Our Kechara House's signboard....
Last night Kechara House was having a wonderful Dzambala Puja where 100,000 mantras were recited. Many people have learned to do the Dzambala water offering practice and are very enthusiastic about it.
Having seen them on, I decided on a last minute to go give a talk.
Our Beautiful Dzambala Chapel in Kechara House.
Offerings on the Central shrine to Dzambala, Tsongkapa and Three Jewels.
The sacred water ritual/practice of the Great Venerable Dzambala.
After the Dzambala puja I gave a dharma talk on:
1. Death meditation in more detail as I felt people are ready.
2. Why we should do this meditation and the benefits. How to see if one's death meditation is heading in the right direction. I will have Bengkooi of E-division to attach the talk here with a link. You can write to Bengkooi about in case it doesn't come or at least a snippet of it within a week. Hehehe... a global reminder to Bengkooi..
Basically if one does the death meditation consistently you will have many positive results such as:
Always enthusiastic for dharma work, practice, learning and thinking.
Less depression, feeling of lonliness and having no purpose.
Easier to change one's negative habits to positive ones.
More harmony among loved ones arise.
Easier to forgive and let go of past wrongs.
Easier to move ahead, plan and execute.
Positive attitudes resulting in good speech and pleasant body language arises easily.
A sense of urgency to do more meaningful activities in your life and with your life.
Those are some of the benefits from the meditation/contemplation I spoke about last night at KH. You can listen to it when Bengkooi has uploaded it.
I also spoke about Building the largest Lama Tsongkapa statue in the world and what we are going to put inside. A semi indoor huge Dzambala statue. Why the name change of KWPC from Tkl and also what learnings we are going to have up there.
The reason to get involved with this great project. Below are some pictures from last night's talk.
I have also asked my Liaisons to form committees to engage in the following to collect merit for KWPC and our personal lives as a group together.
They will be doing collectively:
1. 500,000 Dzambala mantras
2. 100,000 Dzambala water offerings
3. This will be done with together with the Dzambala sadhana.
4. We will invite a Dzambala statue and offered many crystals on his holy body to be placed for this retreat and invite again for future retreats also.
After Dzambala or simultaneously, as they will engage in Setrap practice collectively:
1. 1,000,000 (one million) Setrap mantras will be recited, 100,000 black teas (serkym) will be offered to Setrap along with his puja.
These wonderful practices will be done in near future for the merit collecting act of making Kechara World Peace Centre or KWPC arise. All these wonderful, powerful and positive pujas will be done in Kechara House. Time and dates to be confirmed, so you should be on the email or sms list to be informed. The pujas are my personal recommendations for our group. These pujas will benefit the individual very much for their own lives.
Garlands of flowers with offerings will be made to Dzambala daily during this special group retreat. Who can join in? Anybody!!
It was a lovely evening of Pujas, prayers, meditations and I was very happy to give a dharma talk last night to the group.
Much Care,
Tsem Tulku
Other thoughts below:
Death is so final. Even if we reincarnate back, the life as we know it or how others knows us is gone forever. Most of the time, we don't even remember that life again once we are back.
It is so important not to lie, cheat, hurt and give pain to the ppl around you or to anyone. Life's short and it is hard to make up for th wrongs that we do, so why even do it? Make it the best with the ppl around you always. It makes the short time we have available have some sort of meaning.
Death, the meditation of it, the thought of it and the fear of it always motivated me to not hurt others, to give, be generous and to let go. Just let go. It has kept me in the dharma all these years.
Sometimes when something really frustrates me to no end, I think about my mortality and death, and I lighten up to the point of being able to think things through with some sanity.
Death has been my strongest motivation to try something even knowing I might fail. I don't want to fail. The fear of failing can be paralyzing. But then when I contemplate how many years I've wasted, I figure what is there to lose? Only death makes me lose everything, so what is there to be afraid of? Just go ahead and try it out.
When I am insecure, I contemplate how many years I have left to live, and not knowing that, makes me let go.
When I am upset with someone or a situation, I really just think, does it matter if I was going to die today? Is it such a big deal after all? Would I be upset if I was going to die today?? Then again my mind releases whatever upsets me. it doesn't release all the way, but enough to not be some wrapped up that I can't do anything else.
Death meditation makes you face the biggest challenge in life, your own mortality. Once you can handle that, all the other challenges become small. And your fear of them start to lose hold on you.
Tsem Tulku
