Mouth Cancer

༄༅།། སྤྱིར་བདག་ཅག་གྱི་སྟོན་པ་སངྱས་ཀྱིས་ སྔོན་བསྐལ་པ་བཟང་པོའི་དུས་ལུ་ ནད་རིགས་མ་འདྲཝ་བཞི་བརྒྱ་རྩ་བཞི་ཙམ་ཡོད་པའི་སྐོར་བཀའ་དང་བསྟན་བཅོས་ཚུ་ནང་གསུངས་ཡོད་རུང་ ད་རེས་སྙིང་མ་ལྔའི་དུས་ལུ་ འབྱུང་བ་བཞི་འཁྲུགས་པའི་རྐྱེན་མང་ གནམ་གཤིས་ལུ་འགྱུར་ལྡོག་ཆེ་ ཚ་དྲོད་ལུ་འཕེལ་འགྲིབ་ཞུགས་ཏེ་ སྔོན་ཕྱིད་ཐོས་མྱོང་མེད་པའི་ནད་གཞི་ མཐོང་མྱོང་མེད་པའི་རྨ་ཁ་དང་ རེག་མྱོང་མེད་པའི་ནཱ་ཟུག་རྣམ་པ་སྣ་ཚོགས་ མི་དང་སེམས་ཅན་གཉིས་ཀའི་འབྱུང་བཞི་ལུས་ལུ་ཐྱིབས་ཏེ་ མི་འདོད་པ་ཐོག་ཏུ་འབབ་པའི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་གྱིས་བཟྱི་བཞིན་ འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་ས་མཐོངམ་ཨིན་མས།།

སྒོས་སུ་རང་རེ་འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་འདི་ ཕལ་ཆེར་འཛམ་གླིང་གཅིག་འགྱུར་མཁའ་དབྱིངས་གློག་འཁྱུག་པ་ལྟ་བུའི་འགྲོས་བཏང་དང་བསྟུན་ ཡར་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་གོམ་པ་མདུན་དུ་སྤོ་བཞིན་པའི་མཐུ་ལས་ ཕྱི་ནང་གསང་གསུམ་གྱི་ནད་གཞི་བཅོ་ཐབས་ལུ་ སྨན་ཁང་ལེ་ཤ་གཞི་བཙུགས་འབད་དེ་ གསོ་བ་རིག་པའི་སློབ་སྦྱོང་སྤེལ་ཐབས་མཛད་གནངམ་མ་ཚད་ སྐུ་ཡོན་སྦོམ་གཟྱིགས་ཡོད་པའི་སྨན་པ་མཁས་པ་ལེ་ཤ་ཡོད་རུང་ ལོ་ལྟར་བཞིན་ ནད་གཞི་ཚབས་ཆེན་ལེ་ཤ་འཐོན་ཡོད་པའི་མངོན་གསལ་འབྱུངམ་མ་ཚད་ ཁའི་ཀེན་སར་
འཐོབ་མི་རྒྱང་ཁ་འདི་ལོ་ལྟར་བཞིན་ཡར་སེང་འགྱོ་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན།

འཛམ་གླིང་གསོ་བའི་ལས་ཁུངས་ཀྱི་སྙན་ཞུ་ལྟར་དུ་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ ལུང་ཕྱོགས་ནང་ལུ་ ཁའི་ཀེན་སར་ལས་བརྟེན་ཏེ་ཤི་རྐྱེན་བྱུང་མི་གི་གནས་ཚད་ཁར་ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་འདི་མཐོ་ཤོས་གཉིས་པ་ཨིནམ་སྦེ་མཐོང་མི་འདི་ ག་ར་གིས་ཚ་རྒྱང་ལང་དགོ་པའི་གཞི་ཅིག་ལུ་ལྷོད་དེ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན།

ནད་གཞི་འདི་རྒྱུ་རྐྱེན་ག་ཅི་ལས་བརྟེན་ཏེ་ཨིན་ན་ཟེར་བ་ཅིན་ མི་རྒས་གཞོན་དང་དྲག་གཞན་དབྱེ་བ་མེད་པར་ ཟོས་ཀྱང་ཆོག་ལ་གཡུག་ཀྱང་ཆོག་པའི་ རྡོག་མ་པ་ནི་ཙུ་ནེ་གསུམ། བླངས་ཀྱང་འགྲིག་ལ་བོར་ནང་རུང་བའི་ སྨྱོ་ཟས་ཏམ་ཁུ། བག་མེད་སྤྱོད་པས་འཇིག་རྟེན་སྨྱོས་པའི་ཆང་། གྲོད་ཁོགས་ལྟོགས་དུས་ཐད་ཀར་འབྱོར་བའི་ གོང་ཆེན་མིན་པའི་ཁ་ཟས་རིགས་ཚུ་ལོངས་སུ་སྤྱོད་དེ་ ཁའི་དབང་པོ་གཙང་སྦྲ་སྟོན་མ་ཚུགས་པའི་སྒྱུ་རྐྱེན་ལས་བསྟེན་ཨིན་མས།

ཁའི་ཀེན་སར་གྱི་ནད་འདི་ ཁ་ མགྲིན་པ་ སྣ་ སྦུ་གུ་ཁོག་སྟོང་(sinus)དང་ མཚིལ་མའི་རྨྤེན་བུ་(salivary
glands) ཚུ་གང་རུང་ལུ་ཀེན་སར་གྱིས་གནོད་པ་ཅིན་ ཁའི་ཀེན་སར་ཁོངས་སུ་གཏོགསཔ་ཨིན། ནད་རྟགས་ཡང་ག་དེ་སྦེ་སྟོནམ་སྨོ་ཟེར་བ་ཅིན་ རྩ་བ་ནས་མ་དྲག་པའི་ཁ་ལུ་རྨ་ཐོན་ ཁྲག་དང་ཆུ་སེར་སོགས་དུས་རྟག་པར་ཐོན་ནི་ ཁའི་པགས་པ་སྟུག་པོ་འགྱོ་ནི་དང་ སོའི་རྩ་བ་ལྷང་ལྷོང་སྒྲིང་སྒྲིང་མེད་པ་དང་ ཡང་མ་དག་པར་སྐྱོ་དྲགས་སྦེ་སོ་ཚབ་བཙུགས་ནི་ ཁ་རྫས་བཟའ་བའི་སྐབས་ཁའི་རྨ་ནཱ་ཟུག་རྐྱབ་ནི་ཚུ་དང་ མགྲིན་པའི་རྨ་ཁ་ནཱ་ཟུག་སྐྱབ་ནི་ཚུ་ཨིན།

གཞན་ཡང་ཁའི་ནང་དུ་ཚོན་ཁྲ་དཀར་དམར་སྦེ་རྨ་ཐོན་པ་ཅིན་ དེ་ལུ་erythroleukoplakiaཟེར་སླབ་ཨིནམ་ལས་ དེ་གིས་ཀེན་སར་ལུ་འགྱུར་ནིའི་ཉེན་ཁ་སྦོམ་ཡོད། རྨ་ཚོན་ཁྲ་དཀར་དམར་སྦེ་ཐོབ་སྟེ་བདུན་ཕྲག་གཉིས་ལྷག་སོང་པ་ཅིན་ དེ་འཕྲལ་ལས་སོའི་སྨན་པ་དང་འཕྱད་དེ་སྨན་བཅོས་འབད་དགོ། ཁ་ལུ་ཚུལ་མིན་གྱི་རྟགས་ཚན་ཚུ་ དཔེར་ན་ནཱ་ཟུག་རྐྱབ་ནི་བཟུམ་ རང་གི་མ་ཚོར་རུང་ མིག་གིས་མཐོངམ་ཨིན། དེ་ཡང་ཐོག་མའི་དུས་ལུ་ ཁ་ནང་འཕྲལ་འཕྲལ་ནཱ་ཟུག་ཆེནམ་ཅིག་ག་ཅི་ཡང་མེད་རུང་ ཀེན་སར་ཐོབ་ཚརཝ་ཨིན།

