May there be good omens to everyone. I would like to start with prayers to my supreme Guru that this upcoming year, and endless years and lives to come, will bring none other than the auspicious good experiences of health, happiness, and spiritual fortune for all our sangha members and for all fellow sentient beings.

Our center and our sangha group are playing an essential role in the growth of the Buddha Dharma in North America. From my own experience I can say that spreading the Dharma in America has not been an easy thing to do. Nevertheless, as a responsible spiritual person, I myself never gave up the task or the spiritual responsibility of helping to spread Buddha’s teachings in general, and Tibetan Buddhism in particular. After many years of sincere effort by my many enlightened masters, spiritual roots have taken place in American soil for the benefit of all humankind. For that I am truly happy.

 

I would like to say that our path is the path of enlightened ones, and therefore our responsibility is to make sure we do whatever we can to not defile this noble path, and furthermore to try to bring as many people as possible into the path.

 

I shall conclude with prayers of best wishes and inner peace and happiness for all.

 

Yours, 

W. Rinpoche