Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

Yesterday and the day before I did a zoom retreat on the practice of Chod. I know, I had no idea what it was either, but I enjoyed listening to the two teachers, one of them mine. They are both Tibetan Rimpoches, but my teacher speaks excellent English and the other had a translator. At the end of the two days I surprised myself by enjoying the translated teacher more. He is very lively and so is his translator, and somehow I received the essence of him through my computer screen. If I told you the basics, you would be horrified. But somehow, thinking about the body as a corpse, and going to what they call haunted ground (metaphorically) makes sense. If our greatest fear is the deterioration and loss of our body, then facing that fear is liberating. Having witnessed my daughter's loss so recently, this teaching eased me. Our culture is so different than the Tibetan, but after a few years I have come to appreciate what it has to offer us in the west. I'm grateful I did this retreat, and feel lighter now.