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No. 139 THE MIRROR March 2018 Khaita Joyful Dances – Integrating With Movement A Teaching on the Vajra Dance Year of the Earth Dog Tibetan Medicine Interview with Laura Evangelisti Contents Editorial. 3 Khaita Joyful Dances – Integrating With Movement. 4 A Teaching on the Vajra Dance . 7 Photo: P . Fassoli International Gakyil . 10 China Shang Shung Foundation . 11 2018 September 3 – 6, 2018 Visit to Gyal-mo Tsha-wa Rong ASIA . .. 14 March 23 – 30, 2018 Santi Maha Sangha 1st Level September 8 –13, 2018 Year of the Earth Dog . 15 Training University Work The Mandarava Drubchen Africa, Reunion Island September 15 –17, 2018 at Dzamling Gar . 16 May 25 – 27, 2018 Dzogchen Teaching Retreat Ati Yoga Teaching Retreat Update on the Yunan, Dali Lake Dzamling Gar Gönpa . 17 France September 21– 23, 2018 June 1 – 3, 2018 Dzogchen Teaching Retreat Dzamling Gar Paris Retreat Accommodation Program . 18 Beijing Italy September 29, 2018 Tibetan Medicine . 19 June 8 –12, 2018 Visit to Jamyangling Merigar West Retreat Study Group for Developing Yichun, Jiangxi Province the Khalongdorjeikar of the Germany October 4 – 8, 2018 Song of the Vajra . 22 June 22 – 24, 2018 Samtengar Retreat of Munich Retreat Longsal Longde Outer Rushen in Russia . 25 Austria October 11–15, 2018 The Development of Dzogchen July 13 – 15, 2018 Samtengar Retreat – Teaching and Teaching in the Baltic States . 27 Vienna Retreat practice of Guru Amitayus’s Long Life Practice with Chüdlen 3rd Annual Tsegyalgar East Russia Summer Sangha Retreat . 28 July 19 – 23, 2018 Hong Kong Kungsangar North Retreat October 27 – 29, 2018 Passages . 28 Initiation of Zhitro Korde Rangdrol Worldwide Transmission of Changchub Dorje The Prajna Paramita July 21 – 22, 2018 Heart Sutra . 30 Anniversary of Padmasambhava Worldwide Transmission November 2, 2018 Interview with Romania Anniversary of Adzom Drugpa Laura Evangelisti . 31 July 27– 31, 2018 Merigar East Retreat Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur Emotions and the November 2 – 4, 2018 Application of Presence. 34 Italy Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Retreat August 10 –14, 2018 Book Reviews . 36 Merigar West Retreat more dates on www.melong.com Artists in the Dzogchen Community . Front cover: Chögyal Namkhai Norbu entering the gönpa at Dzamling Gar on Losar, Tibetan New Year, February 16, 2018. 39 Photo by Lucian Maidanuc Back cover: The Wood Dogs on Chögyal Namkhai Norbu's table at Dzamling Gar. Photo by Lucian Maidanuc How I Met . 43 2 THE MIRROR · No. 139 · March 2018 ty to maintain the continuation of this An Update on Community, economically, financially, and practically . We can show him . We can take Chögyal Namkhai care of the Community, not depend on him . Norbu’s Health This is something we really have to do . This is my feeling and people must know that alf way through the Mandarava individually, particularly the International Drubchen held at Dzamling Gar, Gakyil, the local Gakyils, the Santi Maha HTenerife, in February 2018, our dear Sangha teachers, the Vajra Dance and Yan- Master contracted the heavy flu that was tra Yoga instructors, etc . We have a lot of going around the retreat and retained A Message from responsible people (in the Dzogchen Com- some additional complications that re- munity) and many senior students of Rin- quired him to stay in the hospital for a few Chögyal poche . weeks . Namkhai Norbu’s Rinpoche has been building this Com- He has been under the excellent care of munity for more than 40 years . Now it is a pool of specialists in urology, nephrology, Personal Assistant, time for him to rest and we should take the internal medicine, and cardiology, all coor- Thubten Rabgyi responsibility, not waiting for him to come dinated by a very respected doctor known to us . We should come to him to receive at the national level . At the end of the morning practice teaching . This is something we have to do Rinpoche is now at his home in Dzamling session on Wednesday, February 28, otherwise I feel that it is really impossible . Gar resting and recovering with two profes- 2018, during the Mandarava Drubchen Of course all of us have this kind of feel- sional nurses taking care of him 24 hours a at Dzamling Gar in Tenerife, the Gekö ing that he is beyond everything, he is be- day in coordination with the doctors . of Dzamling Gar and Chögyal Namkhai yond today and tomorrow, beyond life and Rosa Namkhai, Thubten Rabgyi and oth- Norbu’s personal assistant, Thupten death, right or wrong, beyond everything, ers have also been tirelessly taking care of Rabgyi, gave an update on Rinpoche’s he is like space . But this is another ques- our Master