In Union with Cappuccino and Croissant

The deeper you contemplate
The more you will see the bigger picture of phenomenon

The more you see the bigger picture of phenomenon
The more you will find yourself

The more you find yourself
The more you will meet who you are

The more you meet who you are
The more you will see how vast you are

The more you see how vast you are
The more you will find how deep you are

The more you find how deep you are
The more you will find how clear you are

The more you see how clear you are
The more you will see how limitless you are

The more you see how limitless you are
The more you will find the unity of clarity and emptiness

The more you find the unity of clarity and emptiness
The more you will find the unity of their depth and vastness

At the end you will realize who you are ultimately

You are the croissant
You are the cappuccino
You are the croissant and cappuccino in union

When Tenam is in union with croissant and cappuccino,
the glimpse of this insight awakes and comes these lines at Maison Alyzee the on date of April 25, 2019

2019 Lunar New Year & Losar Greetings

2019 losar


You can see how beautiful this mountain is today. Lots of beautiful snows and clear sunshine. So with this example, I wish – may all sentient beings and including all friends and including myself, become very happy. Happy in a sense, purely happy. Not just temporary happy but ultimately happy. As well as healthy – healthy physically, healthy mentally, healthy speech. So that way our success of our wishes will come true. Because after all, without good health of mental, good health of physical, good health of speech, rest of things will not happen easily. Therefore with the blessing of lineage, may all friends and all sentient beings be happy, healthy, and through that, become prosperity. Prosperity in the wealth materially, but mainly prosperity of the wealth of the spiritual. So that we all will get our ultimate happiness. So that is my simple and sincere wishes to all friends on this New Year day as well as with our healthy body speech mind. Certainly you can make a healthy environment as we can see that is also very important to have a very healthy environment. Lots of tashi delek and sincere prayer to all the friends.

最近才剛慶祝完2019年的新年,農曆新年轉眼接踵即至。我謹獻上簡單誠摯的祝福給所有朋友,祈願大家都能得到由佛陀金剛持到上師金剛持以降的加持。所以我在此唱誦幾句祈禱文來祈請加持,這樣新年就很有意義。

今天在這裡可以看到美麗的山,好多美麗的雪跟澄澈的陽光。以此我祈願一切眾生,包括所有的朋友跟我自己都能快樂,純粹的快樂 ,不僅是暫時的,而是絕對的快樂。還有健康,身體的健康,心靈的健康,語的健康。這樣我們所希求的成功才能實現。因為沒有健康的身語意,很多事情無法成辦。所以藉由傳承加持,希望所有的朋友與一切眾生都能健康快樂,並藉此得到富足,物質的富足,還有更主要是精神上的富足,並這樣得到絕對的富足。除了健康的身語意, 這是我對大家在新年之際的一個簡單誠摯的祝願。還有我們可以營造一個健康的環境。我們知道有個健康的環境是多麼的重要。誠摯祝福大家吉祥如意。

Happy New Year 2019

I wish to invite 1/1/2019 New Year with full blessings from White Tara.
May every one be happy, healthy and prosperous. Most importantly is to have positive wishes and may they be accomplished without any hindrance. May every one reach their ultimate destination. May the environment remain healthy, happy and nourish just like Pure Land.

Inspiration from Black Horse and Red Sock

Every day I see only one reason that makes me happy and meaningful of my survival.

Me as a guy has no ability, no education, no wisdom yet my life is going at its most wonderful way in every moment of my days, weeks, months and years.

When I contemplate on the cause of my smooth and meaningful time in every situation, it is only the result of the unconditional compassion, love, kindness, care and blessings from my Supreme Guru Vajradhara His Holiness Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa who is the center pillar of my life.

Because of His Holiness’s protection, all unpleasant situations and wrong conditions have swiftly transformed into pleasant and positive conditions. I never feel lonely wherever I am because the boundless blessings of His Holiness shower timelessly upon me and the surrounding wherever I am.

Because of you, my Guru Vajradhara, I have everything. If my life were to be without you, then I better retire this life any time happily with no regrets.

Because of your existence, every moment of my survival becomes meaningful and I am more than happy remaining in this world even I don’t have any one in this world.

Readers please read with mindfulness so that you will also get some message from my sharing.


Second Visit after 29 Years to Holy Place of Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi

In 1989 under the blessing of His Holiness Guru Vajradhara Chamgon Kenting Situpa, “PILGRIMAGE for ACTIVE PEACE” started taking place in the holy places for different faiths throughout various parts of the world. It first started in Bodhgaya where Buddha attained enlightenment and then onto other holy places such as Vatican, Assisi, etc.

Through this historical background and connection, this time His Holiness Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa was invited by International Sufi Council and Madam Brigitte van Baren, Initiator of Peace Pledge Project seriously and sincerely to join and lead peace pledge activities in Greenland and Assisi together with other spiritual leaders from six different religions, scientists, water experts and many movers and shakers involving in world peace and environmental protection.  

