As the lha khang construction moves rapidly along, I watch the pedreros (hired workers) from my window. I know the names of only two of them, but I know who works and who hangs back, I know something about each one’s personality, I know a lot about what the future will bring to each of them. Our workers are not dharma people, and although the labor contractor pays them fairly by standards here, most of them are probably not in a position to prosper. In building the temple, they could create merit for lifetimes to come, but not having this intention, they just earn a wage and a measure of financial well-being that is vulnerable to any kind of loss, adversity, or excess spending. I pray for them, that whatever happiness they have now will not be lost but will always increase, and that their lives will find spiritual meaning.
My health seems stable, improved from this time last year. I can’t undertake the same level of physical activity I used to, but I can still sculpt, plan the temple, mediate disagreements, and practice strongly to support beneficial activity. To do anything within the sphere of dharma is my good fortune.
People look at my heavy old body and white-fringed face and tell me to rest, please rest. I could rest if I chose. I’m sure my students would provide me with a comfortable room and enough to eat. But why rest? In my past lifetimes I prayed to serve sentient beings until samsara is empty, so why waste a moment of my own wish-fulfillment? The dharma brings me confidence that every obstacle— even sickness and this tiresome old age—holds the benefit of purification, and that every purely motivated action culminates in merit to offer sentient beings. Every moment of my life holds meaning and joy. We are pushing hard on the temple construction in hopes that we will be able to consecrate it during the Tagsham empowerments that Terton Namkha Drimed Rinpoche will give during July 4–28. The temple will only be functional by then, not fully ornamented, because time will have run out. Still, what we will have completed represents so much generosity, merit, and the fulfillment of such powerful aspiration that I rejoice from my heart. At the close of every ceremony I dedicate this virtue with the wish that it bring enduring happiness to all of you who have contributed to the lha khang, to all of you who have prayed for its accomplishment, to everyone who has worked on it over the years including the pedreros, to all beings. I look forward to seeing many of you here in July.
In the dharma,
Chagdud Tulku
As the lha khang construction moves rapidly along, I watch the pedreros (hired workers) from my window. I know the names of only two of them, but I know who works and who hangs back, I know something about each one’s personality, I know a lot about what the future will bring to each of them. Our workers are not dharma people, and although the labor contractor pays them fairly by standards here, most of them are probably not in a position to prosper. In building the temple, they could create merit for lifetimes to come, but not having this intention, they just earn a wage and a measure of financial well-being that is vulnerable to any kind of loss, adversity, or excess spending. I pray for them, that whatever happiness they have now will not be lost but will always increase, and that their lives will find spiritual meaning.
My health seems stable, improved from this time last year. I can’t undertake the same level of physical activity I used to, but I can still sculpt, plan the temple, mediate disagreements, and practice strongly to support beneficial activity. To do anything within the sphere of dharma is my good fortune.
People look at my heavy old body and white-fringed face and tell me to rest, please rest. I could rest if I chose. I’m sure my students would provide me with a comfortable room and enough to eat. But why rest? In my past lifetimes I prayed to serve sentient beings until samsara is empty, so why waste a moment of my own wish-fulfillment? The dharma brings me confidence that every obstacle— even sickness and this tiresome old age—holds the benefit of purification, and that every purely motivated action culminates in merit to offer sentient beings. Every moment of my life holds meaning and joy. We are pushing hard on the temple construction in hopes that we will be able to consecrate it during the Tagsham empowerments that Terton Namkha Drimed Rinpoche will give during July 4–28. The temple will only be functional by then, not fully ornamented, because time will have run out. Still, what we will have completed represents so much generosity, merit, and the fulfillment of such powerful aspiration that I rejoice from my heart. At the close of every ceremony I dedicate this virtue with the wish that it bring enduring happiness to all of you who have contributed to the lha khang, to all of you who have prayed for its accomplishment, to everyone who has worked on it over the years including the pedreros, to all beings. I look forward to seeing many of you here in July.
In the dharma,
Chagdud Tulku
As the lha khang construction moves rapidly along, I watch the pedreros (hired workers) from my window. I know the names of only two of them, but I know who works and who hangs back, I know something about each one’s personality, I know a lot about what the future will bring to each of them. Our workers are not dharma people, and although the labor contractor pays them fairly by standards here, most of them are probably not in a position to prosper. In building the temple, they could create merit for lifetimes to come, but not having this intention, they just earn a wage and a measure of financial well-being that is vulnerable to any kind of loss, adversity, or excess spending. I pray for them, that whatever happiness they have now will not be lost but will always increase, and that their lives will find spiritual meaning.
My health seems stable, improved from this time last year. I can’t undertake the same level of physical activity I used to, but I can still sculpt, plan the temple, mediate disagreements, and practice strongly to support beneficial activity. To do anything within the sphere of dharma is my good fortune.
