Our thoughts and prayers for AirAsia Flight QZ8501

Let our thoughts and prayers are with all family and friends of those passengers and pilots and crew members on board QZ8501.

Om Mani Padme Hung

Om Mani Padme Hung

 Om Mani Padme Hung 

Om Tare Tu Tare Ture Soha

Om Tare Tu Tare Ture Soha

Om Tare Tu Tare Ture Soha

Dedication of merits
May those who are on board flying from Air Asia Surabaya Indonesia to Singapore, and may all passengers including the pilot captains and crew members will be saved and be blessed.

Please prays for Air Asia QZ8501 Indonesia flight tragedy

Picture is courtesy from The Malaysian Insider.

I am writing and seeking for those who are logging or reading my blog now and please to have your supports and praying to the latest Malaysian AirAsia airline from an Indonesia AirAsia flight went missing on Sunday about half way between its origin of Surabaya in Indonesia and its destination of Singapore, an Indonesian transport official said.

The aircraft was between the Indonesian port of Tanjung Pandan and the town of Pontianak, in West Kalimantan on Borneo island, when it went missing, Joko Muryo Atmodjo, air transportation director at the Transport Ministry, told a news conference.

Let our thoughts and prayers are with all family and friends of those passengers and pilots and crew members on board QZ8501.

Om Mani Padme Hung 

Om Mani Padme Hung 

Om Mani Padme Hung 

Dedication of merits

May those who are on board flying from Air Asia Surabaya Indonesia to Singapore, and may all passengers including the pilot captains and crew members will be saved and be Blessed.

To get His Holiness Drodrupchen Rinpoche blessing

Today I will be going together with a small groups of Malaysian to Thailand and we are very fortunate to have a private audience to meet up with His Holiness Drodrupchen Rinpoche in Thailand and to receive His teaching and blessing.

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A Season Greeting - Merry Christmas

Thank you for visiting my blog, and I'd like to take this opportunity and wishing you and your families and love ones a very Merry Christmas.

Christmas comes with many splendour things and Christmas comes with many different ways of celebration. Christmas is the Blessed season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love and most importantly with the messages of love , peace, sharing, forgiveness, passion of giving and reaching out to give your care and to give comforts and inspiration to someone who is less fortunate and miserable during this season of love. Compassion and unconditional love are the universal messages of all religions and faiths.

- To your enemy, please give them forgiveness.

- To an opponent, please give them tolerance.

- To a friend, please give them your warmest heart.

- To all and others, please give them the charity.

- To every child, please give them a good example.

- For yourself, please show them your kindness.

                                "Merry Christmas"

Long life prayers for His Holiness the Drodrupchen Rinpoche

Mahasukha Malaysia has arranged a long Life puja prayers for His Holiness the Drodrupchen Rinpoche on December 20, 2014 . The puja was conducted and courtesy by Khenpo together with his Lama Lamasha Gyatso.  

Powerful Praises of the 21 Taras

The puja covered with many prayers, including recitation of the Guru Rinpoche the Seven lines prayers, 108 times long life prayers , Praises of 21 Taras, Amitahyu mantra, Medicine Buddha mantra, Guru Rinpoche, Buddha of the three times supplication prayers and Amithabha Dewachen prayers and the accumulation of the prayer merits specially dedicated to His Holiness the Drodrupchen Rinpoche. 

Khenpo and Lama Gyatso currently they are visiting Malaysia, and later they both will be staying in Singapore and Indonesia for approximately 30 days and then they will be returning to Malaysia for another 1-2 weeks before flying back to Nepal.

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Money can't buy us happiness - His Holiness 17th Karmapa

                                 Karmapa  Khenno
We use money to buy fame, to buy comfort, and even to buy influence. Even if we know deep down that money can't buy us happiness, we direct so much of our energies to pursuing it that we seem to treat it as If it were happiness itself. 