ཆང་དང་ཏམ་ཁུ་འདི་ ཆོས་དང་འཇིག་རྟེན་ ཚན་རིགས་གསུམ་ཆ་རའི་ཐད་ལས་ བཟའ་འཐུང་སྤྱོད་མ་བཏུབ་སྦེ་བདེན་ཁུངས་བསྐྱལ་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ མི་ཕལ་ཆེ་བ་གིས་ཆང་ནི་ངེས་པ་གསུམ་གྱི་རྩ་བ་ཨིནམ་ཤེསཔ་མ་ཚད་ ཁའི་ཀེན་སར་ཐོབ་ཧ་གོ། རྡོག་མ་ཡང་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་གསོ་བའི་གནས་དེབ/གསར་ཤོག་ཅིག་ནང་དཔེ་སྐྲུན་འབད་མི་དང་འཁྲིལ་བ་ཅིན་ ལང་ཤོར་དང་གོམ་འདྲིས་ངན་པ་ཚུད་དེ་ཁའི་ཀེན་སར་ཐོབ་པའི་རྒྱུ་ཨིནམ་སྦེ་ངོས་འཛིན་ནུག།

ཁའི་ཀེན་སར་འདི་ ཕོ་མོ་འདོད་འཚིམ་བཅུད་ཅན་གྱི་འཁྲིག་སྦྱོར་ལས་བརྒྱུད་པའི་ནད་འབུཔ་ཕྲ་མོ་papillomavirus (HPV) གིས་ཐོབ་དོ་ཡོདཔ་མ་ཚད་ མི་གང་རུང་རང་སོའི་ལུས་ཀྱི་ནད་ཐུབ་ཞན་ཁོག་ཐལ་ཏེ་ ལུས་ཁམས་སྒྲིང་སྒྲིྱིང་མེད་པའི་དབང་གིས་ཐོབ་ཨིན།

འཇིགས་སུ་རུང་བའི་ནད་གཞི་ལས་བརྟེན་ ནདཔ་རང་སོའི་འཕྲོད་རྟེན་འདི་ལོད་ཀྱང་ མཐའ་ན་གང་ཟག་དེའི་ཕྱོགས་སུ་རྟོགས་པའི་གཉེན་ཉེ་འཁོར་ཚུའི་སེམས་ཁམས་ཀྱི་གཞི་བདེ་ལུ་ཡང་ གནོད་པ་སྦོམ་ཡོདཔ་མ་ཚད་ ནད་གཞི་འདི་དྲག་ཐབས་ལུ་ སྨན་བཅོས་རིམ་གྲོ་འབད་བའི་ཚེ་ རྒྱུ་ནོར་ལེ་ཤ་རླགས་དགོཔ་དང་ རྒྱ་ཆེ་བ་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་དཔལ་འབྱོར་ལུ་ཡང་ཐོ་ཕོག་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན། དེ་ཡང་རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་གཙོ་རྟེན་སྨན་ཁང་གི་སྙན་ཞུ་དང་འཁྲིལ་བ་ཅིན་ འདས་པའི་ལོ་ངོ་བདུན་གྱི་རིང་ ལོ་ལྟར་བཞིན་ནདཔ་༤༠་ལྷག་ཙམ་
སྨན་བཅོས་འབད་བར་ རྒྱ་གར་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་བཏང་མི་གི་ཟད་འགྲོ་རྩིས་ལུ་ཕབ་ན་ ལོ་ལྟར་གཞུང་གིས་ཡོངས་སྡོམས་ཟད་འགྲོ་འབུམ་༣༠་བར་བཏང་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན།

འདས་པའི་ལོ་ངོ་ལྔའི་རིང་ལུ་ ཀེན་སར་ཐོབ་མི་གང་ཁ་འདི་གསུམ་སྒྱུར་གྱི་ཡར་སེང་སོང་ཡོདཔ་སྦེ་ ཀེན་སར་མཁས་ཆོག་དྲུང་ཚོག་ཨོ་རྒྱན་མཚོ་མོ་གིས་གསུང་ཡོདཔ་མ་ཚད་ འཇིགས་མེད་རྡོེ་དབང་ཕྱུག་གཙོ་རྟེན་སྨན་ཁང་ནང་ལུ་ ལོ་ལྟར་བཞིན་ནད་གཞི་ཐོབ་མི་ མི་ངོམ་༤༠༠ ལྷག་ཙམ་རེ་ངོས་འཛིན་འབྱུང་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན།

ནད་མ་འོང་གོང་ཟླྲོག། ཆུ་མ་འོངས་གོང་རགས། ཟེར་དོ་བཟུམ་ ནད་གཞི་མཐའ་སྡུག་དེ་བཟུམ་གྱིས་ རང་གི་ཡུན་ཐུང་ཁབ་ཀྱི་རྩེ་མོ་བཟུམ་གྱི་མི་ཚེ་དེ་ལུ་བར་ཆད་རྐྱབ་མ་ཅུག་པར་ གཟུགས་ཁམས་འཕྲོད་རྟེན་བདག་འཛིན་འཐབ་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ གོང་ལུ་བཤད་པའི་སྨྱོ་རྫས་ཚུ་ ད་ཚུན་སྤྱོད་ན་ བཤགས་སྦྱངས་དང་ ཕྱིན་ཆད་སྲོག་ལ་འབབ་ཀྱང་ མི་སྤྱོད་སང་ནི་གི་དམ་བཅའ་བླངས་དགོཔ་གལ་ཆེ།

ནད་གཞི་ལྕི་ན་སྨན་པ་གང་བྱུང་བསྟེན། གྲོད་པ་ལྟོགས་ན་ཟས་ལ་དབྱེ་བ་མེད། ཟེར་དོ་བཟུམ་ རང་གི་གཟུགས་ལུ་ནད་གཞི་འ་ནེ་བཟུམ་བཏབ་དེ་ཡོད་པ་ཅིན་ འཕྲལ་དང་མྱུར་དུ་སྨན་ཁང་ནང་འབྱོན་ཏེ་ཞིབ་དཔྱད་མཐྱིལ་འཕྱིན་མཛད་དགོཔ་མ་ཚད་ སྨན་པ་དང་སྨན་ཚུ་ཡུན་རིང་བསྟེན་དགོཔ་ཅི་ནས་ཀྱང་གལ་ཆེ།

དྲུང་ཚོ་ཨོ་རྒྱན་མཚོ་མོ་གིས་གསུངས་མི་ནང་ལུ་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ཀེན་སར་ཐོབ་མི་མངམ་འཐོན་མི་འདི་ ནད་ངོ་བརྟག་དཔྱད་འབད་ནི་གི་ དུས་ཚོད་ཕྱི་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ལས་བསྟེན་ཨིནམ་ལས་ གལ་སྲིད་ནད་གཞི་བརྟག་དཔྱད་འདི་ཧ་སུ་ཅིག་སྦེ་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ ནད་གཞི་ཐོབ་མི་གི་གངས་ ལེ་ཤ་གི་མར་འབབ་འགྱོ་ནི་ཨིནམ་སྦེ་བཀོད་
ནུག།
གཞན་ཡང་འབྲུག་མི་མང་ཆེ་བ་ཅིག་ལུ་ གསོ་བའི་སློབ་སྟོན་དང་ཡོན་ཏན་དཀོན་པའི་སྟབས་ཀྱིས་ ཨེགས་རེ་(X-ray)ཚར་ལེ་ཤ་བཏང་དོ་ཡོད་པའི་རྐྱེན་གྱིས་ ཀེན་སར་ཐོབ་དོ་ཡོདཔ་སྦེ་ཤེས་གཏོགས་འབྱུང་ནུག། རྒྱུ་མཚན་དེའི་ཕྱིར་དུ་ ཨེགས་རེ་ ཡང་ཡང་བཏང་ནི་ལས་འཛེམ་དགོཔ་ཁག་ཆེ།

