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I am skiing down through the snow and come across a building called Innovation.\u00a0I walk through the door, and come across the people at the pay kiosk. I say I have no money with me\u00a0but I want to meet my other half. They let me go in and I go up the escalator to meet the other half,\u00a0at the top of the stair I see myself, and follow \u2018her\u2019 through something which look like market stalls.\u00a0\u2018She\u2019 collapses, and I shout out, is there a doctor here to help? Three Doctors come by me, but not in\u00a0time as she dies in my arms. I am bereft as I walk to the great window and look out. There is a vast\u00a0expanse of nothing.<\/h2>\n

I wake up and tape my dream, which I take down to my partner, who has a painting and writing\u00a0studio down in the barn, on the land which is in the Highlands of Scotland. We study some\u00a0Krishnamurti and Wittgenstein together for awhile. As one does! I am age 31.<\/h2>\n

A little later, I put on a pair of gardening trousers, to lift potatoes I have grown, I would normally\u00a0wear a dress or skirt.\u00a0I see smoke coming from the croft, and run towards it, and call for Neil, my partner. The croft is\u00a0becoming ablaze with fire, and cannot be entered.\u00a0Since we only have a small bridge over the river to this remote land, above Loch Ness , there is no\u00a0way a fire engine can get access to the house. Neil says to me, I will get two deckchairs and we will\u00a0sit and let it be. Unless you watch it consciously Kate, you will never let it go, he says. We sit\u00a0behind the house on deckchairs, in the meadow and watch the house and all the belongings burning\u00a0down. There is a strange feeling mix of shock, sadness and yet there is also elation. This moment\u00a0changes my life. The Phoenix.<\/h2>\n
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UNLESS YOU WATCH IT CONSCIOUSLY KATE, YOU WILL NEVER LET IT GO, HE SAYS.<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

That night we go to friends, support I suppose. They are having a party. We only have the steading\u00a0barn left with artworks and writings of Neils, and my spinning wheel. He is a poet and playwright.\u00a0Friends offer clothes and washing things, for me to take \u2018home\u2019 which I take in a rug bag. We return\u00a0home, sleep in the steading, Scottish for barn, as the croft still smoulders. We have lost\u00a0everything, and the local farmers come to pay respects, with whisky. I lie on the balcony bed and\u00a0watch them reminisce, exhausted.<\/h2>\n

In the morning when the fire brigade men in their yellow suits are there, smashing down the\u00a0remains, I go in and find a double egg cup which had belonged to my mother, and a copy of\u00a0Ivanovitch Gurdjieff\u2019s \u2018All and Everything\u2019 untouched by the fire. All else had gone to the fire.<\/h2>\n

Within days I go to the Tibetan Monastery in Dumfrieshire, and on arrival find Situ Rinpoche,\u00a0Gyalsab Rimpoche and Thrangu Rinpoche there on a visit. It is an auspicious moment. I meet Akong\u00a0Rinpoche and say, I have had several dreams, and experiences, I think you spiritual masters, may\u00a0have burnt my house down. He says \u2018maybe.\u2019<\/h2>\n

I ask if I may stay to follow the Dharma. I ask if I may stay for a year and a day! Neil decides to travel\u00a0to India to follow a spiritual master in India. We go our separate ways.\u00a0Within months I am in Oxford, starting to care for the Lama House, for Thrangu Rinpoche. Yes, my life has changed. I am in the kind hands of the Buddhas. And still am.<\/h2>\n

I learnt from this experience that the material world, is very much less important than the spiritual\u00a0world of which I am now making an effort to live.\u00a0The Phoenix was a hidden blessing.<\/h2>\n
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/h2>\n

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KATE RODDICK<\/h4>\n

Kate is unique, being one of the first ever Westerners ever to study traditional Tibetan medicine in Dharamsala. This was no mean feat, spending seven years within the monk community next to His Holiness Dalai Lama\u2019s residence, translating Tibetan texts to enable her to study medicine with some of the greatest Tibetan physicians of our time. This was borne out of her deep dedication to of wishing to help others. At Napiers the Herbalists. She also holds workshops on The Art of Tibetan Healing and the Five Elements<\/a>. She spends much time attending retreats these days and has a darn good sense of humor.<\/h4>\n

This article first appeared in LEVEKUNST art of life<\/a>\u00a0 free online magazine.<\/p>\n

See also\u00a0The Tibetan Art or Healing<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>in\u00a0Many Roads.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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