Dear Dharma Friends,

Hope you are all doing well and staying safe.

Geshe said he is thinking of us and praying for us everyday. He wants me to let you know that at times like this it is very important to always think of dharma and keep your mind positive, healthy and peaceful. This virus will pass away, it is the nature of impermanence. Read dharma books or listen to dharma teaching and meditate and recite mantras. Everything we experience is our karma. Reflect and meditate on the following dharma quote:

རྐྱེན་ངན་དགེ་བའི་སྐུ་མ་ཡིན།
Unfortunate events push us to practice the dharma
ན་ཚ་སྡིག་སྒྲིབ་ཕྱག་མ་ཡིན།
Sickness is the broom that sweeps away negative karma
སྡུག་བསྔལ་ཆོས་ཉིད་ཡན་ལག་ཡིན།
Suffering is part of samsara
འཁོར་བ་ན་ཡང་བདེ་བ་མེད།
In Samsara there is no permanant happiness

One of our members had requested that we have some homework (i.e. questions). I will start that from next Sunday. Geshe la said if you have specific questions from your reading dharma books, to send them to me and I will forward them to Geshe la.

Take care and be safe.

Ama la