Dechen Ngazom 2018.

Early I wake up did my cleaning and washing, then I went to walk just to go around chorten. I walked around it for half an hour. I collected hydrogenated oil (Dalda) to offer 108 (hundred and eight) butter lamp to almighty God. I did all the task of offering and sat for a long prayer. I realized I almost forgot the prayer. I found very difficult in looking at the text and read prayer as per the tune. I should now practice praying to regain the pace. I felt the inner peace after prayer. I felt the satisfaction of my good deeds as if I earned merit, a spiritual merit.

After that I went back to chorten to chant prayers and move around. I prayed to god of wealth, the king of happiness. (Zambala). I chanted mantra of load zambala, as I go round and round it. On that time my conscience went and touched the very poor who suffer from poverty, who cry for a meal. I thought of those rich who enjoy life with boundless happiness. This just made me feel who creates these differences. I just asked God to make all living being a happy and equal.  The very moment I saw a bird ( wagtail), It is just in front of mirror of my car. It just attacks the image it sees in the mirror. It went on for hours, it never stops. This activity went on and on till the bird gets fully tried.  There I realized, we need to understand yourself first then you will understand the problem. There if bird knows what he is? He would have realized the image appeared is him. The problem would be solved. Many thing came up in my mind … half day just went off thinking of the bird and mirror. I made video of the bird and a mirror just to show to my family. I went home and showed it to them but it made no sense. We ate lunch.

I as usual, I just put on my data and look at facebook. I read some news and I came across an interesting video on How to become a leader? By Dr. Myles Munroe. I clicked on it. It is a voice record on Youtube. I listen to it. It gave me a great lesson. Helped me boost my energy, especially on the infusing the leadership skills in me. It ignited the spirit of leadership. He talked about the spirit of the leadership. He talked about the leadership is all about your attitude, is what you believe? The self discovery, self realization, self analysis, are leadership in self. He said the spirit of leadership can be look into two animals. The lion and an Eagle, Lion is the king and ruler of the animal kingdom. It has so many limitations, we need to get motivated looking at it. The lion do not have heavy body like elephant and hippotamus, neither it is too small like mouse and rat, nor is it intelligent like Hyena and fox. Yet lion is the king. What make him king? It is the attitude. The lion walks and all the animals are afraid. Why? It is the attitude of  lion, it thinks elephant as his lunch. Not a huge and difficult animal.  A food… If elephant is capable, it can smash and kill lion on stepping on it. But it is not…No lion and elephant believes make difference. No matter how big or small the animals are the lion believes they are their food. The walk of lion is felt by all the animal in the jungle just because of its attitude is great that of king. It just influences the other animals’ attitude. I can be lion… and I am like lion.

The other best example of a leader is also said to be an eagle, no other Bird can fly as high as an eagle. But it is not the fastest flying bird nor is it the biggest bird. It stays alone with great vision to lead his life. Other small birds like sparrow and peahen believe in living together. They fly low and mostly engaged in gossip and waste of time. Eagle fly high and it lives all along. It does not mingle with other birds. It does not believe in gossip and talking of others. Eagle is the king of Birds.

Just my wild understanding of what I heard and felt?