On this tenth day of the lunar month, we honor Guru Rinpoche, the second Buddha who overcame many obstacles to establish Buddhism securely in Tibet. Beautiful paintings like this one I found on a friend’s Facebook page, depict Guru Rinpoche with rich symbolism reflecting the perfect embodiment of wisdom awareness; our outer sublime teachers, and our hidden inner wisdom.
Never separate from Guru Rinpoche is Yeshe Tsogyal, his best student, who had perfect recall of everything he taught. Symbolically, whether depicted as a magical staff held in the crook of his left arm, or as a voluptuous maiden embracing Guru Rinpoche… she represents emptiness. Guru Rinpoche represents compassion.
On this summer day, Guru Rinpoche is said to have been born on a lotus in the center of Lake Danakosha in a silk road Kingdom known as Oddiyana. In observance of this, I am challenging myself to revive this blog which has been inactive for some time and write one post a day for thirty days. In them, I hope to broadcast the core messages of the living practice tradition of the Ancients.
