Nov 11, 2020
In this second of a series of three online broadcasts, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche offers a teaching related to his poem “Who Am I?,” guides a related meditation, and engages viewers in a question-answer session.
View recording on Facebook to join the chat
Resources
- Rinpoche recites the poem, “Who Am I?” (video, 6.5 minutes) in English | Tibetan
- Downloadable PDF of the poem, “Who Am I?,” in: English | Chinese | Dutch | French | German | Hindi | Hungarian | Italian | Korean | Nepali | Polish | Portuguese | Russian | Slovak | Spanish | Tibetan | Turkish
- Related: “Answering the Question: ‘Who Am I?’” (recorded broadcasts): Part 1, 23 minutes | Part 2, 74 minutes
- About Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Source of Inspiration ! Best thanks , Rinpoché !
I am not freaked out about the pandemic, I am freaked out about Donald Trump and the delusion and ignorance taking over our country. I feel I do need to act to prevent this. The stakes are so high. I am having a hard time not being attached to an outcome in this fight. How to manage this?
Moushumi, sorry we missed your question in today’s broadcast, it’s a good one. We were collecting questions only from the Facebook live chat. During the next broadcast where Rinpoche invites questions, we’ll also try to look for them on the related page here at cybersangha.net so everyone can participate.
When I am waking up, or when I am falling asleep, I do not feel anything.
Is this being no one?
The poem is very helpful Rinpoche. We have lost our busy-ness, our routines, so much of how we identify ourselves. It is really called the Shaman’s journey in many traditions, a liminal experience where you shed all you know as “me”. In that time and space, you then bring some of the parts back inside-where you expend your energy, what really matters, clarity, practice, writing, creating new ways, new intentions not thought of before. It is a actually a gift, this intense, hard, wonderful and very different time of opportunity. I am writing Haiku as I did many years ago. Poetry is the language of the soul. Thank you again.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing your poem. I found so much healing in your Teaching today which I can’t say thank you enough for. I played the poem to my 6 year old daughter and she loved it too,and I wish for her and all children to have that awareness to not only boost self confidence,but also to counteract all the pressures and expectations that youngsters are expected to be and do these days. I would love to share this poem with some of our other homeschooling friends as a source of nourishment and inner healing for children. It’s beautiful. Strangely,it is very like an ancient Celtic poem we have in Britain where the author writes from the perspective of the Great Mother Goddess.