Frank's Quarterly Summary

On a community level there are various things I appreciated during these three months. That we as spiritual friends wake up together, share our mediation experiences so openly is useful and this open exchange quite new to me. I often felt inspired by reading about others experiences. Comments by other on my practice have often been illuminating and helping me to overcome unseen limitations in whatever my approach at the moment was. Also making first steps in commenting on others' experiences skillfully is a very good thing to learn to make a group of spiritual friends productive and I'd love to see more of this (both from myself and others).

So I am quite happy with this form. Although my mind is quite fickle and jumpy as far as practices are concerned, working with wh became a habit through the structure of the experiment. Also commenting on other's experiences.

On the content of working with wh I wrote quite a bit. Being a lazy and comfort-loving chap I gravitate to apply wh gently rather in a struggling fashion and to connect it with my others favorites on direct path practices towards liberation, in particular basic awareness practice, surrender and also sometimes devotion to the perfection.

Wh turns out to be quite a dharma-chameleon. When I am in relative-world suffering, wh fits in perfectly, soothes me and helps to put things back into perspective. On an absolute plain it points to the nature of how things really, because I guess, only there, wh can hold 100 %. And there are also different qualities of perfection that I discover over time. So wh points in a good direction no matter where you start. I like the practice.

Now I am wondering, how many perfections there are, 5, 12 or 84000? If a list of the perfections doesn't exist yet, it would be nice to add a list with this content to Tibetan Buddhism.