Thubten Wangchen (Tibet, 1954), Buddhist monk Director of the House of Tibet in Barcelona, exhibits disproportionate laugh. It is not at any time a shy smile, but a frank and expansive laugh. Daily meditation since he was little has conferred a reflective and generous and grateful gesture that this characteristic of his smile intensifies. Wangchen is the Tibet representative in Spain. His career is dramatic. He doesn't remember his mother, who died in a field of work when he had alone 4 years. Expelled from Tibet and refugees with the family in India, lived asking for alms through the streets. His father managed to take him to school, And from here his English and training, which was possible thanks to the government of India.
When he was a teenager, he entered the monastery of Namgyal where the current Dalai Lama lived. He lived there 11 years. And following the visits of a few Catalans in India, some “hippies”, He says, It ended up coming to Catalonia because they insisted. Dalai Lama saw him pertinent, And it's here for two decades. Wanchen likes to talk to young people who, interested, They ask you questions about the Nirvana, The desire, Success, Sex. The desire has to turn off, Sex is not practiced as a monk because celibacy is saved, And the Nirvana all wait for it and that's why they work, Meditate, they think and act with perseverance. It's monk, And as such leads a life of austerity and resignations. TO THE HOUSE OF THE TIBET, In the middle of the Eixample neighborhood, Religious people come, spiritual and also agnostic people. Wangchen places spirituality at the top of aspirations. If you are spiritual and religious, far better, But if you are only religious, it is not in favor of religion without a real spiritual life that works for you and change for the life of others. We visit it with a group of young people studying global governance and religions, And he asked us to be happy. And he remembered that being happy can happen to be what in the Anglo -Saxon world is called being a “loser”, A loser. Sometimes, suggests, You have to claudicate, pass up, Accept some humiliation, Always with dignity. The students did not understand, And he repeated that the problem of someone who wants to hurt you is yours, Not yours. That you will see what is good, Because karma does not forgive, And if you hurt, You will have to redeem your guilt.
With the Buddhist vision (which is also political) that gives off this way of thinking, People have to concentrate on doing good, Not just for themselves, but by the environment, including animals. This connection with respect for animals, mixed with the idea of thinking, form and be active for better the world, convince and adapt to the mentality of twenty years old. What fits less is sacrifice, THE MUNDAY DISTRACTIONS, The old idea of “do good”. Before leaving, his compass reminded us: do an inner work to get peace, the suppression of all suffering. “While you are here and you have got up this morning, There are people who have not been able to do it. They have died! And you don't, You are young! Thank you, You are here”! Their words and their words resonate strong mantra near the day of the dead. And it's not just a Buddhist monitum. Spirituality desents, And there is no stronger principle than death, That everything, all, relocates it.
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