Date: 25/3/2012
10:38:10 PM
Subject: [CASonline]
Helloo Phuntsok Cho Ling !!
Dearest Frens @ CAS with
Phuntsok Choling !!
Your 1st issue of
CASonline in 2012
Omen
bb is dead excited to be back after
an absence of 4 long months .... this has been reflected
in his dreams of bad insidious threads cheekily and stubbornly tied
around his hands and fingers, keeping him from writing Buddhist
things to many frens anxiously waiting for CASonline.
( The threads did not manage to stop
his Chopin Ballades and Etudes though. )
Surprisingly, bb appeared
quite relaxed and much in-control through it all and who continued
with his Guhyasamaja sadhana in the dreams and of course, 4 months,
it seems, is all the threads could stop CASonline from peeking
into your screens.
What the "threads"
could not stop
You could be assured too that a
myriad matters are being done behind the blank screens: our many
trips to and from Malacca, Putra Jaya, Kuala Lumpur and Batu Caves:
the malaysian abode of Lord Murugan.
Most importantly, the more than
200 kilograms of nearly-butchered fishes kindly dropped into the
unending pools of reservoirs ( as instructed by the Kathok
Khenchen Lhoga Rinpoche: " .... the best possible thing one could
do .... " ) in front, behind and diagonal to Phuntsok
Choling.
Then, there are the days and days
of formal and informal Tara retreats ( as instructed by
His Eminence the incomparable Garchen Rinpoche ) and
the many, many, many long pujas of Palden Lhamo - Queen of
the War Sickle ( as instructed by our late precious Root
Teacher, His Holiness the 100th Ganden Trisur: "..... to rely
on Palden Lhamo with complete faith ... " ).
Besides, ALL
OF YOU @ CAS with Phuntsok Choling have helped to
put up 108 prayer wheels at Tso Pema, one of the holiest shrines
of Guru Padmasambhava, fulfilling the holy wishes of Most Ven
Drikung Ontrul Rinpoche.
( "Dear BB tan @
CAS, Please forward this picture to everyone. This is the
prayer wheel. We will be putting up 108 of it. It is 1 foot
in height. Thank you." Aka
Rinpoche, on behalf of Drikung Ontrul Rinpoche )
So, here we are, rejoicing always
and plotting for our next trip to Putra Jaya to deal with the
ultra sticky malaysian immigration petty chieftians
or to Myanmar, Laos or other places in Jambudvipa to share
what we got and what we could with our mother beings.( as
instructed by -- what we believe -- BODHICTTA !! )
Always in the same Pure Land
with Holy Mother Green Tara,
bb & all frens with freed
fingers @ CAS with Phuntsok Choling
p/s: "Om Tare Tuttare
Ture Soha !!" ( X infinite* )
*Defined as the equivalent of the state
where so long as even one suffering mother sentient being remain
in samsaric confusion.
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Sign indicating the way to Phuntsok
Cho Ling ( CAS ).
Behind Phuntsok Cho Ling ( CAS
) is a long, huge pool of semi-polluted waters connecting so many
rivers and streams in Malacca. Many of our released mother
fishes swim free now. The river has been blessed with holy Mani
pills from HH the Dalai Lama, Accomplishment Pills from Most Ven
Drikung Ontrul, blessed pills from His Eminence, the incomparable
Garchen Rinpoche and other such great Bodhisattvas !!
The beautiful river diagonal, to
the right, 3 minutes away from Phuntsok Cho Ling ( CAS ). The
watery abode of so many mother fishes liberated from the cruel
blades of the Department of Fish and Other Cruel Food of
the super malls Tesco, Jusco and Giant in Malacca.
Phuntsok Cho Ling ( CAS )'s homely
and comfortable library corner. Gratitude to Ven Hai Tao's centre
( Singapore ), Singapore Buddhist Lodge, Ven Dhammika and so many
friends for supplying all the holy books and CDs which we delivered
to Malacca in 4 car-full boots, 4 times. May they be of the greatest
and highest good to all !!
The beautiful teaching hall of
Phuntsok Cho Ling ( CAS ), awaiting our resident and visiting
Teachers to turn the holy wheel of Dharma for the greatest and
highest good of all !!
Phuntsok Cho Ling ( CAS ) will
be barren if not for our benefactors, Mr and Mrs Tey ( Lobsang
Nyima and Lobsang Dawa ) who gave us the centre, and all of you
who gave us the beautiful hand painted picture of Lama Chopa,
the 21 Taras and this holy picture of the Dalai Lama
in His various aspects: wistful, interesting, adamant and
others !!
The 20 Buddhas with extra-ordinary
aspirations as recounted in the holy sutra of the Great Bodhisattva
Kshitigarbha in Phuntsok Cho Ling ( CAS ). They appeared in
tactile crystal blocks on the topmost row of our holy shrine.
All 21 Taras enthroned in
Phuntsok Cho Ling ( CAS ) as depicted in the ancient Indian tradition
of Acharya Suryagupta.
The 8 Great Stupas in the right
bottom row of the holy shrine in Phuntsok Cho Ling ( CAS ) representing
the major events in the life of Lord Buddha Shakyamuni.
Last December, we finally managed
to heave up the centre's signboard.
Blessed is the holy name bestowed
by one of the Nyingma Gurus of the Dalai Lama, the late
Head of the Nyingma School, Kyabje Trulshig Rinpoche. Now, the
name lights up from 7 pm to 11 pm every night, rain or shine,
save for electric short circuit !!
May all who hear of the centre,
connected to the centre ( or not ), whether directly ( or not
), be eternally and immediately freed of all sufferings
and may the precious BODHICITTA bloom forever in their hearts
!!
