Best Wishes for the Chinese New Year of the
Rooster!
How Should One Face “Happiness and Sufferings”!
The Chinese New Year of the Rooster is just
around the corner. Some people say that the past year went by
very quickly, while some others say that it was full of
hardships. As a Dharma practitioner, one should only ask
how is
the progress of one’s own Dharma practice?
Whether it has been done well or not, fast or slow? While
most
ordinary people
would feel and reflect upon their own past on a scale of
happiness and pain, as
Dharma
practitioners,
especially for those who have already reached
a
certain level
of spiritual realization, we should focus our
minds to review on our own Dharma practices.
When Dharma practitioners
experience happiness,
they would feel joyful. Yet, this kind of feeling should be used
to further enhance one’s own practice, and should not be for
one’s own indulgence. Furthermore, they should dedicate this
feeling of happiness to all our motherly sentient beings. They
should also be most grateful for the blessings of the Gurus, the
Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and Dharma protectors. It is only by so
doing will one’s
"mind-training" practice be making real progress,
and then one will be spiritually uplifted and to become even
more happy.
When Dharma practitioners
experience sufferings,
they would feel the pain. Yet, this kind of feeling should also
be used to advance one’s own practice, and should not be the
reason for one to wallow in self-degradation. Neither should
this be the reason for one to sink into self-pitying, nor to
curse those whom one think might be against oneself, all of
which might only lead to having one’s spiritual downfall.
Furthermore, they should not be doubtful as to whether they were
blessed by the Gurus, the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and Dharma
protectors or not. More important is that Dharma practitioners
should not become superstitious, due to this feeling, in seeking
for the advice of Feng Shui, and so on. Instead, they should
avoid
to be
led by the nose due to superstitions.
As Dharma practitioners, it is very clear that if
one
cannot
transform sufferings into positive energy,
then all of one's actions will only add in more negative karmas
to oneself. As a result, one will only continue to move
downwards spiritually in one’s future lifetimes, and this is the
"cause
and effect".
Understanding the origins of the "causes and conditions" will
lead one to make wiser life choices, which will in turn help one
to reap good "fruitions". In this way, in
knowing how to face "Happiness and
Sufferings" is also part of one’s own Dharma practice.
For this coming new year, we sincerely wish that
all of you will be so full of wisdom of improving
oneself in becoming a very progressive Dharma practitioner.
Good health, full of love and joy, and with great progress on
the Bodhi Path (Road to Enlightenment)!
Vajra Masters Yeshe Thaye & Pema Lhadren,
on behalf of the Sangha members of
the Dudjom Buddhist (International).
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Solemn Declaration on the Misappropriation of the
Name, Logo, Name Plaque and Products of the “Dudjom Buddhist
Association (International)” in Hong Kong
The “Dudjom Buddhist Association (International)”
in Hong Kong has recently discovered that: there are some
greedy and crooked persons,
who act in the name of the Holy Dharma and
only know how to use drums and bells for the “empowerment”
ceremonies in pretending
to spread the Holy Dharma, but
do not know how to explain the genuine Buddhist
Holy Dharma in great depths.
Out of their great
jealousy
in trying to prevent the “Dudjom Buddhist Association
(International)” in Hong Kong to disseminate the
genuine Buddhist
Holy Dharma,
they have thus misappropriated the name of the “Dudjom Buddhist
Association (International)” in Hong Kong by using the photo of
our name plaque to put on their online store at the Taobao
website in order to promote their own businesses at extremely
unreasonable prices, and thus intend to defame us and to
undermine the good reputation of the “Dudjom Buddhist
Association (International)” in Hong Kong. Please refer to the
photo enclosed here. 
Furthermore, these despicable crooked persons
have further misappropriated both the design and the products of
a Buddhist pendant (“a protection emblem of the Goddess
Sitatapatra” made by our Association to help protect the
Buddhist believers by wearing it) of the “Dudjom Buddhist
Association (International)” in Hong Kong, and has falsely
claimed that it contains the ingredient of “Sky Iron” (meteoric
iron, Tib.
