The Gyalwang Drukpa

Then I want to thank one of my Asian students who contributed 25% of the cost of the Pad Yatra. He did not want me to mention his name, so I just want to say something here to let him know that I appreciate everything that he has been doing for me without any condition, without any demand. This really makes my life so easy. Of course, I am thankful to many other people like Carrie, Vincent, Manyee, Vanessa, Theresa, Kin and Anita from Hong Kong, Wendy from Switzerland, Jampal and Ta family from Malaysia and many other individuals who have been very kind to generously sponsor the cost of the Pad Yatra, besides fundraising for the different causes.

Jigme Chokyi Senge from Germany and Cindy from Hong Kong also did a great job taking wonderful photos of the Pad Yatra. I also want to thank David from UK who gave us such great encouragement to continue. Despite his health, he was the hero of our Pad Yatra. He did not give himself any excuse to be weak or to slow down.

Alice, who was not able to join us at the Pad Yatra, she sponsored and raised funds to get hats for my nuns and also oilment for all of us. The hats were so good and useful. I am in fact thinking of ordering more sets so that everyone can have a fresh new one for important occasions and the old one for outdoor activities.

As I said in the teaching during the Pad Yatra, don't thank me all the time for teaching you and for sharing my knowledge and experience with you, in fact I should be thanking all of you for giving me the opportunity to share, otherwise I have no job. A guru without practising students is a very sad person. In this case, I want to thank all of you, even those of you who are reading my gossips and following my web all the time, your enthusiastic response and encouragement make me want to write more, to share more and also if I am allowed to say, to live longer. All of these depend on you.

There is another piece of news. Our Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo has accepted my request to be the Deputy Chairperson of the 2nd ADC. This is another great news to share with all of you!! By the way, His Holiness Dalai Lama was also quite excited and interested about our Pad Yatra, asking many things about it. I am so happy to learn that his blessings and holy rejoices were there with my students and me, as myself being one of the tens of thousands lucky ones to be his spiritual followers. I usually feel very sensitive in front of my guru, sometimes I feel a little down if they indicated or sounded as if I have been doing stupid things, I hope I am not being childish, I guess I have strong and deep belief that if they are happy, that means I am doing something beneficial for all sentient beings. Whenever I go to see any of my gurus, I am always checking myself if I have been fulfilling any of my spiritual practices and my spiritual motivation to benefit others.

So sorry for nagging that much, and THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING THERE FOR ME!

Before I forget, I just received a notice about a new program called "Talking the Walk" by Khamtrul Rinpoche Jigme Pema Nyinjadh in Malaysia, organised by Drukpa Penang and also another program by Drukpa Mexico, both on the Pad Yatra. I think if any of you have a chance you should take a look at how these programs are organised, maybe they should be sharing this idea with everyone. I think we should be creative and innovative in the way we communicate the spiritual teachings to the public. It's too bad that my schedule is already very packed, otherwise I would love to join the Talking the Walk program and it would be so nice if Jampal could provide live webcast for us. For those of you who will be attending, I hope you will be enjoying a lot!