Being here for you is one of the reasons I put so much time, energy and focus into writing and publishing this newsletter!
We are preparing to re open our Center and resume teaching these principles and practices in both live in person and simultaneous on line classes, courses and events because first, it is important to learn them from a teacher with the training, experience and heart who really cares about others and has in depth understanding to guide and train students.
Second, it is far easier to learn these principles and practices directly from a teacher in a live group setting…
And third, to be able to practice meditation, prayer and mantra ongoingly, it is important to have the support of the group of students who become your friends, your dharma brothers and sisters in a kind of community….so you are not trying to climb the mountain alone, but know you have the backing and support of the group.
The spiritual path is a lifetime journey.
As a spiritual teacher who has been trained by some of the greatest meditation masters of our time, who themselves were trained by their own teachers and did the practices and studied the principles their teachers gave them until they became masters in an unbroken lineage, I can say that what and how I teach is the real deal. I call it authentic principles and practices because I didn’t make it up or get it from a book, but from direct transmission of my teachers to me.
I teach because i want to help as many people as I can to have these practices and principles that are highly effective, simple to learn, effective in positive results and will certainly free them from suffering and the sources of suffering—-if the student will use them and do the inner work we recommend.
I appreciate your being here with me on a daily basis as one of our Dawning Light community members. I invite you to participate in our classes, courses and events when we open. Once we launch, we will be teaching from now on and making many valuable resources available for our students, including being able to interact with me directly.
Meanwhile, here is a link to a video of Class One of our Meditation Training Intensive course which you can watch anytime. It is 2 hours long and will give you an idea of how I teach and what one of my courses is like.
We were all born and sent here to life on earth because this world is actually the perfect environment for spiritual growth and we are all enrolled in this school of love and consciousness.
My teachers said that there are only two kinds of people in this world….those who haven’t realized that the true purpose of life is intentional spiritual growth yet…and those who have had this basic realization and are actively pursuing their own dharmic spiritual path.
It changes everything to know that our life does have a higher purpose and meaning…that life is not just some meaningless experience that we have to go through until we die…that this life we have now is an incredibly precious opportunity that most people are wasting by chasing after the things the world tells us are important.
Once you know why we are here and have the tools, spiritual principles and practices to fulfill your real purpose for your life, it changes everything for the better. Your life is important, and the fact that you are interested in these teachings shows that yoiu are on the cusp of stepping into a greater, new level of life of awakening to seeing yourself as a spiritual student on your own path.
One of the greatest things i got from my teachers is waking up to these truths and shifting from seeing myself in the old lost and pain filled ways to knowing myself to be a spiritual seeker on the path to Realization.
My teachers often said that it is the destiny of every human being to eventually become enlightened, to become a Realized person completely free from all suffering because who we all really are is the Higher Self…the question is though is how many thousands of lifetimes of suffering from ignorance and ego mind will it take before we wake up and get busy consciously doing the inner work necessary to become free?
I have suffered many terrible things in my life which caused me tremendous agony, despair and depression that seemed as if suffering would always be my fate…and these awful sufferings became a loop that went round and round with seemingly no way out…
Fortunately, I prayed for help, had a major awakening, searched for enlightened teachers who could help me and finally met my first teacher, Kalu Rinpoche when I was 22 years old. He recognized me as one of his very first american students and i recognized him as my destined teacher. I became one of his heart sons and dedicated myself to training with him very closely for many years. Through studying the principles and actually seriously doing the practices he taught us, i did make steady progress and became free.
Rinpoche asked me to teach meditation and the foundations of the path, authorized me to found dharma centers and give courses, lead retreats and work with and guide beginners in 1977…and i have been doing this work ever since, while continuing to study the dharma, do my own practice and train closely with several other realized masters over the years.
I can say with absolute certainty that you can take up your own spiritual training and path and use the rest of your life consciously evolving yourself no matter what your age may be. In fact, many of the greatest realized masters launched on their path late in life, and due to their maturity and understanding that absolutely nothing in this world can help us become free from suffering except the Dharma, used their remaining years to work through the stages of development to become completely free before they died.