གལ་སྲིད་ནད་གཞི་འདི་བཟུམ་ཐོབ་སྟེ་ སྨན་བཅོས་ཀྱི་ལམ་ལུགས་ཧ་མ་གོ་བར་ རྨོངས་པའི་ལམ་དུ་ལྷུངས་ན་ མགོ་འཐོམ་བསལ་བར་བྱེད་པའི་གཞུང་མིན་ལས་ཚོགས་ འབྲུག་ཀེན་སར་ཚོགས་པ་ཟེར་མི་ཅིག་གཞི་འཙུགས་འབད་ཡོད་མི་དང་འབྲེལ་བ་འཐབ་པ་ཚུགས་པ་ཅིན་ ལས་ཚོགས་འདི་གིས་ཉེ་བར་འཁོར་བའི་ལམ་སྟོན་དང་བསླབ་བྱ་གནང་ཐོག་ལས་ སྨན་བཅོས་འབད་ནི་ལུ་ ཕན་
རླབས་ཆེཝ་ཨིན།

བསྐལ་ལྡན་ལས་འཕྲོ་ཅན་གྱི་འབྲུག་མི་ཚུ་ ཕྱི་རྒྱལ་གྱི་མི་རྣམས་དང་འཕྱདཔ་ད་ ནད་གཞི་འདི་མ་ཐོབ་སྔོན་འགོག་འབད་ཚུགས་པའི་ཐབས་ལམ་བསམ་གྱིས་མི་ཁྱབས་པར་ཡོན་མི་ཚུ་ དང་ལེན་འབད་དགོ། དེ་ཡང་སངྱས་ཀྱི་

གསུངས་ བླམ་སློབ་དཔོན་ཚུའི་དམ་ངག་ཟབ་མོ་དང་ ཐོས་བསམ་སྒོམ་གསུམ་གྱི་ཡོན་ཏན་དཔལ་ལུ་སྤྱོད་དེ་ ཀེན་སར་ཐོབ་པའི་གཞི་ རྫས་ངན་ཏམ་ཁུ་ཆང་རིགས་སོགས་ ཤེས་བརྗོད་འཇུག་གསུམ་གྱི་གོ་ལས་ྤསང་དགོ། རྫས་ངན་འདི་ཚུ་སྤྱོད་པའི་ཉེས་པ་དང་གནོད་པ་ཚུ་ཧ་གོ་བ་ཅིན་ ྤསང་ཐབས་འབད་ནི་ལུ་ལྷན་ཐབས་འབདཝ་ཨིན།

རྣམ་པར་དག་པའི་གནས་སྐབས་གཞན་ཡང་ ངན་པའི་ཟས་ཚུ་བཤོལ་ཏེ་ ག་དུས་ཟས་ཀྱང་སེམས་སྐྱིད་མ་ཚད་ མི་ཚེ་གང་པོར་ཟོས་ཀྱང་ཆོག་པའི་ དཀར་ཟས་དང་ཟས་བཅུད་ལྡན་པའི་ ཤིང་འབྲས་རིགས་ཚུ་ལོངས་སྤྱོད་ཚུགས་ན་ ནད་གཞི་བཀག་ཚུགས་པའི་ཁེ་ཕན་བསམ་ལས་འདས།

ལྷག་པར་དུ་ རང་གི་མི་ཚེ་སྐྱིད་པའི་དཀྱིལ་ལུ་ བྱད་ངོ་རིས་དང་གཟུགས་གཞི་ལེགས་པའི་གཟྱི་བརྗིད་དཔལ་འབར་གྱི་དབང་སྐྱེད་དེ་ ནད་ཀེན་སར་མ་ཚད་ག་ཅི་འོང་རུང་ ཕྲོད་རྟེན་ལུ་དོ་འགན་མ་ཚུགསཔ་ལས་ ཡང་དག་ཟས་ལུ་སྤྱོད་
པའི་ཕན་ཡོན་ཨིན།

ད་རུང་ནད་རྒྱ་ལུ་སྨན་གཅིག་ལྟ་བུའི་ཐབས་ཤེས་འདི་ སུའི་ངོ་ལའང་ལྟ་དགོས་མེདཔ་དང་ གཡས་དང་གཡོན་ལ་འཚེར་དགོས་མེད་པའི་ བསིལ་ཞིང་འཇམ་པ་འདལ་གྱིས་འབབ་པའི་ཆུ་གང་མང་མང་འཐུང་དགོ། དེ་ཡང་ཆུའི་ནང་དུ་ གངས་ལས་འདས་པའི་ འབུབ་ཕྲན་ལེ་ཤ་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ ནད་གཞི་གཞན་ཡང་ཐོབ་ཉེན་ཡོད་བཞིན་ ཆུ་ཡང་ཐབ་ཁར་བཀོལ་འཐུང་ དེ་མེན་གློག་མེ་ཆུ་བཙག་ཚུ་ནང་བཙག་སྟེ་ འཐུང་དགོཔ་ཨིན།

ཁའི་ཀེན་སར་ཐོབ་པའི་དུས་ནམ་ཤརཝ་སྨོ་ཟེར་བ་ཅིན་ གྲོགས་ངན་པ་དང་སྡོམས་ ཟས་ངན་སྨྱོ་རྫས་འཐུང་སྤྱོད་འབད་དེ་ བཀྲ་མ་ཤིས་གཡང་མ་ཆགས་པའི་བྱ་སྤྱོད་མཐའ་སྡུག་སི་སི་ལུ་ཤུགས་ཐལཝ་ལས་ ནད་གཞི་ཐོབ་ཨིན། རྒྱུ་མཚན་དེའི་ཕྱིར་ ཟས་ངན་སང་འདོད་རུང་གྲོགས་ངན་མ་སངས་ན་ སྨྱོ་རྫས་ཏམ་ཁུ་སོགས་སང་མི་ཚུགསཔ་ལས་ གྲོགས་ངན་རྫམ་གྱི་ཨུབ་དང་འདྲ།། གང་རེག་ཐམས་ཅད་ནག་པོ་འགྱུརཝ་ལས་ གྲོགས་ངན་སང་པའི་རྗེས་སུ་ ཕན་ཐོགས་སྤུ་ཙམ་མེད་པའི་ སྨྱོ་རྫས་དུག་བཞིན་སང་།

དམིགས་གསལ་ལཱ་མེད་དལ་ཁོམས་ཅན་གྱི་དུས་ཚོད་ལུ་ རྫས་ངན་སྤྱོད་དེ་སྡོད་ཉེན་ཆེཝ་ལས་ རྡོག་མ་བཟའ་ནི་སང་སྟེ་ ཁ་དལཝ་མ་བཞག་མ་ནི་གྲོངས་ ལུས་དལཝ་སྡོད་དུས་ལཱ་ངན་སང་སྟེ་ རབ་འབྱུང་ན་ཕྱག་མཆོད་བསྐོར་ར་འབད་ ཡིད་སྨྱོ་རྫས་ཕྱོགས་སུ་མ་གཡོ་བར་ དོན་ལྡན་བཟང་པའི་བྱ་བ་ཚུ་ལུ་ལྷག་པར་བརྩོན། དེ་མ་ཡིན་ན་སྨྱོ་རྫས་སང་ནའི་ཐབས་ཕན་ནུས་ཅན་ཅིག་ ལུས་སྦྱོང་འབད་ནི་དང་ ནང་པའི་ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་སྒོམ་ནི་ གཞན་ཕྱི་རྒྱལ་ལུགས་ཀྱི་སྒོམ་མ་འདྲཝ་ཚུ་ཉམས་སུ་བླང་ན་ མ་བརྟག་བག་མེད་ཀྱི་
སྤྱོད་པ་སང་ཚུགས་སྟེ་ ལུས་བདེ་ ལུས་བདེ་ན་རྩ་འཕྲང་ རྩ་འཕྲང་ན་སེམས་འཕྲང་སྟེ་ བདག་གཞན་གཉིས་ཀའི་ མི་ཚེ་ཞི་བདེ་ལུ་བཀོད་ཚུགས་པའི་ཕན་ཐོག་ཆེ།

