Having an "Interview" with a Tibetan Lama

The Interview
The complete opposite to spending a few moments with a “mugger” and absorbing fear and anxiety…is spending a few moments with a Tibetan Lama. This encounter allows us to make the best use of how all reality is interdependent, to experience the most positive maturation and the most positive development a human being can become. It’s not necessary to have a “problem” to want to talk to a Lama, rather it is a good opportunity to give a greeting, ask for a blessing for one’s own enlightenment and to say what is in one’s heart. Ringu Tulku says that “silly” questions are the best! Meeting a Lama is not an “intellectual” dialogue but a meeting of your heart and his or her heart. It is a time to try being open because having trained his or her mind, a Lama or highly realized practitioner is always sending compassion and wisdom and resting in the deepest understanding of the Nature of Mind, or reality. We can experience a glimpse of our own being in this context. While being with us during the interview, a Lama sustains compassion and wisdom developed in meditation practice and brings us into that experience that intends our happiness and most importantly…the happiness of all beings and not just some.