This is why I teach, because I know the value of the Dharma teachings and practices from personal experience. Seriously, if they could help the lost, depressed and angry young man I was to become free, conscious and blissfully awake…then anyone who really applies themselves can also do it.
Pursuing your spiritual path is definitely one of the most challenging and difficult things you will ever do…like deciding to climb Mount Everest…but it is by far the best use of your time, your life and your energy because it will lead to permanent freedom from suffering…and then, you will have the experience and abilities to help others become free.
Besides, we all will have to take up our path sooner or later…so why wait?
I can promise you this—-once you consciously launch on your path after learning the principles and practices you need to make progress—your life will continuously improve day by day. Its like living in a cold, dark, lost and foggy place and then, through pursuing your path daily, having the sun bring warmth, light, awareness and certainty that burns away all the fog forever!
My teachers said that there are only two ways that you can fail on the Path…to not start at all or to not do the daily inner work it takes to make progress. But if you do take up the Path and diligently do the inner work, the positive changes that will result in complete Realization will start happening from the very first day!
I am so grateful for your eloquent letter. Surely a beautiful and heartfelt statement that I will read many times. As an older single Alzheimer’s patient I will hold your words in my heart as long as I can
Yes, one of the many beautiful benefits of the meditation practices I received many years ago from my teachers…and which I teach in our upcoming trainings, is developing the ability to watch our own minds, to see the effects of our thoughts and to consciously choose to no longer accept or believe the negative, endarkening thoughts and to accept only the positive and loving thoughts ….which results in our release from suffering and living with feelings of peace and well being.
Just as important in our training is learning authentic mantras and how to practice them. Authentic mantras are the easiest and fastest way to gain control of and direct our minds because the ones I teach (and have been using myself for over 50 years) dramatically reduce the number of thoughts, block and remove the negative ones and instill and help grow ever greater Love and compassion, especially towards ourselves.
Learning to Love ourselves is vital to our well being …and the right authentic mantras turbocharge and sweeten this process. They also help us see our lives from a loving point of view, so that we can live from an open heart, be more and more present and loving in our lives.
Prayer, learning how to pray effectively so that we feel the Divine’s presence, hear our inner guidance and develop our own personal love relationship with God is the third essential spiritual practice we teach…
I teach these authentic spiritual practices because even though they seem simple, they are supremely powerful and reliable in the positive results they produce…and once you are grounded in these practices and use them in your daily life, they all become more and more effective, amazing and pleasurable. They are 100% safe, tried and tested and used by millions of practioners over thousands of years to transform their lives and become free from suffering and the sources of suffering.
Of course, just as my teachers told me…no tool that is put in our hands, no matter how well made or suited to its work, is any good at all to us unless we are ready, willing, able and wanting to use it to do the inner work, with the absolute intention of using it too achieve our goals.
Personally, I love these tools and am extremely grateful to my teachers who dedicated their lives to teaching them to us. They are the greatest gifts I have ever received…and I use them all every day. I know I would already be dead or still stuck in severe chronic depression and utterly lost in life without them. I would still be someone so hurt by my childhood that I became a rageaholic who got angry out of the blue for reasons I could not understand. I would be a far less evolved person without a clue about what life is really for. I would not be the man I am now who is learning more and more how to love myself, and how to love, care for and share Love with the beloveds who are sharing their lives with me.
These practices are so valuable that even after 50 years of using these tools, I realize that I will always need them, that I will never outgrow them and that the best is yet ahead. As I use them everyday, my understanding about them deepens which then reveals higher levels of effects as the practices become more powerful. In fact, even if I were able to give you billions of dollars and grant your every wish, these things would have zero value compared to the practices.
Lastly, these tools never wear out, break or malfunction. I can and do rely on them absolutely because I know for certain, based on 50 years of experience, that the more I use them with total intention, the more the results and benefits there will be! The results are cumulative and pervasive and are the foundation for all the good, loving and beautiful things in my life….
surely you are devoted and enriched in your beliefs and practice - I am grateful to read your thoughts and feel your reaching out.
Thank you Judith….
Being here for you is one of the reasons I put so much time, energy and focus into writing and publishing this newsletter!
