Date: 4/24/2011 6:45:09 PM
Subject: [CASonline] The Missing !!
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Date: 4/24/2011 6:45:09 PM
Subject: [CASonline] The Missing !! |
 Dearest Friends
@ CAS !!
Apologies !!
CASonline has been missing for
nearly the past 2 months. This time, we are happy to
say, not due to just worldly work.
We have been using our
precious rest days during the different public holidays
scattered through these 2 months to engage in retreats:
Water Bowl Offering, Mahakala, Green Tara, Release Lives....
instead of typing out chunks of CASonlines.
"Thank you !!" to
so many friends who emailed to find out if we have migrated
to Mount Kailash, thrown in the towel ( or katag ),
or simply ordained and retreated into some holy caves
at Lachi.
Thank you for all your
genuine, sincere dedications.... we have received each
and every one with deep gratitude and we purely re-dedicate
for the happiness of all mother sentient beings and
for the Dharma to continually sustain the world.
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For all
of you to join in the merit through rejoicing !!
This is what happened
at Kota Tinggi during our 2 days Mahakala ( informal
) retreat:
 Beautiful rays from the
heavens !!
 This is our converted
hotel wardrobe to accomodate the total 1,000 water offering
bowls ( err ... plastic cups to be accurate !!
)
 Following Lama Tsongkhapa's
tradition of making Water Bowl Offerings ....
 We have just ended
our ( informal ) Green Tara retreat and it coincided
with one of the biggest festivals in south Malaysia:
that of the festive celebration of the "Queen of Heaven"
- "Tian Hou Niang Niang" in Chinese.
 The "Queen of Heaven"
... so much like Mother Tara in more areas
than one ...
 The early morning before
the start of our second day Green Tara retreat, we managed
to grab 30 plus big spiky crabs from the local market
and after circumambulating them around ( very ) holy
objects in our hotel room for nearly one and a
half hours, to sore biceps and painful knees, we dropped
them into the swollen Johor River near our hotel. A
few Malay men came up, enquired and shook our hands,
"Thank you for your kindness !!" - they said in English.
 Deplorable conditions
of furry felines here .... one kitty has a completely
sagging backbone .... the one in the pic above has an
empty socket one side of the face partially tone, probably
from vicious territorial fights. It is barely alive
and we expect it to leave its cat rebirth quite soon.
We offered hundreds of Manis, Tara mantras, Namgyalma
mantras, Medicine Buddha Mantras, again and again and
again into its ears, in the creepy, dank back lane of
nowhere ....
"Lord Buddha grant your
refuge that they be forever free from the Lower Realms
!!"
 In Malacca, the
tiling is done and the necessary permits are slowly
creeping along, in the usual unhurried Malaysian way.
We are dying to see the most precious Gyudmey Khensur
Lobsang Delek turning the holy Wheel of Dharma
there soonest !!
 We rejoice to pass half
a five figure offering to the Palyul retreat centre
under Khenpo Tsering Dorje in the secret hidden pure
land of Pema Kod .... may this sustain the sincere retreatants
in their journey to Buddahood. "May you all be Buddha
soonest for good of all mother sentient beings !!"
 ( For want of the Rongpo
hostel's pic, we offer SMILEY to depict the Dharma's
giving of Joy to the world !! )
We rejoice ( again
) to give a nominal offering to the Rongpo
Monastic Hostel of Drepung Loseling as the holy
Sangha has swelled and the current walls could no longer
contain them.
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 Students at Camden Education
Center ( CAS's affiliated education centre: www.camden.edu.sg )
are either sleekly slotting in the last pieces of infor
into their heads or gobbling up these last lumps of
facts to prepare for the coming Semestral One Assessment.
Despite the howls of
indignation over the lost classes this weekend, we told
them we have our own Gurus whom we are still desperately
trying to follow: incomparable Garchen Rinpoche's advice
to continually, unfailingly do Mother Tara !!
Hence, this Tara retreat,
over another hectic weekend of critical analysis cum
reading, heart-stopping heuristics and other such
samsaric knowledge, the jolly profs would have
flung into air in glee, three times over !!
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It is a very BIG mouthful,
but, then, this is a 2 months' worth of updates.
Much blessings from
the Buddha, who first descended into our human world,
out of pure compassion for us,
"Amituofo !!"
bb & other ( hopefully
diligent ) retreatants @ CAS, belonging
to .... all of you ( !! ) _________
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