throughout all this time and we health and added a personal message to tion . We are talking about Dharamakaya, are so grateful for their infinite dedication . those present and those following the Sambhogakaya . But he has a human form, We wish for Rinpoche’s speedy and retreat by webcast. he is Nirmanakaya and we want to see him complete recovery . physically . We want to listen to his oral transmission from his mouth . We want to The Mirror would like to share with you is some of enjoy with him . We want to touch him . We my personal feelings about Rinpoche . want to see his human form, and the hu- I We know very well that he is 80 years man form is material . We must work with old according to the Tibetan calendar, 79 that . It doesn’t matter how much capacity (according to the Western) . We also know he has, there is the limitation of his body . that his health is not very good . This is my He wanted to finish this two week re- personal feeling, from my heart . Last year treat (Mandarava Drubchen) without inter- he couldn’t travel everywhere on his teach- ruption, I’m sure, but we can see it wasn’t ing schedule because he was sick and had possible . So this means we must take re- to cancel it . sponsibility in different ways and every in- This year he made a very intensive dividual person, responsible people, should schedule and, for me, it is kind of impossi- think how to show to Rinpoche how they ble for him to do that . Why did he do this? can take responsibility for the continua- He feels very heavy responsibility . He feels tion of this global community in the world . he has the responsibility for the Dzogchen Otherwise he feels that he has this re- Community, maintaining it everywhere sponsibility and makes a heavy schedule, in the world . The Lings and the Gars send follows that, and he has these continuing messages and emails to him saying that problems . That is not good for anybody, they are sorry that he couldn’t come (last particularly for him . year) but are happy that he can come (this So thank you very much . I wanted to year) and they are waiting for him . When share this . This is just from my point of view . he receives these kinds of emails, he feels It could be 100 % wrong or it could be right, that people are waiting for him and that but we have to think very well . We know he must go . He is making a sacrifice . We now how the situation is . Thank you . should know that . Now the Dzogchen Community must understand this and not give this kind of feeling to him . We should come to Rin- poche to receive teaching . We should show him that we really have the responsibili- THE MIRROR · No. 139 · March 2018 3 Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Khaita Joyful Dances – Integrating With Movement Dzamling Gar, Tenerife, December 31 afternoon, 2017 ood day for everybody and everywhere . Today while we are waiting for the coming New Year we are going to do some GKhaita Dances . But before we start, I want to explain just a little about Khaita . I have already told you what Khaita is and how important it is for practitioners of Dzogchen . We are aspiring to be Dzogchen practitioners and in this case what is most important is that we integrate all the aspects of our body, speech, and mind in contemplation . The number one method for integration, the most effective, is to be present . If we try to be present when we dance Photo by Daniyal Ibragimov Khaita, this is practice . It is much better than sitting somewhere for one or two hours chanting some mantras, because it is directed centuries important Tibetan practitioners used them . They used to the state of contemplation . them in the Tibetan language, not in English or Italian, and even if All of the Tibetan songs I have chosen [for the Khaita dances] are it had been necessary, they wouldn’t have known [how to translate particularly meaningful for protecting Tibetan culture . In order to them] . So this is one reason . When we do prayers, invocations, etc ., learn these dances, first of all we have the related transcriptions [of it is very important that we use them in Tibetan because this is the songs] which I have included for Westerners because we know related with the blessing of the lineage of all of those practitioners . very well that you cannot read Tibetan . The transcriptions I made Secondly, when something is translated it becomes very strange . are not different for each country . For example, in Dharma centers I remember many years ago when we were doing the Chöd each different country does transcriptions in their own way . How- practice one of my Italian students said, “I’ve translated the Chöd ever, it doesn’t correspond to the Tibetan pronunciation .