Q1-19870718-Larry_Rosenberg-UNK-reflections_on_the_buddhas_fire_sermon_part_ii-1545 Leandra Tejedor

Talk: 19870718-Larry_Rosenberg-UNK-reflections_on_the_buddhas_fire_sermon_part_ii-1545 Leandra Tejedor (1) Start_time: 47:12 Display_question: I would like to share about my experience at the evening meal and what I noticed. Keyword_search: pudding, meal, assumptions, fire, breathing, mindfulness, release, let go Question_content: Questioner: This afternoon… I got to the meal…the evening…the rice cakes… Larry: You got to it late. Questioner: Yeah, and there was…there was no pudding. Larry: AWWH! Questioner: You know the rest of the story. Larry: Right. What happened? What did you do? See, that's what we're interested in. Questioner: Well, I was hearing your words in my head, and I remember right away, to use the experience, and I went and started scraping…. Larry: The dredges. Questioner: And I looked around, and there was this guy, I'd never seen before, in the other bowl, scraping that out. Now, I made all sorts of assumptions. First of all, who is this guy, this newcomer? Larry: Right. Questioner: Taking the pudding. He doesn't know that I haven't had it yet. Larry: Right. Questioner: He assumes that I'm having seconds. Larry: Right. Questioner: I assume that he'd already had some. Right. So, I made all these great assumptions, and it was just amazing to watch it. And so, I went outside and took me three or four minutes, to put the fire out. Larry: Okay, so take us through that, in even more detail. Questioner: Small but real active. Larry: Yeah. Where did you feel the fire? Was it in your body, as well as, your mind? Do you remember? Questioner: Yeah. Breathing. Historical things came up too, aside with the present state, present drama. There was some historical things that came up front, and joined it, and it was a lot of churning, for a few minutes. Larry: Okay, now and then you brought mindfulness to it? Questioner: Uh huh. Larry: And then what happened? Questioner: Actually, I brought it to it pretty straight away. Larry: Good. Questioner: So, it was it was a great process. I wasn’t…I didn’t throw anything at the guy? Probably years. Larry: And did you feel the release? Were you able to stay with the release as well? In other words, when you saw….when it ran its course? Questioner: Yeah. Larry: Okay. Hopefully that will make it harder, to get caught so easily, in the future. In other words, if we do these things over and over, it's like anything else. If we practice this, it gets stronger. Our capacity to… our reflexes become quicker. We see through it more quickly and we're able to, to genuinely let go. And it comes out of full experience of the situation. It's a real honest letting go. It's not this stuff. Questioner: One thing that I did, that really helped me was, which I do a lot in my work…well you know, about that, is almost before I got caught up into it, I breathe, because I noticed my breathing gets short immediately. And so, I just immediately breathe, like you say, remember to breathe. And that really, that continuum, then ensued, and I was able to watch the whole drama. Larry: Right, good. That's exactly it. End_time: 50:26