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No Rules Makes It All Possible
Dharamsala, India — April 2, 2012 From Ven. Roger: It’s very dark. There is a strong storm with blasting winds and the road is narrow with room for only one vehicle at a time. The road is on the edge of a cliff at least a 1,000-foot [305-meter] drop on one side – it makes [...]
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Life on the Road with Lama Zopa Rinpoche
You can view the entire archive of Ven. Roger’s wonderful “Life on the Road with Lama Zopa Rinpoche” blog here.
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“Practicing Dharma is protecting yourself, cherishing others is loving yourself ….” Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Bodhgaya, India — January 28, 2012 From Ven. Roger: Can elephants create virtue? Of course they can. Rinpoche was offered an elephant here in Bodhgaya. He accepted to keep it for 10 minutes and then return it to its owner. During those 10 minutes (which did get extended a little) Rinpoche had the elephant circumambulate [...]
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A Sea of Red
Bodhgaya, India — January 8, 2012 From Ven. Roger: They are saying that 400,000 or more people are at the Kalachakra Initiation, among them thousands of monks and nuns. It’s a spectacular sea of red when you look out over the crowd. Some Tibetans start lining up at 1 a.m. in the morning, 12 hours [...]
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Another Airport
India — December 26, 2011 From Ven. Roger: Well, we were late to the airport, but so was the plane! So we made the flight to Delhi OK. Today we had to rush to the airport again. I don’t know why this always happens! Actually, it wasn’t too bad until we arrived and then had [...]
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Back to Normal?
Dharamsala, India — December 25, 2011 From Ven. Roger: Time to go to the airport! We are all packed. Many suit cases are loaded. Where is Rinpoche? Now it is getting late. Rinpoche is still doing the last session of retreat. I keep reminding Rinpoche of the time but get no response! The retreat, in [...]
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Not in This World
McLeod Ganj, India — December 1, 2011 From Ven. Roger: His Holiness the Dalai Lama walked through the door. Rinpoche went forward to greet him (not being able to prostrate) and they embraced (this was the first time Rinpoche had met His Holiness since his stroke earlier in the year). The room was very silent [...]
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The Last Days on Earth
Kopan Monastery, Nepal — September 12, 2011 From Ven. Roger: On September 5, Rinpoche leaned very close to Lama Lhundrup to better hear his voice, it was very soft, a very soft whisper. “Even the very smallest pleasure is in the nature of suffering,” said Lama Lhundrup. “If I have to go to the hell [...]
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The Slaughter of Thousands of Animals
Kopan Monastery, Nepal — September 6, 2011 From Ven. Roger: A goat is standing by a shop, tied on a very short leash. It is waiting to be killed by the butcher. I am not sure if it is aware it will be killed very soon. Rinpoche asks the jeep to stop as soon as [...]
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A Snake Called Thubten Thapkye
Kopan Monastery, Nepal — August 14, 2011 From Ven. Roger: It was dark, maybe 9 p.m., and there was something wriggling on the path going around Bouddha Stupa. It was a baby jet black snake! We got it onto an open piece of cardboard with a little difficulty. Rinpoche wanted it to come with us [...]
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