[soundtrack: Chris - May all beings be happy]

Paramitas seem to be like plugins. You add them to some basic software but they will work only after restarting the system (the vow). And these plugins also have the virus: the bodhichitta-virus. It works you out from the inside. The goal might be to transcend not only the plugins and the software but the whole OS and hardware too. Constantly clearing the cache and constantly restarting the whole system. Taking the leap into every moment.

The point of being together for a month with the sangha is not to become hyperfriends with all the sangha – you’ll loose contact with most of them anyway, soon after the Dathün (as it happened, actually). But you can realize that you can become friends with anybody (including yourself) and that everybody is the sangha. You just need to spend time together (bonding) and be open to see the dignity in every being (including yourself and your stuff). Maybe the way these relationships manifest themselves is the sangha and not the people themselves. (As Many Languages as People.)