<HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=unicode" http-equiv=Content-Type><title>Lam Rim @ CAS !!</title><style type="text/css"> <!-- body { background-image: url(../../bg.gif); } --> </style></HEAD> <BODY style="SCROLLBAR-ARROW-COLOR: #4a6184; SCROLLBAR-FACE-COLOR: #c3d3fd; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff; SCROLLBAR-DARKSHADOW-COLOR: #bebebe; SCROLLBAR-HIGHLIGHT-COLOR: #ffffff; SCROLLBAR-SHADOW-COLOR: #261fba; SCROLLBAR-3DLIGHT-COLOR: #7b9ed6"> <TABLE dir=ltr id=receivestrings border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0> <STYLE> .BORDERREG {margin:2px;cursor:hand;width:'26px';height:'26px';} .BORDERMO {border:1px solid buttonshadow;border-left:1px solid buttonhighlight;border-top:1px solid buttonhighlight; margin:1px;cursor:hand;} .BORDERREG2 {margin:2px;cursor:hand;width:'9px';height:'26px';} .BORDERCLCK {border:1px solid buttonshadow;border-right:1px solid buttonhighlight;border-bottom:1px solid buttonhighlight; margin:2px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-right:0px;cursor:hand;} </STYLE> <SCRIPT> function MouseOverEffect() { var item = event.srcElement; if(IsValidId(item.id) ){ item.className = "BORDERMO"; } if(IsValidChevron(item.id)) { document.getElementById("soundbutton").className = "BORDERMO"; document.getElementById("soundchevron").className = "BORDERMO"; } } function MouseOutEffect() { var item = event.srcElement; if(IsValidId(item.id)){ item.className = "BORDERREG"; } if(IsValidChevron(item.id)) { document.getElementById("soundbutton").className = "BORDERREG"; document.getElementById("soundchevron").className = "BORDERREG2"; } } function MouseOverClick() { var item = event.srcElement; if(IsValidId(item.id)){ item.className = "BORDERCLCK"; } if(IsValidChevron(item.id)) { document.getElementById("soundbutton").className = "BORDERCLCK"; document.getElementById("soundchevron").className = "BORDERCLCK"; } } function IsValidId(elemId) { var isValid = false; if(elemId == "contentbutton" || elemId == "attachbutton" ) { isValid = true; } return isValid; } function IsValidChevron(elemId) { var isValid = false; if(elemId == "soundchevron" || elemId == "soundbutton") { isValid = true; } return isValid; } </SCRIPT> <TBODY> <TR> <TD width="100%"> <DIV id=receivestrings> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" dir=ltr></DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" dir=ltr><I><B>Date:</B></I> 12/20/2011 6:58:09 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" dir=ltr></DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" dir=ltr><I><B>Subject:</B></I> [CASonline] Lam Rim @ CAS !!</DIV></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV></TD> <TD vAlign=top><IMG style="DISPLAY: none" id=contentbutton onmouseup=MouseOverEffect(); class=BORDERREG onmouseover=MouseOverEffect(); onmouseout=MouseOutEffect(); onmousedown=MouseOverClick(); src=""></TD> <TD vAlign=top><IMG style="DISPLAY: none" id=soundbutton onmouseup=MouseOverEffect(); class=BORDERREG onmouseover=MouseOverEffect(); onmouseout=MouseOutEffect(); onmousedown=MouseOverClick(); src=""></TD> <TD vAlign=top><IMG style="DISPLAY: none" id=soundchevron onmouseup=MouseOverEffect(); class=BORDERREG2 onmouseover=MouseOverEffect(); onmouseout=MouseOutEffect(); onmousedown=MouseOverClick(); src=""></TD> <TD vAlign=top>&nbsp;</TD> </TR></TBODY></TABLE> <SPAN style="DISPLAY: none">&nbsp;</SPAN> <!--~-|**|PrettyHtmlStartT|**|-~--> <DIV style="POSITION: relative" id=ygrp-mlmsg> <DIV style="Z-INDEX: 1" id=ygrp-msg><!--~-|**|PrettyHtmlEndT|**|-~--> <DIV id=ygrp-text> <P> <TABLE id=INCREDIMAINTABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" background="C:/Documents and Settings/user/Local Settings/Application Data/IM/Runtime/Message/{9CA1BD22-C394-4E61-997C-244261DACBB7}/Show\grad11.gif" bgColor=#e4f2f9 height="100%"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; DIRECTION: ltr; COLOR: #1a577b; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" id=INCREDITEXTREGION vAlign=top> <DIV id=INCREDI_TEXT_AREA> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"><IMG style="HEIGHT: 107px" id=INCREDIINSERTIMAGE border=0 align=absMiddle src="casonline logo 201122.gif" INCREDIIMAGEATTRIBS></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">TOPIC ONE - GURU&nbsp;</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">&nbsp;</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"><IMG style="HEIGHT: 295px" id=INCREDIINSERTIMAGE border=0 align=absMiddle src="cat333.jpg" INCREDIIMAGEATTRIBS></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">As we all have problems in life, we are always looking for a way out. