Notice intently how it goes, he instructed. Typically we sat on cushions in parallel rows like warmhearted ice cubes lined up in a tray, but on this occasion Khenpo Rinpoche asked us to sit knee-to-knee, very close together, almost overlapping as we chanted in unison. One afternoon, our beloved teacher, Lama Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche, summoned all twenty-three of us to the hermitage’s meditation hall for a lesson. My fellow students and I spent most of our days in individual monastic cells, where we meditated and maintained silence at all times except when we gathered for chanting, liturgical rituals, and teachings before breakfast and at dusk. One of my most powerful encounters with inter-meditation occurred during the 1980s, when I lived for three and a half years in cloistered retreat at the Nyingmapa Tibetan center in the forest of Dordogne, France. Infinite love is both enlightenment and our birthright.
It is a living example of healing and awakening together, and shows us that love does not come from outside of us, not really. My Buddhist Dzogchen lineage would call this the Natural Great Perfection in action. He replied, "No, the love is you-your seeing and knowing what’s inside of you."įor me, their exchange beautifully represents what it means to be in the present moment, connecting to another and allowing all-encompassing compassion and surrender to flow back and forth with no boundaries-inter-meditation. The woman and Rinpoche meditated together for a few more minutes and then he asked, What do you feel? And there were tears in his eyes as well as he added, You are not alone. Many of us gasped at the exquisite beauty of his response. Rinpoche remained silent for a minute or two, and then he quietly said, Your suffering is mine.
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By the time she had shared all she needed to, her eyes were full of tears. The woman spoke to Rinpoche about her terrible uncertainty for her sanity, and after a few words he invited her to come close and sit facing him. She had been in therapy on and off for many years, and more recently had tried all manner of alternative approaches, but her mood swings were increasing in frequency as well as becoming more intense. Her doctors confirmed that this was the case and that Western medicine likely had nothing more to offer her.
During one of his talks, a woman in the audience asked him a searing question: What should I do with the great fear I experience? For several months, she had noticed that the medication for her bipolar disorder was no longer effective. I was at a retreat in Carmel, California, with Tibetan master Anam Thubten Rinpoche. It’s a path we can take to overcome our illusions of duality.Ī recent encounter with a Tibetan Buddhist teacher illustrated to me the incredible value of inter-meditation in our disconnected, plugged in yet tuned-out times. It is the yoga of convergence, connection, co-meditation, and spontaneous oneness. Inter-meditation means meditating with-the practice and art of intimacy and union with whatever is, just as it is. Becoming one with everything by seeing through separateness and solidity is the heart of what I call inter-meditation. It’s a joke-and a pretty good one-but there’s more to it than that. What did the Dalai Lama say to the hot dog vendor? Copyright Preface Make Me One with Everything
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