Chetsang Rinpoche and the young incarnation of Bakula Rinpoche.
