“ Live to Love ”
Love
is such a wonderful way to interact with others.
True
and genuine love is about sharing and about giving.
A
person who is genuinely filled with the happiness and
joy
of living is one who has loving and sharing mind.
- H.H. The Twelfth Gyalwang Drukpa
- H.H. The Twelfth Gyalwang Drukpa
With
this, I would like to share about the great event that was held in Jigme Namgyel
Engineering college on 31st and 1st of August, that is
the 2nd visit of His Eminence the ninth Gyalwa Dokhampa popularly
known as the Kyabje Khamtrul Rinpoche. Rinpoche is one of the most approachable
contemporary spiritual master of the Drukpa Lineage. It was our really blessing
and honored moment to receive the Rinpoche in our college and his teachings on
Bardo (the intermediate state).
During
the event, Rinpoche shared about Bardo which is the intermediate state of three
half days to seven days. When we die and our soul leaves our body but our soul
doesn’t know that we are actually dead. Dying is just a simple process of you,
breathing out and you are not in a position to breath in and that is the end of
external breathing but our internal breathing is still in the process and alive
for a certain period of time.
Rinpoche
stated the simple example of Bardo, saying that Bardo is just like a short
period of time that a computer system takes to actually shutdown after the
light on screen goes off. In that crucial period of three and half days our
soul is like in the state of lost. Our soul still believes that we are alive
and more the good deeds we have done when we were alive the more earliest our
soul realizes that we are actually dead search the way to go out the human
world and vice-versa.
When
we are in Bardo, we tend to see various signs and symbols according to our
deeds leading us to different stage of Khorwa (the cycle of life under Buddhism
teachings).
Rinpoche
stated that dying is not as easy as it seems, it is a very painful process and
just like you losing your everything when you are alive, your name, fame, post,
wealth, your family and even to the extent of losing your own cloth that you
are wearing and left with nothing with you at all.
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| jnec family with Rinpoche |
Rinpoche
shared about the offerings which should be offered not what the gods love but
what you love the most and which should be offered from within your heart.
Rinpoche was also highlighting on being vegetarian and saving lives of thousands
of animals who don’t have the power of speech to speak out their pain like the
human being but goes through enormous pain every mornings and days.
During
the evening hours, Rinpoche showed us the Bhutan Pad-Yatra Documentary which is
a religious trip to various monasteries and holly places to not only in Bhutan
but also from different parts of the world with his teachings involving the participants
and his followers from all over the world.
It
was a very lucky and precious moment for all the JNEC family and people in
Dewathang to receive teachings and Wang (blessing) from His Eminence Gyalwa
Dokhampa.
Though
we couldn’t offer much to the Rinpoche as compared to what he gave to us but as
a gesture of thanking, we the JNEC family presented our cultural programme on
the night of 1st of August
and at the evening we departed the Rinpoche happily with the hope to see him
soon with the same smile JJ
on face again wishing him a safe journey.
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know more about His Eminence and his teachings please log on to the following
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