August 23, 2003

day two - formal teachings

With the truck completely unloaded and returned to Budget, we decided that we should take a little break from moving and go to some teachings given by Ven. Kirti Tensab Rinpoche at Land of Medicine Buddha. We were told (correctly) that Lama Zopa Rinpoche would also be in attendance. The whole event was really quite spectacular. Our “host” for the evening was Diana, who’s job I will be taking over — she’s moving on to be the Spiritual Coordinator — and she was great. Showed us several different (and quicker!) ways to get to Santa Cruz from Boulder Creek. Plus gave us great directions to LMB, a little history of Vajrapani and a pretty complete rundown of all the Buddhist events taking place in the next month around the Santa Cruz area.

The teaching was on the King of Prayers, but Rinpoche started off with a little bit of Lam Rim as background. He (along with his amazing translator) had to speed through most of the verses, but it was still very informative. The presences of Lama Zopa was very nice and he made one little correction of a translation at the beginning of the teaching, but other than that was pretty silent most of the time. I’m told that he will be attending the teaching at Vajrapani in September, so maybe I’ll get to personally meet him then.

[This was written on the post date, but not posted until 9/13/03.]

posted @ 7:40 AM

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