It's the Season

By Scott Coulter Most of you have probably never heard of Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. Heck, the computer just underlined “Naropa” to inform me I misspelled something! But it’s a real place. It’s where my mother taught for many years, and where I spent a lot of time as a youngster. It’s a wonderful place, founded in the mid-70’s by a Tibetan Buddhist scholar and former monk. As with any institution, there’s a whole backstory, some of it good, noble, and inspiring, some of it shady and disconcerting. But that’s not the point I’m bringing up. I mainly bring this up to say that I grew up around a strong Tibetan Buddhist community (well, around westerners PRACTICING Tibetan Buddhism, and the occasional visiting Tibetan Buddhist monk or scholar FROM Tibet). The ideas, traditions and teachings of Buddhism, and particularly Tibetan Buddhism, were everywhere. Those teachings always resonated with me, and I consider myself a “lazy Buddhist” to this day — that is, someone who finds a lot of inspiration in the ideas, understands the value of the practices, and meditates on a far too inconsistent basis. But all of this is beside the point, too. Or rather, it’s “preamble”. Right now, we are in a time of the year called the “Döns.” It’s pronounced with the “o” making the same kind of sound you’d make when saying the word “book.” ItR...
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