We are preparing to re open our Center and resume teaching these principles and practices in both live in person and simultaneous on line classes, courses and events because first, it is important to learn them from a teacher with the training, experience and heart who really cares about others and has in depth understanding to guide and train students.
Second, it is far easier to learn these principles and practices directly from a teacher in a live group setting…
And third, to be able to practice meditation, prayer and mantra ongoingly, it is important to have the support of the group of students who become your friends, your dharma brothers and sisters in a kind of community….so you are not trying to climb the mountain alone, but know you have the backing and support of the group.
The spiritual path is a lifetime journey.
As a spiritual teacher who has been trained by some of the greatest meditation masters of our time, who themselves were trained by their own teachers and did the practices and studied the principles their teachers gave them until they became masters in an unbroken lineage, I can say that what and how I teach is the real deal. I call it authentic principles and practices because I didn’t make it up or get it from a book, but from direct transmission of my teachers to me.
I teach because i want to help as many people as I can to have these practices and principles that are highly effective, simple to learn, effective in positive results and will certainly free them from suffering and the sources of suffering—-if the student will use them and do the inner work we recommend.
I appreciate your being here with me on a daily basis as one of our Dawning Light community members. I invite you to participate in our classes, courses and events when we open. Once we launch, we will be teaching from now on and making many valuable resources available for our students, including being able to interact with me directly.
Meanwhile, here is a link to a video of Class One of our Meditation Training Intensive course which you can watch anytime. It is 2 hours long and will give you an idea of how I teach and what one of my courses is like.
https://youtu.be/RwlTnbulXg8?si=b7_ZcwjfvrE3O0If
We were all born and sent here to life on earth because this world is actually the perfect environment for spiritual growth and we are all enrolled in this school of love and consciousness.
My teachers said that there are only two kinds of people in this world….those who haven’t realized that the true purpose of life is intentional spiritual growth yet…and those who have had this basic realization and are actively pursuing their own dharmic spiritual path.
It changes everything to know that our life does have a higher purpose and meaning…that life is not just some meaningless experience that we have to go through until we die…that this life we have now is an incredibly precious opportunity that most people are wasting by chasing after the things the world tells us are important.
Once you know why we are here and have the tools, spiritual principles and practices to fulfill your real purpose for your life, it changes everything for the better. Your life is important, and the fact that you are interested in these teachings shows that yoiu are on the cusp of stepping into a greater, new level of life of awakening to seeing yourself as a spiritual student on your own path.
One of the greatest things i got from my teachers is waking up to these truths and shifting from seeing myself in the old lost and pain filled ways to knowing myself to be a spiritual seeker on the path to Realization.
My teachers often said that it is the destiny of every human being to eventually become enlightened, to become a Realized person completely free from all suffering because who we all really are is the Higher Self…the question is though is how many thousands of lifetimes of suffering from ignorance and ego mind will it take before we wake up and get busy consciously doing the inner work necessary to become free?
I have suffered many terrible things in my life which caused me tremendous agony, despair and depression that seemed as if suffering would always be my fate…and these awful sufferings became a loop that went round and round with seemingly no way out…
Fortunately, I prayed for help, had a major awakening, searched for enlightened teachers who could help me and finally met my first teacher, Kalu Rinpoche when I was 22 years old. He recognized me as one of his very first american students and i recognized him as my destined teacher. I became one of his heart sons and dedicated myself to training with him very closely for many years. Through studying the principles and actually seriously doing the practices he taught us, i did make steady progress and became free.
Rinpoche asked me to teach meditation and the foundations of the path, authorized me to found dharma centers and give courses, lead retreats and work with and guide beginners in 1977…and i have been doing this work ever since, while continuing to study the dharma, do my own practice and train closely with several other realized masters over the years.
I can say with absolute certainty that you can take up your own spiritual training and path and use the rest of your life consciously evolving yourself no matter what your age may be. In fact, many of the greatest realized masters launched on their path late in life, and due to their maturity and understanding that absolutely nothing in this world can help us become free from suffering except the Dharma, used their remaining years to work through the stages of development to become completely free before they died.
