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Monday, 8 March 2021
Saturday, 6 March 2021
Worth Nu. 50
Having stumbled over the stretch of time, a journey had been peaceful paving my way through the darkness only to get there at an odd hour and I can’t apologize enough for this to my host. How blessed! Drenched in excitement with patchy drizzle overhead, as many times I felt this moment and walked slowly into the mystery after exiting the taxi along the narrow winding road.
The bleak atmosphere has begun to clear and ushered us towards the most uninhibited talks on varying topics. Mark my words! I am so open only to those who share common traits and similar interests of mine. Along the long stretch of talks followed by waves of laughter until gurgled to halt in one’s throat… we had nothing more than a good conversation. Personally, it was such a quality moment sitting around the heater as we all were trapped in our own ideas. What’s better in life than connecting through a smile?
As the seconds passed, it never stops but it will last. Towards the end of our conversation, putting lights out and it was time for bed. Over the bed across the floor, slithered under the blanket onto a smooth bed-sheet, I flipped sideways to adjust my comfort, and happily signed off my day.
Dogs were already up when I am awake the next morning. As I am always so was on the same day- with each breath I was thankful and with each walk I was grateful. My day began with a long sigh and had some more chit-chats. Then my host prepared a breakfast that no one can afford to deny; sumptuous and tasty- I ate it to my heart’s content. their kindness and generosity were very heartening as they showered the common courtesy to the uncommon guy. Always grateful for the hospitality.
Heading towards the Paro town around mid-day was fun. No sooner did I reach the parking, I was so humbled and honored to see so many taxis queued up for my arrival. With a brief bow as a sign of courtesy, I slowly walked past them. But as the drivers hovered their eyes on me like fans waiting for their celebrity’s autography and the paparazzi struggling to get best shots, I couldn’t flaunt enough to let the air of their reception get inside me and pride over it. Therefore, I walked around the parking with an exaggerated swagger. With the final step hitting the finish line of the area, to my utter dismay not even a single taxi driver shouted “Thimphu! Thimphu! Thimphu!” which I have dearly anticipated.
However, I had little choice to swallow my pride at that moment. By then I had ruffled the feathers of my pride and made a satisfying dent in my ego. I lampooned myself for such idiotic deeds and the very plight ended as I made a silent pray…He who is lucky shall come to me, and He shall safely transport me to Thimphu. Help me, I beseech thee, O Lord.
After few seconds, one of the taxi drivers approached me and we conversed for a while, He then let me in his car. I have been waiting in that particular taxi for so long when the driver wanted some more passengers to join the trip. As the day wore on, I couldn't resist my temptation to walk out and look for some other taxi heading to Thimphu. At that very moment, a likely some other drivers past me shouting...Thimphu lu Chi..Tsab Tasb! Immediately hearing his voice, I thought I need to bite the bullet and that was the last straw, my patience has run out. Decidedly I did hop out of the taxi in which I have been waiting for so long to join the other trip. Then suddenly, few drivers came up to me and said, “You can inform the driver and come with us” but they are followed by some other drivers to the scene in order to thwart me from joining the other trip.
Sometimes, it’s hard to let reconcilement grow, where the wounds of hatred priced so deep. At the peak of the emotions, we often unleash a storm of unbraided words. Anyhow, a bit worried man amongst all, I mediated between the two factions and remained seated on the earlier seat in the taxi. Now unlike before, I saw fear in the eye of my driver of losing me and realized how I am playing the role of Golden goose to them…lol. Unanimously driver and I decided to tour the town several rounds but still couldn’t fetch a single passenger. Again he drove me back to the parking to let me wait until further notice from him.
Finally, a driver from the opponent team approached the driver whom I am with, with a proposal to flip a coin. I was surprised, on my name what makes them do such crazy things but I remained silent throughout the entire process to let them complete their discussion. The driver next to me has also acceded to his proposal to flip the coin and whoever loses the match that very person will handover his passenger to the other driver who wins and the winner will proceed to Thimphu. Unluckily, they couldn’t manage to get a coin to execute the plan. At that juncture, the opponent driver took out Nu. 50 from his wallet to my driver and said he will take me to join his trip. In the end, with no alternative left available…reluctantly and painfully he signaled his approval of letting me go. I also felt bad for my driver but nothing was going to be more remorse if I kept latching on to this favor as likely was the scenario where I would have to wait till some more time.
