Finally, after one month of travelling in Asia, I am back in Kathmandu. It was an extremely busy but fruitful journey for me to meet up with my old friends and to make new ones as a result of ripening karmic connections. The last stop in Malaysia was in fact better than what I had expected in terms of harmony and understanding among people and the different Drukpa centres. I was especially touched by the harmonious and genuinely sincere cooperation between Drukpa Penang and Drukpa Butterworth. This kind of cooperation will strengthen the lineage and make all the related lineage masters live long, this is for sure! I was really happy to meet H.E. Lhachok Rinpoche again and to be able to support him in the construction of the Drukpa Monlam Building in Nangchen, Eastern Tibet.

Meeting Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat again was also a very pleasant experience. The last time when he went with us to Chicken Foot Mountain, he was the Deputy Minister of Higher Education and now when we met again, he is already the Minister of Transport. Thanks to Datuk Seri Ong and the government of Malaysia, from the time we landed, we received the warmest reception that I have ever experienced in Malaysia, even though I have been to this country for more than 20 years. I want to thank Datuk Seri Ong for his tremendous support for me and my lineage.

Of course in several other instances, I was rather disappointed in the way Lama Pemba's visa was not applied in time for my visit to Drukpa Kuala Lumpur and of course in the way the centre had been left not well-taken care of despite such a gigantic and beautiful building offered to me and my lineage by Dato' Sri Norbu Wong and Datin Sri Norzin Loo. In fact this time I have left two monks in Drukpa Kuala Lumpur, not only for this particular centre but for the entire Malaysia and they will be directly under my instructions, not to be pulled or pushed around by anyone. Disrespecting or taking advantage of monks and nuns is a great way to accumulate negative karma, if this is what you intend to do.

On the other hand, there was also a very encouraging meeting for me and Her Royal Highness Princess Pema Lhadon Pem Pem Wangchuck and her family who had come all the way from Bhutan to support the Live to Love Charity Dinner organised for me by Paul Thong, Jigme Phende and Jigme Migyur, these three golden sons of mine in Malaysia. It was very hard job for them and they never complained. I was told that the response was fantastic and the event caught a lot of attention from the public media, which was a great way to spread the message of Live to Love.

What I was really happy about was that all the reporters were asking both Her Royal Highness and myself about the key to happiness. For me, I feel that happiness is about appreciating your own life, appreciating those people around you and appreciating even the difficulties you are going through. In fact, appreciating your life is the best investment you can ever make, because this will eventually make you such a happy person that even when the worst situation happens, you will be fine, you will be still calm and happy.

Most people that I met this time constantly told me about the stressful life they were living and they started to scream and get angry all the time at people who didn't agree with them, whom they felt irritated with, who gave them a different opinion. This is not right. I would be very embarrassed if anyone of my friends and students does this to their Dharma brothers and sisters, to their family members or to their colleagues. People need to be appreciated, even we ourselves need to be appreciated. If we call ourselves practitioners or if you are known to others as my friends or especially as my students, then before you get angry with others or before you raise your voice to others, please take one step back and think if your actions will encourage or discourage others to follow the path of spirituality that is taught by the Dragon Lineage. I always tell my friends and students, talking is very easy, but actions especially they way you treat others will tell whether you have improved or not. You can check yourself, whether you are more stressful and more angry after going on the spiritual path or even after meeting me, if you are, then it is now time for you to change. Some of my friends and students told me that I have to accept them as what they are. I don't agree with that. Spiritual practice means you have to improve, you have to be more calm, more understanding, more loving and more kind, not the other way round.

In fact, I told some of my friends and students that I am getting easily quite tired these days, because everywhere I go, whether East or West, people don't change, they practise superficially, but the spiritual practice does not get into their hearts. If I am an irresponsible master, I wouldn't mind if they are improving or not, but my duty here is to help beings. If I cannot help my friends and students to improve themselves, then there is no way that I have a job here. Everywhere I go, I am still teaching just about the same thing. Love doesn't seem to be increasing, compassion doesn't seem to be increasing, instead ego is becoming so big, tolerance and understanding are so little. Yet everyone claims to be my students, this is very embarrassing for me. We should not be asking others to change to accommodate our nonsense, we should be changing and improving our understanding so that we will appreciate even when people are different from us, especially when they are acting or saying things that we don't agree on. This is itself a form of practice. In a spiritual family, at least this kind of understanding and improvement should be there.

When I saw Her Royal Highness and her family, especially her daughter, Ashi Kesang, I was really moved by the way they appreciate each other and the way they appreciate everyone. This encourages me a lot in terms of living long to serve all beings, because at least there are wonderful people like them who make this world a happier place for others. I am also proud that Their Eminences Khamtrul Rinpoche and Thuksey Rinpoche are able to receive their spiritual education in Bhutan because I know that under the training of the monastic body and through the interaction with Bhutanese people, they will be able to not only learn theoretically, but also live a genuine spiritual life that will benefit many beings.

I am praying always for the long life of Their Majesties the Fourth and Fifth Kings, because their longevity is very important for the world to see that a Buddhist kingdom can be such a great example for everyone who wishes to live a happy life.

Lastly, I want to especially thank Paul and Migyur for being the moral pillars of my visit this time in Malaysia and Phende and a handful of my few friends and students for actively running around. But most importantly, I felt very happy that H.E. Khamtrul Rinpoche Jigme Pema Nyinjadh is finally grown up and I have a lot of hope in him to be able to guide many of my friends and students. I pray that all of you will be able to give him as much support and encouragement as possible so that his path as a spiritual master will not be as difficult as mine. I want to say that he has also worked very hard to make sure that people respect me, although to me it really doesn't matter, except that whatever protocols and arrangements that he has pushed the local governments in Asia and many local devotees to provide for me will definitely have a very long term positive effect on the development of the Dragon Lineage, I can tell you for sure. However, I want to tell him that I appreciate everything he is doing for me out of his love and devotion to me and the lineage. Whoever supports him and follows his advices, I know for sure will make me very happy.

Talking about Paul, in fact I have given him one name to start with, then changed it to another one because some people were teasing him about the first refuge name, later I had to change again for the same reason, and then now he is finally known as Jigme Jampal, which means Fearless Wise One or Manjushri. It was quite ridiculous that people were making fun of his earlier refuge names, such as "Jump and Gone" for Jamgon. I think this is very disrespectful. I want to take this opportunity to urge everyone not to make fun of others' refuge names because this attracts a lot of negative karma to yourself. I just can't help to bring this up because in Asia, it happens too often that I feel if I don't tell now, this kind of jokes on refuge names will run out of control.

Between now and my trip to Europe, I hope to finish teaching the nuns and monks here at least a few more chapters of Bodhisattvacharyavattara. Sorry for my bad English, anyhow, I hope my messages are clear for you to understand.