I had the great pleasure to welcome Geshe Lama Ahbay Rinpoche to my Positive Living Group of Bournemouth last Monday. He was recognised by the Dalai Lama as a reincarnation of a former spiritual leader of the Tibetan Buddhists. At present he is taking the full responsibility of Yega Choling Monastery, which is located in Tibet.
He travels to Europe on a regular basis on a mission to support the Monastery and to give Buddhist teachings and blessings.
Here is his message;
"All human beings have the same purpose. We are all looking for peace. We are all looking for a way out of suffering. Human beings do not need to be suffering, but through anger, hatred, jealousy, ego and pride we get a lot of suffering. Those negative actions are our enemies and they destroy our inner peace. For this reason we should work hard to reduce these negative actions.
Fortunately as human beings we have positive actions. There are many positive actions, but the most important are love, compassion, tolerance, patience and humility. We should work hard to increase our positive actions and this will minimise our negative actions.
How do we reduce these negative actions? Positive actions are the antidote to the negative actions. When we improve our love and compassion then our hatred and jealousy are reduced. When we increase our tolerance and patience our anger is reduced.
When we are more humble and have more humility our ego and pride are reduced. This is why we need to improve our positive actions and reduce our negative actions. In this way we reduce suffering in our life and also we get more inner peace. By practising positive actions we will get more inner peace and through ourselves then our family, our friends and our society will also get inner peace and more happiness in their lives.
A peaceful life, a happy life, a successful life and a meaningful life is our purpose as human beings"
by Geshe Lama Ahbay Rinpoche
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