Live to Love! - I have been thinking about this and practically, we all should be doing it together. Instead of only myself and a few of us practically doing this, I think everyone, starting from my monasteries, nunneries and centres worldwide, can start thinking about how to do this based on the 5 directions I have given. I feel that, all my organisations and those of my colleagues who would like to join us (no obligations, of course), should dedicate the 3rd Sunday of each month to carry out activities in regards to "Live to Love". For example, some activities such as joining with other humanitarian organisations or doing on our own about helping other human beings, releasing lives, visiting homeless people with genuine and sincere care for their well-being, look around the areas where the centres, monasteries or nunneries are located and see if our own local communities need any kind of help. We can provide this kind of very simple and convenient help, to start with. Some people will ask why the 3rd Sunday, why not 1st Sunday, 2nd Sunday or 4th Sunday? Well, I have a few reasons. One is that the number "3" represents the Three Jewels; second is that most people are very busy in the beginning and at the end of the month, for various reasons. I am not daring to ask everyone to do on every Sunday, because this is just the beginning, to do something good and beneficial to your own local communities, practically, this should not add to your already stressful life. Let's start to do this once a month, 12 times a year, to be living genuinely for others' benefits - Live to Love!

I hope that everyone who follows my simple advice is able to do this happily and willingly. I don't know how this will affect your daily life, but I am sure taking 12 days out of 365 days to do genuine beneficial deeds for the sake of others is not asking too much, I hope. This should be a support to your formal practice, that is to say to put your formal practice into practical use, and you can check then how much Bodhicitta you really have, you should at least be honest to yourself. I would be so happy to get news from all my organisations what they are doing every 3rd Sunday and I would love to have these news posted on my web or the live to love website, which I hope someone is doing up now. I was told that Druk Foundation Ltd. has registered this Live to Love logo and the words for the lineage, so it's good that if we can all use "Live to Love" to represent all the humanitarian and beneficial activities, without boundary of religions, nationalities, etc.

This photo was taken by Jürgen

Although I mentioned that I was thinking of going into a long retreat next year, as much as I would like to do so, I don't think practically this is feasible, I will have at least a short but solid retreat and still be roaming in the world. If the authorities allowed, then I would like to take anyone interested to go with me, walking from India to Mount Kailash in September next year. Those friends and students who were with me in Nangchen have already been told. So I am just repeating myself here to everyone who happens to follow my gossips. As you know, Mount Kailash is one of the most sacred sites in this world. It is the home of Chakrasamvara and Avalokiteshvara. I think one should reserve at least 6-7 weeks for this journey. Let's see if the authorities will allow us to do this trip, we should all pray for our good karma to ripen for this wonderful possibility. Jürgen, one of our German Sangha had recently joined our Kyabje Drubwang Tsoknyi Rinpoche on a trip to Kailash, maybe he will be able to share with us some of his news and tips.

Between 22nd December to 1st January 2009, there is a possibility that we will start to organise an annual event, the First Council for the Drukpa Lineage, where teachings and methods of practice related specifically to our yogic lineage will be taught by myself and my colleagues. I am still thinking of the organising, but I should be able to let you all know more about it before my teaching tour begins. This council will include teaching, exchange of views, conference, pilgrimage and different "mind exercises" and I am even thinking of giving each serious participant a certificate, so that they will be encouraged to practise in this very difficult time, full of distractions and stress.

I also have a small news to share. These are the two new family members, Zing and Ting. Zing, the black one, is for my mother and Ting, the white one, is for my father. They are very lovable and they both love my parents very much. I want to thank Jigme Phende for sending these two lovely members to my family, they have given so much joy to my parents. Nothing makes me happier than seeing my parents so happy, enjoying the presence of their new children.