Interdependence on the Spiritual Path - how I ended up spending 12 years in retreat - Part II

Continuing the story of how I became monk and ended up spending 12 years in retreat. This week I discussed the importance of interdependence and spiritual path and the role that a teacher and their lineage has to play on your journey.
Once you have made the commitment to leave a mundane world behind and dedicate yourself slowly to practice as if by magic then it causes and conditions for practice manifest spontaneously.
00:30 Conditions for success on the spiritual path
03:10 Samsara never stops until you drop it!
04:37 The role of interdependence on the path
06:16 A journey out of addiction and dependency
07:55 Meeting a Tibetan Lama for the first time
11:15 The courage to change my life
12:31 Return to the west
14:21 The Importance of Interdependence