Posted by Quintal on August 7, 2007, at 11:35:21
In reply to Re: Confessions of an English Opiate Eater » Quintal, posted by LlurpsieNoodle on August 7, 2007, at 9:05:58
I happened to read Sogyal Rinpoche's "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying" last year when I quit Klonopin cold turkey. I'd had the book for a while and I'd been interested in Buddhism for a long time, but the teachings never touched me until I was sitting there all raw and suffering. So beautiful to hear gentle words of loving kindness at a time when I'd lost all faith in myself and humanity in general. He offers an email service that mails you little excerpts from the book every day and that's really good for keeping Dharma fresh in your mind http://www.rigpaus.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi?flavor=s&l=glimpse.
I'm trying to finish Chogyam Trungpa's "Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism" and "The Myth of freedom and the Way of Meditation" but I keep getting distracted - time for more meditation practice? His style is much more brutal - ruthless compassion is what he calls it, telling you what need to know, not what you want to hear. He had a penetrating type of intelligence and an incredible grasp of Dharma, and that shines through in the depth of his teachings. It's very hard going but worth all the effort I think.
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