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give me

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the himalayas have always attracted

adventurers

and truth seekers

the first traveler started visiting

nepal

after it opened its borders for tourism

at the end of the 60s

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this small mountainous kingdom

welcomed them with the magical rituals

the power of buddhist holy places

and stories of enlightened masters who

had reached perfection

it seemed like there was a secret behind

every door

and one could meet great yogis even on

the street

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in 1968

the danish couple olli and han and hidal

came to kathmandu having chosen the city

as their honeymoon destination

they dreamed of finding a teacher

we met him in 68

we were in nepal twice in 68. the first

time we only heard about him we were

buying some different things interesting

nepalese things like some

tibetan artifacts

also a bit of hash

which was legal there at that time you

know

oli and hana belong to the generation of

european idealists who are discovering

new levels of consciousness

and shaking up social principles in the

sixties

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all his research work for his diploma in

philosophy was devoted to the

psychedelic aspects of the works of

aldous huxley

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we went there and we were at that time

still you can say like hippies we were

trying different things

psychedelics but at the end that day we

had not taken anything and we were

very sober

for many people the most sacred place of

kathmandu is the swayamku stupa

the nepalese call it the monkey temple

legend has it that many thousands of

years ago it appeared spontaneously on

an island in the middle of a huge lake

the inspiring influence of countless

buddhas and great teachers is felt here

very strongly

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this time it was in the winter of 68

and when we came there we had all kinds

of gifts along and we came to this woman

again

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the the great uh fine lady you know the

buddha laxi milama who's her name

and uh and she said now my my llama is

there you know lupin said to

you can see him

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foreign

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and i remember we came in through the

door there they always like fortresses

houses in that part of the world there

was a single pillar with a with a flag

you know a prayer flag which was there

blowing good wishes into the wind

and then we got in there

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some people moved in and out you know in

long

monks robes and non-ropes they moved in

and out

and we came we came up to the second

floor

and there we came in to the we came up

and it was to our right it was out

towards the

street again that direction

and

we saw his shoes being there and we

took off our shoes and we went in and

then he was sitting there

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and he was just very kind you know very

easy he had heard about us she's told

about us he was happy we liked it we

liked buddhism i mean very very simple

very easy in the beginning and so on and

then i noticed something that was really

funny you know

when i looked at him i discovered i

could see the wallpaper behind him

and that's strange you know because he

was a normal looking gentleman but he

was apparently transparent

so i wanted to be sure that it was not

hypnosis so i took up a solid danish mat

but matchbox at that time i smoked a

pipe

so i always had these matchboxes along

and danish they were made of wood at

that time solid things

so i lifted this up and i held that

against him and now if this had been

hypnosis

then also the matchbox would have been

transparent because he would have been

doing something to my mind right

and i looked and the matchbox was

totally solid right

and he was still transparent and i said

that's way out you know i mean that's

too much then i checked it a couple of

times i

looked to the side and once i looked to

the side he was he was solid but once i

looked at him again he was transparent

once more

and then i just i got so touched you

know i said man this

he's just you know he's something else

and i was really touched about it

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you know hannah was also deeply

impressed and we somehow had the good

idea to bow down our heads even though

we had never tried anything like that

before we just bowed down and he put his

hands on our heads

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oh

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and then

we woke then we went back i don't even

know how we got back we got a rickshaw

walk parts of the way we were like blown

out we saw all this clear light you know

that he had put into us we kept that she

was there all the time you know we were

like

like robots zombies we moved down

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so

wow

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and we have had

incredible dreams you know i mean really

it was like somebody had just taken our

former life and and shaking it shaking

it out on the

on the table in front and especially the

not so good thing

so

so

i fought a lot i beat up a lot of people

i like to go out and provoke fights in

the bars at night and stuff like that i

did a lot of fighting and

i always fought clean but i still hurt

people right i never kicked anybody i

never hit anybody when they were weak

you know or gave up or anything like

that but i still you know i did hurt a

few

people looked like they've been run over

by a truck when i was through with them

right

so you know i mean

that was not nice to see again

so

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we woke up and we just held our heads

