Letter from the Editors
Offerings for a Happy, Healthy, Peaceful New Year
Dear Friends,
We hope this letter finds you all well in all ways. This first issue of 2021 is full of a whole host of offerings and support to get the year off to a good start, beginning with an excerpt from Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche's teaching during the summer retreat in 2019. Rinpoche offers us advice not only on getting good sleep, but also on the power of effortlessly allowing and becoming more open.
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche is planning "A Year of Body, Speech & Mind," a free online program related to the three doors of body, speech and mind, to be held live on Facebook and the CyberSangha website. Learn more at cybersangha.net. Details about his 2021 schedule of online retreats will be announced in the near future on the Ligmincha website.
In an interview with Ton Bisscheroux, we share the art and creativity of Andrea Heckman about the making of her three films on Bön, which were recently shown during the CyberSangha Film Festival.
We all find comfort in good food and drink, and in this issue we offer the latest recipe for you to enjoy from Pat Leavitt on how to make chai, a spicy tea.
In addition to two live three-day retreats happening on Zoom in February—Sherap Chamma with Marcy Vaughn and Tsa Lung with Alejandro Chaoul-Reich—several online courses are being offered by Ligmincha Learning and GlideWing. There is something for everyone! See all the listings below.
Check out the latest offerings hosted by The 3 Doors, including a free weekly online guided meditation.
This issue's Sangha Sharing features a call for your contribution! Please consider sharing with us a moment that you may have had of surprised joy or spontaneous creativity that arose during these times of the pandemic. See details below.
In our Student and Teacher article, read Rinpoche's words of wisdom addressing a student's feelings of fear and attachment.
And finally, please join in celebrating the Tibetan New Year, the Year of the Metal Elephant in the Yungdrung Bön tradition, which begins on February 12. Losar traditionally includes cleaning one's home and saying goodbye to the old year, purifying all of the negativity and obstacles associated with it. Then making offerings to all of the protectors and welcoming in the new year, inviting all things great and auspicious into our lives. Ligmincha International is organizing a series of events in honor of Losar with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, our resident lamas, Western teachers and other special guests from February 12–14. Details will be announced soon on the Ligmincha website. To register in advance for these online Losar weekend events on Zoom, please click here.
Tashi Delek Losar!! We will be practicing and celebrating on Losar, and hanging new prayer flags for the new year, and sending out wishes out for everyone's flourishing and being well and happy.
KI KI SO SO LHA GYAL LO!!!
Aline and Jeff Fisher