This is why I teach, because I know the value of the Dharma teachings and practices from personal experience. Seriously, if they could help the lost, depressed and angry young man I was to become free, conscious and blissfully awake…then anyone who really applies themselves can also do it.
Pursuing your spiritual path is definitely one of the most challenging and difficult things you will ever do…like deciding to climb Mount Everest…but it is by far the best use of your time, your life and your energy because it will lead to permanent freedom from suffering…and then, you will have the experience and abilities to help others become free.
Besides, we all will have to take up our path sooner or later…so why wait?
I can promise you this—-once you consciously launch on your path after learning the principles and practices you need to make progress—your life will continuously improve day by day. Its like living in a cold, dark, lost and foggy place and then, through pursuing your path daily, having the sun bring warmth, light, awareness and certainty that burns away all the fog forever!
My teachers said that there are only two ways that you can fail on the Path…to not start at all or to not do the daily inner work it takes to make progress. But if you do take up the Path and diligently do the inner work, the positive changes that will result in complete Realization will start happening from the very first day!
I am so grateful for your eloquent letter. Surely a beautiful and heartfelt statement that I will read many times. As an older single Alzheimer’s patient I will hold your words in my heart as long as I can
Thank you dear one! I appreciate you and it’s makes my day whenever you click on the little heart or leave a comment!
Perhaps the most striking post since I discovered you and have so much to learn in order to waylay my pain..
Thank You, Judith for your response!
Yes, one of the many beautiful benefits of the meditation practices I received many years ago from my teachers…and which I teach in our upcoming trainings, is developing the ability to watch our own minds, to see the effects of our thoughts and to consciously choose to no longer accept or believe the negative, endarkening thoughts and to accept only the positive and loving thoughts ….which results in our release from suffering and living with feelings of peace and well being.
Just as important in our training is learning authentic mantras and how to practice them. Authentic mantras are the easiest and fastest way to gain control of and direct our minds because the ones I teach (and have been using myself for over 50 years) dramatically reduce the number of thoughts, block and remove the negative ones and instill and help grow ever greater Love and compassion, especially towards ourselves.
Learning to Love ourselves is vital to our well being …and the right authentic mantras turbocharge and sweeten this process. They also help us see our lives from a loving point of view, so that we can live from an open heart, be more and more present and loving in our lives.
Prayer, learning how to pray effectively so that we feel the Divine’s presence, hear our inner guidance and develop our own personal love relationship with God is the third essential spiritual practice we teach…
I teach these authentic spiritual practices because even though they seem simple, they are supremely powerful and reliable in the positive results they produce…and once you are grounded in these practices and use them in your daily life, they all become more and more effective, amazing and pleasurable. They are 100% safe, tried and tested and used by millions of practioners over thousands of years to transform their lives and become free from suffering and the sources of suffering.
Of course, just as my teachers told me…no tool that is put in our hands, no matter how well made or suited to its work, is any good at all to us unless we are ready, willing, able and wanting to use it to do the inner work, with the absolute intention of using it too achieve our goals.
Personally, I love these tools and am extremely grateful to my teachers who dedicated their lives to teaching them to us. They are the greatest gifts I have ever received…and I use them all every day. I know I would already be dead or still stuck in severe chronic depression and utterly lost in life without them. I would still be someone so hurt by my childhood that I became a rageaholic who got angry out of the blue for reasons I could not understand. I would be a far less evolved person without a clue about what life is really for. I would not be the man I am now who is learning more and more how to love myself, and how to love, care for and share Love with the beloveds who are sharing their lives with me.
These practices are so valuable that even after 50 years of using these tools, I realize that I will always need them, that I will never outgrow them and that the best is yet ahead. As I use them everyday, my understanding about them deepens which then reveals higher levels of effects as the practices become more powerful. In fact, even if I were able to give you billions of dollars and grant your every wish, these things would have zero value compared to the practices.
Lastly, these tools never wear out, break or malfunction. I can and do rely on them absolutely because I know for certain, based on 50 years of experience, that the more I use them with total intention, the more the results and benefits there will be! The results are cumulative and pervasive and are the foundation for all the good, loving and beautiful things in my life….