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ngondro

  • 08-02-2005 4:50pm
    #1
    jackie g
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27 ✭


    Hi,

    I was just wondering if anyone on this site was practicing ngondro and would like to discuss. I have just started and it is a roller-coaster. I had conscientiously prepared for problems. That the practice of ngondro might be dry and unsatisfying. That the visualizations might remain vague and feeble. That I would grow impatient and rebellious, become more and more dissatisfied with the superstitious, fundamentalist side of the Dharma. That my leg would not be able to take the stress (I have sciatica), that I'd panic when I realized how much of my meagre free time would be eaten up.

    I had prepared, in fact, for every eventuality except one: that the practice might actually work !!! That anxious thinking might loosen its grip on me. That my mind might become -- in Ringu Tulku Rinpoche’s wonderful phrase -- "more serviceable."

    I guess a lot of people have trouble with the very idea of prostrations, with the idea of humiliating oneself before an image. That's not a problem for me at all now. For one thing, what the image really represents is not an Indian prince from some 2500 years ago. What it represents is my own awakening. Humbling my body humbles my mind i hope !!


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