raise the full course price in two weeks. How much would you be willing to accept for a four week course? You want to come after September. Lets talk about it then. Probably we will move on in October to India or Argentina but we will return the next year. We do not know for certain. I am feeling a bit 'poor me' at the moment. I've just read your email about the dhammapada, and you asked whether it is a bit too strong for householders. Well, I am not even a householder. After reading all this I know I am a fool, and feel the path is very hard! And I know I have been foolish, and feel that my folly is catching up with me now; my drug-taking and bad company that I kept. So I feel as if I have an enormous mountain to climb, and it seems a bit onerous, and part of me is saying 'Oh, the journey is so long and hard, how can I make it?' And then another part of me replies 'Look at the path beneath your feet now and tread it wisely.' But feeling blocked as I do now, it seems hard to endure. Remember Sam, talking to Frodo in the Two Towers. "Like in the old stories when they all had the chance of turning back but they didn't, otherwise we would not have heard about them. And why should we keep on, Sam.... "Because there's some good in the world, Mr Frodo, AND ITS WORTH FIGHTING FOR!!" AND THIS IS THE BODHISATTVA VOW!! People who decide not to practise the path when they are young are too old and lacking in energy to complete the path of enlightenment when they become financially viable and they know this yet they can provide scholarships for the young sprogs. The young sprog needs to accept this largesse and try to remain sweet and on good terms with his teachers against the advice of his ego. As we struggle against the darkness within and without, then always the path seems hard, yet only the thinking of the ego makes it so!! Remember, that ego which is within does not want to change, yet as your soul contact increases, so it becomes dominant. Eventually the ego is defeated. Until then we need the LAW. WE NEED TO PROMISE. DESIRES ARE ENDLESS, LET US VOW TO END THEM ALL!! (Buddhist Vow!!) WE RENOUNCE ALL EVIL. WE PROMISE TO BE GOOD AND DO GOOD. WE PROMISE TO REMAIN IN THE LIGHT
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