The youngest participating leader was a 17 years old International Children’s Peace Prize winner, Mohamad Al Jounde.  The oldest leader was the 97 years old Murshid Dr. H.J. Karimbakhsh Witteveen who was the formal Minister of Finance, vice Prime Minister of Netherlands and Chair of Universal Sufi Council. Also among the oldest participants was the 97 years old Very Venerable Lama Lodoe who is the most respected tutor of H.H. Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa who enjoyed the entire Peace Pledge program in good spirits.

Every spiritual leader and every respected leader from different fields shared their concerns and thoughts on how to take action in world Peace, environment and protecting the precious glaciers from melting.

In the holy chapel, the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi, the leaders joined and mixed together the water brought from Ganges River and Greenland symbolizing the respect towards water that is most precious to us.

Finally major religious leaders made serious prayers in turns to dedicate Active Peace for the world. I also had the opportunity to make simple but serious prayers for humanity and environment to have a harmonious balance until we reach our final destination of enlightenment.  I did my best with clear aspirations and strong dedication. Personally I had enjoyed my participation in the events.  All the religious leaders and the movers and shakers in world peace and environment are so sincere. Witnessing how they unitedly vow to do their best for the world to me is a convincing evidence of the actualization on the vision H.H. Chamgong Kenting Tai Situpa had since very young age and what he has spent more than a quarter century advocating for – “Active Peace – One World – One Humanity.”


Interview by Ms. Julie Schelling who is in charge of social media for Peace Pledge Project 


My prayers and chant at Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi


Assisi Photos

HOLY LAND (India) to HIGHEST LAND of the World (Greenland) with Holiness Guru Vajradhara Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa

Me as an individual am nothing important but a simple and ordinary Buddhist monk. The most fortunate part of me is to be under the blessing of His Holiness Guru Vajradhara Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa. By the blessing, I have the opportunity to travel from Holy Land (Aryabhumi as referred to India) to Top of the World (Greenland).

Joining many leaders and water experts as eyewitnesses, we experience first hand how climate change has caused tremendous loss of the most precious glaciers which results in the world quickly becoming lack of pure water just not too long ago.

So please take a look at the following pictures taken at Big Ice which I share here and let’s wake up to be more aware of not creating further disasters to our environment. We should protect it as much as possible at individual level. Here we are hosted by local elders and their families and we vow to join hands with them, to stand together to preserve the precious water and make conscious use of each precious drop.


Glacier Melting in Greenland 

* video courtesy of Mr. Ben Bower whom we were together at Greenland

 

Greenland Big Ice

Mother’s Day

If one sincerely wishes to repay the kindness of mother who gave us life,
the uncontrived precious human life given from genuine mother
Then waste no time making mischief to others and self
And make meaningful usage from this precious human life,
the life given by mother and the supreme mother Prajnaparamita
May their mind become oneness
And may we all be blessed not to be separated from the oneness of the enlightened mind

༄། ལུས་སྦྱིན་མ་ཡི་དྲིན་ལས་མཇལ་འདོད་ན་། བཅོས་མིན་མ་ལས་ཐོབ་པའི་མི་ལུས་འདི། རང་གཞན་མགོ་སྐོར་དབང་དུ་མ་གཏོང་བར།  ཅུང་ཙམ་དོན་ལྡན་སྙིང་པོ་ལེན་བྱས་ཏེ།  ལུས་སྦྱིན་མ་དང་ཤེས་རབ་ཕྱིན་མ་ཡི། ཐུགས་ཡིད་དབྱེར་མེད་ངང་ལས་བདག་སོགས་རྣམས། ནམ་ཡང་འབྲལ་བ་མེད་པར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས།

Happy 65th Birthday Guru Vajradhara

You Guru Vajradhara, Physically the Lord of Vinaya (Moral)
You Guru Vajradhara, Mentally the King of Boddhisatva
You Guru Vajradhara, Secretly the Lord of Visualization and Completion

You Guru Vajradhara, the One need no praises for validation
You Guru Vajradhara, the One radiate stronger compassion towards those disgrace you
You Guru Vajradhara, the One bestow immense care and blessing towards those jealous of you

Guru Vajradhara –
You are the one who adorn with all qualities of Buddha
Guru Vajradhara –
You are the emanation of Guru Rinpoche who manifested in this world 65 years ago as Lord Dhonyod Drubpa

Today I celebrate your Birthday with sincere prayers of Longevity and Flourish of the Buddha activities of Lord Lama Dorje Chang

Written by elderly monk Tenam from the beautiful island of Maui with unconditional devotion on the day of Lama Dorje Chang’s 65th auspicious Birthday


