2008
A Letter of Thanks to Someone Important
Dear Dam Chhoi Lama,
Meeting you in Italy in that weird spring of 2001 has changed my life forever. Probably you do not know that and being a Buddhist monk (even though a very worldly one) you would certainly deny it and make a joke about your own insignificance and say that it was all there inside me already anyway.
But still I would like to say thanks. Thanks, for the understandable lessons in Buddhist philosophy and meditation, thanks for healing one of the worst headaches that I can remember with just a few pinches of reflexology.
Thanks for letting me watch you painting your fantastic thangkas and on top explaining me with ultimate patience all those figures, their meaning, their special powers and their place in the Buddhist cosmos.
I had started being a practicing Buddhist already before I met you, but our encounter and the opportunity to learn from you for half a year has made me more aware of my own strengths and deficiencies.
Thank you also for being with us when the event of 9/11 paralyzed the whole world. I will never forget how on that day towards evening when everybody was coming back home from work, all of our little group of friends slowly, slowly all showed up at your place just to be together – it was clear that we felt most safe and most protected and most likely to receive comfort from you.
All the best!
S.
