Open Buddha

Well, it’s been pouring buckets for the first time in a long while today. Given my lack of trust in my roof after the fix, you can imagine that I looked closely at things. So far, things seem like normal so I can probably turn the paranoia down a notch.

Today, I announced to my directs (the people that I manage directly…) that I’ve agreed to take a different role in our overall organization. I’ve managed these three for either two years or one and a half years, depending on the person, and I used to be the manager for others in the organization. The role that I am transitioning to is a non-managerial role focusing more on the process and project management side of the test organization. The timeline isn’t set right now because we have to find/hire someone to fill my current role but it is the current plan. This will be the first time that I haven’t been the manager of someone (except for a short transition when I changed jobs last) since late 1999. We’ll see how the new role works out but I decided, for once, to embrace change and just try something a bit different than the managerial track that I’ve been on for a long time.

At home tonight, R and I watched the last episode of the second DVD of season 2 of Millenium. It ends with the first of the episodes really showing that there is something more to the group than just the investigative organization. We watched this over Japanese food that I brought home with me. Afterwards, we did sitting meditation together for about 20 minutes in our freshly painted (by R!) temple space downstairs. We’re going to try to keep up this as a minimum of daily practice together.

I also received this from Younge Khachab Rinpoche’s program director today:

MAY Dzogchen Retreat General date annoucement
These are the dates and topics for the Dzogchen retreat.

Dzogchen Instructions from the Khandro Nyingtig:
May 25th (transmission and tsog) Khandro Nyingtig
26th: Tsa-Lung
27th: Trekchod
28th: Togyal
29th: Rinpoches instruction on completion stage of dzogchen, and possible terma presentation.

I plan on attending this though I have to get specific permission since Dzogchen teachings in general are restricted. Since I’ve attended a retreat with Namkhai Norbu and received the pointing out instructions, it should be fine.