H.E Ladakh Chos-Rjey Togden Rinpochey's send his advice and greetings on the occasion of Losar

༄༅། །ཆོས་ཀྱི་དཔལ་ཡོན་ཚོགས་པའི་ཕྱོགས་ནས་གསོལ་འདེབས་ཞུས་པ་བཞིན། བསྟན་པའི་གསལ་བྱེད་དམ་པ་ལ་དྭགས་ཆོས་རྗེ་རྟོགས་ལྡན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་ནས་ལོ་གསར་གྱི་དགའ་སྟོན་ལ་བརྩལ་བའི་བཀའ་སློབ། Namo Buddha. Namo Dharma. Namo Sangha Now it's Iron-ox year and the male-water Tiger year(Śubhakṛtais), about to commence. Today is 31st Dec the last day of the year 2021 and from tomorrow 1st January a new year, 2022 will start. As it's mentioned in Ladakhi Proverb, 'Abandon the bad year, welcome the good year'. So we will all celebrate the western new year today and on the 3rd of Jan (1st day of 11 months of the Tibetan Lunar calendar), our ladakhi/soma Losar (new year) will begin. Among the laity beings,( uncle, aunt, kids, etc) it commences with auspiciousness, joyful and happiness among each other, and is used to express, Losar La Tashis deleks "OMA JU'' and have a long life. In the various monastic community, for auspiciousness esteemed Rinpoche's and monks used to offer tea, milk, water, fruit and food in the front of objects symbolic of enlightened body, speech and mind of Buddha in the main shrine of the monastery and used to celebrate Losar. In accordance with the recent request from Khenpo Rangdol (Dehradhun) to express some word on losar, Today I'll explain briefly, this time there is not much gap between the western and Ladakhi new year. Though we celebrate with lots of joy and happiness, as it said that, ' Don't do any harm, Do all noble deeds, Make your mind gentle, that's that Buddha's teaching. Which is the words of our Buddha, and that. summarize the entire teachings ( Vinaya, abhi-dharma, sutras and tantras). So, try to avoid every small non-virtue deeds such as eating meat and drinking alcohol, Try to accumulate every small virtuous deed at a tiny level such as the Five precepts ( not eating meat, not killing, not stealing, not lying, not performing sexual misconduct) And if we celebrate by following per the words of Buddha then our losar will joyful. The Tibetan losar is used to celebrate the 1st month of the Tibetan Lunar calendar, I guess it will fall in March. Our Losar is Sonam Losar, earlier people used to consume a bunch of alcohol and meat But now with a kind and profound teaching delivered by, HH Dalia Lama, HH Sakya Gongma, HH Gyalwang Drukpa, HH Drikung Kyabgoan Konchok Stanzin Kunzang Thinley Lhundup Chetsang Rinpoche, H.E Rinpoche's, khanpo, Geshe, skyorpon, Geshe Lharampa it become quite less. And I don't need to express much. And if everyone practices the accumulation and avoiding of virtue and non-virtue deeds, then losar will be joyful. And earlier we consume an excessive amount of alcohol and kill many lives for meat. And nowadays after the listening teachings, it's quite less. There are numerous Father, mothers, nieces, nephews who don't eat meat and we all need to avoid it. In the sangha community, many monks don't eat meat. Its the practice of one's dharma, From the body, killing, stealing and conducting sexual misconduct. From the speech, lying, harsh words, slandering, idle talk. From the mind, covetousness, harmful intent, the wrong view. So kindly avoid these ten non-virtuous deed and accumulate the opposite ten virtuous deeds. And recently said by many about the new year to have auspiciousness of longevity, health and happiness. And recently, after the solstice, we will have more long days and also with longer days joyful of summer will approach and arise. And we all Sakya,Geluk,Kagyu and Nyingma schools must have good relationships, mutual-understanding and practice as per the words of Buddha, HH Dalia lama, three pitakas, Ka-gyur and Ten-gyur. Similar, within the community of ladakh we various religious organizations such as- Muslim (Sha/Suni) and many Christian. And every religion is based on protecting from suffering and gaining happiness and apart from that their is evil in it. So, therefore make a communal harmony. Now, Ladakh become a UT, esteemed LG, CEC (LAHDC) Tashi Gyaltsen, MP Jamyang Tsering Namgyal and every executive member kindly celebrate the Losar Joyfully. And don't argue with the precious parents, The Lama, Lopon and parents are like Sun and moon, and respect them, such words are expressed in the ladakhi Flok songs. So celebrate with much joy and recently many skilful person gave advised on losar, so just practice on them. So, I don't express much. At last, to everyone on new year "Oma ju" and Tashis deleks. Abandon the bad year and welcome the new year. Similarly, Grant your blessings so that whatever I do, my mind will go towards dharma. Grant your blessings so that dharma may progress along the path. Grant your blessings so that the path may clarify the onfusion. Grant your blessings so that confusion may dawn as wisdom. Grand your blessings so that faith may arise from the core of your heart. Grand your blessings so I may follow the footsteps of guru. Grand your blessings so that I may practice my entire life.