Lion's Dance - 3 Rounds

In this meditation we follow the same steps of the Lion’s Dance practice until the moment we bring our teacher into the room. This time, we travel to a past life and imagine the specific good deed we must have done to create that quality in our teacher now. We then walk through the seed-ripening process—seeing the quality as coming from our own mind, opening sixty-five times per second—before contrasting it with the old habit of seeing the teacher as self-existent. From there we descend back through the levels of meditation in reverse, moving from the teacher to the quiet mind, to the sky and sea, to the sugar crystal, to the heart, and finally to the heartbeat in the body. The session ends by rising once more through the levels, returning to the teacher’s best quality, and rejoicing that we created it.