From the Editors of Bodhi
Dear Sangha Friends,Welcome to the second issue of Bodhi. This issue is particularly enriched by the
inclusion of songs, poems, teachings and lineage stories of three great contemporary masters of the Kagyu and Nyingma traditions: H.H. XVII Karmapa, Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche and The Dzogchen Ponlop, Rinpoche. We are honored and happy to share this richness with you. In our first issue, we invited students to send us submissions of poems, short articles, sangha reports, reviews and jokes. We appreciate your response to this request. Here and there in Bodhi you will find these
offerings of inspired mind. Please keep these coming. We also invite your suggestions for articles or other information you would like to see in Bodhi that may be helpful to your study and practice. Our first issue of Bodhi was sent only to the students of The Dzogchen Ponlop, Rinpoche and to Rinpoche's friends. Bodhi will now be available to the students of Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, as well. We request Khenpo Rinpoche's students who would like to be added to our mailing list, to
contact the editors directly with their mailing address using the "Membership, Mailing and Donation" form. In order to be able to continue the publication of Bodhi, especially to an
increased number of students, we need to generate funds to cover printing and mailing costs. You can help us by becoming a member of Nalandabodhi or by making a general donation. Please refer to the above-mentioned "Membership, Mailing and Donation" form to send a tax-deductible gift. If it becomes financially necessary, we may initiate a subscription system in the next issue. You can also read this and future issues of Bodhi on the new Nalandabodhi website—www.nalandabodhi.org.
The editors are grateful and pleased to announce that Carole Fleming has joined us as an editor of Bodhi. We welcome Carole's many skills, and her generous contributions of time and energy. And remember us if you stumble across a good joke! A Buddhist monk is walking down the street when he notices a very small boy trying to reach the door knocker on a house across the street. However, the boy is very small, and the knocker is out of his reach. After
watching the boy reach and reach with no success, the monk, experiencing sympathy for the small boy's plight, crosses the street to help. Walking up behind the little fellow, the monk places one hand kindly on the child's shoulder, leans over and gives the knocker several solid knocks. Crouching down to the child's level, the monk smiles benevolently and asks, "And now what, my little man?" To which the child replies, "Now we run like Hell!"
(Joke credit: Internet.) Yours in the Bodhi-dharma,
The Editors
Cindy Shelton and Carole Fleming, Boulder, CO, USA
Amita Gupta, Vancouver, Canada
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