RYI STUDENT BLOG

We always hear about the three aspects of taking a teaching into experience:  listening, contemplating and meditating.  The first two aspects seemed pretty self-explanatory to me, but I didn't really understand how contemplation and meditation related to one another until Trolpa Tulku and Anya's short course on mind-training this spring.  Meditation has two aspects, discursive and resting, so when meditating on a topic--for example impermanence--there comes a point in the discursive meditation where one says, "ah-ha, that's really how it IS." Its a small realization in the very ordinary sense of the word, but the problem is that I usually gloss over that part. I'm so into the mode of discursive meditation that I don't normally take the opportunity to rest in that certainty which arises in that "oh, it's actually true" moment. Resting in that certainty is the resting aspect of meditation (of course, that's probably quite ob...

I would like to congratulate the organizers of  our third student talent show this year!  It was a really impressive event. Not only did it reveal many hidden student talents, but it also inspired various local Nepali people to prove their abilities in front of a microphone.  The highlight of the evening was definitely the mixed Nepali/Shedra-student dance performance in traditional Nepali costumes.  Some of the musical acts were really professional and those that were not, were at least very authentic and performed in a good spirit.  For the more intellectually inclined there was also some literature and poetry reading.   All in all it was a very entertaining evening.   Gerd from Germany

Sergio Rodrigues de Senna Corrêa of Brazil just defended his MA thesis on May 31, 2010.  His thesis is entitled:  ' The Suhṛlleka According to Ācārya Mahāmati'.  The Thesis supervisor was Dr. Andreas Doctor.   We are all so proud of you! Congratulations : )