and we said what was that right

and then there were a couple of days

where we had to digest that it was the

first time we looked inside and saw our

own minds it was the first time that

really you know we

we discovered and what we had been

putting into our minds you know in all

those years you know what what kind of

mixed stuff was there

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more

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in our case that was exactly what we

needed you know we were quite

you know we were quite proud and

we definitely thought we knew very well

everything yeah and he was so skillful

you can't imagine

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so we went there he was really friendly

and he said if something happens you

i'll give you this mantra and he gave us

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a very useful mantra right and and then

he said i'll keep you in my mind

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then we came home all kinds of things

did start happening our friends flew up

blew up you know they

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the police started looking at us you

know a lot before you know they just

looked for trouble they were just

looking for trouble and now they were

also looking for

for hashtag and so on

and then

they found some different things you

know and and and or some people talked

about us and

then we

were invited by the government to spend

some time with their guests right

exclusive guests it's in a nice little

cell somewhere you know and that was

actually where the blessing really came

through

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in jail was actually the best thing ever

because that's where we learned

meditation that's where we really

learned meditation

there was somebody there who was

actually quite intelligent but somehow

he had become a master thief he was just

like he loved stealing things and

sometimes he got caught right

and i said come on man you need

meditation and i didn't myself i didn't

know what meditation was but i remember

i sat up and like this

and suddenly it was like i floated in

the air i couldn't feel my body anymore

i said what is this right but i

thoroughly enjoyed it i enjoyed it very

very much

and well that was the beginning

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you see me

he never lifted the finger and said you

know you shouldn't do that you shouldn't

do that he was so skillful

he just let us he gave us a long line

so that finally we from ourselves we saw

how senseless it was

and we just felt his kindness all the

time filling up and that you know this

was much more important

so he was just amazing

their previous lifestyle of psychedelics

and street fights were soon gone forever

only hannah stayed in the himalayas to

study and meditate

they wanted to become bodhisattvas and

to know their mind for the benefit of

all

i think sloping situation never never

left our life after that

this is how western idealism and deep

eastern wisdom met

meeting with lopez

not only changed the lives of only hana

it also opened a way of development to

thousands of people all around the world

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renpache was born in 1918 in the

bhutanese town of punahan

and he spent his early years in the

village of norwagand

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bhutan is unique buddhist country and

buddhism is the way of life for its

population

even today the atmosphere there remains

almost unchanged for hundreds of years

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during the last days of pregnancy his

mother was making offerings to a statute

of liberty

when the child was delivered

the umbilical cord

that held mother and baby

it is very good

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mmm

in my head

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was

in the

victorious banner

of true teaching

propensecho grew up as a normal

bhutanese boy

there is a tradition in the himalayas to

recognize high teachers already in their

childhood

such incarnated llamas are called toku

but

was not recognized as a toku though all

the people around noticed his unusual

qualities especially his exceptionally

kind heart

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when rinpoche was around 10 years old

then a

kind of pest

spread around bhutan and it affected

also this area and within two weeks a

lot of members of rinpoche's family

passed away

and also his father passed away

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and the mother of rinpoche was left

suddenly alone

with three small children with rimpoche

with his younger sister and with his

youngest brother

because it was not the best solution to

stay here due to the pest which was

still around and also due to the fact

that after the father passed away after

all the family members passed away their

financial conditions were not the best

rinpoche's mother decided to go to nepal

so the four of them the mother with the

three children small children they

crossed the himalayas

walking

to tibet and then from tibet they came

to nepal

so it was really very dangerous that was

really a great adventure you must think

about the

altitude you must think about the

wild animals and also they had nothing

to eat they had no money and that was a

great hardship for him

bocce was always mentioning to me that

no matter how far we travel and how much

struggles we have during these trips one

can not compare it with the first trip

that he did in his life that was the

trip from bhutan

to nepal

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the great yogi and uncle of lopen techu

named sharab dorje renpoche lived in

nepal

at the invitation of the nepalese king

he was restoring the swayamku stupa the

most ancient in the world which had

fallen into this repair

his uncle taught the young rinpoche all

the buddhist methods

year spent in retreats and joined

meditation enabled lopen set you

renpoche to realize the true nature

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a practitioner gradually gets to

