The Wisdom Age Newsletter of Drogmi Buddhist Institute A Tibetan Buddhist Centre in the Sakya Tradition Issue 54 September 2020 Dear Dharma friends, Khenpo Ngawang Dhamchoe and all at Drogmi Buddhist Institute are wishing Our Glorious and Precious Root Guru, His Holiness the 41st Kyabgon Sakya Gongma Trichen a very happy 75th birthday for 7 September 2020 (according to the western calendar) – may Your Holiness continue to live a long and very healthy life, may You continue to turn the Wheel of the Dharma for the benefit of all mother sentient beings. We, as Your devoted students continually offer our deepest and most heartfelt gratitude for all You have given us through Your limitless loving kindness, compassion, and wisdom. A very happy birthday Your Holiness!!! This is a special issue of The Wisdom Age in celebrating His Holiness’ birthday and to share a few excerpts of His teachings. Note: The DBI program for the rest of 2020 has recently been updated due to travel restrictions – please view here . Yours in the dharma FROM OUR GLORIOUS ROOT GURU “The Sanskrit word dharma has many different meanings, but the word generally means to change: to change our impure or wild mind that is so involved with defilements toward the right path. Although of course even just doing practice has some benefit, the point of practice is to change one’s mind. If one’s mind does not change, then it is not very effective. We must look to see whether the practices we are doing are making a real difference in our mind or not. If the practice changes our mind, then, if we use it in the right way, we could be the busiest person in the busiest city but still be a very good Dharma practitioner because everything we see and do, everyone we associate with, gives us a chance to practice Dharma...” Read More “Today we find that many people are interested in the Dharma path, and many people follow a set of associated traditions. We go to temples, do prostrations, recite prayers and mantras, make offerings, perform circumambulations, and do meditations. All of this is of course very meritorious, but these practices alone are not truly effective unless we are making inner mental changes...” Read More “Nobody else can remove your suffering. Each person must work their own way out of suffering. The Buddha said, ‘You yourself are you own saviour’. Nobody else can save you; only you can save yourself. For example, when a person is sick, although it is very important to have a good doctor, good medicine, and good helpers, the main factor is that the patient themself has to take the medicine and abstain from the cause of the disease. Otherwise, no matter how good the doctor or how good the medicine, the patient will never get well. Similarly, the Buddha is like a doctor and the Dharma is like medicine – together, they help us to be free from suffering...” Read More “What is the cause of suffering? The cause of suffering are actions and defilements. Where do defilements come from? They come from ignorance, from self-clinging. Our mind’s true nature is pure, but we do not recognise this; instead, we cling to a ‘self’ without authentic reasons and logic. We cling to our overall existence; we mistakenly believe that our being exists as a self....” Read More “Performing an action is like planting a seed. When you plant a seed, its fruit depends on causes and conditions. When the right causes and conditions are brought together, then you are bound to produce a result. Through our own actions, we have created all of our own situations. Through all of our own actions, we have created our own suffering. It is through all our own actions that we have created all of our happiness. Everything comes from our own actions…” Read More His Holiness the 41st Kyabgon Sakya Gongma Trichen Rinpoche Find out more by visiting our website. Home Courses & events Venue hire Support us Contact Home Courses & events Venue hire Support us Contact We only use this list for The Wisdom Age newsletter. You can unsubscribe from this mailing list below. To unsubscribe from general mailings from Drogmi Buddhist Institute, please email
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