Lama Yeshe on the Life of Jesus

Lama Yeshe, Kopan Monastery,
Nepal, 1981. Photo by Merry Colony,
 restoration by David Zinn.
Archival portrait available through
Heart of the Moon Media
(www.heartofthemoon.com).

This article is from the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive
e-newsletter, December 2011.

Christmas Dharma by Lama Yeshe

Somehow we're still alive and aware enough to remember how long it is since Jesus was born. It was one thousand, nine hundred and eighty two years ago, right? And I myself am fortunate enough to have been born in the Shangri-La of Tibet, to have come into contact with the world of Western dakas and dakinis, and also to somehow have this chance to acknowledge the history of the holy guru, Jesus.

I've found that having a little understanding of Jesus's life helps me develop my own path, but it's not easy to fully understand the profound events in Jesus's life. It's quite difficult. Of course, the superficial events of his life are fairly easy to understand, but there's not enough room in our mind to comprehend his high bodhisattva actions.

Using Depression as the Path to Enlightenment

by Gelongma Losang Drimay

In our final class of Transforming Problems, we looked at some of the mysteries of the world of Harry Potter, dementors - "Get too near a Dementor and every good feeling, every happy memory will be sucked out of you." - and patronuses - "a kind of positive force, and for the wizard who can conjure one, it works something like a shield," as allegories for negative states of mind and how to protect oneself from them, namely by learning to generate powerful positive states even under very gloomy and fearful circumstances.