|
|
|
Turn it yourself Edited from a Chronicles
interview on 18 March 2002
My first recollection of the Vidyadhara was when he gave meditation instruction to all the new students at the first session of Naropa in 1974. I remember sitting in a large auditorium with hundreds of other people waiting for him. When he finally arrived, it took a few moments for my mind to catch up with its expectations and realize that the little man in the dark suit, walking with a pronounced limp was, in fact, Chögyam Trungpa. I remember that he smiled a lot and joked a lot and in particular I remember that, after he gave meditation instruction, a student raised his hand and said: "Rinpoche, why the outbreath? Why not the inbreath?" And my recollection of what he said (and of course I'm paraphrasing here) was: Well, it's like this. When you come home at the end of a long day and you're really stressed out and tired, you go into the kitchen, you open the refrigerator, you take out a beer, you open the beer, you go into the TV room, you turn the TV on, you sit down on the couch. You don't go (loud sound of sudden inbreath). After that I never had any misunderstanding about why it was the outbreath. http://www.chronicleproject.com/stories_11.html by Frank Berliner Edited from a Chronicles interview on 18 March 2002 |
|
|