In such an intense atmosphere, to comfort and upswing his mood, I patted my driver and successfully bid farewell. Getting into the other driver’s car, there was two more passenger brewing enough frustration for having to wait so long. As the driver put on the radio and started the engine, all of us could clearly see broad smiles all over our faces. Embarrassingly and to my two friends' surprise that driver triumphantly declared, I purchased him (me) at Nu. 50, by then all four of us laughed out loud as the car set on motion towards Thimphu.
Thou love fair, O my Lord!
Thursday, 11 February 2021
Happy Losar
Trailing down the vista of months, still, I see the things fading gradually only to know I’m farther off from the past. Days are bright and nights are flawed, Heart is right yet brain isn’t. Rich are strong and poor are weak, everyone is talkative and I can’t speak unless spoken to. No place for truth but only wicked triumphed. It is important to realize everything has its end: completing the circle, closing the chapter, ending the story, and sealing those minutes in the memory trove. Fare thee well Iron Rat, I shall see you when our paths cross again.
I looked around and so confused. Where am I? What’s befalling me? Oh, I can relate to those days… waking up in a sweltering sweat from the dreams I fall asleep right before the sunrise. Sinking into the deep end of the year, I see everyone behind the words inside our stories. The time we are into will keep striking round the clock, diving from the past into the bottomless future. Tiding across the change born to rule the man. Time is tasted, spaces sound and I am convinced that I have existed all over these past years.
I have a dream never so alive that I savored, heard its secrets, and tasted so sweet. Let it unfurl at its pace and take its course. I’m pleased to see you, Iron Ox- you’re welcome.
Happy Losar
༆ ཚང་མ་ལ་ ལོ་གསར་འཚམས་འདྲི་ བཀྲིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ཞུ།
Sunday, 7 February 2021
གསང་བའི་མདུད་པ།
༆ ཚིག་གསང་བའི་མདུད་པ་མ་ཁྲོལ།། མིག་ཁྲ་ཆུང་འོག་གི་རྩེད་མོས།།
ཡུན་མི་རིང་སྐར་མ་འགའ་ལ།།ཞེ་འཁྲེང་བའི་གཏམ་ཁ་ཕྱེས་ཡོད།།
ཚེ་སྔོན་མ་ཟེར་བ་ཅི་རེད།།
ལས་ཐོད་པའི་རི་མོ་ཨེ་ཡིན།།
དུས་ད་ལྟ་འཕྲད་ལ་རེ་བ།།
ལམ་འདི་ནས་ཐུག་པ་ཁྱོད་རེད།།
Chasing after an illusion
Round the clock
Throwing against
Trodding along
And tiding across
……….The time!
The hardest thing I could possibly do
Was simply putting you alive
Shielding from...trauma
Sustaining towards...the best
Never to let you break off
Into the pieces
But
It’s a stirring note of apology
Not being able to grasp
……………The goal!
It’s a life
More of a dream
Chasing after an illusion
Just a nugatory!
Friday, 8 January 2021
2021 Booklist
1. White Cloud Old Path
-Tich Nhat Hanh (7/01/2021)
2. How much of these Hills is the Gold
- C Pam Zhang (11/01/2021)
3. Not for Happiness
-JKR (14/01/2021)
4. Lord of the Flies
-William Golding (24/01/2021)
5. The Portrait of Bhutan
-The Queen Mother ADWW (25/02/2021)
6. Diplomacy in Peace and War
-TN Kaul (8/03/2021)