Thokcha, or in Wylie: gnam
lcags)
with the power of blessing, such that they could greatly mark up
the price of this pendant from the original cost of only Hk$100
to Rmb$580 in order to earn a great profit. On top of that, they
have again misappropriated and tampered with the contents of the
journal “Light of Lotus”, published by the “Dudjom Buddhist
Association (International)” in Hong Kong, in becoming their
promotional description in order to make profits. Please refer
to the two photos enclosed here. 
The
negative nature
of these
hellish
greedy crooked persons not only want to earn money, but they
would seriously want to defame and destroy the good reputation
of the “Dudjom Buddhist Association (International)” in Hong
Kong in order to prevent our Association from forcefully and
directly lash out their
indiscriminate acts in holding “empowerment” ceremonies
so as to make profits and to cheat on the Buddhist believers.
Under the disguise in benefiting and blessing
others, in the name of the Buddhist Holy Dharma, these greedy
crooked persons have continually hurt the Buddhist believers by
poisoning their minds in becoming more and more superstitious
and greedy. And by making connections with these crooked
persons, many Buddhist believers have unknowingly
fallen prey to their vicious and negative magnetic fields.
More importantly, by participating in these indiscriminate
“empowerment” ceremonies, many Buddhist believers will most
unfortunately and eventually be dragged down
to be
reborn into the three lower realms.
In order to prevent these greedy crooked persons
from continually and massively held indiscriminate “empowerment”
ceremonies to cheat on the Buddhist believers, the “Dudjom
Buddhist Association (International)” in Hong Kong want to
heartily advise all Buddhist believers not to fall into the
traps of these fraudsters.
In order to further pursue on the liabilities
caused by these crooked persons for the recent event, the
“Dudjom Buddhist Association (International)” in Hong Kong will
take legal actions as necessary.
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Announcement With Our Greatest Sorrow
With our greatest grief and deepest regret,
The Dudjom Buddhist Association (International)
regrettably announced the sad news of His Holiness Kyabje
Chadral Sangye Dorje Rinpoche’s Entering into Maha-Parinirvana
on 30th December, 2015, at the age of 105 years old, due to the
lack of merits and unwholesome karmas of all sentient beings in
general.
Since His Holiness Kyabje Chadral Sangye Dorje
Rinpoche was the Spiritual Leader and Mentor of the Dudjom
Buddhist Association (International), as well as the Most
Beloved Crowning Jewel and Wish-Fulfilling Gem of both our Vajra
Masters Yeshe Thaye & Pema Lhadren, our two Vajra Masters have
thus led all the disciples and Sangha members of the Dudjom
Buddhist Association (International) in offering our utmost
sincere prayers and pujas for 49 days, praying that His Holiness
Kyabje Chadral Sangye Dorje Rinpoche’s Continuous Bestowal of
Nectar Rain of Blessings to
this universe, by upholding the Victory Banner and turning the
Wheel of the Holy Dharma for the benefits of all our motherly
sentient beings, as limitless as the sky!
During these 49 days, all the disciples and
Sangha members of the Dudjom Buddhist Association
(International), as well as all those Dharma practitioners who
would participate should pray whole-heartedly with fervent
regard and strong faith to our Most Beloved Crowning Jewel and
Wish-Fulfilling Gem for His Holiness’Continuous Bestowal of
Nectar Rain of Blessings to
this universe, hopefully, to help alleviate the lack of merits
and unwholesome karmas of all sentient beings in general. As for
these 49 days, the practices during all Sundays will be open to
the general public for their participations with the following
dates:
Dates :
10th、17th、24th and 31st of Jan. and 7th、14th and 21st of Feb.
2016 respectively (Sundays).
Time : 3:00
P.M.
Place :
Dudjom Buddhist Association (International) at 4/F, Federal
Centre, 77 Sheung On Street, Chai Wan, Hong Kong.
This is an extremely sad announcement from the
Dudjom Buddhist Association (International) to all Dharma
friends, and Dharma brothers and sisters all over the world.
 
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Guru Rinpoche
THE ANCIENT WISDOM OF BUDDHISM
FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM!
The coming of a New Millennium will definitely
have long-term effects for humankind. The effect of globalization in
the world’s political economy, together with the coming of the
network society, brings us into a whole new era of dynamism and
reintegration of human forms of behavior and thinking patterns. Yet,
at the same time, we will have to dis-engage ourselves with the old
ways of life, in order to re-engage ourselves in the new modes of
life ahead of us. Similarly, we have to de-condition ourselves in
our various social and cultural conditionings, in order to
re-condition ourselves in new modes of social and cultural arenas
and their underpinnings.
