Do not loose heart
for although
it could take me more than an hour
to explain the contemplative techniques
comprising the your first homework assignment
it will take you less than ten minuets,
probably closer to five,
to complete it.
And now it is time
for some good news
and some bad news…
like a Maverick in “Top Gun”
accelerating to mach two with his hair on fire
in the first and second lessons
you’ll learn the rudiments of:
contemplative notation,
awareness and acquiescence,
the two truths,
the ultimate nature of reality,
watching the play of mind,
and relaxing into its non-graspable nature
as well as spiritual similes
both insightful and loving…
by necessity
you’ll find the first and second lessons
to be the most
intellectually challenging
in our series of sixteen webinars
and although I’ll teach
until I’m blue in the face
(and after seventy-five minutes
I probably will be)
it will NOT make complete sense
during class.
BUT, if you perform
your five minuet homework assignment
every morning and every evening
for the next six and one half days,
for each class counts
as one of our twice-a-day practices,
the teachings could seem much more clear,
and after sixteen weeks,
the length of this course,
you’ll wonder how anyone
had ever found meditation
to be remotely challenging.
It is not the actual course work
that most people find difficult
but rather the scheduling
that they find challenging.
But Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche,
one the tutors
of the fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet,
taught that if we cherish the desire to meditate
the obstacles in our life could shift
creating the time to practice.
And practice we must,
as the intellectual, and emotional,
and physical, and circumstantial benefits
to be had by this course
are not completely free
for although a post-class donation is OPTIONAL
you MUST pay the price
of doing your homework,
every day, twice a day.
Because doing so
is the key
that unlocks the door
to the much larger world
that Obi Wan Kenobi
spoke of to Luke
upon the Millennium Falcon
on their journey to Alderaan.
Thus we practice
the Buddha’s contemplation and compassion
that we, like Luke Skywalker
might meditate like a Jedi.
Let us conclude
with a simple
call to action
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