The last 12 days have been a blur of joy and frenzy. This is what happens when His Holiness, the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, visits Vancouver. Just this morning I was at Thrangu Monastery and there was a line of people waiting to receive a blessing from His Holiness. The look of blissful […]
This has been a very religious week. Yesterday I attended an Anglican memorial service for my dear client and friend, Anne Brailey. I wrote about her in a blog a few weeks ago. Link to blog We called each other secret sisters because our sense of humour was both alike and very inappropriate. This led […]
My goal this week is to write about nothing. The ridiculous concept we Tibetan Buddhists endlessly chase after. The dilemma is, “nothing means nothing.” What I learnt on Sunday is that faith in nothing is the answer. And that’s the conundrum. Luckily I had a very wise man attempt to explain this to me. Luckily […]
People saw the picture and said I looked calm and serene. Wrong. What was really going on inside my head? “Don’t drop it. Don’t trip. Don’t cry. Seriously… when you look into his eyes, don’t cry!” I waited seventeen years to see Tai Situ Rinpoche again. I would never have guessed I would be one […]
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