Chaweewan's Poem 2

Chaweewan

Chaweewan

Pom Rak Khun, Pom Rak Khun

You are my Darling

You are my Tirak Khong Chang

And I Lo-o--ove You!

And I Lo-oo-ooo-oooovvvvve You!!

More and more Everyday (I must say)

Choi Mak Jao ... na krap

(hLi hLi der) Lily, Eily.....Na

My heart is with you in Thailand

But my body is now here in England (Manchester)

And I Lo-o-o-ove You! Sweet Lady Chaweewan

Missing you everyday we are apart

May our Love grow and grow in Wonder!

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Peter Peter 

You are my darling 

You’re my thi rak khang Chan and love you and I love you 

....Peter  konchok Jinpa💕yim 

Thimachai my thi rak khang Chan 

khay mak cea kha jup jup 😘❤💕👩‍❤‍👨💋

Hi Alastair,

It's ok, I'm not in the UK at the moment thankfully, but the cold weather does affect my house that I monitor remotely externally & internally on 7 Ring cameras, a small issue has re-arisen to sort on my return in February, and we're in somewhere warm all year round near where Rinpoche died, and staying with my fiancée; we visited the Temple in October where his ashes were taken.

Yes, I liked YNP secondly out of the 4 root practices completed, RD was my most intense, but have to admit my formal practice has attenuated somewhat since Rinpoche's death & my Father's death 12 days earlier (sorting the probate was a massive task!) and now mainly do ad hoc 'NoM' resting, mantra meditation and of course the 8 worldly concerns.

Much has changed for me recently, I retired as a Physicist working 45 years in Engineering recently.

(By the way as someone who has investigated 'ClimateChange' for over 25 years since running Climate Models, I know what the MSM tell everyone to be a total exaggeration, of even what IPCC are stating & to the detriment of us all especially in the UK; I've written a pamphlet about it, but needs far more work to simplify for public. I'm a signatory to Clintel https://clintel.org, but realise many in Rigpa, not all I must add, disagree with my honest views, and a few have been quite aggressive towards me on this sadly (esp. those associated with 'Just StopOil'); note any prayers about 'Climate', although I know well intentioned, don't understand our deluxe reality based on yes, FossilFuels, the COG's of Modern Civilisation. I know this might be opposite to some Rinpoche's teachings but I try to go for reality not seemingly 'virtuous' misguided but well intentioned words).

Apart from health issues that deplete my energy from Long Term Type 2 Diabetes (2 of my 4 siblings have been suffering badly & gone on to be Insulin dependent recently), I was/am very busy with family commitments of my children & my first grand daughter will be arriving into the world around Easter time.
Time here is helping my recouperation of health, (but it took me a week to get over the travel!) 45 years intense working life & my fiancée looks after me very well; although she was struck herself by some food poisoning (I avoided squid & clams!) & fully recovered without needing hospitalisation.

We have visited many temples from Chiang Rai & Chiang Mai to Bangkok recently and I've spoken with quite a lot of monks & people, but as my younger (& Vajra) brother and I see that Buddhadharma here has seemingly descended into Tourism, Idol worship & requests for monk Blessings for Wealth, Health, Fortunes, for most, and little talk of dharma sadly; but of course that good basis can help lead to practice, so similar to Tibetan ordinary folk in a way doing mani mantras circumambulation.

The 4 of us met up in Bangkok last week, before they went to Ko Phangan, for the first time since pre-Covid when I started dealing with Dad's house & we met his wife also for the first time here at a local hotel. 

They run retreats/seminars based on Osho teachings & Chakra mediations etc. for income, sometimes in Ukraine, no longer Russia sadly of course, Türkiye, Thailand, HK etc. and other countries in Asia. My other 3 siblings & Uncle have had some connections with Tibet Buddhism, but no longer.

Amongst the many Temples visited, there was one picture of Guru Rinpoche amazingly to see high up at 'Wat Phra That Doi Suthep' in Chiang Mai; reminding me of the similar at Kagyu Ling in the 70's (btw I met up with my previous 6 Vajra siblings when the 17b Karmapa visited last year, I've not seen the 17d Karmapa yet, but did attend the 16th visit in Manchester in 1977).

Hope Steph & you are well, I see some things on facebook but try not to visit it too often, and just post the odd climate item that maybe of interest, so all in all, bit of a long-winded story & copied Kathy who mentioned you'd be in touch, however I cannot commit to such ... I'm very sorry ...

Cheers, Peter

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