Sunday March 29:


The Foundation organized a teaching and an empowerment on Bhaisajyaguru or Medicine Buddha at the Foundation House. It was another great event with more than 60 people attending it. We are grateful to Soraj’s mother for taking care of the vegetarian lunch.
Thanks to the Pandara staff: Yidrol, Nuch, Nut, Dream, Bo and Bank for beautifully arranging the place. As always, we thank K. Ram for simultaneous translation into English.
Morning session:

Rinpoche urged everyone to attend the morning session so that they understand the meaning of the empowerment. He explained that 424 illnesses are rooted in three poisons: greed, hatred and ignorance. They lead to imbalances of three processes in our body, namely lung (related to the wind element), tripa (related to the fire element), and began (related to the water element). These imbalances cause both physical and mental illnesses. In order to relieve suffering from sentient beings who fall ill, and to make best use of this perfect body for enlightenment, we seek Medicine Buddha empowerment.

He started the teaching on ten unwholesome actions to be avoided. Three of them (killing, stealing and sexual misconduct) are bodily actions. Four relate to speech, namely lying, slander, harsh speech, and idle speech; and the other three concern mental actions (envy, ill will, and clinging to wrong views). Rinpoche gave a vivid example for each type of unwholesome karma. And when he talked about taking life, as in the case of killing yaks in Tibet, a feeling of sadness arose in my heart. He urged us not to eat meat if we can. If not, eat lesser and lesser.
Afternoon session:

After lunch, Rinpoche and Yontan made three tormas, which are ritual barley cakes to be used in the empowerment. Everyone was requested to wash their face, mouth, hands and feet before they entered the deity mandala. When we were ready, Rinpoche performed a “wangdrup” ceremony, while each one of us recited Medicine Buddha’s mantra in silence.
Rinpoche asked us to have a right attitude in receiving the empowerment. It must be rooted in bodhicitta. We wanted to help others; that’s why, we seek special blessing. He emphasized that we must develop strong faith in our heart and must not have any doubt, how little it is, in the power of Buddha.
In the ceremony we made a vow to recite Medicine Buddha’s mantra at least 21 times a day. We would keep our commitments with the master by respecting him always, with one another by regarding each one of us a “vajra friend”, and with all sentient beings by regarding them our parents. In particular, we would live our life by avoiding ten unwholesome deeds.
Receive blessing
Giving rice blessed by Medicine Buddha’s mantra
Prostrating to thank the master at the end of the ceremony
Blessing the Foundation’s stupa project




วันเสาร์ที่ 28 มีนาคม พวกเราพร้อมด้วยริมโปเชออกจากขทิรวันตั้งแต่เช้าตรู่เพื่อไปปล่อยปลาที่เขื่อนแก่งกระจาน จังหวัดเพชรบุรี เราไปรับปลาที่ร้านขายปลาไม่ไกลจากศูนย์เพาะพันธุ์ปลา ปลาที่ซื้อไว้มีปลาดุกขนาดใหญ่ 100 กิโลกรัม ปลานิล ปลาจาระเม็ด อีกจำนวนมากมาย รวมเป็นปลาเกินหนึ่งแสนตัว ปลาที่เลือกเป็นปลาที่คนไทยนิยมรับประทาน ทางร้านเอาปลาใส่ถุงพร้อมเติมอ๊อกซิเจนไว้ 20,000 ตัวและจัดเรียงในรถกะบะก่อนพวกเราจะมาถึง ยังขาดปลาอีก 80,000 กว่าตัวที่กำลังเดินทางมากับรถอีกคันหนึ่ง 



Rinpoche’s teaching at Wat Srisupan
Visiting the artist & artchitectural paradise in Lampun.
Resting at the house before moving on to Pasang.
At a vegetarian restaurant in Chiang Mai
Before the empowerment was over, Rinpoche asked us to repeat after him the lines that say we would keep our commitment with Tara forever. That is, we would meditate on her and recite her mantra. We would also keep other commitments in Vajrayana Buddhism, namely we would hold the master dearly and we would treat everyone who was present in the empowerment with love and care. All of them have now become our Vajra friends. Rinpoche asked us to love each other and never get angry with anyone. He encouraged us to live our lives without anger. At least, for 10 days and you can see how happy you are.







