KHENPO'S BLOG AUTHOR: KHENPO TSULTRIM LODRO

Please recite the mantra of Chenrezig - Ong Ma Ni Bei Me Hong --for passengers of the Malaysian Airlines flight MH370.

Please do not kill any innocent beings for any reason!

Happy New Year! The Year of the Snake is ending, away with all the worries and displeasure of yesterday. The Year of the Horse is tiptoeing near, along with the hopes and quests of tomorrow. Overnight, gone is the Snake and in comes the Horse; in a flash of thought, gone is ignorance and in comes wisdom.

Three things about dreams. We are all in a very long dream, where we should keep the following in mind: (1) Despite it’s being a dream, we should not do anything harmful to others because it may give others nightmares. (2) Despite it’s being a dream, we should do as much as possible to help others even within the dream, because others may end up with sweet dreams. (3) Since it's just a dream, the sooner we wake up the better. Make your best efforts to awake everyone.

What people call the sunset is not really the sun setting, but the horizon rising; what people call death is actually not the end but the beginning of the next journey.

When the basic physical needs such as food and shelter are satisfied, we should immediately seek mental and spiritual belonging, the lack of which will otherwise intervene in our material life. With this intervention comes invidious comparisons, showoffs and discontent into our lives, whereupon the stress in our lives will progressively worsen until finally our minds completely collapse under the tremendous pressure of desire.

Actually, from the standpoint of animals, humans are the most unconscionable terrorists in the world, who build thousands of concentration camps and kill innocent lives every day on a massive scale.

Larung Gar, the spiritual home of numerous people, is where I have lived for the past thirty years (1984-2014). The weather is very cold at Larung, but the mind feels warmer here than anywhere else because this is where my guru used to live.

What are the trendy colors for 2014/2015? Please don’t just follow blindly! All such colors exist only in your head. Your clothes, when put into the closet with its doors shut, don't have colors. Ha! Interesting, isn’t it?