ཁའི་ཀེན་སར་ཐོབ་པའི་ཟས་ལུ་སྤྱོད་པའི་མི་རྣམས་ནི་ བློ་སེམས་གྲོགས་ངན་ལུ་གཏད་ གྲོགས་ངན་གྱིས་རྫས་ངན་སྤྱོད་ དེས་གཉིས་ཀ་ རྣམ་གཡེང་དབང་གིས་ཉིན་མཚན་ཟད་ ལྷོད་གཡེང་བྱེད་དེ་ལོ་དང་ཟ་བ་རྫོགས་ མཐའ་འཇུག་རེ་བ་སྟོང་པཡི་ངང་ནས་འཆི་བ་མདུན་དུ་བསུ་སྟེ་ མི་ཚེ་འཕྲོ་བརླག་གི་རྣམ་ཐར་སྐྱོ་སི་སི་ལུ་འགྱུརཝ་ལས་ ཁའི་ནད་གཞི་ཀེན་སར་འདི་ནི་ འགྲོ་བ་རང་སའི་སྲོག་བརྐུ་བའི་རྐུན་པོ་ ཞི་བདེ་འཕྲོག་པའི་ཆོམ་རྐུན་ འཆི་བ་ཤིན་རྗེ་ཀྱི་ཕོ་ཉ་ཨིནམ་ཤེས་ཏེ་ ཁའི་ཀེན་སར་རྩ་མེད་བཏང་དགོཔ་ག་
ནི་བ་གལ་ཆེ།། །།
ཁུངས་གཏུག་རྒྱབ་རྟེན་ཡིག་ཆ༽
 འབྲུག་གནས་སྟངས་གསར་ཤོག།
 ལོ་ལྟར་གསོ་བའི་གནས་ཚུལ་སྙན་ཞུ་ ༢༠༡༥ ཅན་མ།
 འཛམ་གླིང་གསོ་བའི་ལས་ཁུངས/ཚོགས་པ།

HAPPINESS

                                                        HAPPINESS

H-Help: “A willing helper doesn’t wait until he is asked.” Unknown
The world encompasses rich, poor, and downtrodden. While everyone is lured by their infinite desires, it’s hard to find people who are satisfied with what they possess. Some yearn for success while others don’t even have basic amenities to sustain their life. Some people would be in mere need of affection. Thus how beautiful it will be if we can bring smiles to those sad faces? Strengths to dejected ones and positivity to wicked ones? When we help others, we grow our self to the better human in the process. Donating money, foods, and clothing; spreading love and positive vibes, giving some of your valuable time and extending help through charity organizations are some of the fundamental acts that one can perform to help others.

A-Altruism: “The root of happiness is altruism-the wish to be service to others.” Dalai Lama
Altruism is an ethical doctrine holding the moral value for the cause of others. The innermost core that makes human is to have the most important social impulse of helping others without hoping for returns. That is called altruism. Effective altruism is a philosophy and social movement which considers all-cause and actions that work out to improve the world. It is always good to walk in the light of altruism than in the darkness of selfishness. 

P-Pray: “The lord is far from wicked, but he hears the prayers of the righteous.” unknown
When on earth and wherever you say a prayer, ‘lord help me do what is right, just and fair,’ it brings forth happiness and peace for all. A man who trusts their faith in God is likely to have a good start and productive ending of any events. Such people are expected to be more confident in tackling the issues and they are more probable to look for a general cause. Men who say prayers are able to discern between good and evil; discreet and realistic in the pursuit of happiness.

P-Patient: “Patience is bitter but the fruit is sweet.” Aristotle
Slowness doesn’t matter so longs as it does not stop. Because genius is patience and all good things takes time. A short moment of patience may ward off a big disaster, and the opposite would ruin the whole life. Kanuri said, “At the bottom of the patients, one finds the haven.” The quality of having patience helps us to be at ease and happy with the things we are going to do and satisfy with what we did. We must not cross the bridge until come across since doing right things at the right time creates a happy atmosphere.
I-Inspire: “Difficult roads often lead to the beautiful destination.” Unknown
Getting inspired and inspiring others are an important two side of one whole. Having the intention of positively inspiring should be done in such a way as Inspire others by expecting most of them, inspire others by challenging them, caring about them, taking a stand in what you believe, having the courage to change course, practicing integrity, sharing our influences and listening to them. 

N-Nurture: Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in heroic makes heroes.” Benjamin Disraeli.
We shouldn’t be what has happened to us but we must be the one we chose to be. The things that we plan and yearning to do will never die but it would never gleam the success if we fail to nurture it. We must be able to nurture our body, speech, and mind in order to expand our perspective so that we can triumph and inculcate more happiness. The biggest sign of mature is being able to nurture our self. We must leave anyone who comes across better than we found them. Get nurtured in such a way to have an understanding and forgiving heart.

E- Educate: “Education is the most powerful weapon to change the world.” Nelson Mandala
Education is not in knowing the facts but getting adorned with values. The only thing that can’t stop us growing is to have a passion for learning because an investment in knowledge pays the best interest. A man with value leaves the mark of peace and traces of happiness. Education expands the perspective of people to work for common interests of all. If there is something to revolutionize the world into the better place to live than that’s the education. 

S-Solution: “When the solution is simple, God is answering.” Albert Einstien
Problems are to be solved nevertheless many keep complaining about it. Problems can be a challenging that contains a seed of solution by itself. A solution can be either small or complex which requires ranging amount of resources. Hundreds of paths lead to a single destination and by the same token, a lone problem has thousands of ways to solve. We are either a part of solution or problem. People are happy when they get the right solution for their problems. 

S- Satisfaction: “Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is a full victory.” Mahatma Gandhi
The ultimate inner satisfaction in life is derived from getting the most out of doing the best. You are satisfied if you can look back upon your life and wear a smile. There is no greater satisfaction than to live your life with dignity, honesty and helping others.Pray for altruism to inspire all in nurturing happiness. Educate with a patient to seek the best solution for happy living and satisfying life. 

A loner Bee

It begins like so many other stories, it’s like narrating a long dream that doesn’t have endings. There is a time where we have to depart yet we have no certain place to go. I too have a story that put me in the tight corner to accept my fate under no choice. Humbly I did submit before every condition to set on a long and arduous voyage in search of a whole inner self when the early breeze awoke me from a deep slumber. Soft languid clouds were gently drifting over the eastern valley to welcome early rays. Peacefully heeding to cheering sound of the river beneath while hanging at the midriff of a deep dark and treacherous cliff are all beautiful memories which still got entrenched within my mind.

Soaring high in the space I departed my gracious birthplace for good and I recollect the final glance I had towards my sagging big hive on the tall cliff. Immersing in this glorious memories keep clouding my eyes with tears profusely. With the heavy heart and frail health, I came crossing miles of distance to embrace the journey following an unknown place, ascending high and descending low, bypassing the different weathers and vegetation every now and then. During my journey the only option was to take advantage of possible daylight (if luck favors) that I had in my hand which forged me to travel sunup till sundown and too shelter during night under secure places. Sadly I lacked the night vision which everyone aspects insects like me should have it to travel further even at night.

There were sinking and floating spells of time throughout my expedition where I had an opportunity to enjoy the fruits and cereals freely beyond any one's control. There was a time I had to be wary and hid below the branches and leaves of plants for so long to escape from predators. My life was always at stake. It’s like carrying my soul in my palm so delicate that any little carefree should happen then no more chance to see the following empty sky one more time. However, the greatest advantage is of being very tiny, which enables me to be very feasible to get pass through the tinniest space available and savor the sweets of anything. Fortunately, being hardly noticeable saved me from those hungry raiders many a times.  

The journey didn’t come to end soon. Even I crossed the deadliest desert that nearly killed me from thirst. At night it was so cold that brought frost to cover everything. I survived long and harsh winter in a barren land everywhere which often succumbed me to nostalgic season of fresh fruits and flowers provided by my parents. The tendency is like as being in this world and having the dualistic mind I too have to go through several emotions. But no matter how much the anger upsurges beyond and above, I had to subside because anger would cost my life if I happen to sting unknowingly or knowingly. Because few will understand how it drags all the organs along with it. It will be my suicidal mission if not considered to cool down my temperament. I know how important life is and I won’t intentionally undergo such phase.

