Losar Tashi Delek! Happy Tibetan New Year!

Happy Chinese New Year! Gong Xi Fa Cai!

may we all have an oxpicious turn around the sun in this year calling for endurance, anchoring in ourselves, our deep selves, our soul songs and concretizing these soul songs, our dreams into the world of harmony we can hear breathing when we let go of the outer static and tune into the anima mundi frequency…

in 1409, the great Lama Jey Tsong Khapa (1357–1419) convened a major celebration in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, for the first two weeks of the Tibetan Lunar New Year called the Great Miracle Prayer Festival referring to the two weeks of miracles and teachings said to have been performed by Shakyamuni Buddha, 2,000 years earlier in the city of Shravasti, India…

as the story goes, after years of being persecuted by rival teachers who repeatedly challenged him to contests of miracles, the Buddha finally accepted the challenge and proceeded to create a vision of a beautiful universe, consisting of jeweled trees, lotus ponds, and rainbows. The Buddha went on to teach the entire assembly about the nature of reality, that evil and ignorance were temporary aberrations, and that the power of goodness and wisdom was infinitely greater in the long run… and so it is… blessed be…