༄། ཕྱི་འདུལ་ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་མངའ་བདག་བྱམས་མགོན་རྗེ། ནང་བྱང་སེམས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་བྱམས་མགོན་རྗེ། གསང་བསྐྱེད་རྫོགས་ཀྱི་དབང་པོ་བྱམས་མགོན་རྗེ། མགོན་ཁྱེད་ནི་བསྟོད་པས་མི་མཉེས་ལ། ལས་ངན་གྱི་སྐྱེ་བུས་སྨད་གྱུར་ཀྱང་། ཐུགས་བརྗེ་ཡིས་རྟག་ཏུ་སྐྱོང་གནང་ཞིང་། མི་ཆེན་བླ་ཆེན་གྱིས་ཕྲག་དོག་ཀྱང་། རྗེ་ཁྱེད་ཀྱིས་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཁྱད་པར་ཤར། མགོན་གཅིག་འདུས་ཀྱི་བླ་མ་རྡོ་རྗེ་འཆང་། རྗེ་པདྨ་ཡི་རྣམ་འ྄ཕྲུལ་དོན་ཡོད་གྲུབས། སྐུ་མཚན་དཔེ་དེ་བཞད་ནས་རེ་ལྔ་ཡི། འཁྲུངས་སྐར་དེ་བསུའོ་དད་དམ་ཡིས། མགོན་རྡོ་རྗེ་འཆང་དབང་ཞབས་བརྟན་གསོལ།

སྐྱབས་འོག་པ་བན་རྒན་བསྟན་རྣམ་ནས་༧བླ་མ་རྡོ་རྗེ་འཆང་མཆོག་ཡིད་ལ་དྲན་བཞིན་པའི་ངང་ནས་དད་གུས་མ་བཅོས་པའི་ངང་ནས་ཨ་རིའི་གྲགས་ཅན་གླིང་ཕྲན་མའ་འིས་ནས་བྲིས།

2018 New Year Dedication


Presenting Bhutan Pilgrimage and Dedication Prayer on New Year Day of Year 2018

By Tenam

As we wave goodbye to Year 2017 and march towards Year 2018, I want to express some thoughts with joy.

I had a very productive Year 2017 duty-wise as well as spiritual level in my life.

This most productive outcome was possible not because of my ability but of the profound blessings by my Supreme Guru Vajradhara His Holiness Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa and their Majesties the Kings and Queens of the Kingdom of Bhutan.

Through their kind blessings, I had the most fortune to spend 40 precious days in Bhutan. Without wasting such a great opportunity, I did pilgrimages to many holy places of Guru Rinpoche, the second Buddha and many renown Tertons.

As a result of a productive Year 2017, I feel lots of merits were gained and I wish to dedicate those merits for the longevity of His Holiness Gyalwang Karmapa Ogyen Drodul Trinley Dorje, my Supreme Guru Vajradhara His Holiness Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa, as well as for their Majesties the Kings and Queens of the Kingdom of Bhutan.  I also wish to dedicate the merits for all of their profound Buddha activities to continue to flourish and benefit the entire sentient beings.

Also by the blessings of my supreme Guru Vajradhara His Holiness Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa and their Majesties, may I have more opportunities in the near future for more pilgrimages that cover all holy places in Bhutan.

Through the connection of my dedication, I’d like to share some of my Bhutan pilgrimage pictures to all fellow friends. By seeing the pictures of these holy places, may you all receive the same blessings. And I sincerely wish you all a HAPPY NEW YEAR 2018.

How Blessing Works

There is this couple who has been longing for a child for a long time. Despite years of trying all methods which yielded no result, even when a baby was conceived, the lady would get miscarriage. Out of desperation, the lady visited many temples and masters to request their blessings for a child as this is the couple’s utmost yearning wish in life. The lady also visited India to seek for the blessings from holy places like Bodhgaya and from many highest Rinpoches.

Somehow the lady heard that Guru Vajradhara Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa is the emanation of the future Buddha Lord Maitreya and that he has a temple in San Jose, California just two hours away from their home. While she continued to pray actively, she asked her husband to drive her across the Bay Area to visit Palpung San Jose Temple.

I met them at the temple during one of my visits. The husband came to me first to share their story and then he brought his wife to see me and reiterated their desperate wish of wanting a baby. They asked for my help.

My immediate reply to them is – I have no ability to help you but my Guru Vajradhara Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa is the ultimate refuge for me and everyone. I will request his blessing and advice for you to fulfill your wish. Both of them were happy and then I communicated their request back to Guru Vajradhara. With his indescribable compassionate wisdom and blessing, he responded as such – “Tell the couple to organize 100 thousand puja of Tara and with the blessing of Tara, if they’re meant to have a child, then it will happen.”

I informed the couple per Guru Vajradhara’s instruction and they asked for my help to arrange for the 100 thousand Tara puja to be conducted at Palpung Sherab Ling Monastic Seat and Palpung Sherab Ling Nunnery per their request.

In that same year the lady conceived a child and gave birth to a healthy and beautiful baby girl. By the miracle, the couple’s faith towards Guru Vajradhara Chamgon Kenting Situpa and Mother Tara became unshakable.

Last year during Guru Vajradhara’s visit to California, the couple eagerly presented their daughter to Guru Vajradhara with full joy and appreciation. Guru Vajradhara blessed the baby and gave her a cute name “Amanda”. With a smile he told the couple that when she grew up she would love this name.

The couple also expresses lots of appreciation towards me for helping them to pull together all the right conditions so they visit me from time to time when I happen to be in California. Today they came again with their beautiful baby girl who is now turning ten months old. I decide to share this story to friends as a good example on how blessing works if simple trust and faith is there unconditionally.