I am aspired to travel length and breadth of this land and yearning so much for the freshness kept me alive for so long. My goal was always to be the guest of honor in the any place during spring season where every places gets carpeted by the beautiful flowers blossoming everywhere. That would be our mega feast and festival for every tiny insect whose life is being defined by such sweets as nectar of the flowers. However, even being blessed by such wonderful periods I always longed for sth required to be fulfilled. So it always remained mystery in every sense for leaving hollow in my heart. I was frequently haunted by a feeling of not being complete enough and the other half residing somewhere else. Something was missing from the whole plot. There was such a craving surging within me in search of the other half of me.

Not so long ago when I hovered crossing the tall prayer flags and lungdhars fluttering over high hills everything kept pouring me all over. It was such a welcome in the region of spring fully blessed by blossoms everywhere. The droplet of nectar and the aroma completed the urge of my journey and connected the two ends of the circle of my quest. I was literally twirling, singing and kissing all those flowers so excitedly and forgot of who lied happily above prying over. 

If you see spring coming forth please be cautious and keep your ears wide open. You may hear the bees humming. It’s not a sound but a long-awaited love story exchanging between flowers and bees. Together they become one fully matured and complete beautiful spring season.

Why sluggish growth of private sector in Bhutan?

Ever since the underpinning of monarchy has been rooted deeply within the land of thunder dragon; there stands so firm the great successive Dharma Kings who embrace and binds together the diverse innocent citizens through a motherly love and care who nourishes the developmental activities like a blossoming flowers, that bears the fruit of ripened happiness. Under the glorious reign, there exists a small sandwiched nation between giant China and India that requires zoom out to view its details on the map sheet but copiously blessed with natural resources and soars prominence ever higher for its balanced and sustainable development Paradigm.

The country like an iota of dust potentially impacts the global community like a roaring dragon in an open sky mainly because of its unique planning scheme but however, the world around us has come long way of advancement through the series of industrialization followed by technological revolution and information age till date. As economics modernism skyrockets globally we are left behind in the race of development. Being enticed by their development our country is hit hard by strong tides of change amid strong current flow of constrains that caught up in the wave of inefficient resource utilization due to poor technologies and low skilled laborer.
In this global community we are dashed aside and withheld by many challenges.  Currently our country is riding the sinking-boat debt policy to fish in a water troubled by donor countries. The current hydro projects to whom people awaits with rising flames of hope to earn huge amounts of foreign currency is slowly fading its warmth and heading towards depression tomb.

With the lack of proper research, planning and absence of checks and balances in the country has led to the poor execution that in turn laid the platform for failure to stage a show. Today the world is run by the giant private organizations. They are catalyst in the major decision making and worldwide trend setter. Profit maximization is the life force, creativity the brain and their soul the customer to each and entire organization. Envisioned to be the best in all they mission to shed the blood in providing best services they can to their customers. That’s how efficient organization aspires to excel in their journey of success and pawn the world in their hand.  

In Bhutan the chronic orthodoxy whims has channeled private organization on the suicide mission. Since for so long every developmental activities in our country are being carried out by government under the visionary leaders since the inception of 1st five year plan in 1960s. Reason being so as a general, Bhutanese people has a mindset that government will do everything for them. Rather they must be proactive than being reactive to view through the lens to develop the strength to ask what can they do for government than to wait for government to get things done for them.

The other dark side of our society is that we totally lack the sense of dignity of labor. We generally assume that government work is superior to private job. Social influence is so strong that effect is felt in the job market where all the graduates fight for the limited government slots. Parents are never happy if their children land up working in private organization and although those few joining private firms take it as last option. They are never satisfied unless they get hold of government seat and its right to some extend as it has secure future prospects and free working environment from oppression.

However in advanced nations private firms are the main nation developers. Thus their organization exceeds governments one. This makes people to aim for best private company to work based on numerous parameters like working environment, ease of doing business etc. obviously higher payment in private firms as it is income oriented and this very factor facilitates to get skilled labors and this garners the attention of customers too. But unlike other country, in Bhutan private firms are still at infancy who requires consistent nourishment from government to led him unsheathe his cocoon of dependence to beam strong radiant of independence sooner or later through the provision of funds at lower interests’ rate. Government rather than lending helping hand always they must teach them how to fish for their sustained living. They must require only a nudge from government and tackle challenges on the way of success.

For the plant to grow healthy it requires constant care with adequate water, fertile soil, abundant sunlight and clean air. Similarly in Bhutan if private sector to soar high governments must give wings to them. Rules and regulation assorted for private firm must be ideal in a way that is quasi rigid quasi flexible to suit changing time, environmentally friendly and socially responsible. It must have the taste of fairness for all to compete, favorable taxing policy and encouraging incentives that can help actualize the desired results in a sustainable way. The license procurement system should be easily within reach and free of corruptions.

Bhutan the small nation is sparsely dotted with low density of population. Smaller the family happier it is and shorter the cord lighter the mass weighs. Having smaller population exerts lesser pressure on resources and easier to meet their needs but it has ironic impact on business sector. Larger the population higher the demand and higher the demand more the profit they can make. Therefore foreign countries are always on advantage front to boost their business due to absolute advantage of larger population. Bhutan on the other hand are handicapped from enjoying comparative advantages of demand from least population.

The ease of doing business cast long shadow on the successful endeavor of private firms. Every firms are the cog in the wheel of overall national development. Like a well-greased wheels runs best on smooth road, the best planned private firms requires ideal situation to function well. Like a bird having strongest wings soars highest and longest duration in the sky, the firm with highest profit maximization not only live but thrives a leading company in the world.

Cause of slow growth of private firm
1. Economic and means of trade
The mighty Rosaric Mountains and interlocking spurs serve as an iron bar to safeguard our nation from external foes but fails to serve as an ideal place for agriculture practice. The 60% thick lush green forests cover and steep topographies offer poor choice to farmers in cultivating bulky and productive cereals. These limited amounts hoarded face stiff competition against cheap and ample quantity in international markets. The available resources remain untapped ever for contrasting the GNH principles. Local small scale industries are facing tough time breaking through draught success due to expensive raw materials and low returns on the factors of production. In such condition private firm rarely flourishes.
     

2. Political and security
Working environment must be safe and supportive otherwise it would be challenge for any private firm. Should there be any political riots and chaos would hamper the flow of business. Sometimes political parties demean the national interests for personal gains and formulate policies which create havoc for the business community with stringent rules and heavy taxation. If the place is politically susceptible towards security no FDIs would come to invest or no new start-ups would be there.  

3. Climate change and Ecology
Climate change has become mouth piece of every individual and is typical global issue where attention from all sides are required to fight against it. Major impacts are being felt in the Himalayan regions. Natural calamities are at the peak and food security is at stake. Due frequent change in weather and climatic conditions welcomes heavy torrents at the odd time and displaces required conditions at the bay. Land becomes unfit for cultivations and resources runs out when ecology gets disturbed. Private organization is prone to loss under unfit climate.  

4. Modes of transportation
The Veins of the society circulatory system that supplies goods and services to fulfill the needs and wants of people excites how important the modes of transportation are. Bhutan being mountainous country do not have accessible to all modes of transportation. She is deprived of sea transport and railways. Even air transport is under limited usage while the most convenient land transport is surrounded by lots of problems from every fronts. In the first case there are handful of people who ventures into private business and among these we hardly see succeeding if not all ends up in smoke. Better the modes of communication will not only give the industries live but it will link the networks of world business. It’s the backbone of tourism industry.
5. Law
Legislature, executive and judiciary have big share of drafting, deliberating and billing the law of trade and commerce. Under the umbrella of effective business regulations each firm would be protected from showers of failures. Law that comes handy would enable them ignite the confrontments and embower them to beat failure and seize success. This is all about the terms and conditions for local indigenous industries and FDI companies. 

