In Eight Steps to Happiness Geshe-la says "'Self' and 'other' are relative terms, rather like 'this mountain' and 'that mountain ... 'This' and 'that' therefore depend upon our point of reference. This is also true of self and other. By climbing down the mountain of self, it is possible to ascend the mountain of other, and thereby cherish others as much as we presently cherish ourself."

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Prayers for Tharpaland

Excerpt from an email sent by Kelsang Shri, the Admin Director at Tharpaland International Retreat Centre in Scotland:
We have found out quite recently that the proposed windfarm at Tharpaland may not yet have full planning permission to go ahead. While the wind farm situation in Scotland is high profile, especially due to Donald Trumps campaigning and address to parliament on this issue, we have been asked by Venerable Geshe-la to campaign vigorously against windfarms and in particular to attend the demo in Edinburgh on Wed 25th April 2012 if at all possible. ... Can you all help us by promoting this demo as much as possible, encourage people to go, display the following poster in your centre and help us to finally win this fight against a windfarm at this sacred site. This is a very important time for Tharpaland and anything you can do to help, and especially by coming to the demo will be greatly appreciated. If you can't attend then please keep us in your thoughts and prayers.

If you're not familiar with Tharpaland, here is a brief introduction from their website:

Tharpaland International Retreat Centre was founded by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso in 1985, when he began a three year retreat here together with ten of his students. During that time Geshe-la also wrote and edited several books on the essential practices of our tradition.
Over the years retreaters have come to engage in long solitary retreat, shorter solitary retreat and guided group retreats. Through the power of all their practice, Tharpaland has become a very blessed and peaceful place to engage in retreat.
"When I go to Tharpaland, it seems as if I am entering another world. It is so quiet, pure and clean. I like Tharpaland very much, the time I spent there was very special for me".
- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

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