🙏 Losar Tashi Deleg - An Insightful Year! 🙏

Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo's Losar Message

Dear Friends,

The year 2020 of the Iron Rat will certainly be a memorable one for many reasons – most of them challenging! Now we are stepping into the Year of the Iron Ox* which suggests a quiet plodding forward with stoicism. Not the dramatic dynamism of a tiger or a dragon, but patient forbearance until the task is accomplished. (In some parts of Asia oxen are still used to plough the fields and to pull carts.)

Above: A breathtaking view from the cave where Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo

underwent her 12-year retreat. Photo courtesy of Tsunma Kalden, 2020.

In many ways this coming year should be an improvement and we hope to see some positive changes around the world. But like an Ox we must not expect too much and must learn to accept what is given to us without complaint. This is the essence of Lojong practice: to face difficulties and obstacles and transform them into opportunities for developing the Dharma in our hearts. We must become the Dharma from inside out and for this we welcome all situations, especially those that stretch our supposed limits. This is how we learn and we grow.

So I wish you all a wonderfully insightful Year of the Ox as we tread our way mindfully into the future, ready to undertake with due diligence whatever life has in store for us in accordance with our karma.

~ Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo

February 2021

* Note: Losar, the Tibetan New Year, is February 12 this year.

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