As I have friends all over the world, and they want me to get into conflict. Especially my friends from Russia, Israel and Palestine. At this time of war, the hardest thing for me to share is that I’m here from a place without war. But I feel like we are destroying others which is part of ourselves. .
But what I learned from my life, when I almost died twice, and as I even lost areas of my destroyed brain, the best thing to learn is to calm my mind.
It’s because all anger turns into illness with me. Many try to stop us from freeing our minds, but this is how we don’t change from hatred, anger, materialism. In other words, it is someone else who manages to leave us manipulated.
I understand, because I didn’t know what to say to my friends in Palestine, Israel, and Russia. My mind never wants to modify my love because of a nationality, we are human beings.
If my house has a Tibetan flag, it is not because of a nationality. For me it is a flag of Impermanence, compassion, and Peace. Love Jules
Now I live in a small town in Brasil. I is called Ubatuba and it is an area where there are many beaches. There are many people who where tired to live in big city’s and far from nature. And being me, I met people who lived years many ears and like spiritually.
Spirituality is an incredible thing. I met a woman at the organic fair in the middle of nature, in a conservation area, in Ubatuba. She’s from São Paulo and doesn’t even know many people in Ubatuba. The day we met, I went with her to solve problems at her house in Ubatuba. In the middle of nature our friendship began.
It took a weak for us to sea her. My new friend Fernanda, told me that she had broken her arm with glass, she had gone to the doctor and said that she should have an operation. The doctor said it was so serious that she should go to São Paulo.
Our friendship began, through messages and forgetting my things that I forgot in her car.
It was a Wednesday and a week ago that we met, I, who can no longer drive, decided to go along
She and I went from Ubatuba to São Paulo. She was driving with one hand, and asked me for help and I, who had injuries to my brain, couldn’t understand what to press. So she wouldn’t think I didn’t want to help, I wanted to make her listen to how many years I spent going to the hospital after my illness started in 2007, she understood.
Well, she stopped thinking she learned how to get words out, but rather told me which part of the car I should press.
It takes place on the first day of November. Many days increase spirituality, the Tibetan House had already informed me that at the Sírio Libanês Hospital, that His Holiness Ratna Vajna Rinpoche would give a talk. But I did not remember, nor thought I could go.
On Sunday I went to see Fe on the 5th, and she said that this trip was incredible spiritually. She went to the hospital on Wednesday and left on Sunday. Even when there is pain, we laugh and smile.
There I felt compassion, spirituality and thinking of my friends in their downfall.
These friends of mine in the fall enter my soul.
I have a faulty memory that reminds me of lama lobsang said when I complained about my illness
“An illness is a gift, it makes you know how to be present.”
As HH Karmapa said to me and reaching my brain. “It’s in your mind. I will always be close”
And when I had the compassion of someone to make me an appointment with HH Ratna Vajra Rinpoch. And when I went, I didn’t want to say anything about my brain injuries, I told my story of how Buddhists always come close to my life.
I had seen Hh Rinpoche in the hospital he said. “But even with material development, we still have sufferings.
I started sending messages to Buddhists and set a private time for me.
I was so happy, but I discovered it was in another city. I told my husband, he was extremely generous and came to São Paulo, and we went to see the other city and the temple.
. Along the way, we saw the sun, nature, trees, cats, dogs and birds. And I sat by the tree and I felt so peaceful
When it came time to speak, I didn’t even know what to say. I told how Buddhism came about with a class from the Dalai Lama because I arrived in India and my ex-husband liked Dharam Sala. But neither of us were Buddhists. But we met Denise there who felt she should go on her private meeting with hh Karmapa. We weren’t even on that quest, and we didn’t even know who Karmapa was. That was in 2008 ‘
So now in 2023 when I sat down to speak Ratana Vajra Rinpoche, without even wanting to know why I was there.
I ask “ why we live here on earth.”
Hh Ratna Vajna Rinpoche said “Since we are alive we have to help others.”
When I asked what lineage of Buddhism of me . He told me they are all connected.
And when I asked what a tree means. He told me Siddhartha was born and died on the side of a tree. So it evolved.
There I understood how all the spirituality in my life comes in trees. Just like I felt about Buddhism, indigenous people, Taoism, tantra and like this friend who went to the hospital and we met by the trees. Just like so much connection between people who have souls, spirituality and nature. And I learned this after my fall. But it was human beings who made me understand, and I have enormous gratitude to you. It was in my first class that Hh Dalai Lama said “Don’t be a Buddhist, respect all religions, respect what is in your you.”
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