understand that the mind is unlimited

and free of any obstacles

being unaware of this

one perceives everything as being real

holds on to what one likes and tries to

avoid unpleasant things at all cost

thus one makes mistakes and consequently

gets trapped by suffering

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but if one discovers the unlimited

qualities of mind

one can see that highest truth

is the highest joy

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was also my son at that time

and now in this life when i was very

young lopance

due to his special abilities at

clairvoyance

recognized me and introduced me to

chitsang rinpoche

from my infancy he provided me with

everything that was needed he gave me

teachings

took care of

in my previous life

he was my nephew

and in this life

he became my

mother my father

my mother

and it is due to him that i gained all

those qualities on the way of my

development

he was my llama

this is our connection

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he knew their teachings perfectly and

practiced their meditations

and it made no difference between the

practitioners of these traditions in the

sense of

i am like this

and he is like that

he is bad

and i am good

he used to see the best in different

traditions and groups

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practice was the meditation on the

buddhist compassion called genresi

or loving eyes

to be a buddhist means to take care of

others without thinking of yourself and

to totally devoting oneself to the

benefit of all

buddhists consciously put off their own

enlightenment to stay in the world and

help its inhabitants

to pacify them to open new horizons for

them to inspire them with their own

example and protect them from obstacles

chenrezig expresses the kindness and

compassion of all the buddhas

his love is like the sun which gives its

light

to all beings impartially

there are llamas in tibetan buddhism who

embody the qualities of the buddhist

living eyes

lopez is also closely connected with

this buddhist

one of loving guys's most famous

embodiments is his holiness karmapa who

is also a teacher of lopen tsachu

rinpoche

so come up with kamakachi one of the

four big schools that have all come

together today in the kamakansang or the

kama kamakachi

and durgan city inventive was from

drupakachi and the drupakachas are the

main school in bhutan

and fire dragon school right

and they were and he was the highest

representative of the countries in

nepal

foreign oh

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the teachings of the kaju school came to

tibet in the 11th century the name kaju

means the school of oral transmission

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rang zhong rigpet dorje was the 16th in

the line of karmapas

in the 12th century the first karmapa

started the tulku tradition in tibet of

consciously reborn llamas

kamapa is called the king of yogis of

tibet

the karma kanji school focuses

especially on meditation and is famous

for its yogis who over many centuries

have continued to transmit the

experience of mahamudra the teaching of

the unity of space and bliss

logan chicharimbuchi was taking care of

kamapay everywhere inviting him places

and flying him in by by helicopter and

we would then be running up the hills

you know to come there and see them and

so on so with the blessing of open

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only and hannah became students of his

holiness the 16th geyawa karmapa who

decided that he needed them to work in

the west

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spent most of his life in the kathmandu

valley

it was thanks to him that buddhism

blossomed and developed a strong

position

at his initiative

the construction of monasteries schools

bridges and hospitals was carried out

many nepalese people became buddhists

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on the outskirts of kathmandu stands the

sacred nagarjuna hill the name of a

great indian buddhist master who lived

almost 20 centuries ago

renpache loved to meditate there

renpache was always surrounded by people

they asked for his advice blessing or

support

it happened that sometimes refugees from

tibet came to him without money and

unable to speak nepalese

he never refused to help anyone

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lopez was versed in all the buddhist

teachings in philosophy logic and

cosmology

he was able to explain the most

intricate aspects of the teachings

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if there was a drought in the valley

then rimpac came alone to the nagarjuna

hill in order to hold a special ritual

he would meditate until the rain started

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it was only at 86 that we really

discovered that we could take him to the

west

the west met the llama with great

interest and trust

once when rinpoche was flying to

venezuela with a group of friends the

plane crew asked him for buddhist refuge

right in the year at an altitude of 10

000 meters above the atlantic the whole

crew was lined up near the cockpit

repeating the traditional formula

i take refuge in the buddha in his

teachings and in the friends on the way

from the time of the buddha everyone who

has taken refuge has stepped onto the

path of realizing the true nature of

mind

in buddhism refuge is explained as a

system of values the most important of

which is the limitless space of mind

itself where all phenomena thoughts and

feelings appear

change constantly and disappear again

the inspired crew thankful on that today

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well he came right into the family we

