Plays Nice With Others?!

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Originally posted on smilecalm:
“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” ~ Plato holding fragile earth ~d nelson ? Out…

Namo Thay . . .

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Avalokiteshvara, Buddha of Compassion, Chenresig, Plum Village, Theravadan, Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen

Such a beautiful dancer . . .

The U.S. is Blessed by His Holiness Trijang Chocktrul Rinpoche in Vermont’s Trijang Buddhist Institute

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Dorje Shugden, Geshe Gonsar, Rabten Choeling, Rinpoche, Switzerland, Tibetan Buddhism, Trijang Buddhist Institute, Trijang Chocktrul Rinpoche, Vermont

A Rinpoche is a previously enlightened being who has chosen, out of Great Compassion to return to this earthly realm of suffering . . . though he or she does not have to re-enter the cycle of life and death and life and death . . . but chooses to be reborn into the human realm in order to bring all other sentient beings to Awakening about the profound truth of what the heck we are doing here!

Rinpoche also means precious. Rinpoche also means turquoise.

H.H. Trijang Chocktrul Rinpoche emanates a pure, regal, humble wisdom.

If interested in Trijang Buddhist Institute, go to tbiusa.org

[the below video was taken at Rabten Choeling in Switzerland]

Tibetan Apartheid?! (A-Part-Hate)

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Apartheid, China, Dharma protector, Dorje Shugden, First Nation peoples, Manjushri, patriarchy, Rome protests, schism, Tibet, Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan Culture, U.S. Government, Vinaya, Wisdom Buddha

I don’t speak Tibetan, but many do. That is secondary to what is being shown here: activists protesting H.H. the Dalai Lama’s ban on the practice of revering the Dharma Protector, Dorje Shugden . . . an aspect of the Wisdom Buddha Manjushri. To ban a set of qualities of ideal personality, embodied visually in Dorje Shugden, is like banning SMILING.

This terrible schism in the Tibetan community has brought about violence of Tibetan against Tibetan . . . the ultimate strategy of Apartheid: divide and conquer.

And who stands to benefit from the conquered hence disappeared Tibetan culture? Could it be those who swept the land from the Tibetans, and now want to dispense/divide/conquer/control the remaining artifacts, and elders of the culture? Sounds hauntingly familiar and analogous to the US Government’s entrapment of First Nation peoples on reservations while we plundered their land.

And, contemplating on a karmic level . . . I am considering why, in the first place, China so brutally conquered Tibet once and till now in 1959. The most patriarchal government in the world brutalizes, yes, a highly patriarchal Tibet. And as I’ve been taught, the consequences of a karmic action look like the cause. The more I live within the Dharma as a woman from the west, the more I understand the grave suffering this patriarchy is causing. Yes it is traditional. Yet every lama came from a woman and would not BE if it were not for a woman. Isn’t making wrong rules part of the Vinaya? Is a woman not of the human realm? Is it not wrong to divide humans into greater and lesser beings? Is it not wrong to fully ordain only men and not women?

O Tibet is Crying . . . may this cleanse us all and bring balance to Tibetan culture

Wangdak!

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Dalai Lama, Dorje Shugden, Religious Freedom, Rome, Tibetan Buddhism