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RINPOCHE’S CURRENT ACTIVITIES AND SCHEDULE For the latest schedule and details of how to book for these events, please contact the center directly or go to https://fpmt.org/teachers/zopa/schedule/ Aug 4-16 – Lama Yeshe Ling, Canada
August 20 – Sept 17 – Vajrapani Institute, Boulder Creek, California, USA
November/December, Kopan Monastery, Nepal – Teachings during the November Course |
THE REAL PROFESSIONAL
Excerpt: “It’s not sufficient in our life only to know how to do things externally. Whatever our profession is – business or engineering or whatever, being a physician, a doctor, a professional having studied at university, a professional having studied at college how to do things in life, studied how to be a secretary, or how to be a director and run a company or how to be an accountant, all these things, how to clean, how to cook, all these things learnt at school or college or whatever. So what you learn, this profession is only external, how to do things externally. That’s not enough. That’s not sufficient. If you really want happiness, if you’re really looking for peace and happiness, inner happiness, that’s not sufficient. You need to be professional inside. You need to be professional mentally, you need inner professionalism. So a person may have all this education from college, university, how to do this, how to do that, how to be a business person and so forth, but if they are missing the inner profession then what is missing is mentally how to live life, how to do everything. The real profession is missing. That is the positive attitude, living life with this peaceful, happy, healthy mind, non-ignorance, non-anger, non-attachment, and especially with the thought of cherishing others, the ultimate good heart, the thought of cherishing others, unstained by the self-cherishing thought, the selfish mind. Without this inner professionalism, this inner qualification, without this, then what happens? Even if you succeed in the external world, in business or whatever, even though you may be externally successful your mind is not becoming happier and happier, it doesn’t become more and more peaceful, more and more satisfied, more and more fulfilled – that doesn’t happen. There’s more and more problems, more and more unhappiness. …So you can see that there are two things in how to live life: external professionalism and the other very important, the most important way to live life – Dharma. Living life with Dharma, the mind becoming Dharma.” |
RINPOCHE INTERESTED IN ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
The previous films were Seven Years in Tibet, and one (title forgotten!) about people masquerading as priests and escaping… Rinpoche also watched Pretty Woman – backwards! Rinpoche at the time had not met Richard Gere (who stars in the film), and students had been talking about Richard Gere, saying he was a Dharma student and wanted to show Rinpoche the movie, but when they put in the video it was at end of the movie so Rinpoche said let’s watch it backwards – so they did! WHAT YOU CAN DO
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USING SICKNESS FOR THE PATH
Also think: This problem is the best medicine. This problem, which is used to develop bodhicitta (by thinking that it is being experienced for others) and emptiness, is the best medicine. This is because you finish with the sickness and also with its causes, which are karma and delusions. Also: This problem is making me develop compassion; thus I can achieve enlightenment very quickly because I am accumulating infinite merits. Today many people are dying, even people without cancer, without AIDS, many very healthy people. So even without cancer the time of death can come at any moment. So it is necessary to purify and accumulate merits. |
RINPOCHE CARRYING MOTHERS AND FATHERS
So at 9pm Rinpoche came down and spent a few hours circumambulating the stupa at his house. Rinpoche had found a broom to be able to carry both buckets with all the worms inside at the same time. Ven Roger came out to take a picture and Rinpoche said: “In India when ones parents are too old to walk then their children carry them on their back in this way, father on one side in a basket and mother on the other side in a basket. So here I am carrying 400 of my fathers and mothers on my back” |
LOGOS Recent advice from Rinpoche, commenting on a center’s design for its logo: “Dragons are very very important to make the center strong. Sikkim was taken over by India, of course it was based on karma, but interestingly Bhutan which is also a small country, was not taken over, although India wants to very much. Bhutan has a dragon as a symbol on their money, airline and so on, and this is maybe one reason why the country is so strong.” Previously (in July 2004), Rinpoche has said: “When I make letterheads for centers, monasteries and so forth, it all has great significance – based on the two truths, wisdom and method, rupakaya and dharmakaya. NB: centers or study groups thinking about their logos can have a look at Logo Guidelines and logos designed by Rinpoche in the FPMT Affiliates Area. |
RINPOCHE BLESSING MALAS Rinpoche preparing for a teaching tour – some of the malas which Ven Roger travels with for Rinpoche to give as gifts! (USA, 2006) |
CENTER PROMOTION, RINPOCHE-STYLE While Rinpoche was at Tushita Meditation Centre in Dharamsala earlier this year, Rinpoche was asked to help promote the centre…! (India, Mar 2006) |
with love,
Claire
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