A New Year Coming On: Same Old or Renewal?
Looking back on a travelin' year, today, at the change of the calendar. New music CD, and new story-telling CD, (type Heng Sure into the Apple iTunes store search window) travels to nine countries and nearly 200 Dharma talks or Sutra lectures, classes or music performances. This is of course, what monks do, especially if you're a disciple of the late Master Hsuan Hua. You do that as long as possible without burning out and then you balance it with stillness. So I'm heading for a period of stillness, I plan a reteat to write a book, from February til April, if I can. More on that later.
Until then, Happy New Year, may 2008 bring you all the happiness you seek. Together let's wish that all beings quickly realize the fruition of all their good karma and all their negativity vanish like ice melting in the warm Spring breeze.
Thanks for all your efforts to be a true "psychotherapist" in the modern era. Yes, I do listen to your webcasts on Saturday as often as I can, so as the archived MP3 lectures as well.
Posted by: jk5177 | December 31, 2007 at 08:17 PM
Same here. Wish you a great new year coming up and blossoming even more and more.
Posted by: ron | January 02, 2008 at 06:26 AM
HAPPY NEW YEAR to you too, and may the retreat bring you much needed rest, peace, and no writer's block :)
Posted by: Julia | January 03, 2008 at 01:32 AM
You will still be around for the Saturday lectures during Feb. thru April right? We don't want to miss that. Hope we are not too demanding but you are just too inspiring.
Posted by: Ang | January 04, 2008 at 05:30 AM
A retreat for a book is a great idea!
Posted by: lily | January 04, 2008 at 12:43 PM
Some of my favorite lectures of yours are the ones you give to the Tzu Chi kids a few years ago. The simplicity of the message is memorable.
Posted by: jk5177 | January 13, 2008 at 03:47 PM
Hope you're having a good trip in India! :)
P.S. This quarter is ROUGH!
Posted by: Julia | January 13, 2008 at 04:56 PM
Wish you the best. Don't know you are heading for India, may the trip and the retreat bring you great spiritual harvest which is ripely due!
Posted by: ching | January 19, 2008 at 10:15 AM
Thanks for all of the wonderful lectures on 2007! Good luck with the book.
Posted by: phree | January 31, 2008 at 10:49 AM
Happy Chinese New Year. Since today is the start of the Chinese New Year maybe I should start my resolutions all over.
1. I resolve to not let anyone take advantage of me or speak down to me.
2. I resolve to take care of myself first and others second.
3. I resolve to never sleep in the rain again.
4. I resolve to listen to my brain and not my heart.
5. I resolve to make those who have broken my heart to eat my dust as I turn my back on them faster than they can blink.
Now we all know what happens ... sigh...
I will be treated like dirt within the next 24 hours, and I won't say anything... I will give my last quarter away next week, I'll get stuck without money in the rain then, I will let my one true love rule my life, and the people who step all over my soft heart will keep laughing at me.
Posted by: terri | February 06, 2008 at 05:21 PM
Terri:
Similarly I have a resolution for this year to not let anyone take advantage of me or speak down to me.
Posted by: jk5177 | February 10, 2008 at 10:35 AM
Hello Dharma Master! HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR! I know that you are heading off to your retreat soon so take care and hopefully you will get some inner and outer peace :)
Posted by: Julia | February 10, 2008 at 11:35 PM