gave him the whole company

when he came we said you are our teacher

and that means you're also the teacher

of our students right

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by that time olinido had become one of

the first fully qualified western

buddhist llamas a karma kaju tradition

upon the request of his holiness karmapa

oli and hana founded dozens of

diamondway buddhist centers at the

kamikaze lineage around the world where

lopezhu rinpoche used to come and give

traditional buddhist teachings

maggie leonard who became his

indispensable helper

ananido who translated his teachings

from tibetan

and pedro gomez who runs the carmageddon

meditation center in spain

according to a prophecy of the inca

tradition

it was written in their books

one of their brothers would come from

another part of the world

and change that

what they called

consciousness

it would be the first contact of the two

brothers

and it would be a certain llama from the

city of lhasa

during the time of his visit to cusco

the ancient capital of incas the two

main holders of the inca tradition came

down to take refuge from rinpoche and to

hold a ceremony of exchanging their

highest knowledge

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noticed that one of the caves in the

outskirts of cusco looked very similar

to the cave of padma zambalan in bhutan

he was sure that in ancient times yogis

from the himalayas who could fly used to

come there and give teachings therefore

there was this prophecy in the books of

the incas

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in buddhism unusual powers such as

levitation and controlling the elements

of nature are developed due to

meditation

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padma sambhava or guru rinpoche was one

of the greatest indian yogis he brought

buddhism to tibet and bhutan in the 8th

century

most valuable here is a guru rinpoche

statue which one says has the quality of

speaking the story says that once it was

decided to take the statue away from

this old lacan and to transport it to

another place and then the statue itself

said it doesn't want to be taken away it

wants to remain here so it has

been again put on its original place

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and here

we have old paintings on the walls we

have a beautiful mandala on the ceiling

of the buddha of long life amitayus

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we have also

the

three long life aspects

the buddha amitayus namgyalma and white

tara

we have also guru rinpoche

together with his two main concerts he

is hit so gal in mandarava

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the famous tiger's nest monastery in

bhutan is named this way marking the

time when guru rinpoche flew there

riding a white tigress which his consort

yeshe tsogyal had transformed into

through the power of their meditation

they pacified the local demons

then they taught buddhism for many years

guru rinpoche brought to bhutan not a

monastic buddhism but a yogi tradition

tantra

yogis and yoginis lived in the woods and

caves they wandered from place to place

maintaining a freeway of life which was

not limited by usual norms of behavior

their only commitment was to keep the

continuity of meditation and pure view

during his whole life lopez

kept a connection to guru rinpoche and

transmitted his blessing to others

the monastery is nested in a cleft above

a precipice situated almost one

kilometer high above the valley one can

get there only by a narrow twisting path

it appears that in this place the laws

of gravity do not function

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i think he was an emanation of guru

rinpoche he didn't want to say that he

was incarnate but i'm sure he was

incarnate there's absolutely no doubt

first the name sichu it means tenth day

and tenth day that's the day of

gurimbuji

then his different qualities were like

that and more than that

when he died he died on the tenth day

again right of the month so i see no

doubt i have no doubt that that he was

an emanation of guru rinpoche

during the last 13 years of his life

rempache gave a lot of his time to

western students and the development of

buddhism in the west

the number of meditation centers of

karma kaju tradition in the western

countries is increasing with every year

renpache visited a lot of them giving

empowerments and teachings

inspiring many people together with mama

ole and khanna

he also built many stupas the first was

built in 1994 in velas malaga in the

south of spain

it is a kalachakra wheel of time stupa

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during the following years 18 more

stupas appeared in different countries

including the stoop of enlightenment in

alistair the capital of calmikia

the construction of stupas was his work

for all of the last years of his life

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and so on and i've seen many cases his

wishes being fulfilled and so on but we

always talk about two kinds of miracles

we have the ordinary miracles

and the ordinary miracles are actually

when you

lift things in the air or

make things happen that aren't possible

or you appear in two places at the same

time you know or all these different

things that can happen and then that was

also known by lupine citrine but that he

actually did that

or that he just disappeared from rooms

he just wasn't there right and a while

after he was there again and he didn't

come and he didn't go you know i mean

these kinds of things i mean many

stories about that and we also hannah

and i saw really what he did as being

magic but the really important

but really important

powers is not playing with the laws of

nature that's not so special you know

the really important powers is you're

able to touch people's hearts

and you're able to take them from

suffering to joy from

black thoughts to white thought from

from pain to happiness and so on this is

a really important thing and there he

touched everyone those miracles he made

every day wherever he was you know he

was just so extraordinary he really

liked all five

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and he was just perfect everywhere he

