As you move toward your destination, are you moving away from your Self?
Salutations from Diane Avice du Buisson,
For thirty of the fifty years I have been living this life I have been studying Eastern philosophy and the eight limbs of yoga. My practices have been consistent and progress has been slow yet steady. Just as water droplets falling onto a stone will eventually penetrate the surface, the seemingly solid form will dissolve and give way to the other side.
Sri K. Pattabhi Jois once said to me, "Slow growing is good growing."
To be given an opportunity in one lifetime to study with a yoga master is a rare and precious treasure. It has been my greatest fortune to have found not only one master, but two. I cannot glorify this enough.
I became a student of two Tibetan brothers, Venerable Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche and Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche twenty-one years ago. It wasn't until I met them that life in North America began to make sense. Prior to our meeting, I didn't feel like I belonged here. Once I began integrating the meditation practices and life philosophies of Vajrayana Buddhism into a living sutra, I felt an increase of vitality and a peaceful settling into the core of my being. An understanding of this life's purpose began to come into view and my daily and night time activities transitioned into an extension of practice and eventually service to others.
All that you experience here is a humble yet bold attempt to share the truths that have illuminated my path from partial to whole, from restlessness to calmly abiding, from fear to freedom.
May the red bird of passionate frolic and flight be with you on your journey. Learn the secrets of its lightness of being and you too shall fly.