Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me – George Michael and Elton John
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Dear friends, take a break and watch this great superstar duo who harmonizes and synchronizes so well. The song itself is uplifting. Sometimes when we want to take a break or just get a little lift this is wonderful to watch. Do enjoy it.
Tsem Tulku
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Can all monks listen to music? I have heard they are not supposed to listen to music… No disrespect, but I have heard this viewpoint and I sub-consciously believed it. Can someone tell me why some can or can’t listen? Or have I heard some baloney?
What a great and unlikely pair for a duo, but it works out very good. This song inspires me as in my work, I have tremendously huge obstacles and problems all the time. It would be nice to retire to the mountains to practice, but not allowed to.
I understand you so well about wanting to be away from people, and craving to be alone in nature, just you and the squirrels somewhere in a forest. But i think that doing the opposite of what you want will not only benefit people, but is mainly for your own good. Guru knows better what you need for your spiritual advancement (As if you didn’t know all that). Anyways, in forest or in the city is the same thing, is still samsara…better we face what we don’t like and get it over with, get rid of attachments and aversions. I wish this was easy
. Anyways i want to THANK YOU for choosing to teach us people, and for the sacrifice you make for our sake and for the sake of good. I just discovered your videos on youtube and i have learned a lot from them, they came at the time when i needed that kind of information. Thank you for existing and for doing all this for us. I try to understand how it is to have all the atoms in your being SCREAMING for solitude in nature…it is a huge thing, more than i can probably imagine, but hang in there, it will come a time when all this will pay off.
To answer Josh Akers’s question as to whether monks should listen to music or not, my view point is that as long as one is not attached to it when it is taken away, it is perfectly ok. Infact, I believe it is even a greater practice to guage oneself.
I think it also depends on the motivation of listening to the music, if it is out of pleasure, then it is an attachement. However, if it is out of cheering and lifting up spirit, or seeing how 2 talented musicians work together as in this case, the results could be very inspirational.
“don’t let the sun go down on me”
this is powerful message from Rinpoche, it implies that we actually have the power to let the sun go down on others, simply by the way we treat them.
Do we abuse others, or do we serve others?
And when it comes to our best friend, to our Spiritual Teacher, it is also in our power to let the sun go down on him or not.
If we take refuge with our guru but then later we doubt him, we don’t follow his advise, we say we would do this and that but we don’t, and then we make him remind us, we create the causes for us not to have spiritual growth, we create the causes to be far away from our guru, either we would go or he would go; for without students that transform, there is NO reason for the guru to be near his students.
Then how? What would we do without a guru? Go to another one? That is impossible, because we have not only exhausted our karma to have a guru, we have created the karma NOT to have a guru.
Tsem Tulku Rinpoche is so kind and so extremely patient with his students, it is unbelievable, I have seen it directly.
It is up to us “NOT TO LET THE SUN GO DOWN”.
And, it is very easy to do: develop faith in him as a qualified guru and follow his guidance with devotion.
Our motivation should not be to be helped, and helped again, and helped and helped…
Our motivation must be to be helped so as to become a HELPER!
Now we are comfortably being driven, one day we must be able to drive!
I don’t know what the guys are singing. I don’t think I can undertstand the words and they are singing because of the slang they use. But I from the title of this song I want to make my comments about what I feel and think. Sometimes you may see heavy clouds in the sky and the sky turning gray and thats when I see the sun disappearing over the skyline. Thats when a person feels gloomy and depression sets in and thats when the sun goes down on you and there is no more brightness to cheer you up. Is there remedy for it? The remedy is Dharma. With correct Dharma applying to your life and practicing it. The sun will never go down on you.
I love this song. It marks the time when I was still schooling. Unfortunately, I am not about to hear a thing now cos home not book kaputed and work place pc no sounc card. the netbook I borrowed isnt slow and I am always full of crap excuses again for not reading Rinpoche’s blog and my bad practices.