How Tantra Gave Me a Parsonage – Part Two: Hypnotized
Part of a series recounting the backstory to the dream of the parsonage, first written down in spring 2023. https://katharina-kaintz.com/en/the-parsonage-story/the-pond/
I’m on my way to the retreat house at the end of the world, to practice magical tantra…
“It’s the same kind of story, that seems to come down from long ago. Two friends having coffee together, when something flies by their window…”
Fleetwood Mac plays in my ears as I look out of the train window.
Hypnotized.
Exactly the state the song describes.
Outside: thin, still-bare woods. Narrow fields lit by spring sunshine. Hedges lining the meadows.
In between: water.
Small ponds, strung together like pearls on a thread. Narrow streams, now and then a lake. At some point the regional train crosses a bridge.
I stare into the current of the river. Everything around and inside me feels completely unreal.
Last night I dreamed wildly. My soul is tuning itself to what’s coming.
Because I’m on my way to the retreat house at the end of the world. My friend and Dharma brother Uriel has invited me.
By day, Uriel — the Lord of the Mill — leads a respectable, responsible professional life. Neither his well-paying clients nor his employees know what lies behind his friendly, composed facade:
Uriel is a Tibetan Buddhist tantra master, possessing abilities that are rare in our culture.
He worked hard for many years to acquire them. Under difficult circumstances, too.
Because the ancient Tibetan Buddhist tantra techniques and rites that Uriel practices are secret. And rare. There are only a few Tibetan Buddhist teachers who master them — and who are, on top of that, willing to teach Western students.
Two years ago, Uriel therefore bought an old mill. The isolated building — directly on a pond and surrounded by the millstream — is the perfect place for secret tantra retreats.
In the historic attic, Uriel set up a shrine room. On the large altar sit the statues of the Buddha emanations he practices with.
On the ground floor of the old mill, since Uriel completed the renovation, there’s a kitchen and a large dining room. Several rooms are ready on the first and second floors.
Not only for the Nepalese lamas Uriel regularly invites to his retreat house at the end of the world, to be instructed by them in secret tantra practices.
But also for all his Dharma friends who want to learn and practice with him.
Uriel picks me up from the station. We are two friends, having coffee together, while we’ll get hypnotized…
In this series – Part One: My Devil
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