touched people's hearts you know he

completely you know i mean he was it was

amazing to have him alone his wisdom his

kindness is everything he was really

great

in the end when he had 20

heart capacity which would kill

everybody else he was still traveling

around everywhere

and only when he went down to 12

you know then he really died

that's the first time

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passed away in bangkok on july the 10th

2003

first his body was transferred to bhutan

a lot of people from different cities

villages and monasteries came to say

goodbye to rinpache

and to receive a blessing

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in november 2005 the bhutanese built a

huge monastery complex dedicated to

rinpoche

the opening of this complex was

connected with the inauguration of the

stupa containing rinpoche's preserved

body in kathmandu

and what we have here inside the

this lacan what is like the most

precious for me and for many of you is

the statue of la von sechurimpoche

and beside lo constiturinpoche's statue

is the thousand ancient raziq

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his grace mr yabba whose four daughters

became the princesses of bhutan is a

close student of lopez

the accomplice was built at his

initiative

so this choitan stupa that honorable yap

has

designed and built and sponsored here is

inspired on the swayambustupa

the unique feature of the swayambu

temple is a small crystal stupa hidden

inside the hill which contains the

relics of the previous buddha

a stupa is a symbol of the enlightened

mind of a buddha of the true nature

which is inherent in all sentient beings

the first teachings on the construction

of stupas were given by buddhist

shakyamuni

the beneficial influence of stupas is

immense

they bring peace and happiness to

everyone who builds them

lives close to them shows respect

walks around them or meditates nearby

the shape of a stupa is rich in symbols

representing the structure of the

universe and the qualities of mind

relics of enlightened teachers

texts

mantras jewels

and symbols of prosperity are stored

inside the stupas

robney is the ceremony of stupa

inauguration into which the body of

lopin sachi rinpoche was placed

this ritual took place in kathmandu on

november the 23rd 2005.

it was held in the sanyed choling

monastery which was built by rinpoche

himself at the foot of swam buhil

the ceremony was attended by rinpoche

students from all over the world

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was performed

this ritual consists of offering

presents to different buddhas

enlightened protectors and local

energies

all the gifts are of best quality

all kinds of cereals and flowers sweets

drinks flowers flavored oils and

frequencies

and participants of the ceremony make

imaginary offerings

they imagine everything perfect and

precious

multiply it into a limitless quantity

oh

black colored substances are intended

for non-enlightened beings

wireless the white ones are for the

enlightened

both types of presence should delight

all the senses

offerings are thrown into the fire with

wishes of happiness peace and prosperity

for all

generally during the ceremony favorable

signs manifest these could be rainbows

flowers falling from the sky

or hovering eagles

for me and for all the two you know we

are just

very very grateful and so looking to

imitate

you know he's like

as i said he's the one who brought us

who made the contact to buddhism he's

the one who brought us to the camera

he has been the

best example you can have

of a teacher

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and

here we have seen how

how much he has done for all our friends

like the whole impact of his activity

so it is simply so thankful to him

and whatever

you know we just wish that all his

wishes would be fulfilled because he was

full of wishes

and he had the ability to fulfill them

we were able to work together really as

a team and he supported our work so much

so much so much

a lot of people didn't like us because i

mean i'm not

i'm not a monk right i'm a layman i have

a happy day funny experiences during day

a happy night life everything like that

i'm not

let's say a super example of what you

would call buddhist morality right i

have fun i drive faster than you allowed

to drive you know i do all kinds of

things

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the aim of a buddhist is to reach

enlightenment for the benefit of all

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western buddhists of the karma kaju

tradition use modern means to develop

fearlessness and joy

by following the example of the teacher

and to realize that space

is joy

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so but he always protected us and said

the yogis they have their own style you

know as long as they benefit people it's

fine

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food

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uh

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so

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you