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H.H The 17th Karmapa's Talk why be a Vegetarian / Not-Eating- Meat

Since I have about a half an hour, I wanted to talk about being vegetarian. It's not easy to talk too much about being vegetarian, to give up meat eating. I think it's very important to know how to think about eating meat and how to put it into practice. Now I should start to talk because this half hour is about to finish. To begin with we will say some prayers.

Generally regarding those who are ordained, if you ask if meat is allowed for the monks or not, some people say that it is not allowed because if there are people who are eating meat, then there will be people who will kill those animals, and if there is no one eating meat then there would be no one will make the meat. So therefore eating meat is very much related to killing and therefore the negative deed of killing is very much caused by eating meat. Now whether that is true or not is something different….If there are people who are using the pearls, then these people who use the pearls cause the killing of the shellfish. And also those people who wear certain kind of dresses, people who wear brocades—silk is also made by certain animals or certain insects—so anybody who is wearing these clothes or anything that is coming from animals [is also killing animals].

And also if there is nobody who eats meat, then because of eating things like grains and so forth, also this causes lots of insects under the earth to come up on the earth and then all those beings living on top of the earth go below and therefore cause a lot of beings to die.

Because there are sheep, there will be people who are killing the sheep. So therefore, being a sheep is also a problem, a kind of source of the negative deed. [Therefore] just being one cause cannot be the same as being the actual deed of negative things.

There was once a person in China who used to butcher pigs. Each day he used to kill a pig and he used to make his sword red. Sometimes he thought, “Why should I do this? Each day I'm killing a pig.” And he thought, “It's not because I want to kill the pig but because other people want to eat [it] and need the pig and therefore that's why I'm doing it,” and so he was consoling himself that it's not too bad.

H.H.Karmapa  for full dharma teaching on why to be a vegetarian.

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My Pilgrimage Tour To India - Sarnath

Sarnath is located in the state of Uttar Pradesh, about 30km from the city of Varanasi (Benares). From Bidhgaya the distance is about 250km.

Sarnath , Place of the Buddha's First Sermon, after spending seven weeks at the seven places in Bodhgaya following his enlightenment , The Buddha was undecided about teaching the Dharma to others as he realized that it was profound and hard to discover, and others would not understand Him. 

Brahma Sahampati (大梵天人) 

According to the Buddhist scripture, it was Brahma Sahampati (大梵天人) who entreated the Buddha to teach the world about Dharma. Initially  Buddha hesitated to preach the principal of Dharma teaching that as He realized that it was profound and hard to discover, and others would not understand Him.  But Brahma Sahampati insisted as in this way the doctrine of Dharma will spread amongst the lay peoples, and pleaded with Him to teach the Dharma otherwise the world would be lost.The Blessed one listened to Brahma Sahampati's pleading and decided to go to Benares to peach to the five Ascetics, namely: Kondanna, Vappa, Bhaddiya, Mahanama and Assaji, who had served him for 6 years but left Buddha abandoned the path of self-mortification.

Finally Buddha agreed to spread the Dharma.

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Words of wisdom by His Holiness the 17th Karmapa

The essential point in practicing the Dharma is to tame our minds.

Our mind is not only the basis for being caught in cyclic existence. It is also the basis for freedom from cyclic existence.

When I talk about protecting the natural environment, it is not a matter of knowledge or information. It is something I speak from the bottom of my heart.

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The Living Journal - Karma Will Be Knocking Our Door

As it's said in Guru Puja, living beings and their environments are filled with unbelievable problems and sufferings, coming one after another like rainfall, sufferings that are the results of negative karma. Many questions raised and asked for a thousand times when one has met adverse or hostile conditions and :-

I have practiced with my devotion faithfully, Why ?
I had prayed every day, Why ?
I have chanted thousand and thousand of mantra daily,Why ?
I am on vegetarian diet and practicing compassion and loving kindness, Why ?
I do charity works and being a charitable person, Why ?
I am suffering a serious illness, Why ?
Is my practise gone wild, Why ?
Buddha or Bodhisattva are not responding to my prayers, Why?

