I thought I should come here to say that something interesting happened when I was meditating yesterday. After a vase breath .... wow! What was that? We're cooking with gas. There is some heat. Yesterday did seem like a red letter day, but today the difference has been assimilated and is now part of the new normal, more or less. Still very encouraging though. I think I'm proving that you don't have to be a saint to do this inner heat stuff, since I'm sure this is going to work for me now, and I'm certainly no saint unless you can be one as well as a habitual piss and pot heid!!
It's over a year since I finished The Buddha, the Dakini, and The Dirty Old Man. I really gave up after about twenty emails to agents, which produced bugger all, and so I haven't managed to get an agent to look at it yet. That doesn't matter. I only send out about one email a month these days!
This hasn't stopped me writing a follow up! Or, starting one. I thought this heat thing would happen, and the last book has been written by someone who cannot raise heat. I think my next year sometime that might not be me. Anyway, I'm wanting to write something about mysticism. Been very interested in Neo-Platonism, Plotinus, Sufis, Greek Orthodox hesychasm, and all that.
I was down at the Samye Ling for the retreat following the anniversary of the passing of Dr Akong. Then Lama Rinchen came and stayed with me for two nights. Meditating with her at my shrine was something else. I think these two events might have had something to do with the Wow yesterday. Who knows anything about anything?
The blog gets hit nearly every day from somewhere in the Netherlands. I assume this is a machine. What is that about?
