Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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Timothy Grabosky, Bridgewater, Massachusetts:
Thank you
so much for the copy of Lama Yeshe’s ‘Becoming
Your Own Therapist/Make Your Mind an Ocean.” These two short books
together are the best and most relevant Tibetan Buddhist books I’ve
read so far!
I am a patient/inmate here at Bridgewater State Hospital. I have been here continuously since June 29, 2000. My diagnosis is of Borderline Personality Disorder. Simply put, this can be called shooting-yourself-in-the-foot disorder, because I am still struggling to find my way out of Bridgewater, but I always trip myself up somehow. It gets worse once you learn that Bridgewater is a correctional institution providing psychiatric treatment to men serving time! I am not convicted instead, I received an ‘NGI’ or Not Guilty by Reason of Mental Illness on my charges of Assault and Battery.
Essentially, Boderline Personality Disorder occurs in a person mainly because they don’t have the type of awareness and control over their own mind that Lama Yeshe describes. This lack of awareness and control leads someone such as myself who has BPD to make all sorts of detrimental mistakes in their thinking, and resulting behavior. It is frustrating watching myself fail, time and again.
This most effective therapies for BPD involve teaching this person ways to take hold of their mind. So you can see how helpful Lama Yeshe’s book is!
I was raised with the meditation tradition of Mahanshi Mahesh Yogi, as both of my parents practiced Transcendental Meditation and imparted this to their children.
However, I’m the kind of person who is always trying out new and different things, and I became interested in Buddhism simply because it was different, and I have grown to love it!
I am very interested in setting up a meditation practice in the Tibetan tradition. How, or where, do I start?
Yours in the Dharma,
Timothy
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