Give up hope and lose my faith and religion completely and negative thoughts are powerful to destroy our faith and will always remind you to give up your faiths . Your fears of practice, the more you practice ,and more hostile obstacles will chase after you.

It's just like the weathers, the four seasons of Spring, summer, fall and winter will arrive naturally whether you like it or not. So whether you are practising Dharma or not , our good and negative karma will be knocking our door naturally.

For example, when you wash a dirty piece of cloth, the water becomes black with dirt. You don't see the black dirt as a negative thing since it means the cloth is getting clean. Rejoice! You should feel great joy about finishing the karma instead of seeing the negative and obstacles are something bad.

"Please grant me blessings to see my obstacles as exhausting the results of my negative karmic imprints, and bless me always transform bad conditions into the path to enlightenment."

So you may think to stay away from the spiritual path or Dharma activities, because you are afraid of your negative karma will be ripen and causing you to have many adverse obstacles, bad luck, sufferings or deadly illnesses. It means, we do not understand what Dharma is, you can think, "I'm exhausted so much of my negative karma now that I've accumulated throughout countless of my past lives.".

In the same way, when we practise Dharma, our negative karmas can be ripen causing you to get sick or unwell or obstacles, because you're purifying so much negative karma by practising Dharma. So you should rejoice when you are having difficulties in life. 

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Aspiration For Bodhichitta

For those in whom the precious Bodhichitta has not arisen

May it arise and not decrease

But increase further and further.

Dedication of Merit

By this merit may we obtain omniscience then.

Having defeated the enemies wrong-doings.

May we liberate migrators from the ocean of existence.

With its stormy waves of birth, old age, sickness and death.

Note

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My Pilgrimage Tour To India - The ruin in the Nalanda University

Nalanda is known as the ancient seat of learning. World's most ancient University lies in ruins which is 62 km from Bodh Gaya and 90 km south of Patna. Emperor Asoka built many monasteries, temples and Viharas here. Though the Buddha visited Nalanda several times during his lifetime, this famous centre of Buddhist learning shot to fame much later, during 5th-12th centuries.

Nalanda University complex covered an area of 14 hectors and its building were constructed with red bricks. When we arrived at the Nalanda University, we can witnessed the ruin of the university, and its architectural structure still can be seen but most of the complex had been plundered and destroyed by the invasion of Muslim soldiers under the Turuskas or Muhammmad Bakhtiyar Khaliji from Afghanistan dealt the fatal blow to Buddhism in India at the closer of the 1198 AD.

The Turuskas or Muhammmad Bakhtiyar Khaliji from Afghanistan, they were fanatical religion extremist or we shall called it the terrorists in today world's term, and they bent on conquest and mass destruction. By then, they had conquered the western part of Uttar Pradesh called the Doab, the region bordered by the Yamuna and the Ganges rivers.

The ruin of the university, and its architectural structure still can be seen but majority of the complex had been plundered and destroyed by the invasion of Muslim soldiers, this religion fanatical soldiers were especially hostile or ferocity was directed towards Buddhist institutions with images or statue of the holy Buddhas and Bodhisattvas which were systematically plundered ,destroyed or vandalised and massacred wholesale as idolaters.

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Lord Ganesha - Depicted in Tibetan Buddhism Part 2

Arya Ganapati Mantra

Om Ah Gah Hum Phat Svaha

Lord Ganesha is compassionately and famously depicted in Hinduism, He is revered as the Remover of obstacles and a Bringer of Wealth. 

Lord Ganesha is the son of the Lord Shiva and goddess Parvati. Lord Ganesha he was born with a human head, but beheaded by Lord Shiva during a misunderstood clash. 

His father Lord Shiva placed an elephant head in place of the human head, which was lost during the fight. 

