A Visualized Yogi Topknot
In my just previous life, I wore the usual monastic short hair. Eventually, I became a natural monk, meaning a fellow who begins losing his hair. I was a practitioner of Heruka, and in my self-perception, there was a matted Heruka top knot. I never wore the yogic outside; too conservative, a scion of Gelug conserv atism, which made it unthinkable to wear the hair in a yogis topknot. However, in my new life, I act according to the extensive monastic training I still hold properly, while other trainings are present from many lives as a Heruka practitioner. But you know, my visualized topknot in my before never had hairs that fall into the eyes, and catch in the sides of the mouth. A visualized topknot actually is very easy to care for. Yesterday, I took a bath, washed my long hair,and tried to comb out the matted knots. We never had that problem with what was visualized. ~Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~~~ "In meinem vorigen Leben trug ich das für...