Submitted by Kate Gowen, Aro Apprentice (not verified) on Sat, 02/21/2009 - 20:26.
Thanks again, David, for your pellucidly apt commentary on difficulties encountered in practice. I remember something from "Dangerous Friend" that was a glancing reference to the strangeness of seeing 'personality display' as teaching: the plaintive query, "Why does my lama like 'spaghetti Westerns'?" I also have experienced many instances of having run beyond the limits of known ground with that panicked feeling that I am pedalling furiously in midair. Trying to rationalize, to cram the imponderable into all those convenient categories of habitual nescience-- it can be exceedingly difficult to appreciate being thwarted in this endeavor.
When I read this bit, it dawned on me that it is very probable that every single thing I've ever heard from the Lamas has been a case of 'method, not truth'-- and that if I were less terrified of vast emptiness, I'd have noticed sooner.
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Once again, dear friends, unto the breach
Thanks again, David, for your pellucidly apt commentary on difficulties encountered in practice. I remember something from "Dangerous Friend" that was a glancing reference to the strangeness of seeing 'personality display' as teaching: the plaintive query, "Why does my lama like 'spaghetti Westerns'?" I also have experienced many instances of having run beyond the limits of known ground with that panicked feeling that I am pedalling furiously in midair. Trying to rationalize, to cram the imponderable into all those convenient categories of habitual nescience-- it can be exceedingly difficult to appreciate being thwarted in this endeavor.
When I read this bit, it dawned on me that it is very probable that every single thing I've ever heard from the Lamas has been a case of 'method, not truth'-- and that if I were less terrified of vast emptiness, I'd have noticed sooner.
Keep up the good work.
Kate Gowen