Yesterday’s lecture was, mostly, on emptiness. This is the hard core, serious, “once you get this you’re probably approaching omniscience” material.
I did not get it. I thought that I got it a couple of times, but then I figured out that my brain was just desperately lowering its standards for comprehension in order to get me to turn off the fire hose.
To my credit, I saw a lot of people who were just pencils-down gurrrrrrrr by the middle of the session.
At one point, he even lost the mighty translator. This guy has hung tough through all the rest of the sessions, but at one point, about 5 English minutes into a 10 minute Tibetan discourse he paused and then (in unmistakable Tibetan) looked up at His Holiness and asked “could you please repeat that?”
There was no hope for the closed captioning.
Today, we wrap up and head home. Two more sessions. What a great experience.
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