Introduction
October 30th
NKT Fall Festival Italy
2009 NKT Fall Festival Italy began today, Friday, October 30. From countries around the world, more than five hundred of Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso’s students have traveled to Tuscany to come together for this very special spiritual holiday. Now it is time to relax and set aside all our normal busyness, problems and worries so that we can deeply enjoy receiving personal advice from Buddha, meditate on transformative teachings, and spend meaningful time with new and old Sangha friends in the lovely Italian city of Montecatini Termi.
With light and happy minds, we can celebrate as Kadampa family both the great kindness of our Spiritual Guide and our good fortune to have met Kadam Dharma.
With joyful minds of faith and gratitude we will be well prepared to receive the powerful healing blessings of Medicine Guru, the supreme Buddha doctor who functions in this world to release living beings form inner and outer sickness. Coming to know him and drawing close, our health and happiness will naturally improve and we’ll obtain a special ability to help others. Relying on Medicine Buddha we will gradually solve our problems, improve our love, compassion and wisdom, and the lasting peace and happiness we long for will appear naturally in this world.
How lucky we are to be here!
Today’s Introduction
Buona sera. Tutti benvenuti. Gen Kelsang Wangden, Resident Teacher at Kadampa Meditation Center Italy, gave a warm and friendly welcome to our international Sangha, helping us to set a correct intention for the week ahead by reminding us of some of the benefits of listening to dharma and the way to listen to dharma from Joyful Path of Good Fortune.