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">The Lam Rim recommends reliance upon a holy, authentic&nbsp;Buddhist Teacher as&nbsp;THE first step and the sure step !! </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">It has never been taught though that a Guru should be&nbsp;funny, cute or quaint. ( The above is&nbsp;therefore a&nbsp;non-Guru. )</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">&nbsp;</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"><IMG style="HEIGHT: 295px" id=INCREDIINSERTIMAGE border=0 align=absMiddle src="temple464.jpg" INCREDIIMAGEATTRIBS></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">TOPIC TWO - PRECIOUS HUMAN REBIRTH</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">Having a Guru is uselss unless one has a precious human body receptive to the Dharma. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">What's the use of being powerful, scary Yakshas if one cannot practise the Dharma ?? </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">&nbsp;</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"><IMG style="HEIGHT: 295px" id=INCREDIINSERTIMAGE border=0 align=absMiddle src="skulls55.jpg" INCREDIIMAGEATTRIBS></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">TOPIC THREE - DEATH &amp; IMPERMANENCE</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">Having a precious human body is excellent but one could lose&nbsp;it anytime and eventually. Also, when death comes, only the Dharma will help !!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">&nbsp;</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"><IMG style="HEIGHT: 295px" id=INCREDIINSERTIMAGE border=0 align=absMiddle src="scene866.jpg" INCREDIIMAGEATTRIBS></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">TOPIC FOUR - REFUGE</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">The Buddhas, Dharma and Sangha are&nbsp;the Refuges who&nbsp;protect us when the skies turn dark and stormy and when death strikes eventually !!&nbsp;</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">The&nbsp;holy, authentic&nbsp;Guru/s also protect us because He / She is the embodiment of the 3 Jewels ( for the Vajrayana students !! ).</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">&nbsp;</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"><IMG style="HEIGHT: 295px" id=INCREDIINSERTIMAGE border=0 align=absMiddle src="talk77.jpg" INCREDIIMAGEATTRIBS></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">TOPIC FIVE - KARMA</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">Since we take refuge in the Dharma, we are expected to refrain from&nbsp;the 10 Unskilfulness ( such as gossips etc )&nbsp;and to enact their "Opposites" wherever possible. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">This is because Karma strikes in perfect response to what we do !! </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">&nbsp;</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"><IMG style="HEIGHT: 235px" id=INCREDIINSERTIMAGE border=0 align=absMiddle src="face88.jpg" INCREDIIMAGEATTRIBS></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">If / when we are wicked and bad, we&nbsp;surely suffer.&nbsp;Also, we will fall to the 3 Lower Realms. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">In the Lower Realms, one is ugly and one's hair&nbsp;stands on end ( most of the time )&nbsp;because there&nbsp;is so much&nbsp;terror&nbsp;!! &nbsp;</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">&nbsp;</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"><IMG style="HEIGHT: 295px" id=INCREDIINSERTIMAGE border=0 align=absMiddle src="guru399.jpg" INCREDIIMAGEATTRIBS></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">If we are nice and lovely like the above .... </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"><IMG style="HEIGHT: 295px" id=INCREDIINSERTIMAGE border=0 align=absMiddle src="happy10.jpg" INCREDIIMAGEATTRIBS></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">We will be happy and be reborn in the 3 Higher Realms where we will be happy like Garfield, the Gods or a lark. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"><IMG style="HEIGHT: 295px" id=INCREDIINSERTIMAGE border=0 align=absMiddle src="godcage11.jpg" INCREDIIMAGEATTRIBS></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">TOPIC SIX - RENUNCIATION</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">Like what every other religions offer, one becomes a heavenly being when one is good and / or believe in their god/s, their son/s or prophet/s. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">However, in the end, one becomes but a caged god, ready to be removed when one's store of good karma&nbsp;runs out.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"><IMG style="HEIGHT: 295px" id=INCREDIINSERTIMAGE border=0 align=absMiddle src="Wes Hempel Decision12.jpg" INCREDIIMAGEATTRIBS></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">At this moment, one gives up Samsara.&nbsp;We don't want&nbsp;heaven ( supposedly eternal ), human realms with all the curled up damsels or other fun. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">One will rather prefer to be a pure monk who keeps all the Self-Liberation Precepts. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"><IMG style="HEIGHT: 235px" id=INCREDIINSERTIMAGE border=0 align=absMiddle src="fish13.jpg" INCREDIIMAGEATTRIBS></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">TOPIC SEVEN - WISHING BODHICITTA</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">If one leaves samsara alone like Arahants do, one would have left all other beings still in samsara, forvever going up, down and everywhere in samsara, helpless and&nbsp;lost&nbsp;!! </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">This is ungrateful because all beings have been our mothers and died for us countless times in the past. One must be someone or something "higher" than an Arahant to bring them all out also from samsara. The someone or something fully capable of&nbsp;doing this is a BUDDHA !! </FONT></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">"I want to be a Buddha for all mother sentient beings !!"</FONT></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">At this moment, one becomes an aspiring Bodhisattva, a son / daughter of the Buddhas !!</FONT></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><IMG style="HEIGHT: 295px" id=INCREDIINSERTIMAGE border=0 align=absMiddle src="scene714.jpg" INCREDIIMAGEATTRIBS></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">TOPIC EIGHT - ENGAGING BODHICITTA</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">Merely aspiring to be a Buddha is insufficient. So, one needs to&nbsp;engage in countless selfless acts to accumulate sufficient store of merit and wisdom to finally culminate in perfect Buddhahood for the sake of all mother sentient beings. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">One lays out a veritable feast of selfless acts for the highest benefit and good of all. </FONT><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">One then becomes like Buddha Shakyamuni Himself in the Jataka tales.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><IMG style="HEIGHT: 295px" id=INCREDIINSERTIMAGE border=0 align=absMiddle src="scene615.jpg" INCREDIIMAGEATTRIBS></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">Layers upon layers, eternity upon eternity, we shall strive in the 6 BOdhisattva PErfections solely that we will accumulate enough Merit and Wisdom to ripen into the perfect state of&nbsp;a Buddha for the good and liberation of all mother sentient beings. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><IMG style="HEIGHT: 235px" id=INCREDIINSERTIMAGE border=0 align=absMiddle src="thing16.jpg" INCREDIIMAGEATTRIBS></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">TOPIC NINE - UNCOMMON BODHICITTA</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">But this takes so much time and mother sentient beings are suffering meanwhile. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">"I need to be a Buddha in the&nbsp;FASTEST way possible for all mother beings !!"</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">One suddenlybecomes a bodhisattva eligible to enter the tantric path, the path capable of bringing one to Buddhahood in one single lifetime. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><IMG style="HEIGHT: 235px" id=INCREDIINSERTIMAGE border=0 align=absMiddle src="aliens17.jpg" INCREDIIMAGEATTRIBS></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">TOPIC TEN - TANTRA&nbsp;</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">One finds a qualified tantric Guru who bestows the empowerments and teachings and one flings oneself into the dual stages of Generation and Completion. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">The 2 stages could be rough and feel alien-like.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><IMG style="HEIGHT: 235px" id=INCREDIINSERTIMAGE border=0 align=absMiddle src="2animals18.jpg" INCREDIIMAGEATTRIBS></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">Over time, the 2 stages ripen into the Form and Truth Bodies of a Buddha via the Illusory Body and Clear Light Mind; the&nbsp;Coarse, Fine and Transformation levels;&nbsp;the 9 Mixings; the&nbsp;4 Joys; the Vajra Recitation; the Wisdom Seal;&nbsp;the 3 Unelaborated Conducts; the Semblant Illusory Body and Semblant CLear Light;&nbsp;the Great Seal and&nbsp;one finally flowers into&nbsp;...</FONT></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><IMG style="HEIGHT: 295px" id=INCREDIINSERTIMAGE border=0 align=absMiddle src="guru419.jpg" INCREDIIMAGEATTRIBS></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">The Enlightened One, a Buddha, the Teacher of Gods and Men, the ultimate manifestation of perfected Wisdom and Virtues. </FONT></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><IMG style="HEIGHT: 295px" id=INCREDIINSERTIMAGE border=0 align=absMiddle src="dance20.jpg" INCREDIIMAGEATTRIBS></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">One is like an&nbsp;illusory dancer, unbounded by samsara but fully, resplendently&nbsp;acting for every beings' well-being and good, that, in the end, they shall all be free from samara or become a Buddha like oneself.&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><IMG style="HEIGHT: 295px" id=INCREDIINSERTIMAGE border=0 align=absMiddle src="monster21.jpg" INCREDIIMAGEATTRIBS></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">When the occasion warrants,&nbsp;one&nbsp;transforms into a monster, but always, for the&nbsp;highest benefit and good of all. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">&nbsp;</FONT></DIV> <DIV><IMG style="HEIGHT: 235px" id=INCREDIINSERTIMAGE border=0 align=absMiddle src="flower222.jpg" INCREDIIMAGEATTRIBS></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">When the occasion warrants, one transforms into a wild mass of flowers, but always, for the highest&nbsp;benefit and good of all. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><IMG style="HEIGHT: 295px" id=INCREDIINSERTIMAGE border=0 align=absMiddle src="penguin23.jpg" INCREDIIMAGEATTRIBS></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">When the going gets tough, one continues to emanate countlessly and ceaselessly for the&nbsp;highest good and benefit of all,&nbsp;just like a penguin&nbsp;thriving even if the weather turns snowy !!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"><IMG style="HEIGHT: 295px" id=INCREDIINSERTIMAGE border=0 align=absMiddle src="dragon224.jpg" INCREDIIMAGEATTRIBS>&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">In short, after one becomes a Buddha, one soars the endless space of samsara like the dragon, the king and lord&nbsp;of all creatures, soars the heavens, solely for the highest benefit and good of all, exploring hidden, latent karmic connections,&nbsp;that, in the end,&nbsp;all mother beings&nbsp;will one day become a Buddha like oneself ... eternally enacting for the highest benefit and&nbsp;good of the world. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________</FONT></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><IMG style="HEIGHT: 295px" id=INCREDIINSERTIMAGE border=0 align=absMiddle src="Tsongkhapa25.jpg" INCREDIIMAGEATTRIBS>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Cambria>This issue of Lam Rim @ CAS is dedicated to holy Je Tsongkhapa, the great Teacher of the Lam Rim tradition, </FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Cambria>today, the 25th of the Tenth Month of the Tibetan Calendar, the Anniversary of Lama Je Tsongkhapa. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">_________________________________________________________________________________________________________</FONT></DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV><FONT size=5 face="Arial Black">LAM RIM</FONT><FONT size=5><FONT face="Arial Black">&nbsp;details are at</FONT><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><A title=http://www.casotac.com/lamrimp1.html href="http://www.casotac.com/lamrimp1.html"><FONT size=5>http://www.casotac.com/lamrimp1.html</FONT></A><FONT size=5>&nbsp;( short )&nbsp;&amp; 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