The bringing forth of “virtual realities”
in the global context, while surfing on the tidal wave of
information technology around the world, is becoming more and more a
part of our daily activities in this new era. Deep down inside, for
all Buddhists, we know that the whole
universe and its human drama are nothing more than just one such
huge “virtual reality” created by the “deluge of collective karma”,
which will bring about a new and dynamic approach in the ways human
life and relationships are to be organized and compartmentalized in
the decades ahead. This social construction
of reality will leave us more vividly with the relative
notions of “space” and “time” as we enter into this New Age of
Information Technology.
The vacuity of modern day living, while
materialistically affluent, is spiritually undermined and decadent,
and becomes totally hollow within our own human soul. It is in this
new age that we need to redefine ourselves, as well as to
re-position ourselves in the universe, in order to make spiritual
sense out of our own survival in this human jungle of social
existence. While crossing the threshold of a new millennium, we are
entering into an ever-changing and daring period in the new
frontiers on the mysteries of life and the universe. With the
decoding of DNA secrets and the genetic engineering that life
sciences have brought us new discoveries in the microcosmic world,
as well as other new paradigms in the macrocosmic world, all of
which are bringing us to a new “weltanschaungen” of the universe and
our place in it.
Carl Sagan, the
Cornell physicist-astronomer-philosopher, in this Introduction to
Professor Stephen W. Hawking’s international bestseller
A Brief History of Time: From the Big
Bang to Black Holes (Bantam Books, 1988)
mentions: “We go about our daily
lives understanding almost nothing of the world.... In this book are
lucid revelations on the frontiers of physics, astronomy, cosmology,
and courage. This is also about God… or
perhaps about the absence of God… And this makes the more
unexpected the conclusion of the effort, at least so far:
a universe with no edge in space, no
beginning or end in time, and nothing for a Creator to do.”
These daring words brings home the message on the ancient wisdom of
Buddhism, and that we will need a
“re-evaluation of values”, to use Nietzsche’s term, so as to
help us learn the Real Treasures within us! Indeed, this new 21st
century has been predicted as an
Era of
Spirituality!
To be able to come to terms with
ourselves, we need to de-construct the meanings in our present
socio-economic/political constructs, as well as in our
socio-psychological and physiological structures of human beings, so
as to re-construct new meanings in our lives by putting all these
into a holistic and global perspective. National economies and
nation-states will be collapsed into the “black hole” of
globalization, resulting in the shrinking of the globe in terms of
space and time. On the other hand, the establishment of virtual
reality is expanding, like the “big bang theory”, such that more and
more smaller worlds (each in their own rights) will be formed in
people’s social networks and circles in this new Information
Community. It is to this extent that the
ancient wisdom of Buddhism can help to provide us with new insights
to the perennial questions in human life and to prepare ourselves
for the “paradigm shift” of this new millennium.
Life and death,
being the core of such kind of perennial questions which transcends
temporal, spatial, religious, ideological, racial, ethnic, national
and cultural boundaries, is an important
topic for our daily life in the contemporary world. In making
sense of the spiritual dimension in our everyday life,
“mind training” is an important
ingredient of Dharma practice. In trading our minds, we can
then have a better appreciation and application of “the interplay
and interface of Dharma practice with everyday life”, a topic to be
specially dedicated for this new age, which we think will have
particular significance for contemporary living of the 21st
century. This is, indeed,
the Art of Living
in our modern life for the New Millennium!
Finally,
we
sincerely pray for both our most beloved Root Guru His Holiness
Chatral Sangye Dorje Rinpoche and the Holy Dharma to remain firm and
steadfast in this world forever, for the benefits of all our
motherly sentient beings, as limitless as the sky!
Sarva
Mangalam
Yeshe Thaye,
On February 19, 2000 (Chotrul Duchen)
at His Holiness Chatral Sangye Dorje Rinpoche’s
Tashi Gang Retreat Centre,
Yangleshod, Kathmandu, Nepal.
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