Golfing for Enlightenment

A refreshing view of sports, particularly golf is contained in this short video -
http://ewamchoden.org/golf.html "This movie was part of Timeless Show on ESPN which originally aired on 01/01/2005 ©2005 ESPN-Red Line Films"

The Ven. Lama Kunga, Ngor Thartse Rinpoche, shown golfing is the founder and resident lama of Ewam Choden Tibetan Buddhist Center located in the Berkeley area. Rinpoche was born into the Shuku family in Lhasa in 1935, the son of Tsepon Shukupa, the former Financial Minister of the Dalai Lama's government.

At the age of 7, he was recognized as the reincarnation of Sevan Repa, a Heart Disciple of Milarepa, the great 11th century yogi and poet of Tibet. Rinpoche entered monastic life when he was 8 years old and lived in Western Tibet, primarily at Ngor Monastery, in the Sakya tradition. Before he left Tibet in 1959, Rinpoche served as Vice Abbot of Ngor Monastery.

Materials from the Evam Choden site.
-Sherab Wongmo

When will this stop? Can it be stopped? Bailing out the rich?

When will this stop? Can it be stopped? Bailing out the rich?

It will stop when the basic fundiments of America, the Declaration of Independance and the Constitution are truly enacted. American economics evolved under the "Novus Odinarum Secularum" -- That is a new order for worldly matters. Instead of heirophants and tyrants deciding the fates of the people, the people were to be the deciders of their own fate. This was also called "Free Market Enterprise". If you made it, you made it, if you failed you failed. Simple If you unwisely invested in a loosing proposition you lost. That's it.

The system originally worked out without much Insurance. Families held together, communities held together, Congregations held together. The entities of state and governent held together by the will of the people, people helped each other out when time were bad. That is the America I plege my allegiance to.

The false over evaluation of curency based on the cost of insuring losses, insuring fears of legal involvement, insuring against protection from the law of the land, insuring against the high price of drugs. This in a world where the oil money, the drug money, the insurance money, the banks, and even he govenrents of the world are mutually invested to the point that no humans holds the reigns. This must stop, for the safety of mankind and the salvation of mother earth.

The rectification will be achieved only be bring back true value. You get what you pay for. There's no artifical digital money that is used to overprice items beyond the reach of the public, sell them cheaper to those who have Insurance -- let the non-insured loose everything in a world where friendship is a token word -- while the insured can hope for litigation, requirements of documentation, and other bureaucratic bs just to claim what they thought they paid for. The market, as it exists now, is called "The Market".

In ancient times, such as in the time of the Ramayana in India, as culture was formed and codified and documented, it was called "Ravana," the "Ravenous". It eats people, goods, everything. It needs to exist, as trade must be done, but it needs to be controlled. You can read about how Rama delt with Ravana. You can read, in the Lankavatarasutra how the Buddha dealt with Ravana, [much like Christ did as documented in the Bible. -Ed.] Now we have to deal with "The Market".

It is obvious from the past few days editions of the wall street journal that those with money have separated themselves formally from the populace Words like "The bail-out is generally disfavored by informed members of the public, but Congress is fighting hard to get a passing bail out in place." Who's Congress! If the people voted for those representatives, they better aught be voting in the long term interests of their constituents. If they don't, we have no democracy, and at that point it becomes mere mockery to paste the Contitution and Declaration on the walls of our children's schools.

-Chris Wilkinson

Dedication of Merit Requested - Memorial Manja Services for Taktser Rinpoche

The Buddhist community is saddened at the loss of Taktser Rinpoche, who died recently. Taktser Rinpoche was His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s elder brother and the husband of H.H. J.D. Sakya’s younger sister, Kuyang-la.

Sakya Monastery of Seattle invited the Tibetan community and Monastery friends and members to attend memorial manja services for Taktser Rinpoche on the following days:

Friday, October 3rd at 8:00PM
A manja will be sponsored by Tsegen-la (sister of H.H.J.D. Sakya)

Sunday, October 5th at 11:00AM after Chenrezi practice
A manja will be sponsored by Sakya Phuntsok Phodrang

Friday, October 24th at 8:00PM.
A manja will be sponsored by Tsegen-la, Chime Sakya Gyatso (sisters of H.H. J.D. Sakya), and her husband Mantho Gyatso.

For those not in the Seattle area, dedication of merit is requested on those days, Friday, October 3rd, 5th, and 24th, 2008 for the swift return of Taktser Rinpoche, and to increase the field of merit for all who live.