6. Natural calamity
Nature is the good teacher but bad master. We get best if we do good and worst if we do bad to them. The force of nature is so harsh that strikes and take millions of life causing big damages to our properties. Calamities like earthquake, floods, forest fire has a potential of withholding developmental projects and that also demotivates private firm to venture into business. The wide outbreak of contagious and chronic diseases such as ebola, AIDS etc. would wipe out the possibilities of structuring private firms in the area.  Such calamities would damage resources and displaces customers from one place to another.

7. Dignity of labor
Private firm is like a child born out of wedlock who is always down looked in the Bhutanese society although many changes has apparently come at this time of the year. Someone getting into private firm is dust in the eye of beholder and poison in their mind to think about it. This societal stigma needs awareness to blend all the private firms enjoys equal status with government organizations. This will act as a driving force for new entrepreneur to take challenges in coming up with creative and active initiatives. This is how we can build our nation strong and independent.

8. Risk taking
Bhutanese have a soft mind and tender character who all are easy goer. They are sentimentally ingrained towards religion which teaches cause and effect. As business is built upon lie and deceit which is not a noble deed but with living expenditure continuously making people feel the pinch propels them embark their journey upon private business. Private business venture is like getting hold of venomous viper. It requires guts and confidence to tame the viper without getting hurt and convert his venom into medicine. Likewise challenges are the stepping stone towards success. Difficulties takes us to higher level and serves us with better opportunities. Business is all about taking risks to beat its rivals in the market.     

9. Resource availability
Bhutan the land of medicinal herbs has a pride of being blessed with abundance of natural resources. We have fresh golden water, prosperous golden biodiversity, beautiful golden land and clean golden air to breath. However all parts of country are not lucky enough to have equal share of resources. Due to unequal distribution of natural resources has hindered the growth of private firm. This has also caused economic disparity in terms of development and generating employment opportunities which is directly proportional to low purchasing power. With limited amount of budget in hand aiming to run private firm is like drinking water in dream just to quench our thirst that doesn’t have effect.

A red letter day

It is neither a bitter pill that I have chosen to swallow nor to bite off more than I can eat but I have a bigger fish to fry in life than just be a normal citizen. Responsibility weighs heavier than mountain mass yet it will be so pity to let it slip off the hand. Hence, getting hold of obligations is a pass to the better future and for tomorrow belongs to our nation who involves in preparing today. Such men carry matchstick of ideas to light up the troubled situation to give the spark of peace and prosperity in our society.

Although so often I feel like I have my fingers in too many pies I want to stew my own juice to crack the crest of challenges. Thus, amidst the race of life against the clock, seldom comes such an opportunity to become a representative of masses, whereby removing thick layers of shyness I popped up in front of all to seize this opportunity in such a situation that came as an icing on the cake to hone my caliber so that I can bow and bent according to any situation leading self and mass alike.

Yes! The day came which required nothing to prove its auspiciousness when the white Khata got adorned around my neck which officially conferred the title Uephel puen Dhodam(captain) of the year 2018. I’m so grateful to my Puen members for unanimously electing me to this post. Having invested their trust in me I would like to serve everyone with utmost dedication so that we all can be the part of creating a successful story. We want to leave nothing but memorable footprints and take nothing but a sweet memory.

  

2017-2018 (List of books read)

1.The life of Buddha vol-l
2. The life of Buddha vol-ll
3.the invincible
4.Osho- daily prayers
5.7 habits of Highly effective people
- stephen R. Cowy
6. Great by Choice
- stephen R. Cowy
7. The way of the White coluds
8.why nation fails?
9. Aexander the great
10. The charlimange pursuit
11.abhramlincon
12.Beyond the sky and earth
-Jimme Zappa
13.Beloved
-Toni Mirrison
14. Right of VISION and occasional views
-Thakur S Powdyel
15. ཕལ་པའི་ཁྱིམ་ཚང་གི་སྐྱིད་སྡུག། 5/09/18
-Tashi Pelden
16. The Theory of Everything11/09/18
-Stephen Hawking
17. A tale of Genji
18.Not for Happiness
-D.Jamyang Khentse
19.What makes you not a Buddhist?
-D.J.k
20. བར་དོའི་ངོ་སྤྲོད་རང་ཤར་རང་གྲོལ།
- Khenpo Phuntsho Tashi
21. Seven Years in Tibet
- Heinrich Harrer
22. Tears of Blood, A cry for Tibet
- Mary Craig
23. Ladakh - Crossroads of high Asia
-Janet Rizvi
24. China- The Post- Mao View
-V.P. Dutt
25. My Crazy Tales
-H.H The Gyalwang Drukpa-XII

Challenges confronted in achieving GaKyid Pelzom

The ultimate Human Aspiration is Happiness. These days, there are many who believe the modern view of speeding up economic growth will contribute to the generation and growth of happiness. But what makes you happy? Wealth? Is Bill Gate the happiest person in this World? Power? Is Donald Trump the happiest? Was Saddam Hussien the happiest? Is Dalai Lama the happiest? 

However these are the intangibles which backs in achieving happiness. Gross National Happiness, as the guiding philosophy of Bhutan’s development process, was pronounced by His Majesty King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, soon after his enthronement in 1972. GNH stands for holistic needs of human being - both physical and mental wellbeing. The GNH is based on a balance among four pillars: social/cultural preservation, environmental preservation, good governance and economic growth. No one of the pillars is more important and a change in one area is examined in light of the other three.

However GNH is also tinted by many criticisms as nonrealistic approach and thus the route towards achieving the goals of GNH is tackled with lots of hindrances. Various factors holds back from gleaming light of guidance for holistic developments. There are three challenges, which limit the achievement of happiness and these include the outer, inner and secret obstacles:

The outer obstacles consists of famine, war, natural disaster and diseases etc. Believing the fact that having enough money in bank, driving fancy car, wearing branded outfits and residing in a fabulous building would give enough happiness but possessing all such items put us in the web of concerns. The spirit of amassing, protection and booming wealth weighs down one with least satisfaction, worries and exhaustion which is not an ideal means of achieving GNH.

The inner obstacle of happiness relates to suffering caused by illness or disease and the fear of death. Dread of getting down looked by the society, getting hurt by others and hurting others, failure and confrontments of challenges keep a person lingering within the oceans of sadness.

The secret obstacles, also impairing happiness are desire, anger and ignorance. This is mostly brewed from our inner mind, chances are very slim for one to be able to develop happiness. Desire of getting rich, angered by others success and lacking skills and knowledge are some of the cause of distress.These emotions of three poisons are very powerful because they have the power to make everyone suffer - both in this world and the next generation. 

The challenges can also be viewed through the lens of four pillars of GNH:
1. Sustainable and equitable Socio-economic development. The materialistic development is determined from the scale of economic advancements where difficulties in attaining sustainable and equitable socio-economic growth is obvious from the economic sufferings faced by the majority of global community. Unequal distribution of resources, inefficient planning and ineffective execution has resulted in the economic disparity. Unequal income distribution has led to Ignorance, ill health, deprivation, and poverty in their most miserable forms are still serious challenges faced by much of the developing world. Most underdeveloped and developing nations for whom physical survival is an everyday challenge. In order to create happy society economic policies are what matters most. Provision of jobs via creating secure working environments and maintaining better livelihood are nuts and bolts of happiness.

2. Conservation of the Environment. The government of the day is consistently aiming to provide better service for the citizens through various developmental activities but sadly development has come at the cost of environmental destruction. This has serious repercussion in the long run on the public and it would cause a lots of disaster viz, (man-made and natural). Moreover as our constitution mandates 60% under the forest cover we cannot lively explore and consume the resources to meet the needs of every citizen. Exploitation of environment and biodiversity would also demean our major source of income the vibrant tourism industry that also indirectly curbs the employment opportunity. This creates dissatisfied society. Thus, we understand that there is a demonstrable relationship between happiness and natural environment.

