Please don't ask the Chaplain to fix the lottery for you. Here's why.

Bill Martino

Bill Martino

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Not surprisingly we have had several people ask if the lama would pray for them to pick the winning lottery ticket. He can't do it and here's why.

Since great wealth is one of the greatest obstacles in getting to Heaven (called Nirvana in our case) we have very poor luck in getting it for people, including ourselves. We are here to REMOVE obstacles, not create them so don't get your hopes up. Remember Jesus' advice to the rich man and his comment to students (Easier for a camel to jump thru the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get to Heaven). But if you have health and happiness you have already won the lottery.

We (I keep saying we but I am just the messenger) have had three very rewarding incidents after the puja and emails explaining them for which I am very, very thankful. It lets us know that the puja is working -- almost immediately in some cases -- some will take more time. It all depends on the need, karmic vibrations and if your receptors are tuned in properly, so much of it depends on you.
 
Originally posted by Bill Martino

Since great wealth is one of the greatest obstacles in getting to Heaven .......
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Looks like I am a shoo-in for heaven. I stay broke most of the time. :D
 
Now I understand.

HI is helping me jump through the eye of a needle and get to heaven by keeping me broke buying khukuris.

Thanks!

I think??

;)
 
I suppose if the camel has a 30" Kobra, he or she can make his own hole in the needle. :)

Seriously, I'm sort of surprised that requests like that came in. I guess I just see spirituality in any form as sort of divorced from the worldly institutions built on money. Granted, money is often a proxy for necessities like food, shelter, etc., but I think so many things that we "need" are just extra baggage. Yes, that includes 4 of the 5 khuks I have in the house right now.

I'll cut it there. YMMV
 
HI is helping me jump through the eye of a needle and get to heaven by keeping me broke buying khukuris.
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:D:D Now THAT'S a glass half Full attitude Howard--LOL!:D
 
All these so called shamans who tout their services on the net, TV, radio, mags have 3 targets -- love, MONEY and health.
 
Lama Jigme, is obviously an adept ngakpa. 9 years of retreat.... outstanding. Looks like Padmasambhava himself in the face! Notice the ngakpa zen - the red and white shawl characteristic of Ngakpas - vow holding tantrics who are not celibate monks. Also what looks like it is about 4 feet plus of "dread locks" piled up on top. Yep -- that's the full on cave yogi look - just as Uncle Bill has said. Fantastic situation and service uncle is offering to all sides there.
 
If as Bill Marsh suggests, Lama Jigme even looks like Padma Sambava, who brought Buddhism to Tibet and concealed the hidden valley of Khembalung, odds don't look good for him giving me the GPS coordinates for Shambhala* so I can jump in by parachute. Drat!

If my Indiana Jones hat hadn't worn out after 20 years of wear last year, I'd feel obligated to turn it in. Oh, the shame of being found out to be a wannabe!

* or Shangri-la
 
I thought Lama Jigme's "dread locks" were not his but during the Dorje Gute puja part of the deal is for him to take his hair down and then put it back. It's his hair and you're right, Bill, it's about 4 feet worth of hair. It is my understadning which may or may not be correct that the dread locks are meant to represent a gompa.

The akshamala (rosary)I use has been to Mt. Kailash and on the top shelf of the altar is a fragment of a 2000 year old Buddha statue which was destroyed by the Taliban in Afghanistan -- courtesy of our own good Sarge. This fragment was considered by Lama Jigme to be the most holy icon I have in the Titanic II.
 
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