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Post by Admin on Apr 21, 2015 15:00:58 GMT
Dear Sangha,
Rinpoche's birthday is coming up soon, so let's express our love and devotion to our most precious and kindest lama! Please leave your wishes for his birthday below, and we'll show him the entire thread on May 1.
But wait, we're not stopping there - there's more to come!
Please join us during the Medicine Buddha Monlam on Sunday, May 31st, we will have a sangha dinner and birthday party. Lots of fun and feel free to bring a present for Rinpoche to open, we'll overflow a table with gifts for him to open. More information to follow soon with details for this special birthday bash!
Thank you,
Allison, Sarah & Kayla
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Post by Allison CZ on Apr 26, 2015 21:41:47 GMT
Dear Rinpoche,
Happy birthday and thank you for letting me share this last third of your life! I am so pleased to be able to carry out your wishes and enact all of your dharma vision. Please remain here with us longer than even Tangtong Gyalpo, turning the wheel of dharma and building a great pillar of lojung for the benefit of all sentient beings. I'm so happy to begin another year of accomplishing the dharma with you! What you have given me is priceless and I promise that I will never let you down.
With love & gratitude,
A. Choying Zangmo
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Post by Tsoknyi Wangmo on Apr 27, 2015 23:30:59 GMT
Dear Rinpoche,
I am sending you wishes for a very Happy Birthday! Your birthday makes me feel so much appreciation your teachings, guidance and protection, and so fortunate to have you as my lama. From my heart I feel tremendous gratitude and ever arising strength to support the accomplishment of your dharma activity. Please continue to turn the wheel of dharma for us all, and please remain steadfast in this world for the sake of all sentient beings. May this next year and all of the years yet to come bring further flourishing of your dharma vision, peace, health and happiness.
Forever yours with all of my devotion,
Sarah
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Post by Aric on Apr 27, 2015 23:49:41 GMT
Rinpoche,
Thanks to you for being born! Thanks also to your mother and father. Thanks additionally to all mother and father sentient beings. May your dharma activities flourish and be totally unobstructed! Thanks for putting up with all of us difficult westerners, and providing us with your living example of bodhicitta.
With deep gratitude for you,
Aric
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Post by Angela Tsultrim on Apr 28, 2015 0:12:22 GMT
Dear Rinpoche,
Happy Birthday!! Thank you for your dedication of body, speech and mind to the liberation of suffering for all sentient beings. Also, thank you for all of your helpful, guiding words over the years for myself and others. I appreciate and and have great joy that you are my spiritual teacher. I pray for many, many, many more birthdays to come and may all the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Dakinis and Dakas, Dharma Protectors and all other enlightened ones to constantly watch over you and ensure a very long, healthy, happy life. May I always be in beneficial service to you and all sentient beings for eternity.
With deep love and devotion,
Angela Tsultrim
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Post by Jane Gardner on Apr 28, 2015 0:15:14 GMT
Cheerful Birthday Rinpoche. Thank you for your teachings, wisdom, and compassion.
With gratitude,
Jane
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Post by Nancy Vermont Crompton on Apr 28, 2015 0:42:42 GMT
....isn't it Buddha's birthday on Saturday? What an auspicious time for a birthday!
Rejoicing in your wisdom and your tolerance for Westerners and may beings flourish and be glad in your gaze,
HAPPINESS
Nancy
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Post by Sally Leonard on Apr 28, 2015 0:45:54 GMT
Dear Rinpoche, may your Birthday and everyday be filled with joy. Thank you so much for coming to vermont and being my teacher. I am filled with devotion and garitutude to you and Allison. I look back upon our unexpected meeting in the airport in Kathmandu and your first visit to Vermont, now a few years later, a small but dedicated sangha .
Thank you, Sally
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Post by Cat Alberx on Apr 28, 2015 0:51:47 GMT
Happy Birthday dearest Rinpoche. We are all sooooooo grateful for your fortunate human birth  ? May you live a very long time to continue liberating all beings! Much love to you, Cat P.S. I miss your bad jokes |
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Post by Johanna & Patrick on Apr 28, 2015 0:53:35 GMT
Dearest Rinpoche,
How fortunate we are to have you in our lives. We are so looking forward to seeing you again. Please accept our warmest wishes on your birthday and a year full of health and abundance, so that you may turn the wheel of Dharma again and again for the benefit of all Beings, and live a very, very long life.
With love, Johanna, Patrick & Luka
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Post by Tom Kowalski on Apr 28, 2015 1:00:49 GMT
Rinpoche...I can't express my joy and gratitude that we are alive at the same time. I celebrate your birthday and thank you for the amazing gift to me and the world that you are...Love,
Tom
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Post by Susan Claire Snyder on Apr 28, 2015 1:15:06 GMT
Dear Rinpoche, a very happy birthday to you! I am thankful you were born. Thank you for coming to the West. Thank you for all you do for us and all beings. May your dharma activity flourish. May you have safe travels and please always return to us. May blessings continually rain down upon you and become part of you like raindrops on water. With love and devotion, Susan.
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Post by Anthony Panagakos on Apr 28, 2015 1:23:48 GMT
Happy birthday dearest Rinpoche,
During the short time I have known you, you have transformed every aspect of my life. When I see you, I see truth and wisdom. I see what I am and what I can be. I see what we all can be.
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Post by Carrie Christopher on Apr 28, 2015 1:39:55 GMT
Happy birthday to fantastic dharma wisdom holder. I so enjoyed P'howa Level I and wish you the best for a wonderful birthday. P.S. Tauruses really are the most awesome sign of the western zodiac!
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Post by Chris Lemig on Apr 28, 2015 1:40:05 GMT
Happy Birthday Rinpoche! Thank you for coming into this world to teach the dharma and wake us up from our long sleep. Without you, where would we be? The longer I know you and pretend to be your student, the more I realize how precious you are to all of us. You never stop thinking of us and devote all of your energy to making sure we have every opportunity to apply the teachings in our lives. You inspire me everyday to keep walking this path for the benefit of my self and all others. Please, stay with us for many, many more birthdays to come!
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? May you live a very long time to continue liberating all beings! Much love to you, Cat