Yesterday’s lecture was, mostly, on emptiness. This is the hard core, serious, “once you get this you’re probably approaching omniscience” material. <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
To my credit, I saw a lot of people who were just pencils-down gurrrrrrrr by the middle of the session. <\/p>\n
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?” <\/p>\n
There was no hope for the closed captioning. <\/p>\n
Today, we wrap up and head home. Two more sessions. What a great experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yesterday’s lecture was, mostly, on emptiness. This is the hard core, serious, “once you get this you’re probably approaching omniscience” material. <\/p>\n
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 . . . → Read More: Emptiness<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}