3. Preservation and Promotion of Culture. The life line of national security and sovereignty hangs on the unique and rich culture heritage of our nation. Every individuals wears smile and are in the situation who has fundamental rights to be exercised at our command. Happiness resides where people has freedom to enjoy but one should remember to perform fundamental duties as well. However amongst youths being in indigenous culture seems more of a norms n punishment which stirs the calmness of happiness in them. Nevertheless for a greater cause and long run we believe that a state which does not preserve its cultural richness is one where the choices and well-being of its citizens are diminished and greatly constrained. The swift globalization has serious threat on the depletion of culture which has potential of causing widespread misery where independence is at stake.

4. Good Governance. This pillar encompasses all above mentioned principles. Good governance brings forth peace and harmony society. There would be firm bond amongst citizens and solid trust between peoples and bureaucrats because there won’t be any lapses in system as it is being well planned and executed in the interests of public. Should it happen in other way around than whole nation would run to dooms day. Chaos and problems would erase the sense of happiness from the face of the Earth. When everyone enjoys equal share than there exists a peaceful and happy society like an Eden above. However with an arrival of democratic form of government and when each individual gets empowered to raise their voice, it brings forth lots of issues and in a way many remain unsatisfied at the personal or general level. To establish liberal and peaceful society free of despondency we faces lots of challenges in our actual life.

In the world where resources are limited and individual desires are boundless GNH serves a cornerstone for the creation of sustainable development paradigm. GNH stands for holistic needs of human being - both physical and mental wellbeing. While poverty alleviation and other material development measures are consistent with physical well-being, the misery of mental conditions that is independent of material living conditions cannot be addressed by favorable material circumstances alone. GNH seeks to complement inner skills of happiness with outer circumstances. Both sources have to be harmonized to bring about happiness.  

Losar Delek

Most elderly people whines of getting plagued by insomnia with the passing time yet small kids can reminiscence clearly, he who napped next to them cognizes very well how soundly one get into slumber by their warm regulation of body temperature. Back then as a little kid, I would have broken the genius world record had there been one of the best child who sleeps so soundly with our grandparents. I realized how good I was at it since I adored the mantras of praise that lingered at the tip of my late grandfathers’ tongue. He is such a gracious superhuman being who groomed me so well at my infancy. He took me to sleep by narrating the biographies of Guru Padmasambhava and got me up by his daily soothing early morning prayers.

However, the time has come even warmth of my grandpa couldn't get me to fall sleep. Fliping left and right, rolling and kicking my legs beneath blanket like a caterpillar roasting in the sun i couldn't maintain calmness. This signalled something was wrong with me because i was totally carried away by the next days plan of playing archery.

The long awaited day was yet to break but I was slithering off the edge of patience deep within which made me curse a whole night for being so long. I did not possess any electronic gadgets to entertain in those bygone days or at least we had radio and wall clock hanging in alter room but it was to no avail when grandfather taught me the timing at night listening to roosters crow and shifting position of stars at night in the azure sky. The whole night I was facing towards the window which I kept unnoticeably open not to let in air and also wide enough to see the crack of dawn through it at the peril of grandpas notice. Despite the wide opening of my eyelid I could only see darkness and time and again elevated my head and picked my ear to listen to cock crowing.

Slowly at the snail’s pace, the light took over the dusk and no sooner did I hear my dad churning SUJAA in kitchen, I hopped out of the bed with a big cry of exhilaration. Then I gradually executed my duty of sweeping surroundings and offering CHOEP (water) in alter. After this, in order, we enjoy THUEB (porridge), TEA (salt or sugar tea) with KHABZEY and ZAW. Then comes exceptional and well prepared Breakfast comprising of assorted curry with red rice but for me, nothing mattered more than playing ARCHERY with my friends on this special day.

A pacific Bhutanese society is well painted by a striking game of archery. This is such a vibrant game which brings together everyone irrespective of age, gender, ethnicity, culture, race etc. to celebrate and cherish a wonderful and auspicious occasion. Around 9am on the day of losar, I reminisce everyone rushing towards their play field and different groups of people get swarmed in their respective archery playground. Howling and cheering, dancing and singing by enjoying different drinks and foods, a day gets passes by.

Unlike in the past, although my interest in sport diminishes, I never forgo its value and impact on my life. The more I celebrate losar, the wiser I become of things happening around and in fact, now I realize the actual importance of this special day.

This year is a very extraordinary for me as it is my year (The Dog Year) and at the same time from the astrological point of view, it’s very critical as well. Let there be the perfect blend of Happiness, success and achievement with virtuous surpassing the evils.
Therefore I wish you all a very happy losar. May you all be blessed with a successful endeavors and have a wish fulfilling year.   

Tashi Delek

A journey towards RIM

Embracing the late afternoon rays of sun I started my journey towards RIM. The fresh breeze caressed my face infusing the prestigious aroma and revealing the beautiful Semtokha valley behind Olakha ridge. On this fateful day (31, January), I paced my first step towards one of the premier institutions of Bhutan-Royal Institute of Management.

The moment I entered through the gateway, I couldn’t hold back my exhilarations because hailing from the distant corner of our country never did I think I would get an opportunity to join such institute but fortuitously fate has played a role to reach me here.

Everything seemed so hospitable and even the trees upright alongside the pathway retained its serenity to welcome me by dropping their branches. The smooth and winding road led me to boys’ hostel and instantly discovered a piece of paper pasted on the front wall listing my name next to room number 111. Giving small tick on my name in the list which is meant for the attendance, I entered through the main entrance of the hostel than came across my allotted room adjacent to the toilet.

I could see two double bed tucked right and left on the floor within a small room with a table and two chairs each. However, the room was bit dark which prompted me to switch on the light and there I found big two lockers standing in front of me near the switch. My roommate was nowhere to be seen the whole day. Alone relaxing on the bed I wondered how would be my nine-month stay in this very place. In the midst of so many contemplations, I started settling down by preparing my bed and stacked my luggage in the chosen cupboard after saying brief prayer. Gradually trainees arrived and occupied their respective rooms and my roommate too had reached by then.

The very next day all the students in uniform gathered in Auditorium for the scheduled orientation program. Starting from the arrival of Director General and staffs everyone took their seat. The day begun with singing Zhabtoen of Fourth King and RIM song. Beginning from the introductory session we are briefed and oriented on every aspect of the institute.

Among the list of program that deeply moved my sentiment was the speech given by Director General. During his talk, I realized the situation that pricked and reminded me of shouldering a major role in serving my nation very soon. I comprehended how crucial is the time for me to groom myself to become a capable citizen in exercising my duty. There in front of everyone, Director General laid a futon to be seated by every one of the students in attendance. He advised us to become one of a kind to occupy that futon after the post graduation. As popular maxim states, with great power comes big responsibility is what we were recapped in mind. After the conclusion of the event of the day, I realized a renewed energy seeping through my veins and decided to complete the journey that I have started.                 

  

What if I fall? But what if you fly?

While there is a life, there is a hope. Life is all about challenges; life is all about opportunity. Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life is wasted. The quintessence of life is born from hope as it is only antidoted to fear.

If I fall it’s a challenge to me nevertheless if you fly it’s your opportunity. Success is all about doing an ordinary thing in an extraordinary way. Let me fall back to square one to be in an opportunity zone to start afresh or let me soar high enough in landing you an opportunity to challenge me. Challenges give us strength and lessons to be confident in facing our life.

One gets on better in life if one is proficient to handle the situation in your hand without fear. If I fall and coincidentally sky falls too, then who would get knocked down first? Whereas if you fly than who would get drown first if earth gets submerge into the ocean? Therefore, learn to appreciate every blunder for its lessons and be grateful for every success in overcoming your gaffes. 

Challenge to soar high and realize an opportunity to catch the glimpse of the horizon afar. Challenge to fall and reap an opportunity to set firm confidence within. I will never cry if I fall but will you? I would respect if you fly but will you do the same? Angles are manifold and perception lies in an eye of the beholders.

