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Sometimes it is best to remain quiet
37 མི་ཉན་པ་ལ་བསླབ་བྱ་བྱས་ན་སོ་སོའི་སེམས་པ་ན་རོགས་རེད། དེ་བས་རང་གར་བསྡད་ན་བཟང་། ཚང་མའི་ཁུར་མ་ལེན། If you advise someone who won’t listen, your intentions were useless. Better than that is to remain quiet. You can’t take responsibility for everyone.
Summer Solstice Water Blessing 2022
June 21st 2022, Khenpo Karten Rinpoche with Manjushri Dharma Center held a Summer Solstice Water Blessing at Lovers Point Beach. Rinpoche has been holding these blessings on the summer and winter solstices since 2010. The
Who was Karma Shawa? ཀརྨ་ཤྭ་བ།
"I would like to share with you the story of my beloved adopted child, Karma Shawa, who entered this world and my life only very briefly, but who left a lasting impression on my mind
Don’t interfere with others; accomplish your goals!
36 རང་གིས་གང་བྱེད་དགོས་པ་དེ་འཐུས་ཤོར་མེད་པར་བྱོས། གཞན་གྱི་ཇུས་ཏོག་མ་བྱེད། མི་ཚང་མ་ཁྱེད་རང་ནང་བཞིན་གཅིག་པ་ཡོང་མི་ཐུབ། Accomplish what you wish without procrastination, but don’t meddle in the business of others. Not everyone can be just like you!
Restrain one’s speech
35 བཤད་ཚད་རུ་བདེན་པར་མ་འཛིན། རང་ཚུགས་ཐུབ་པོའི་ངང་ནས་ཀུན་ལ་ཡ་རབ་བྱོས། དྲན་ཚད་ཁ་ནས་མ་འདོན། ཆགས་སྒོ་ཁ་ཡིས་ཉོ་ཡོང་། Don’t believe everything you hear. You should be self sufficient and respect everyone. Don’t say everything you think. You’ll be buying misfortune with your mouth.
Who was Karma Shawa? ཀརྨ་ཤྭ་བ། 🦌
Karma Shawa ཀརྨ་ཤྭ་བ། I would like to share with you the story of my beloved adopted child, Karma Shawa, who entered this world and my life only very briefly, but who left a lasting impression on
Goodness to one’s own family says much
34 མི་འཇོན་པོ་དང་ཡག་པོ་ཡོད་མེད་ནི་ཁྱིམ་ཚང་ནང་ནས་ཤེས། སོ་སོའི་ནང་མི་རྣམས་ལ་བྱམས་སྐྱོང་དང་ཡ་རབས་བྱེད་དགོས། Whether or not a person is capable and good is known by their family. We must be loving and upstanding with our own family.
Prayer for Karma Shawa
OM SVASTI Protector Amitabha of Sukhavati, Supreme Deity of Infinite Light, closest to our lives, As you hear my bereaved, yearning request, Quickly come, unimpeded, to the space before me! During this time when images







