Some are vajra like and thunderous - creating waves of smashed emotions and melting conceptions blown to the wind, pulling us apart like thread falling from tattered cloth.
Some are soft as rain, a simple touch or smile from across the room melts our hearts and gives way to openness and vulnerability both - lighting the room with radiance while taming our minds in the process. Some teachers have some of both sides, depending on the closeness or relationship with their students. This of course bringing to mind the myriad of times I was struck on the head or bopped with a blessed object by Shamar Rinpoche depending on his mood or whatever teaching I might have desperately needed at the time to remove my many obstacles. Whatever the case - I have always found that Beru Kyentse Rinpoche seems to have such a unique and genuine balance of both at all times, something I have yet to find elsewhere. His voice is so soft and light, yet his presence is enormous and shattering, but somehow exquisitely graceful at the same time. He effortlessly migrates between a face of widely open smiles to deeply concentrated eyes clasped shut so quickly that he can be exhilarating to photograph from one antithetical instant to the next. Yet I am always so touched by the gleefully calm way about him that reminds me of a great and powerful lion king - with his gentle heart he leads the pack without ever saying a word.
@les amis de montchardon Montchardon
