Journey to the Nepal and while at Nepal.....

20th September early morning was somehow a mixture of feelings of sadness and joy for me. A number of disciples were at airport to send me off to Nepal. I always feel joyous going back Nepal to see my Lamas, disciples and mother but at same time, I know I will miss those people in Singapore who are always so close to me. Well, separation and reunion are part and parcel of life and as long as consciousness is within this physical body, we may not be totally free from attachment and we have to accept it. That doesn’t mean that we are hopeless in our development of enlightenment. The path that we follow up, constantly analyzing our daily lifestyle to progressively transform into more positive thoughts and actions is first step. Though this first step may still be within emotional bondage, it becomes more lax that way. It gives us a chance to understand what life is and also to live more meaningfully and happily. We can’t just fix our minds like a machine that can be instantly fixed with new parts and allow it to start functioning until it wears out. Mind training should be gradual. Fixing our minds with knowing the right views can’t just change the whole circumstances but eliminating Karmic cause and habitual tendency is an actual mode of progress that needs gradual and step by step training.

So, though attachment is not a good thing, nonetheless, having a little attachment may be useful as it can be a teaching tool. If you don’t have that within you, then is nothing for you to realize and if you do not realize, then there is no possibility to actualize the wisdom, i.e. to realize the nature of self and phenomenon. By this way, the emotions that we have actually play a very important role, as they can be one of the unavoidable causes for our realization. That doesn’t mean we should maintain such emotions and let them to develop further. We should apply an antidote force on such emotions to disperse them or make them less aggressive. Then gradually with the right method, we can recognize and transform them into wisdom.

We live in the world with a mixture of feelings that at times contain slight happiness, yet it is still in the midst of suffering nature because it initiated by our emotional state of mind. As long as this emotional controlling element exists in our life, we will definitely be obstructed by ignorance and we are likely to misinterpret issues as reality. While we are in this communal world, we have to live like others and think like them but that doesn’t mean we must hold the same or similar views like them. We are fortunate because we found a truth based on the Buddha’s teaching. It is the total solution of liberation from suffering and that is a completely right view, which can lead us to the right path and eventually attain enlightenment.

After my arrival to Kathmandu, I was happy to see Lama and friends at Kirtipur. There are no major changes except Kirtipur has good news and that is they managed to find a water source and pipe to the institute. Currently, the water is still in testing in its testing stage to ensure its quality. I stayed a few days at Kirtipur and during the time, many of my disciples came to see me. We have long conversations over general matters and a little bit of Dharma teachings.

The Paying back the kind debt of mother can be listen in youtube.

The night prior to my departure to Nepal, the recording of the master copy of audio CD has come out. I listened to it on the plane and found it is good now. The CD is being produced in Singapore and cover I have re-designed it in Nepal. Its new look is more ‘Tibetan’ with Tibetan and English lyrics. One of my Nepali disciples wishes to sponsor this revised 2nd batch of Mother Song. It will be ready in one or two weeks’ time. It may be difficult to send it to overseas but hopefully, we can upload it onto the Internet for downloading. It would be most wonderful if any Singaporean can help me in this area as my friends and devotees in the USA and Europe may not able to receive the physical CD so soon.

New Design of Audio CD

Over here in Pokhara, life is as usual and the monks are doing well in their studies and duties. Currently, we are doing 100 deities puja for 3 days as the Nepali festival Dhasain has already started. Dhasain is the longest (15 days of celebration) and one of the most celebrated events in Nepal. During this festival, most of the Hindu Nepalese celebrates the anniversary of Lord Ram who executed Rawan whom they believe is evil. So they visit temples and sacrifice animals to the god. Overall, most of the Hindu temples are drenched with the blood of animals and it becomes a very terrifying atmosphere. We Buddhists do a lot of prayers at such a time to dedicate merits to these poor animals which are mostly brought in from Tibet. When they arrive in Nepal, they are slaughtered as animal sacrifice to the temples and their bloods are offered to the god. The meat is then given to the participants of the offering to bring home. It is a good time to do prayers and with great love and compassionate thoughts, to dedicate merits to the animal.

I sincerely wish and requesting that whoever read my blog would to do some short prayers such as Om Mani Padme Hung and with compassionate nature, dedicate to the animals. I am sure this will help the animals find great relief during the intermediate stage although it is beyond our capacity to save their lives. I will be very happy if you do that and we Buddhists should feel the sufferings of our mother sentient beings and especially the suffering of beings that most urgently need our assistance. Thank you for such a noble act for these sentient beings.

While in Pokhara, there seems many programme awaiting me due to my long absence. I need to fulfill their requests of initiations and prayers as well as consultations. I will try to update my blog from time to time.

Lighting lamp and make a prayers for Sentient beings during 27th - 29th Oct during the festival of Dhasain (Dhashara).