7. Mother, Where’s My Country?: Looking for Light in the Darkness of Manipur.
-Anubha Bhonsle ( 14/03/2021)
8. Bhutan (02/04/2021)
9. Thinking Fast and Slow
-Daniel Kahneman ( 02/04/2021)
10. Sons and lovers (28/04/2021)
-D.H. Lawrence
11. Interpretation on New Philosophy of Chinese Diplomacy
- complied by the state council information of PRC (16/05/2021)
12. Li Cunxin-Mao’s last dancer (23/05/2021)
Biography of Li Cunxin
13. The Blood Telegram ( India’s secret war in the east Pakistan) (28/06/2021)
- Gary J. Bass
14. Poison is medicine (31/07/2021)
-DJKR
15. Think and Grow Big (07/9/2021)
Napolen Hill
16. Zhidar matters (17/09/2021)
17. Becoming Kim Jong Um (10/10/2021)
Jung H.Pak
18. The Girl with seven Names (17/10/20)
-Hyeonseo Lee with David John
Sunday, 23 August 2020
Connection
༆སྟོད་ཀྱི་བྲག་ཕུག་ཆུང་ངུ།། མཚན་ལྡན་བླ་མའི་གདན་ས།། སྒྲུབ་པ་ཉམས་ལེན་ཡོད་ན།། དམ་ཆོས་སྒྲུབ་ལ་ཕེབས་དང་།།
བར་ལ་གཡུ་བཟང་ཕྲ་མོ།། དྲིན་ཆེན་ཕ་མའི་གདན་ས།། བུ་ལ་བརྩེ་གདུང་ཡོད་ན།། གཡུས་བཟང་ཕྲ་མོར་ཕེབས་དང་།།
སྨད་ལ་སྤང་གཤོངས་བདེ་མོ།། རི་དྭགས་གཅན་གཟན་འཁྱམས་ས།། སེམས་ལ་སྙིང་རྗེ་ཡོད་ན།། རྩ་ཆུ་སྤྱོད་ལ་ཕེབས་དང་།།
སེམས་ཀྱི་ལྡུམ་རྭ་ཕྲ་མོ།། མཛེས་པའི་བུང་བ་འཁོར་ས།། གསུང་དབྱངས་སྙན་པོ་ཡོད་ན།། སྦྲང་རྩི་འཐུང་ལ་ཕེབས་དང་།།
The small cave situated above the valley
Is the living residence of a holy lama
If one is realized spiritual practitioner
You may come to practice holy doctrine
The small hamlet situated at the center
Is the living residence of a parent
If one has adoration for the children
You may come to the little village
The meadow situated in the lower part of the valley
Is where creatures meander
If one has a compassion at heart
You may come to enjoy water and grasses
In the garden of heart
Is where honey bee live
If one has sweet voice
You may come to enjoy the nectar
Saturday, 8 August 2020
Damtsi
༆དགུང་གི་འོད་ཟེར་ཅན་མ།། གླིང་བཞི་གླིང་ཕྲན་སྐོར་ཀྱང་།།
ནམ་མཁའ་གཡུ་ཡི་ཕོ་བྲང་།། དྲན་པའི་སེམས་ཐག་མ་བཅད།།
གངས་གི་ཆུ་མོ་ལྷུག་ལྷུག། མི་ཡུལ་ས་ཐག་སྐོར་ཀྱང་།།
རྒྱའི་གསེར་མིག་ཉ་མོ།། དྲན་པའི་སེམས་ཐག་མ་བཅད།།
སྤང་གི་ཤ་བ་རུ་རྒས།། ནགས་ཀླུང་མཐའ་ཡས་སྐོར་ཀྱང་།།
ནིའུ་གསེང་ཚོས་མདངས་ཧར་པོ།། དྲན་པའི་སེམས་ཐག་མ་བཅད།།
འཛམ་གླིང་སེང་ཆེན་རྒྱལ་པོ།། རྒྱལ་ཁབ་མཐའ་དབུས་སྐོར་ཀྱང་།།
སྐྱ་ལོའི་སེང་ལྕམ་འབྲུག་མོ།། དྲན་པའི་སེམས་ཐག་མ་བཅད།།
The boundless light amidst the blue
Revolves around the continents
Yet still never does it forget
The turquoise space
The cascading water from the mountain
Coursing down the country, far and wide
But never does it forget the golden fish
Living in the river bank of India
An old deer in the meadow
Roams throughout the wilderness
Yet never does it forget
The lush green grassland
Worlds lion, the Great (Gyesar of ling)
Even if he tours the country
Never does he forget
His Lioness, the wife Drukmo (Singcham Drukmo).
Sunday, 7 June 2020
སྙན་ངག་གི་གཞུང་འདི་ སྦྱངས་དགོ་པའི་སྐོར།
Monday, 4 May 2020
Rust a Trust to Dust
As the wind blows wherever it
pleases, the faith settles wherever it amuses. It dwells on to one’s liking and
saves who it wants. It dares thrive in the worst scene but can’t wage to burgeon
if ever affected. Alike healing wound fairly exhibiting the scar, the rusted trust
can be mended and yet shine forth but never to its former glory. Small attention and little effort are enough to let it falter. It has a life of breaking glass and an effect of ocean-deep. Playing with fire is to get yourself burned, playing with the noose is to get yourself hanged, likewise taking undue advantage to infringe the trust is to entrap oneself in the pain that befalls.
