ས་མཐའི་ཁྱམས་པོ།

༆ ང་ནི་འཛམ་གླིང་ཡངས་པའི་གླིང་ལ་བསྐོར་སྐོར་བྱེད་དེ་ཁྱམས་པའི་སྤྲང་པོ་ཅིག་ཡིན། མི་ལོ་དུ་མར་མི་ཚེ་འཚོ་བཞིན་པའི་བུ་རང་གིས་ཡོད་ཚད་འཚོ་བའི་ཆ་རྐྱེན་སྐོར་རྩད་ཞིབ་དང་ཐབས་ལམ་གསར་དུ་རྟོགས་ཐབས་བྱེད་ཞིང་། འགྲུལ་བཞུད་ཀྱི་འཚོ་བའི་འཁོར་སྐྱོད་ཁྲོད་འཁུར་ཡོང་བའི་སུན་སྣང་ངམ་ནང་སེམས་ཀྱི་ནག་ནོག་དག་ལ་གཙང་སེལ་བྱེད། དེར་མ་ཟད་ངལ་ཞིང་དུབ་པའི་ལུས་ལའང་ སྟོབས་ཤུགས་ཁ་སྣོན་འཕར་ཏེ་ཡང་བསྐྱར་སྤྲང་པོ་རང་ནི་ཡ་ཡུད་ཀྱི་ལམ་དུ་སྙེག་པར་བྱེད།

ཡ་ཡུད་ཀྱིལམ་དུ་འཇུག་ནས་སྤྲང་པོ་རང་ལ་ལྷིང་འཇགས་སམ་ཞི་འཇགས་ཀྱི་དབེན་གནས་བསྐྲུན་ལ། ལུས་ངག་ཡིད་གསུམ་ལ་འཛིན་པའི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་དང་ཕྱི་ནང་གསང་གསུམ་དུ་གནས་པའི་བར་ཆད་ཆ་ཚང་སོས་དལ་བག་ཕེབས་ཀྱི་སྣང་བའི་མཁའ་རུ་ཡལ་བ་ལྟ་བུའི་ཚོར་སྣང་སྦྱིན།

ས་ནག་པོ་འདོམ་གྱི་འཇལ་ཞིང་སྤྲིན་དཀར་པོ་ཐོད་ལ་བཅིང་ནས་ སྐྱ་རེངས་དང་ས་སྲོད་ཀྱི་མཚམས་འགྲུལ་བཞུད་བྱེད་ཚེ་ངེས་ཏག་ཏག་ཚོར་བའི་གཏིང་རིམ་ནས་བཤད་མི་ཤེས་པའི་ཚོར་བ་དེ་ནི་ངོ་མ་ཧ་ཅང་མཛེས་སྡུག་ལྡན་པ་ཞིག་རེད་། ཚོར་སྣང་དེ་ནི་ས་ཐག་གི་ཁྱམས་པོས་མ་གཏོགས་སུས་ཀྱང་རྟོགས་མི་སྲིད།

དྲན་གདུང་། སྐྱོ་གདུང་། མནར་གཅོད་ག་འདྲ་ཞིག་གིས་རང་ལ་མནར་ཅིང་། དམིགས་གསལ་ངེས་ཅན་འགྲོ་ཡུལ་རྩ་བ་ནས་མེད་པའི་ལམ་ན་ཁོ་ལ་ག་དུས་ཡིན་ཡང་འདུག་རོགས་བྱེད། ཉིན་ལྟར་འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་འཛིང་དང་འབྲལ་བའི་དབེན་པའི་འགྲོ་ལམ་ཁྱེད་ནི་ངའི་ནམ་ཡང་ལམ་རྒྱུས་བྱེད་མཁན་ གྲོས་བཏབ་གྱིན་པའི་སློབ་སྟོན་པ་ཁྱད་དུ་འཕགས་པའི་ཤེས་རབ་མངའ་བ་སྟེ། ང་ནི་ག་དུས་ཡིན་ཡང་ཁྱོད་ཀྱི་རྗེས་སྙེག་བཞིན་པའི་འགྲུལ་པ་སྟེ་ཡིན། ང་ནི་ཡ་ཡུད་ཀྱི་ཆེད་དུ་འཆི་འང་མྱོང་ལ་གསོན་འང་མྱོང་།

I am a person who has been travelling on this planet for some time. I have spent many years examining all avenues available and seeking out new means of livelihood. Amidst all, this journey has removed from me the worldly arousal and anchors of animosity. Additionally, the worn-out, battered body has restored its vigour to continue with this adventure.

Embracing this route has brought me tranquillity and contentment. All of my troubles and hardship became apparent to me at this point, and all of the obstacles I had been facing within, without, and hidden domains vanished into the void of peace and pleasure.

I have been travelling and measuring the earth's and the sky's length at dusk and dawn, and this has enabled me to experience those lovely sentiments one could ever desire to have. Adventurers are the only ones who can truly understand such experiences.

Nostalgia, despair, and whatever other tribulations I may encounter, graciously befriend me as a traveller who has no definite destination. Be my mentor and counsellor, endowed with excellent wisdom, and kindly escort me along the serene journey that is free of all the mundane commotion. I shall be your ardent pursuer and traveller no matter where I am. Both my life and my death will be devoted to this quest.

A New Start to New Year

It's a new year and a fresh start in Vancouver, Canada. I always keep thinking of Bhutan being close to Canada merely sharing a border as long as my thinking remains activated to auto-pilot mode. Then I try to think of the distance I’ve traversed to come to pursue my aspirations and realize the actual distance through reminiscing the lessons acquired about world maps in my past geography lessons. 

Since I was born in the 1990s, my generation has traveled quite a distance, yet I have inadequate experiences than I should have. When I joined my previous organization, I was able to formally discipline my mind and actions in the field of profession. For this distant past, I feel as though it unknowingly prepared me for this fate. Being at the Ministry has given me a wealth of knowledge about both the bilateral and multilateral spheres in international affairs. Everything, I achieved and accomplished is likely to have a strong bearing when I live among the Bhutanese diaspora in a foreign country. 

Ana Sonam is the incumbent President of the Bhutanese Association in BC. Before we left for Canada, my wife contacted her through the Facebook page, essentially asking for her help in putting up a house. Through Ana Sonam's assistance, I eventually managed to move into one of the flats in Richmond. When we arrived here, Ana President graciously consented to our request and took care of everything. Without her guidance and support, I can’t imagine situations we would have encountered otherwise. After being so acclimated to our own country's policies and circumstances, living in this developed nation comes with a variety of unique considerations.

Although much has been seen, there is still plenty to learn. My virtual orientation started on March 1, 2023, and finished on May 1, 2023. As the interaction between lecturers and students began, UCW student affairs inundated us with emails to keep us abreast and remind us of the prerequisites. I had to visit the university multiple times since I was confused about how I had registered for my courses. I visited the RO and the student help section, but to my dismay, they couldn’t resolve my issues. I meticulously reached out to them, but the responses were none to my satisfaction. There have been few responses for frequent forwarding of emails but eventually, I was able to address the issue and properly register for the course.

My wife attended multiple interviews with several organizations and was hired by now. She did, however, also decline to work for some organizations due to privacy considerations. In a similar manner, I also participated in a few interviews to acquire a part-time job. With this, my University's teaching sessions will begin on January 9, 2023, but I will begin taking classes on January 13, 2023. I'm eager to study and am looking forward to it.