Lion's Dance - 4 Rounds - Part 2

This meditation is a cessation practice, designed to stop the habit of believing that anything, our teacher in this case, comes from its own side—rather than being the projection of our past deeds. We begin by bringing in the “fake lama,” the self-existent version of our teacher, and examine all the ordinary ways we think they arrived in our life, as if those factors existed independently. By walking through these imagined causes, we expose this version as being impossible. We then invite back the “real lama,” the one arising moment by moment out of our karmic seeds, and we contemplate how their best qualities are reflections of our own goodness.