Thursday, 23 April 2020
བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ཀྱིས་སྲིད་དོན་ལ་ཕན་ཐོགས་པའི་སྐོར།
Friday, 3 April 2020
སྙན་ངག།་༥༽
མངའ་རིས་ལྷ་ཡི་གདུང་བརྒྱུད་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ།། བསོད་ནམས་སྟོབས་ཀྱིས་ཞིང་མཆོག་འབྲུག་ཡུལ་འཁྲུངས།།
In the place festooned with auspiciousness, peace, and victory
Enthroned to the indestructible golden throne
The dharma king descended from the godly realm
With the supreme virtue born in this land (Drukyul)
མཐུ་སྟོབས་དབང་ཕྱུག་འབྲུག་གི་བདག་པོ་སྟེ།། ཆོས་རྒྱལ་ཡབ་མེས་རྣམས་ལ་རྟག་ཏུ་གུས།།
The visionary one of a kind, father of the nation
Is alike compassionate Avalokiteshvara
A powerful protector of a nation
For all the succeeding monarchs I always pay my respect
ཇི་སྲིད་བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྨོན་ལམ་ཀུན་བགྱིད་ན།། དེ་སྲིད་དྲིན་ཆེན་མངའ་བདག་བཞུགས་སུ་གསོལ།།
Wonderful to have born dharma king in this land
Every citizen are endowed with virtues
As long as we all pray
Thus far will our beloved king will reign
དེ་བཟུམ་སྦེ་རང་ཡང་ སྙན་ངག་ལྷབ་སྦྱང་འབད་བའི་ནམ་དུས་ལུ་ རྩོམ་རྐྱབ་ནི་གི་ལས་འགུལ་ འ་ནི་བཟུབ་འཐོབ་སྟེ་ སྙན་རྩོམ་གྱི་ཤེས་ཡོན་ སློབ་གཉེར་འབད་ནི་ལུ་ཕན་ཐོགས་འབྱུང་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ ཧིང་ལས་དགའ་ཚོར་ཞུ་ནི་ཨིན། ལས་འགུལ་འདི་ནང་ ནོར་འཁྲུལ་ག་ཅི་རང་ཡོད་རུང་ རང་བློ་དམན་པའི་སྟབས་ཀྱིས་འབྱུང་སྲིདཔ་ངེས་བདེན་ཨིནམ ལས་ ལྷབ་མི་ཡོངས་ལུ་བཟོད་གསོལ་ཞུ།
ལྷག་པར་དུ་ གོང་གི་རྩོམ་ཚུ་སྤྱིར་ལས་འགུལ་གྱི་བཀོད་རྒྱ་དང་འཁྲིལ་སྟེ་རྐྱབ་རུང་ དོན་ཁོ་ན་ལུ་ ང་རའི་བཀྲིན་དགའ་ཚོར་འདི་ དད་པ་ལྷད་མེད་ཀྱི་འགོ་ལས་ གསོལ་བ་བཏབ་སྟེ་བྲིས་ཡོད་ལས་ དེའི་བསོད་ནམས་ཀྱིས་ མ་འགྱུར་མཁའ་མཉམ་གྱི་སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་བདེ་བའི་དོན་དུ་བསྔོ་བར་དགེའོ།།
སྙན་ངག།་༤༽
ཤེས་རབ་འཁོལ་ལོའི་འདུལ་ཞིང་ཤེས་རབ་རྩེ།། ཡིད་འོང་ལྷུན་ཆགས་མཛེས་པའི་གཙུག་ལག་ཆགས།།
Look! Among the endearing turquoise colored trees
The valley bearing a lot similarity to Riwo Tse Nga
Is the Sherubtse, a destined land of Manjushiri
There beautifully constructed a College
སྙན་འཇམ་གསུང་གི་ཁུ་བྱུག་སྒྲོག་པའི་དྲིན་།། བདག་གི་བློ་གསལ་ཤེས་བྱ་རབ་ཏུ་རྒྱས།།
By every experts, intelligent lecturers and professors
The profound teaching syllabus of the University
Are being taught melodiously in a tone of chirping cuckoo
Thus, clears my mind to the rise of knowledge
གྲོགས་པོ་ལྷན་རྒྱས་འཛོམས་པ་ལས་འཕྲོ་ཆེ།། ཤེས་ཡོན་སྦྲང་རྩིའི་རོ་མཆོག་དཔར་ལ་རོལ།།
Brilliant students in the numbers of humming bees
Everyone in the land of lotus
What a karma, being encountered with many friends
Together we relish the aromatic taste of Knowledge