People look at my heavy old body and white-fringed face and tell me to rest, please rest. I could rest if I chose. I’m sure my students would provide me with a comfortable room and enough to eat. But why rest? In my past lifetimes I prayed to serve sentient beings until samsara is empty, so why waste a moment of my own wish-fulfillment? The dharma brings me confidence that every obstacle— even sickness and this tiresome old age—holds the benefit of purification, and that every purely motivated action culminates in merit to offer sentient beings. Every moment of my life holds meaning and joy. We are pushing hard on the temple construction in hopes that we will be able to consecrate it during the Tagsham empowerments that Terton Namkha Drimed Rinpoche will give during July 4–28. The temple will only be functional by then, not fully ornamented, because time will have run out. Still, what we will have completed represents so much generosity, merit, and the fulfillment of such powerful aspiration that I rejoice from my heart. At the close of every ceremony I dedicate this virtue with the wish that it bring enduring happiness to all of you who have contributed to the lha khang, to all of you who have prayed for its accomplishment, to everyone who has worked on it over the years including the pedreros, to all beings. I look forward to seeing many of you here in July.
In the dharma,
Chagdud Tulku
As the lha khang construction moves rapidly along, I watch the pedreros (hired workers) from my window. I know the names of only two of them, but I know who works and who hangs back, I know something about each one’s personality, I know a lot about what the future will bring to each of them. Our workers are not dharma people, and although the labor contractor pays them fairly by standards here, most of them are probably not in a position to prosper. In building the temple, they could create merit for lifetimes to come, but not having this intention, they just earn a wage and a measure of financial well-being that is vulnerable to any kind of loss, adversity, or excess spending. I pray for them, that whatever happiness they have now will not be lost but will always increase, and that their lives will find spiritual meaning.
My health seems stable, improved from this time last year. I can’t undertake the same level of physical activity I used to, but I can still sculpt, plan the temple, mediate disagreements, and practice strongly to support beneficial activity. To do anything within the sphere of dharma is my good fortune.
People look at my heavy old body and white-fringed face and tell me to rest, please rest. I could rest if I chose. I’m sure my students would provide me with a comfortable room and enough to eat. But why rest? In my past lifetimes I prayed to serve sentient beings until samsara is empty, so why waste a moment of my own wish-fulfillment? The dharma brings me confidence that every obstacle— even sickness and this tiresome old age—holds the benefit of purification, and that every purely motivated action culminates in merit to offer sentient beings. Every moment of my life holds meaning and joy. We are pushing hard on the temple construction in hopes that we will be able to consecrate it during the Tagsham empowerments that Terton Namkha Drimed Rinpoche will give during July 4–28. The temple will only be functional by then, not fully ornamented, because time will have run out. Still, what we will have completed represents so much generosity, merit, and the fulfillment of such powerful aspiration that I rejoice from my heart. At the close of every ceremony I dedicate this virtue with the wish that it bring enduring happiness to all of you who have contributed to the lha khang, to all of you who have prayed for its accomplishment, to everyone who has worked on it over the years including the pedreros, to all beings. I look forward to seeing many of you here in July.
In the dharma,
Chagdud Tulku
As the lha khang construction moves rapidly along, I watch the pedreros (hired workers) from my window. I know the names of only two of them, but I know who works and who hangs back, I know something about each one’s personality, I know a lot about what the future will bring to each of them. Our workers are not dharma people, and although the labor contractor pays them fairly by standards here, most of them are probably not in a position to prosper. In building the temple, they could create merit for lifetimes to come, but not having this intention, they just earn a wage and a measure of financial well-being that is vulnerable to any kind of loss, adversity, or excess spending. I pray for them, that whatever happiness they have now will not be lost but will always increase, and that their lives will find spiritual meaning.
My health seems stable, improved from this time last year. I can’t undertake the same level of physical activity I used to, but I can still sculpt, plan the temple, mediate disagreements, and practice strongly to support beneficial activity. To do anything within the sphere of dharma is my good fortune.
People look at my heavy old body and white-fringed face and tell me to rest, please rest. I could rest if I chose. I’m sure my students would provide me with a comfortable room and enough to eat. But why rest? In my past lifetimes I prayed to serve sentient beings until samsara is empty, so why waste a moment of my own wish-fulfillment? The dharma brings me confidence that every obstacle— even sickness and this tiresome old age—holds the benefit of purification, and that every purely motivated action culminates in merit to offer sentient beings. Every moment of my life holds meaning and joy. We are pushing hard on the temple construction in hopes that we will be able to consecrate it during the Tagsham empowerments that Terton Namkha Drimed Rinpoche will give during July 4–28. The temple will only be functional by then, not fully ornamented, because time will have run out. Still, what we will have completed represents so much generosity, merit, and the fulfillment of such powerful aspiration that I rejoice from my heart. At the close of every ceremony I dedicate this virtue with the wish that it bring enduring happiness to all of you who have contributed to the lha khang, to all of you who have prayed for its accomplishment, to everyone who has worked on it over the years including the pedreros, to all beings. I look forward to seeing many of you here in July.
In the dharma,
Chagdud Tulku
