Kilaya Drubpa has started today, just a few hours ago, which is going to be continuing until the Lunar New Year. It is meant to be cleansing all the negavities of the past year so that all of us, the limitless sentient beings, will be starting the new Lunar year with great success, peace and benefits, which is the purpose of our life.
Whether we like it or not, we are always having external, inner and secret problems and obstacles. Therefore we cannot practise LOVE and COMPASSION smoothly and successfully. Whenever we want to do something positive and beneficial for ourselves and others, obstacles will come in the way and nothing can be done without struggles. So this kind of practice is done before the beginning of a Lunar year, so that each year is better than last.
I believe that all the spiritual monasteries, especially those Vajrayana believers are performing some sort of this kind of practices everywhere in the world, with similar hope, trust and devotion, if you like. Some people may think this is superstitious. Well, you can call it anything, even in a different langauge, if you like to make up a story, if you like to make up a conversation, you can do whatever you want, from negative to positive, from positive to negative. As long as it works, that's what I believe, who cares what others think. The most important is that it works and it has to give results, especially if it is done with honest and pure motivation.
Obviously, I would love to have all fo you joining with us to do this. But even if you are not here physically, I always have all of you in my mind whenever I am involved in any of this sort of practices. Maybe I will not have time to say Happy Tiger Year to you on the actual day of New Year, so I am saying it here.
Some people say that this is not a good year because Tiger is very aggressive and very fierce. Everyone says different things. I am also saying something all the time. Whatever that is good or bad should not be affecting those of you who are good practitioners, you are supposed to be seeing everything as illusion and everything as a support to your spiritual practice.
Nevertheless, I think that all of us need the positive effects of the Kilaya Drubpa, whether we are good or bad practitioners, it doesn't matter. As I said, the most important thing is this works!
