TUESDAY APRIL 8TH MY BIRTHDAY Being my birthday I did a new practice today employing all the things I have been meaning to add for some time. How gratifying! That is the best gift of all. Birthdays make me think, especially getting to age where the gray shows, of how little time there is left to become enlightened, my aspiration for this lifetime. Funny how some think that is an arrogant thought but if you don’t have high aspirations for yourself who will? Not so long ago I used to feel self conscious and embarrassed to say that word enlightenment but now I am pushing myself to do more to get there. I always see how far away it seems and yet have very clear, sharp moments of recognition of that state that both humble and motivate me. Having had the good fortune to be very close to many teachers in my life, some very close and some not so much, I keep hoping some of that enlightened quality will rub off – my teacher Jack the Lama, the Dalai Lama, Balka Tulku Rinpoche, Matheiu Ricard, Tsongnyi Rinpoche, and of course my dear master Sogyal Rinpoche. Mentioning these is not to show off but rather to remind me “out loud” that I have been privileged and that I need to take advantage of that good karma and move it forward even more by striving myself. Right now I am having to fill out an application to attend special retreats with Rinpoche and the questions are quite daunting. They are about integrating the practices into everyday life, noticing on a day to day, hour to hour, minute to minute basis integrated principle into action and then taking note -exciting, confronting and motivating! It definitely does bring one to mindful awareness, at least I HOPE that is the case as I write. I am grateful to all the beings enlightened, aspiring, struggling with or just plain blind who have contributed to my own awareness in the past years. I appreciate more and more the ones who are tougher to be with and the situations which are not ones I particularly like as I move through this life. My ego being challenged on a moment to moment basis is not a bad thing, just not at all comfortable but at this stage is probably exactly what is needed. Happy Birthday Rae
Posted on: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 22:33:04 +0000
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