Ten realms

ས་གཉིས་པ་དྲི་མ་མེད་པ་ནི།  ས་གཉིས་པ་ལུ་གནས་མི་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་ཚུ་གཉིད་གསད་པའི་སྐབས་ལུ་མ་ཚད་རྨི་ལམ་ནང་ལུ་ཡང་མ་དག་འཆལ་བའི་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་ཚུ་ག་ར་སྤངས་ཏེ། མི་དགེ་བ་བཅུ་དང་བྲལ་བའི་ཡོན་ཏན་རྣམ་པར་དག་པ་དང་ལྡན་པ་དང་། ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་ཕུན་ཚོགས་ལྡན་པའི་རྒྱུ་མཚན་གྱིས་ས་གཉིས་པ་ལུ་མིང་དྲི་མ་མེད་པ་སླབ་ཨིན།

ས་གསུམ་པ་འོད་བྱེད་པ་ནི།  ས་གསུམ་པ་བར་ཆད་ལམ་གྱི་མཉམ་གཞག་སྐབས་ཡུལ་བཟུང་བ་དང་འཛིན་པ་གཉིས་སུ་སྣང་བའི་འཁྲུལ་པའི་བུད་ཤིང་སྲེག་པའི་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་མེ་འོད་དམརཔ་དང་སེརཔ་འབྱུང་བའི་རྒྱུ་མཚན་གྱིས།  མཚམ་དོན་དང་མཐུན་པའི་འོད་བྱེད་པ་ཟེར་སླབ་ཨིན།

ས་བཞི་པ་འོད་འཕྲོ་བ་ནི།  ས་བཞི་པ་ལ་གནས་པའི་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་དེ་ལ་རྫོགས་པ་ཡི་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཕྱོགས་ཀྱི་ཆོས་སོ་བདུན་ལྷག་པར་སྒོམ་པ་ལས་སྐྱེས་པའི་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་སྣང་བ་འདི་ཧེ་མ་ས་གསུམ་པའི་སྐབས་ཀྱི་བཟང་གི་དཔེ་ལས་ལྷགཔ་འབྱུང་བའི་རྒྱུ་མཚན་གྱིས་འོད་འཕྲོ་བ་ཟེར་སླབ་ཨིན།

ས་ལྔ་པ་སྦྱང་དཀའ་བ་ནི། ས་ལྔ་པ་ལ་གནས་པའི་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་དེ་འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས་ག་ར་ནང་ལུ་གནས་འདི་ཡོད་པའི་ལྷའི་བུའི་བདུད་རྣམས་ཀུན་གྱིས་ཀྱང་སྦྱང་དཀའ་བའི་ས་ལ་ཕམ་མ་ནུས་པ་ཅིན། གཞན་བདུད་བཀའ་གཉན་ཚུ་ག་གི་ཡང་ཕམ་མི་ཚུབ་ནི་ཨིནམ་ལས་ས་ཡི་མིང་ལུ་སྦྱང་དཀའ་བ་ཟེར་སླབ་ཨིན།

ས་དྲུག་པ་མངོན་དུ་གྱུར་པ་ནི།  ས་དྲུག་པ་མངོན་དུ་ཕྱོགས་པར་མཉམ་པར་གཞག་པའི།སེམས་འདི་ཡེ་ཤེས་ལ་གནས་ཤིང་རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་བར་འབྱུང་བའི་གནས་ལུགས་ཟབ་མོ་མཐོང་བའི་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་ལུ།   སྤྲོས་པའི་མཚན་མ་ཞི་བའི་འགོག་པ་ཐོབ་པ་དང་། ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕར་ཕྱིན་ལྷག་པ་ཐོབ་པའི་རྒྱུ་མཚན་གྱིས་ས་ཡི་མིང་ལུ་མངོན་དུ་གྱུར་བ་སླབ་ཨིན།

ས་བརྒྱད་པ་མི་གཡོ་བ་ནི། ས་བརྒྱད་པ་ལ་གནས་པའི་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་དེ་ནི།ཡང་ནས་ཡང་དུ་སྔར་ས་བདུན་པའི་དགེ་བ་ལས་ཆེས་ལྷག་པར་ཐོབ་པར་བྱ་བའི་ཕྱིར། ས་གང་དུ་མི་སྐྱེ་བའི་ཆོས་ལ་བཟོད་པ་ཐོབ་པས་ཕྱིར་ལྡོག་པ་ཉིད་དུ་འགྱུར་བ་ས་བརྒྱད་པར་འདུ་ཤེས་གཉིས་ཀྱིས་མི་གཡོ་བ་དེ་ལ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔས་འཇུག་པ་དང་། ཧེ་མ་གྱི་དགེ་བ་ལས་ལྷག་པར་ཐོབ་པ་ལ་ག་དེ་འབད་འཇུགཔ་སྨོ་ཟེར་བ་ཅི། ས་བདུན་མན་ཆད་ལ་རྩོལ་བ་དང་བཅསཔ་འབད་འཇུགཔ་ཨིན་རུ་ལམ་གྲོད་པ་བུལ་བ་ཨིན།  ས་བརྒྱད་པ་ནས་རྩོལ་བ་མེད་པའི་ངང་ནས་འཇུགཔ་ཨིནམ་དང་ལམ་ཡང་མྱུར་བ་ཨིནམ་ལས་ས་ཡི་མིང་ཡང་མི་གཡོ་བ་ཟེར་སླབ་ཨིན།

Another trip around the sun

I can’t believe it’s already been a whole year since I deceived myself into making New Year’s resolutions. Here arrives an old and frail, drained and fading 2017; there awaits fledgling and robust, dynamic and promising 2018 right around the corner. Let’s bid farewell with a bags full of appreciation for remarkable bygone day’s and then embrace forthcoming days to be prosperous.

Ring the New Year with an everlasting prayer of peace and triumph. This brings a fresh start and new opportunities. It’s a new time, cheers to a better life and bright future. Let us be a better human being, a better person, and a better citizen. Let our resolution be, to better ourselves for the better world.

How lucky we are to get one more chance to hit our targets, fulfill parents’ aspirations and everyone’s prospects. Let us be grateful for what we have and make every day special and live life to the fullest.

Have a wonderful and adventurous another trip around the sun. Wishing you all healthy, peaceful and joyful New Year!!!
Cheers!

Adieu 2017

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts, one must be vigilant in stepping ahead your foot with precious time in hand. Only fools are guided by the stars but the wise are the ones who guide the stars to shape their destiny but I don’t know what kind of person have I been throughout this year. My expedition with you has been much more satisfying than I anticipated.

365 and 1/4th days, being with you made me fully-fledged and matured. All day and night, every season and month I feel more complete than ever before. Copious challenges and various impediments gave me infinite lessons and encumbered with unbounded memories.

Dear winter, spring, summer, and autumn, you all trained and taught me the law of nature. I reminisce you came spring, to greet me with attractive carpets of blossoms; Summer, I recall you came to see me while I was catching warmth beneath blankets, Autumn, you attained to afford me with magnanimous fruitlets and grains which got me out of starvation; Winter, you taught me impermeance when I am confounded  and took things for granted.  At times you all have been so harsh to worn me out at different temperature and stirred up my mind every now and then although your intentions haven’t been so cold and callous.

Under the gentle breeze, drizzling shower, sizzling sun and upon the dusty earth, seven sisters jointly braced me with marvelous Monday, trustworthy Tuesday, wonderful Wednesday, thunderous Thursday, saturated Saturday and sunny Sunday.

Every day and every hour, 24 hours writhed with me to wake my early morning, supply three meals a day, smoothly transit me from one to other events and let me hit the sack in the late night.

It was a really interesting though long and tiring journey. Thank you for bestowing me with all those sweet and bitter experiences and lasting lessons. Had you all not been there I can’t envisage what would I have doing and where else would I have been landed. Please forgive and forget me for whatever I have wronged and I pardon you all on any matters. Take our liaison as far enough to ripe the sumptuous fruit of trust among one another.

Let us learn from past than atone, prepare for next than worry and act upon whatever we have in our hand than just waste and let it go. Our life is being impacted by each and everyone and everything that come across and goes along with us. They are allotted with the role by nature in their ways with their own capability. Some are to tame us, some to teach us, some to lead us, some to follow us and so forth. Whatsoever ones who inflict the most pain are the ones who love and care us the most and that brings best out of us.

Thank you all for making a very grand and successful year 2017.