[Buddha-l] Subject: Re: [Fwd: Kyabj? Pema Norbu Rinpoche Enters> Parinirvana]

[jkirk]

This conflict is epitomized and enacted in the journey of Kennard
Lipman, who, after thirty years of devotion to the practice of
Tibetan Buddhism, found his spiritual home in the religion of his
ancestors. Lipman was an accomplished Dzogchen practioner and
translator and commentator of texts including one by Longchenpa.
Having scaled the peaks (spirit), he found himself not fed, and
returned to the vales (soul)  and became a Rabbi.
http://www.reformjudaismmag.net/03summer/buddhist.shtml
 
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My guess would be a bit different as to his return--he simply
went home, as imbibed by him from parents and community. As one
grows older, one tends in that direction.  I don't see this as a
"spiritual" event, but then what IS a spiritual event? Time this
notion was disposed of, especially its opposition to "physical". 
In old age one tends to breathe [from Latin spiritus, literally,
breath, from spirare to blow, breathe] better at home. 

Joanna