1988 RMDC dathun - toast

"I've no independent knowledge of meeting Chogyam Trungpa in person, face-to-face."

 

In 1988 at Rocky Mountain Shambhala Center, at a banquet following a dathun (4-week sitting period) I offered a toast "to the sangha" This new word was one I associated with "family" and I offered the words to those left in the wake of such a teacher's vast activities.

 

Rather than "wake" I became curious more of an "awake" that such a teacher might have been sharing, imbuing, steeping, and serving.

 

Far more than the actions of any bodhisattva, Vidyadhara, I stead on in my life to lead to... where.

 

I read a bumper sticker .. "They can send me to college, but they can't make me learn."

 

I leave this cyberspace with a short poem:

 

I'm so, I'm so

in love with you

dharma be tried

before it is true.

 

                                               

Karma Sherab