Church of the Open Heart

02/22/2023

Quote for Contemplation (courtesy of RigDzin Dharma Foundation):

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”

–The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King,

in "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," (April 16, 1963)

03/27/2022

Just because you visit a location doesn't mean you're truly present of mind and open of heart. If the Love that Christ had for all mankind down to the last l***r isn't what you're sincerely attempting to emulate, and instead you judge a fellow traveler based on shallow, skin-deep differences and assumptions, are you really seeking out the Wisdom of the Scripture when you go to Church?

02/01/2022

Chinese New Year Message by H.E. Garchen Rinpoche
February 1, 2022 - Year of the Tiger

https://youtu.be/3u4JiRWeILY

Happy New Year! Losar Tashi Delek! All my disciples, all my Dharma friends in eastern countries, such as Taiwan, Singapore, Vietnam, China, Japan, Los Angeles, Virginia, and Seattle: Losar Tashi Delek!

I wish you a Happy New Year and I pray for your long lives! Losar, or the New Year, is a time when we celebrate love as those who
love one another gather together. There is nothing more important than love in both the Dharma and the world. Love is happiness and the cause of happiness in this and all future lives. In the holy Dharma it is called bodhicitta. Humans on a worldly level call it
love. So, confess all the failures and declines in love that occurred in the preceding year, and renew the love you had before. Please pray for the continuation of your newly awakened love as it develops into bodhicitta. Tashi Delek to all my friends who have
gathered here!

Translated by Ina Bieler on February 1, 2022.

新年快樂！
札西得勒！臺灣、新加坡、越南、中國、日本、洛杉磯、維吉尼亞、西雅圖等地的東方弟
子及朋友們， 新年快樂！願大家長壽！
新年是慈愛的節日，我們和親友相聚、憶念思惟慈愛。
不論是在世間法或是出世間法上都沒有比慈愛更重要的了。生生世世的樂及樂之因為慈
愛。在佛法上是所謂的菩提心，在世間法上為慈愛。
過去衰退減少的慈愛我們要懺悔、恢復；新生的慈愛我們要恆常守護。慈愛能轉化為菩提
心。
札西得勒！
2/1/2022

01/07/2022

Five Elements: the Jigten Gönpo Project is partnering with Mr. Shailesh Kumar Gupta in Bodhgaya, India to help offer winter blankets to monks, nuns, orphan children, pregnant mothers and the local old age home.

https://gofund.me/024c3fde

To quote Mr. Kumar:
"Now winter has set in.Monks and orphans children are facing problem due to winter as they don't have woolen clothing.Since today no tourism and no pilgrimage tourist also."

"No international flights.So they are facing problem.We are doing our best,but it's not enough.So I request on their behalf to support me in the noble cause of helping monks and poor children and women to provide them with woolen blankets."

And we are also now accepting donations to sponsor food 🍞 🍽️ in addition to the winter blankets ❄️🥶

Purpose Five Elements: the Jigten Gönpo Project is partnering with… Jeff Rosenfeld needs your support for Help Keep the Monks & Nuns Warm & Fed in Bodhgaya!

12/21/2021

1 Corinthians, the heart of the Bible according to Paul:

09/24/2021

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Tibetan style thangka about life of Jesus -moren art

01/02/2021

01/02/2021

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