Sunday 1.45 p.m.
I went to two talks by Lama Yeshe Losal last night and today. Here's some of the things he was talking about.
He extolled the qualities and reasons for doing the Four Special Foundations i.e. 100,000s of things. This was not music to my ears and I'd like to go to the Holy Isle and dodge a lot of that!! Particularly, he went into the value of prostrations. He was doing 1300 a day when he was in retreat. He needed bandaging. You can do three hundred an hour. That's over four hours of prostrating. That would kill me.
After three years of solitary retreat, he wasn't getting anywhere and wanted to leave, using the excuse that he wanted to see his parents, whom he'd just discovered were alive in Tibet. His minder told him if he tried to leave he'd break his leg. He seems to have cracked it after five years.
He was interesting talking about life at the Samye when it was just Johnstone House in the sixties. Sex and drugs and rock and roll. He said he'd tried everything. Perfect bridge really between east and west really.
4 comments:
I say!
That's more like it. Did you ask him if he'd met Allen Ginsberg?
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Mingin'! He said David Bowie was there and Lord Carrington's daughters. Hotboy
He looks to be a merry soul.
The reason you hate doing them is because they really will lead you to where you need to be.
Time to face up and do or hush up and be a flatheid.
Sorry to hear he cracked his leg, maybe it was just a hairless fracture.
PS reading between the lines, you're concerned they might not let you back out of Holy Isle. I wouldn't worry. You're more likely to be expelled.
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