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Hi, In the town where I live, there is this middle aged man who is quite simple. He cannot speak very well at all and he has a twitch in his neck that causes his head to jerk every few seconds. I think he is mentally challenged and lives on support. He rides a very funny bicycle with very small wheels, even in winter. I do not know his name. I have seen him riding his bicycle hundreds of times in the downtown area. He always has a sort of smile on his face, but I think it is because he's lost control of some of the muscles in his face. I had seen this man many times, and each time he was riding his bicycle. Somehow, I must have associated him with the image of the funny looking bicycle, having seen him riding it so often. Anyway, a couple of weeks ago I saw him again in the downtown area, while I was walking to work. Except, this time he was not riding his bicycle. A rare sight! I thought to myself that that was surely strange. I thought about how he must be missing his bicycle. I felt sorry for him. I hoped that he had not lost his bicycle and that he was not too sad. I think the bicycle was the only thing in the world that he might have owned. Just then, I felt a tug in my heart region in the chest. A tug of compassion. It felt like an energetic wave had spiralled out. Then, the world turned transparent and I could once again see several planes imposed upon the regular physical scene. I could see beings standing in the planes, some with long robes. The planes appeared as layers, up above the skyline, like layers in a cake. The brightness was quite notable, the other planes look kind of like a cartoon world, comprised of brilliant light with pastel-like colors. The experience took me by surprise. I fought hard so that my sight would return to normal, because I was about to go to work and I couldn't imagine trying to work in that state. I have a funny mind, eh? Something like that happens and it fights it off. My mind still can't deal with the fact that there are many planes right here, right now, with beings in them whom are watching us. Then, I reflected on the wonderful secret that I've discovered. The secret of the powers of the Heart. TI

I ended up doing a search on the internet to see if there were any video and/or audio commentaries on Lama Tsongkhapa's Lam Rim Chen Mo/The Great Treatise On The Stages of The Path To Enlightenment from any venerable teachers...Lo and behold, I found some resources which I think are good enough to share. For anyone interested you can read the text from a 3 part translation on amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Great-Treatise-Stages-Path-Enlightenment/dp/1559391529 A collection of mp3 files from a set of teachings on this text by H.E. Choden Rinpoche: http://www.lamrim.com/lamrim/ Audio commentary by Abbess Thubten Chodron: http://www.thubtenchodron.org/AudioLibrary/index.html A link to someone's youtube channel, that has a set of talks given by H.H the Dalai Lama, on the Lam Rim Chen Mo at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA (also included in this link is a partial listing of his other teachings on this text given elsewhere): http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL63437123ADC315D0 Another youtube channel with a video series of talks on the Lam Rin Chen Mo: http://www.youtube.com/user/ChenrezigCtr?feature=watch This is from the official website of H.H. the Dalai Lama which has recordings of numerous teachings and appearances at events, press meetings, etc. I'm posting a link to a series of talks on Atisha's Lamp For The Path To Enlightenment and Tsongkhapa's Great, Middling, and Concise Treatises on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment: http://dalailama.com/webcasts/post/267-18-great-stages-of-the-path-lam-rim-commentaries Other recommended video/audio commentaries from that website: Je Tsongkhapa's Praise for Dependent Origination - http://dalailama.com/webcasts/post/226-praise-for-dependent-origination--avalokiteshvera-permission-initiation Je Tsongkhapa's The Three Principal Aspects Of The Path - http://dalailama.com/webcasts/post/289-the-three-principal-aspects-of-the-path