Batteries

Sometimes it's not late nights anymore. Sometimes, it goes all the way up to noon.

I don't think Rinpoche sleeps, ever. I think he runs on batteries, and when he goes into his bedroom to sleep, he actually just plugs into a wall socket and stays very still so that we think he's sleeping.

It was all the same when we went to visit Gangchen Rinpoche in Italy. I don't think he ever slept the entire week that we were there. He could even come down to the retreat centre at 7 in the morning to give us a tour of the protector chapel AND grant us an interview. We felt like very sleepy samsara lowlifes in our morning doziness.

The Buddhas have boundless energy - well, wouldn't you, if you had a Rainbow Body too!