To our great happiness and delight,
the same evening, the clouds took on such a beautiful formation
we wished we could see it everyday. To our disappointment, these
clouds did not return.
Maybe the gods remembered Lord
Buddha and rejoiced that one more Dharma centre has been erected
and that good shall come so long as the centre remains to serve
the Dharma. ( We hope so !! )
Phuntsok Cho Ling ( CAS )'s holy
Teacher, Gyudmey Khensur Lobsang Delek, the Great Abbot Emeritus
of the Tantric College of Lower Lhasa, by order of the Dalai
Lama, was enthroned as the Great Abbot of Segyu Monastery.
Barely 6 months into His new position, Rinpoche, by order of the
Dalai Lama, was appointed as the Great Abbot of Sera Je Monastery,
one of the 3 Great Seats of Learning of Tibet.
Now, Gen Lobsang Delek is honoured
with not 1 but 3 holy titles of the "Gyudmey Khensur Rinpoche",
"Segyu Khensur Rinpoche" and "Sera Je Khen Rinpoche" !!
With wild flourishes of exciting
butterfly-yellow flowers, we offer our crowns to Rinpoche's holy
feet whose presence, blessings and realisations are
an unshakeable pillar, upholding the purest Vinayas of the noble
Sangha and transmitting the purest sutra and tantra teachings
of the Buddha to the world.
Then, we connected with Venerable
Master Li Zhong, one of the seniormost Teachers in Malacca and
who slept for few hours every night, keeping to his
rigorous practices of unceasing prostrations and auterity practices
that stretched from 3 am to 11 pm every single day for the past 4
decades.
His supreme humility, deep compassion and
purest innocence and honesty reminded us so clearly
of our late Teacher, the 100th Trisur Rinpoche.
Where pure Dharma reigns, dark
corners grope.
Phuntsok Cho Ling ( CAS )'s resident
Teacher's Professional Long Term Visa was thwarted by border-guarding people who
threw us across Putra Jaya, an artificial town constructed to
house legions of the impregnable Malaysian Civil Service,
nearly 99% of homogenous race and belief. It shocked us to no
end to see counters emptied way before lunch time, incoherent
and contradictory advice dispensed and months of emails and calls
not answered, pleading not-received, lost, "tak boleh" and the
like. Oh, appointments, more often than not, very late or simply
forgotten !!
What a bubbled, insular and strange
world !!
Many times, we tripped as we grappled
to accustom to monstrous, alien culture.
Months after months, the ENTIRE
84,000 texts of the Dharma canon was chanted and completed, 64
sets of offerings to Kalarupa ( the Buffalo-Headed ferocious Lord
of Death and THE chief uncommon protector of Lama Je Tsongkhapa
) was completed repeatedly and series upon series of pujas
were done by monasteries and holy assemblies to get
our resident Teacher into Phuntsok Cho Ling ( CAS ).
Then, we remembered our holy teacher,
the late Geshe Lama Konchog, who joked about the many pujas done
for his final stage cancer, saying through a translator, that,
"If pujas are really all that is needed, the Buddha Himself would
have done pujas for all of us and all of samsara would now be
empty !!"
All the grace, mysterious and
divine innate in nature such as that we sometimes suspected we
saw in the skies above Phuntsok Cho Ling ( CAS ) could not relieve
the dreary disappointment and impotence against our own and others' karma,
merit and auspicious confluences.
When we attempt to tame our minds
through the Mind Training "Lo Jong" teachings, we reflected how
we had arranged so carefully for a "teaching" teacher, not a "puja",
"prediction" mystic.
This is what the Dalai Lama always
advises and told us when we met His Holiness in Dharamsala, "Study
first, study and learn diligently, well and properly, then
apply what is studied into your life. These two, always remember
!!"
The pristine reservoir to the left
of Phuntsok Cho Ling ( CAS ) calms the disturbed, angry and unpolished mind.
External cheekiness and, in fact,
all phenomena are but manifestation of our grasping-conceptual
mind.
Even before we have realised this,
have we not been taught by our holy Teachers: "May
we see ourselves as the lowest amongst all, and offer the victory
to them !!"
This is wisdom, this is Dharma.
Quietly, for so many nights already,
we ran back to and from Malacca via the darkened highways. Most
of the time, we rejoice in having done all we could, remembering
the fishes, the retreats but forgetting the resident teacher.
When we remembered, we became forlorn
and sad like the runways, cold and seemingly endless, leading
to where ??
The next morning, the holy Dharma, like
the sun, rises. It has been there, all along. It was only
the earthlings themselves who have turned away, to the other
side of the globe.
The fortunate disciple who
recognises this found a clear and sure way to liberation, like
the big, juicy apple meets the gleeful child.
This way is the invincible power
of BODHICITTA.
It is the sun which empowers the
world always. It is the source and mother of all the Buddhas who
have come, are here and will be coming.
This BODHICITTA is also like a
strawberry which feeds the stupid, slow, reptilean, scaly or hungry.
This supreme BODHICITTA exhorts
the ( temporarily ) defeated to rise again and again and again
and again and again and again until the end of time when
not one being is still lost and in the grip of its own-created
illusions.
Hence, the 2 ( temporary ) residents
at Phuntsok Cho Ling ( CAS ) prays daily, quoting the great Shantideva:
"May I be a protector without one;
A guide for all travellers on the
way;
May I be a bridge, a boat and a
ship,
for all who wish to cross the waters".
Through anything
that we have done, may it serve only as a cause for us to become
a Highest, Completely and Perfectly Enlightened Buddha FASTEST
for the highest and greatest good of all.
"Amituofo !!"
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