trungpa amy in red I have ( with a coupon ) impetuously bought the collected works of the Tulku. i am on number 2. you can have them when I'm done. Number 1 was heartbreaking and amazing and, of course, enlightening. This guy is such a shortcut, I feel like, somehow, he transmits so easily - is very well spoken - and thus there's a dearth of people finding caves and putting things under deep, long, careful consideration. All you have to do is get lightning flashed by the dead-too-soon guru. and then lightning flashed by his followers and then you're out of life's hindrances and you feel done. So done. But it's probably a mirage, and it's easier to have a common life, work carefully at being authentic, although even if you have an uncommon life still it's completely within the realm of possibiility to be authentic. Uniqueness increases, though. 120623 ... amy in red I was meditating to Ravi Shankar chanting and my brain went into some other wave pattern. I do not work hard at meditating, although life itself is mentally challenging. Whenever the shift happens, I think I must be cheating. I don't know who or what to blame. It's a nice experience but my dreams went completely wonky, in this musico-energetic way. I blame the meditation. "superpowers" are not always a sustained wonderful thing and they can make you pine for simpler, more Terrence McKenna derived days.... 120623 ... amy in red The Dalai Lama told me to tell you. But I have no idea what the Dalai Lama's point is. Only that he was there. 120623 ... PeeT this_is_it_is_this 120624 what's it to you? who go blather from