Tuesday, October 26, 2021

And so I am a Tibetan by such an attribute, be it of our culture or my own idiosyncrasy


Thinking, despite the complexity and spectrum of its depth, can be said, in this today's world of glamor and glitter and fast joy-food-love, as a tough job, for you don't care to present as you are, for you don't care about who you're. But, in our Tibetan tradition or say in our philosophical tradition, we have such terms as 'learning', 'reflecting', 'meditating'--the linear approach to any forms of complete enlightenment--, namely the second isn't itself a complete form, a consummated exaltation at all, if it isn't taken to the third mechanism, to be yourself what you say and think, in the core of your own constitution--bodily, verbally and mentally.

Monday, October 25, 2021

Is each and every head of Tibetan women is nothing more than a worldling?


Patriarchy or Matriarchy, both aren't fair as per the concept of egalitarianism, if there is, but the former is rife, as you can see in most of the Muslims-dominated states in the Middle East and afar, like in Pakistan or Afghanistan, and so in our own Tibetan parliament in exile--those 10 MPs from the five sectarian entities, two from each, are all male, why? Before saying 'no' to 'religious' seats, can't we consider why there aren't any female heads from them? Dear Tibetan people at large, try to give some notice to the newly 'elected' MP figure of Bon sect, how confident he is, how crudely equipped he is with such effrontery, why? Why there can't be such a nun figure? Why? Why there can't be a nun figure of Gowo Phende's, one of the two MPs from Gelug sect, shameless boldness in our parliament in exile? Why? I am so curious, despite there being Juchen Kunchok Choedon, the uncompromising, taciturn, curtly insolent lay female MP from Dhotoe region, the daughter of late Juchen Thupten, one of the ex-heads of CTA in its early times in exile. Where are you, the sensible Tibetan women at large?

Friday, October 15, 2021

A piece of writing to my little niece in Bhutan


Dear, that's interesting. Thanks for writing. I am sure your channel will grow, if you can stick to it, with some fillips of creativity added to its contents. I can understand about people not knowing about Bhutan. Here, I faced the same case once, when I went to send some money to you guys from our local post office. But I think if one is educated so far, he or she knows about Bhutan. There are those here who say Bhutan is the cleanest and happiest country in the world. I mean local ones, namely French people. But the words like 'carbon free', 'the happiest country in the world' are too much for me. Better say 'more carbon free', 'the more or less self-contained country'. Well, you can tell them to search about it on internet first. I think they do so, like googling, which is the norm now. But google or Wikipedia aren't everything but conducive so far. Well, there can be more on YouTube about Bhutan, like travel vlogs or any done by foreigners or Bhutanese. I think you don't have to do it, for you can't do a travel vlog for the time being. I think all you have to do is to portray your own personal events or doings in a creative way and Bhutan and its people and cultural or customary things depicted besides. You have to know how small details, like of what you do, do matter, if you are interested in art or artistic values. You don't have to try to grab a big picture but to be productive with your small, personal things and doings, to be fecund and communicative that way. That's called art. Grabbing something big that you can't grasp is called sham, pretense. Just as a suggestion dear. In essence, you have to be aware of your own origin, of your cultural values, art, philosophy, fields of studies..., of your quadrivium, trivium. You should have the gut to accept what is factual, to be able to connect to the core of your being and communicate it in an artistic way so far.

Wednesday, October 6, 2021

The Dawn or The Dusk



"གངས་ཅན་རི་ཡིས་བསྐོར་བའི་ཞིང་འདིར་ཐུབ་པའི་བསྟན་སྲོལ་གནས་མོད་ཀྱི། །ཆོས་བྱེད་ཕལ་ཆེར་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་གོས་བྲལ་གཅེར་བུ་ངོ་ཚ་སྤངས་ནས་ནི། །ཁྱིམ་པ་རྣམས་ལ་བསྙེན་ཅིང་ངོར་བལྟ་དམ་པས་སྨད་པའི་ལས་ལ་འཇུག །ཀྱེ་མ་དམ་ཆོས་ཉི་མིའི་འོད་ཟེར་རི་བོའི་ཕྲག་ཏུ་ནུབ་ལ་ཉེ།།" ~ ༸རྒྱལ་དབང་བློ་བཟང་བསྐལ་བཟང་རྒྱ་མཚོས། 

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"The world's materiality at dawn--and the soul's frailty." ~ Adam Zagajewski