Lord Ganesha is compassionately to be known as Arya Ganapati, Maha Rakta (The great red Lord of host or Ganas). According to Tibetan Buddhism, he is an emanation of Avalokitesvara ( In Sanskrit) Chenrezig (In Tibetan) Goddess Of Mercy Kuan Yin (In Chinese). 

Above the Arya Ganapati is Amithabha Buddha as printed in this Tangka. Amithabha Buddha, the Buddha of infinite Light. Lord Ganesha is most widely worshipped in Hinduism, but is also revered in Buddhism and Jainism.

Arya Ganapati, who is in essence Chenrezig, manifested in this aspect to relieve the poverty of sentient beings. May I be able to obtain wealth and be able to eliminate all sentient beings' poverty, according to Dharma and poverty of the means of living, and the enjoyments, immediately. 

My kind root guru manifested in this aspect. I shall prostrate, offer incense, and generate infinite bliss. 
This is guided and praised by H.E. Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

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Lord Ganesha - Depicted in Hinduism Part 1

Lord Ganesha is compassionately and famously depicted in Hinduism, He is revered as the Remover of obstacles and a Bringer of Wealth. Lord Ganesha is the son of the Lord Shiva and goddess Parvati. Lord Ganesha he was born with a human head, but beheaded by Lord Shiva during a misunderstood clash. His father Lord Shiva placed an elephant head in place of the human head, which was lost during the fight.

Lord Ganesha has one tusk, having thrown the other at the moon when teased about his girth. He is often shown dancing on a mouse, which represents desire. Lord Ganesha's ten arms carry various instruments of his enlightened activity, such as the sword of wisdom, khatvangas, and skull cups.

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Machig Labdron - The Yogini

This is a field of merit from the Chod (cutting through) lineage. It is features the Yogini namely Machig Labdron in the center of this Tangka printing. She is surrounded by other lineage masters. and as well surrounded by the other semi-wrathful divine beings. 

In front of Machig Labdron are the Dharma protectors from this lineage  and the four great kings appear below them and the Buddhas of the three times are indicated above of Machig Labdron, with great Mother of Prajnaparamita above them. Gifts bearing gods and goddesses are shown at the very top of this Tangka printing.

Machig Labdron is often depicted with the attributes of a Dakini or a deity, an emanation of Yum Chenmo or Prajnaparamita, the embodiment of the wisdom of the Buddhas. She is a representation of enlightened female energy and she holds a drum in her right hand and a bell in her left. Her right leg is often lifted and the standing left leg is bent in motion. 

Machig Labdron is white in color with three eyes and wears the six bone Ornaments and she is which is traditional for a practicing Yogini. The different between Yogini and Dakini.  The Yogini wears the six bones Ornaments and the Dakini wears five bones Ornaments and both are the wisdom beings.

* Footnote

Please consult your Guru or a qualified lineage master for Vajrayana practice! Should a devotee even want to start studying and contemplating the Vajrayana practice, then it is truly necessary to first have completed the preliminaries and to be certain and sure that bodhicitta has arisen and developed in one’s mind.

Vajrayana features countless skillful and powerful methods which, if they are practiced in the proper way, can make the process of accumulation and purification incredibly swift and direct. It is absolutely necessary to have the pure motivation and to know that Vajrayana practice is not carried out to increase one’s own ego, power and profit. 

Thank you for reading, may you find peace and great bliss. With your support it helps to spread the Buddha’s precious teachings and turning the Dharma wheels in the world.

Aspiration For Bodhichitta

For those in whom the precious Bodhichitta has not arisen

May it arise and not decrease

But increase further and further.

Nagarjuna's Dedication of Merit

By this merit may we obtain omniscience then.

Having defeated the enemies wrong-doings.

May we liberate migrators from the ocean of existence.

With its stormy waves of birth, old age, sickness and death.

*Note

I do not own or infringe any copyright of these pictures.

