Yet another great Lama visits Bangkok. This is very very amazing.

His Holiness has a very special character, expression and compassion which could be felt. His explanation on things are crystal clear and he welcomes all kinds of debate. How amazing!!!

 

(please don't take my understanding to be what he said, as these are just my understandings)

I did make many break-throughs from the teachings. One of them is about giving and generousity. When we give something to someone, we always expect some feed-back or atleast a 'thank you'. However, the real giving is giving without ANY expectation, and not even expectation for the merit generated. When we give we should just give and also give the merit generated as well. This is the real giving!. Give without any expectation, not even expectation for the merit from it.... :-) VERY VERY important.

 

Another point he mentions was about emptiness of self. If we look at our nose, where do our nose actually starts and where is the end of our nose. Can we draw a clear line and define precisely that "this is the starting point of the nose, and this is the ending point of the nose"!! ? I don't think we can, so if this cannot be precisely defined then how can nose exist in the ultimate reality? Now, if we investigate our finger, and we take out some skin of our finger, would our finger remain to be a finger..the conventional answer would be yes. What about the parts we have taken out? say some skin, some dirt, and maybe some water molecules, are they part of our finger? Conventional answer would be, yes they were. If the skin and the dirt and the water molecules taken our are part of our finger, then what everything in the world is also part of our finger as the swet from our finger evaporates into the cloud, the cloud turns into rain, into waterfall, etc etc.. so everything is part of our finger.... funny eh? Now, think on the other view, if we take out some parts of our finger, does our finger remain a finger? (conventional answer: yes). Now, does any of the parts those have been taken out have nature of finger on it's own??  No, they are junk... Then how could it be possible that something that does not have true nature on it's own be combined and become something real and existant with true nature (like a finger)? I hope I am getting it right!. I think I have had a glimpse of emptiness..

 

Anyway, after all the teachings, Rinpoche was discussing about establishing a new model of medical treatment facility which he plans to starts in Nepal!!. What a great man, only 27 years old, abbot of 2 monasteries... amazing...