Sublime

(My teacher, Lee Ray, was one of his students.)

The sole purpose of practicing the Dharma is to liberate yourself and all sentient beings. The aim should never be to become a Dharma teacher. But nowadays, under the pretext of needing to propagate the Dharma, the notion of a Buddhist teacher training keeps springing up from every corner.

“The yetzer harah was very good.”4 How can that little red devil be very good? We need to explore how various Jewish teachers throughout the millennia understood the yetzer to see how this vital, me-focused energy source that pulses through our veins can be a force for sustainable development and creativity.