Buddha on the road to Mecca

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== Joyce ==========

>trying to figure things out - all that matters is this love. When I am in my

>worst place, all trying completely defeated, (not just somewhat defeated,

>completely defeated), there it is. And one doesnt have to do or be anything

>at all to find it. Except maybe, ask.

>

>And this from a "Theravadan" - well, some things I don't tell my teachers.

>The best things I hold in my heart.

>

>Metta,

>

>Joyce

 

 

Hi Joyce,

:-)

Good stuff.

Such experiences are very affirming

and the component of 'Love' and ecstasy is universal.

Your experience sounds very intense.

Some time ago I was visited by a familiar

'Love' Angel or Yidam.

(I do not work on the visual - I was just

very aware of its presence - hey I'm only a beginner)

I told it to 'go away' and fetch

the organ grinder.

(Lobsters are nothing if not presumptuous).

I refused to be possessed again by this wondrous

quality - yeah we Lobsters sure is strange . . .

I knew the cost of such a 'request'/prayer would

be perhaps more than I could bear.

The organ grinder must have been busy

- guess who made a monkey out of me . . .

LOL

[Lobster dances . . .]

 

Recently whilst practicing vajrayana in a monastic

setting (and a great deal of preparatory practice)

I entered a 'Pure Land' that I was familiar with.

Ecstatic experiences are seductive and I lived

there for a while.

Coming back took about two weeks but then I knew the territory,

previously it would have taken two years . . .

Some people never leave.

As they say, 'If you meet the Buddha on the road,

one of you is going in the wrong direction.'

.. . . or is it that all roads lead to Rome . . .

.. . . or . . . [Lobster loses the plot] . . .

 

Dancing Lobster

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