Letter from the Editors

Inner World Peace

Dear Friends,

We have some very big news!! His Holiness Lungtok Dawa Dargyal Rinpoche, the 34th Menri Trizin, will be visiting and teaching at three Ligmincha centers worldwide—Serenity Ridge in Virginia, Poland and Mexico—in 2019. E MA HO! Read the letter from Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche below for all of the wonderful details.

This past evening, as we were finishing this issue of the VOCL, I was reading Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche's beautiful teaching excerpt that we feature in this issue, and I was so moved. I saw it so lovingly and carefully put down in writing, going from Rinpoche's heart to Jeff's heart and then to mine. The piece stayed with me, floating in my awareness as I fell off to sleep. When I first awoke in the morning, fragments of a dream came to me, and also the words “Inner World Peace.” A beautiful phrase, and it kept coming back to me this morning – the play in those words. Our peace is an inner peace. And our world is very much an inner world.

So this beautiful gesture that arose from the space of dream, I spontaneously share here in words, as best I can, and along with Jeff, send out to you the wish that as we come to the end of 2018, may we all find ourselves sharing the space of inner world peace now and in all the years to come. Please enjoy this beautiful teaching excerpt!

Lots of important information for you:

• Just announced: Sa Le Ö, a musical healing and meditation event created by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, is coming next June to the U.S. and Mexico!
• Read an update about Geshe Tenzin Yangton, who is on extended leave as resident lama at Serenity Ridge and is residing and recovering at Menri Monastery now.
• Hot off the presses! The list of 2019 retreats at Serenity Ridge is here, including four retreats with Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche.
• See Rinpoche's upcoming worldwide teaching schedule.
• Another FIRST: Rinpoche now has an audio book available of Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep, read by our own Marcy Vaughn, available through Amazon.com.
• A new book, Mind Beyond Brain: Buddhism, Science, and the Paranormal was just released by David Presti, based on the 2010 Ligmincha conference held at Serenity Ridge.
• A brand NEW online course from Ligmincha Learning will be offered beginning in January on “Treasures of Bön: History, Lineage & Practices.”
• Start the new year with a three-week online course through GlideWing on “Awakening the Sacred Body.”
• Lishu Institute offers several retreat options beginning in January 2019.
• Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche will give three live Facebook broadcasts in December; and beginning in the new year, he will host conversations with indigenous people on a variety of topics.
• Read about Polly Turner's journey to Menri Monastery in “Finding Oneself in the Losing.”
• The 3 Doors celebrates the graduation of the Latin American Academy, plus the first retreats for 2019.
• You can find the link for the Spanish translation of the October VOCL.

In Bön,
Aline and Jeff Fisher