Token of Gratitude
Token of Gratitude
I write this article as I spend yet another day enriched
with blessings and gratitude. But as Phakchok Rinpoche aptly pointed out during
our Annual Fall Seminar retreat: do we know how to receive blessings? I would inquire
even further: do we know how to nurture our blessings? Do we know how to share
our blessings with others? As we recount our experience of those moments of
blessings with others, don’t we feel proud, even for a fraction of a second? Should
blessings be revealed in the first place? Can one fulfill the purpose without
revealing? How to become a perfect recipient of such precious blessings with
humility and wisdom?
My understanding of blessing has a wide horizon of
meaning—returning to South Asia, living in the cradle of Boudhanath Stupa,
being able to pursue my true calling—and most importantly, all the hardship
that comes along with it. If we have truly understood the meaning of our
existence and realized our ultimate goal, then everything that comes along in
our path, especially the hardship, becomes a blessing. All of us have our own
unique journey that led us here. In a way, we have renounced certain aspects of
our lives, in our own ways, to come all the way to Nepal to experience the
blessings of RYI. I cannot stress enough how enormous these opportunities
are—but infinitely more than that, it is the “substance teaching” from our
Abbot Choki Nyima Rinpoche and other highly realized masters that constitutes
the heart of our experience. Substance teaching is what we internalize by being
in presence with them and directly receiving their infinite compassion for us.
As we do so, we strive to develop our spiritual maturity and perhaps learn how
to truly receive such blessings.
~ Moondil from Bangladesh
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