Pictures courtesy and credit to the rightful owner

My Pilgrimage Tour To India - Kapilavatthu

Entrance of the garden of Kapilavatthu and many of us were having a great time here in this beautiful garden of the early life of the Lord Buddha .

Kapilavatthu, the capital of the country of the Sakyans where the Buddha spent the first 29 years of his life before leaving home in quest of the deathless. This place has been a matter of controversy  for nearly a century.  

There are two claimants to the site of Kapilavatthu, namely Piprahwa in Basti District of Uttar Pradesh of India and Tilaurakot 25km west of Lumbini in Nepal. The Indian claim was based on seals and inscriptions over the lid of a pot from the 2nd century AD that was found during excavations of the so-called palace at Piprahwa.

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My Pilgrimage Tour to India - Angulimala

                      This is the place where Angulimala the murderer used to lived here 

This is one of the holy site that today's Buddhist is visiting here, this is the notorious historical person named Angulimala, the famous criminal and murderer of a 1,000 thumbs garlands for his neck collections, and he was very tired and near exhaustion. At the same time, he was very anxious to kill the last person to make up his full quota of 1,000 thumbs collection and so complete his task.  

Angulimala he saw a woman on the road below and he was having total of 999 thumbs as he wanted to fulfil his vow to complete the 1,000 thumbs collection, but as he approached, he saw it was his mother. but at the same time, the Buddha was approaching, and Angulimala had just enough presence of mind to decide to kill the wandering monk instead of his mother. He set out after the Blessed One with his knife raised. But the Buddha kept moving ahead of him. Angulimala just could not catch up with him. Finally, he cried out, "O Bhikkhu, stop, stop!" And the Enlightened One replied, "I have stopped. It is you who have not stopped." Angulimala did not catch the significance of these words, so he asked, "O bhikkhu! Why do you say that you have stopped while I have not?"

The Buddha replied, "I say that I have stopped because I have given up killing all beings. I have given up ill-treating all beings, and have established myself in universal love, patience, and knowledge through reflection. But you have not given up killing or ill treating others and you are not yet established in universal love and patience. Hence, you are the one who has not stopped." On hearing these words Angulimala was recalled to reality, and thought, these are the words of a wise man. This monk is so very wise and so very brave that he must be the leader of the monks. Indeed, he must be the Enlightened One himself! He must have come here specially to make me see the light. So thinking, he threw away his weapons and asked the Blessed One to admit to the Order of the bhikkhus, which the Buddha did.

When the king and his men came to capture Angulimala, they found him at the monastery of the Buddha. Finding that Angulimala had given up his evil ways and become a bhikkhu, the king and his men agreed to leave him alone. During his stay at the monastery, Angulimala ardently practiced meditation.

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Dedication of merits
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My Pilgrimage Tour To India - Sankasia Part 3

Today Sankasia is the one of the most remote and undeveloped Buddhist Holy site in India. A far cry from the Buddha's time when Sankasia was called "City of Sankasia".

In 1961 India's Prime Minister Mr Nehru  when he was asked by some of the Japanese visitors, which was the poorest holy Buddhist shrine in India ? Mr Nehru he promptly replied: "Sankasia"

This are the typical daily street vendors who are selling food to the locals for a living.  

This are the most common houses and it was built mainly by the animal waste products of cow dung. The villagers used the mud soil which is the same as cob and then cover the walls with this in 3 or 4 layers. In between the first and third layer use a sandy soil, and the last layer use cow dung and mud and compress it to seal it off.

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A moment of light and easy with His Holiness the 17th Karmapa

A moment of light and easy with His Holiness the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorjee has spent some of his precious time preparing and mixing together ingredients to make cookies at the Bodhgaya.

Preparation of the cookies are ready to be baked in the oven. 

The sweet and tasty traditional Tibetan cookies are perfectly well baked and arranged by His Holiness.

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