Falling Dominos

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Tips on Meditation and the Spiritual path - idea #195
from your Buddhism expert



As a kid I loved dominos, how about you? No, not
the pizza. They didn’t have Domino’s Pizza when I
was a little boy… yes I’m that old. And no, it
wasn’t the game I liked so much. No, what I loved
about dominos was playing with them as if they
were building blocks. But absolutely the most fun
was balancing the dominos on their sides, in a line
and then tipping the first one over into the
second, and then sit back and watch the chain
reaction. It looked cool, and sounded even better.
Could you recall the sound of a domino chain
reaction? There’s nothing like it.





Individually, a domino isn’t much. But in concert
with others dominos, arranged just so, they can
create quite a memorable effect. Likewise, the
minor adversities in our lives can be negligible by
themselves, but when combined with other petty
inconveniences in our lives, can create quite the
drama. What are some of the ways you could have
felt the domino effect in your life? I sure felt
it last Thursday.





First, I was prescribed, and started taking, a new
antihistamine. And you know how pharmaceuticals can
muck about with our feelings.

Second, I did some counseling, which is always
energetically draining.

Third, I traversed the countryside upon six buses
and one trolley, which is definitely the antidote
to vitality.



Fourth, upon arriving at my Optometrist appointment
I was given the news that the time had come for me
to receive bifocals; because we all just love
reminders of our relentless aging and the inevitable
approach of the dreaded moment when our body will
fail us permanently.



Fifth, I discovered that the classic Glaucoma
“poof” test was replaced by a new test wherein an
electronic device is actually pressed against the
surface of the eye-ball. Yes doctor, won’t you
please poke me in the eye with your electronic
version of a sharp stick; because heaven knows,
after a long hard day, I find that ever-so
soothing! But wait, there’s more…



Sixth, of course no really thorough eye exam is
complete until they put the stinging acid they call
drops into your eyes, so they can dilate the pupils
and have a look inside. Hey, don’t get me wrong. It’s
not that I don’t sincerely feel that it is the height
of glamour to stagger about like some junkie with
pupils the size of nickels.


So there I was… a chemically, physically and
emotionally drained monk, shuffling down the
street, just barely able to see the sidewalk before
me in my post optometric-stupor, fervently hoping
to make the 1 mile journey to the trolley station
in safety. And then it happened.


It was such an unusual sensation. Have you ever felt
this before? Have you ever felt like the earth was
actually opening up beneath your feet. Did you
ever get that sinking feeling in the pit of your
stomach so intensely that it actually felt like the
earth was swallowing you whole?





No, I didn’t like it very much. Do you know what I
felt like doing? I’ll tell ya. I felt like crying.
I felt like I was going to be hit by a car I
couldn’t see through my dilated eyes or that my
vision, or my body was going to fail me any moment.
I felt that I was about to go to my auspicious
rebirth without having completed the tasks that
have been set before me. I felt scared, and angry
and full of self-pity. I wanted to be held. I
wanted to be comforted. I wanted to be taken care
of. But I was all alone. I felt utterly abandoned,
hopeless and weak. And, most astonishing of all,
I felt all of that in a span of just a few seconds!
So, what did I do?


I brought the grotesque yucky-ness of the present
moment into Enlightenment’s paths of Love and
Letting-go. Was it instant bliss? Of course not.
But, by using Buddha’s mental yogas {that are a
vailable for FREE download}

I was able to quickly find the “eye in the center
of the hurricane” as it were; and so could you.

I brought the vile glop of that moment into Buddha’s
path of compassion and cultivated the longing to
rescue all beings, in all worlds from their
unpleasant emotions; and so could you.

I dragged the illusions of the permanence and
identity my drama-queen sensations into Buddha’s
path of insight and quickly deconstructed them;
and so can you. But how?


Whether I’m performing a healing for the gravely ill,
teaching a class or performing even the most mundane
spiritual chore; I always begin with the practice
that I like to call the “Karmic Dynamo.”


I’m so excited about you getting your hands on this
lesson, that this month I’m offering it at a
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Om Mani Padme Hum,
Lama Jigme Gyatso
Tibetan-Buddhist: Monk, Teacher, Healer and Tantrika


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