Feeling good? Looking good? Rupaul!
Dear friends,
I find Rupaul a great talent and enduring for all those who chose to be just themselves… Rupaul has tenacity, will power and incredible creativity as an artist. I like Rupaul’s talented artistry. Rupaul is intense and also highly intelligent. I enjoy some of Rupaul’s videos so much. I find them funny, meaningless, with a powerful message, be yourself, empowering, deep, cynical, plastic, entertaining and leaves you to think deeper about who you are, how you want yourself to be accepted by yourself.
The videos are funny and very today, but if you look at them more closely, in a way sad. Behind the make up, hair, scenes,choreography, lights, camera, glamour, story line is a person just like us and nothing is real… in a way our whole life is a drag or not real unless we imbue it with something more… letting go of fixed notions, grasping at non-existent permanence and holding onto ideas that we breathe ‘life’ into but do not exist… is a drag. And it drags us down. Be free. Be yourself. Be what you feel you should be not what others expect… but be what you want with great compassion, generosity, gratefulness, forgiveness, wisdom and give something back to others and earth. Always remember those that contributed to your life and where you are… move on and move on with them.
Anyways, enjoy the very funny video I’ve included here… be ready… it’s super super super funny.
Tsem Rinpoche
Some quotes from Rupaul I found interesting… hehe:
“If you don’t love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?”
“Very little is off -limits, but draw the line at being unkind.”
“My goal is to always come from a place of love… but sometimes you just have to break it down for a motherf*cker!”
“We all came into this world naked. The rest is all drag.”
or if youtube doesn’t load, click here: http://video.tsemtulku.com/videos/rupaul.flv
Some more pics of Rupaul with and without……
Rupaul, may you be at peace, find freedom and spiritual growth always… thanks for the laughs and thanks for your talents… TR
tr we will be one
oh yes Rinpoche!
(he was a real handsome man anyway)
There was a Hong Kong star who was like Rupaul! His name is Leslie Cheung.
During his last concert years before his death, he wore a long wig, and he was so sexyyy and hot!
even though he got so many criticize from people, he didn’t give a damn. He also admitted to the world that he is a gay.
I enjoyed watching this video. Repaul is sexy and hot as well.
hehehe. Cool!
haha…thank you Rinpoche for this video. Rupaul is one of my favorite talk show host. I remember watching her on tv and loved how she enters the stage in such glam, confidence, with a huge, contagious smile.
Just googling her name will bring up such a collage of pictures of hers in so many styles, personalities! She sure can make the world believe and see her for whatever and whoever she wants them to see her as.
LOL! Thank you, Rinpoche for uploading this Rupaul video. Funny!
Cool…thanks for sharing this video Rinpoche.I like this quotes
“We all came into this world naked. The rest is all drag.”
yes…be my self. Be what I feel I should be not what others expect…but be what I want with great compassion, generosity, gratefulness, forgiveness, wisdom and give something back to others and earth.
Thanks again Rinpoche, I will share with my friends(@_@)
She is really creative and what a character! This Rupaul and what an amazing drag!
What’s amazing is how she open the doors of drag queens to become superstars.
Her last photo look really emaciated though. I wonder if she is sick?
We are all very caught up with “Identity”. I guess at some point in time we realize that there are many questions we can’t answer like who we really are and what we are supposed to do and we don;t feel like we are in control of anything. Not getting the right answers makes us insecure and we start to create an identity our ourselves that we like, and that we think others will like. And we work so hard at that identity and we really dig ourselves into a hole by trying to hang onto to something not solid, not real and is in fact, only imagined. Once there, we are trapped. And if other people do not accept that identity we project and hold on to, we get upset and depressed.
The identity we crave to have need not necessarily be physical. We may also desire to be identified as being clever, or holy or spiritual.
Rupaul is all of us in a more exaggerate albeit honest way. We laugh at her antics and we like her although we know the public “Rupaul” is manufactured reality. As we are.
I like the three vastly different images of Rupaul above, set out one after another. Which is Rupaul? All of them and none of them I guess. To me the Rupaul i like best is the one which came up with all those great quotes e.g.“Very little is off -limits, but draw the line at being unkind.”
Great fun!! I miss my days, or nites in Hollywood. Around here all the gays fix up their victorian
homes, and go to gourmet restaurants for fun,basically.
Dear Rinpoche, Thank you very much for sharing. I don’t really know Rupaul but after seeing this article and video. I really admire him, he is gorgeous of being who he really is. Salute salute
xx
“We all came into this world naked. The rest is all drag.”
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing all these fun but meaningful video with us. She/he does not care about how others think of him, but be himself and go all the way with what he decided to do.
It is true we all came into this world naked(also with past life karma…) and the rest is all drag or illusion. Day after day we make ourselves a person which the society think is good for us, have big house, car, married, have kids, relationship but end up it is just a lie and many of us including myself got more unhappiness from there..
Rupaul really looks like beyonce!!!
i’ve had a brief read of RuPaul’s bio and his life story is quite sad and tragic but despite that he can still entertain others and project confidence. He mentioned that he realized he had issues in acting class when he could not project certain emotions required for the role and went for therapy. Somehow i find that quite powerful as we often walk around and function normally while bottling up our unhappiness and pretend that we are happy and confident until something provokes it and then we realize that the problem is bigger and more than we can ever face or deal with.
I guess in that aspect, we’re all in drag because we cant face the inner child inside, like rupaul, in a way.
Dear Rinpoche, thank you for introducing RuPaul here, I have not heard of him before until now. Looking at his Wikipedia page and brief history, she is certainly the pride of the gay community. I liked this quote from him, “You can call me he. You can call me she. You can call me Regis and Kathie Lee; I don’t care! Just as long as you call me.” and also “you’re just an oversized orang-utan” from the video =p it’s amazing what makeup can do..
Life’s definitely a drag. Whether you are boy or girl whatever sexuality, since the day we are born, we are a drag. Parents and society decide our make up, what to wear, how to act and when you’re old and worthless, they called you an “old drag”. Nothing lasts!!!
But the fabulous make up and the glamorous scenes are addictive. Sometimes we would do so much just to freeze a moment of glam. I’m sure there is a saying “a 5 mins glam on the red carpet or runway”. whatever. What happens next? But it is so tempting, it is almost like a promise that never grows old.
But the truth? The make won’t stay, the pictures don’t last. Someone will replace you on the carpet. Looking good feeling good is all temporally. Know who you are and how you want your life to be and don’t let it “drag” you down is the key for a start and sashay your life with a meaningful purpose is definitely the most glam!
Tashi Deleg Rinpoche. Tank you for all, I follow your beautifull activities from Switzerland. Tank you.
He looks so old now. Really shows that beauty does not last and things are always impermanent. However, he has talent which made him famous.
I love his quote “We all came into this world naked. The rest is all drag.” Everything is a drag and will continue to be a drag. It is until we realise that nothing is important that it will not become a drag in our lives. Lose our attachments and we will be free.
It takes courage to stand honestly naked before oneself and others. It takes resilience to embrace this commitment to be ourself.
Life of the 21st century is a stage filled with noise and glare that we often find it challenging to see ourselves. Individuals like Rupaul show us that there is a way. Along this journey of discovery, it is probably likely that we will put different costumes.
May we, with patience and openness, discover that all the different costumes contribute to forming who we are, who is truly beautiful. May we also develop the generosity to share our journey kindly with others so that we help make their journey easier.
I believe that this is Dharma. It is not only about living the “right” life but to identify the lessons the mistakes or wrong we do so that we can benefit others.