The Protection of Tree Planting!

The importance of tree planting both in Nepal,our current home, and in Tibet as well. Today, as a symbolic gesture we are having a tree planting ceremony here in the settlement. Fortunately, the movement towards a deeper commitment to environmental protection through planting new trees and taking care of the existing ones, is rapidly world. At the global level, trees and forests are closely linked with weather patterns and also the maintenance of a crucial balance in nature. Hence, the 'task of environment protection is a universal responsibility of all of us. I think that is extremely important for the Tibetans living in the settlements to not only take a keen interest in the cause of environmental protection, but also to implement this ideal in action by planting new trees. We will be making an important gesture to the world in demonstrating our global concern and at the same time making our own little but significant, contribution to the cause.
First of all, if there is a tree in your courtyard it creates around it an atmosphere of natural beauty and serenity. It is also obvious that you can eat the fruits from the tree, sit under it and enjoy the cool shade. What was required on your part was a little patience to allow some time for the tree to
grow up

What does yoga do for the person!

I think there are many variety of yoga system. As far as I know, yoga mainly deals with physical, the channel or channel of what say the an energy and then also the different nerve centers. So it is too some kind of control or some kind of change on the physical level, that effect on the mind. So it is both. Another one, which is just simply through the training of mind, just simply try to utilize the mental force and then change the body's mental level.

Here, you know, I don't like external things. In emotional level or mental level, there are contradictory sort of forces or thoughts there. So in order to reduce another one, all this logically, the opposite side, if you increase, then the other side will minimize. So that's the way.

Now, for example, anger. If we have some kind of realization and there is something bad for the community, so one's own peace of mind, then, you see, try too find what the opposite sort of emotion. That's love and kindness or compassion. So once we realize that, try to increase these opposite power or force. That's the system, the training of mind.

Interest in Buddhism and Yoga all over the West

My impression or my sort of view is that, you see, time goes, time passes, and especially, you see, those countries or those communities who have the material comfort already achieved. But then, through their own experience, they now begin to realize the limits of the material sort of facility, or I think, the limits providedby material development to genuine happiness or long-lasting happiness.