My Vow

Sunday, 17 March 2013 at 12:56

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• If you wish to continue then you must agree to follow the path you've now stepped upon...with courage and determination. I in turn will formally make myself your teacher, your Sensei, and this bond will never be broken until the hour of our death.
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  12:47
  Chrissy Newbury
  
  
  I will answer with my vow to you, my teacher.
  I do.
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  12:47
  Dan Hettmannsperger III
  
  
  Then please repeat the words I now type either aloud or in your mind:
  I take refuge in the Buddha, the supreme teacher of all teachers and who has laid out the pat which will enable to awaken within me my supreme WILL.
  I take refuge in the Dharma, may I dedicate myself to mastering this teaching and pursue enlightenment for benefit of all that lives and will yet live.
  I take refuge in Sangha...the community of all students of the Dharma...and labor to live in a life of harmony in a spirit of universal brotherhood and sisterhood freed from the bonds of selfishness.
  Lastly:
  Even though ages of myriads of Kalpas it is rare and difficult to hear such a profound and powerful teaching which now I receive...now I hear it.

• I do.
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  12:47
  Dan Hettmannsperger III
  
  
  Then please repeat the words I now type either aloud or in your mind:
  I take refuge in the Buddha, the supreme teacher of all teachers and who has laid out the pat which will enable to awaken within me my supreme WILL.
  I take refuge in the Dharma, may I dedicate myself to mastering this teaching and pursue enlightenment for benefit of all that lives and will yet live.
  I take refuge in Sangha...the community of all students of the Dharma...and labor to live in a life of harmony in a spirit of universal brotherhood and sisterhood freed from the bonds of selfishness.
  Lastly:
  Even though ages of myriads of Kalpas it is rare and difficult to hear such a profound and powerful teaching which now I receive...now I hear it.
  Did you say them?
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  12:54
  Chrissy Newbury
  
  
  yes.
  and when next we speak personally, I shall say them to you that you may hear the truth in my voice. 
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  12:55
  Dan Hettmannsperger III
  
  
  From this moment on you are a student of the Buddha, his teachings, and the truth upon which they rest.
  You are a Buddhist, Chrissy.
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  12:55
  Chrissy Newbury
  
  
  Wow... I feel breathless..
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  12:57
  Dan Hettmannsperger III
  
  
  As do I. I am not a perfect teacher....but I will strive to be worthy of your devotion to the Dharma. This I swear to you in the name of all Buddhas, all Bodhisattvas and all sentient beings in all strata of reality.
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  12:57
  Chrissy Newbury
  
  
  You are worthy. Never doubt yourself.
  And I will be your devoted student.
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  12:58
  Dan Hettmannsperger III
  
  
  You are worthy. Never doubt yourself.
  I know you will be...I see it in all you say and do.
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  12:59
  Chrissy Newbury
  
  
  Then together we shall know peace as well as love.
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  13:00
  Dan Hettmannsperger III
  
  
  I must tell you that this is no small commitment between us. It is deeper than a man and his wife in many ways.
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  13:01
  Chrissy Newbury
  
  
  I understood that before I gave my answer.
  Instinctively.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  My Teacher.