My Thoughts on J.K. Rowling's Great Speech - Tsem Tulku Rinpoche

Dear Blog friends,

I came across this speech by J.K Rowling (author of Harry Potter) and was amazed. There' s much wisdom, Dharma, insight and very beneficial advice if we embrace it. Reading it has helped me today. I will read it again and again from time to time. I really like it. I wanted to post this because I wanted all my friends to read the wisdom it contains. It is not in any context except coming from a person who has championed against the many vicissitudes of life. It reaffirms my belief that struggles and harshness makes a person win eventually. Difficulties shape a person's strength they didn't know they had sometimes. Vicissitudes in the end becomes the best teacher and embrace it. I didn't say enjoy it, but embrace, learn, and don't get swallowed up by it, but move on. Moving on is learning. Avoiding difficulties puts you back into mental complacency and claustrophobic states that only gets bigger with time.

What Ms. Rowling said is not dry or boring or academic. It is so full of wisdom. But to read and be inspired for the day is not enough. To read and shed a tear or say wow the lights came on in my mind is not the purpose of this post. The purpose is to help you 'liberate' you from you I sincerely hope. To help you overcome your fears to move on. Fear never really goes away, but why hold onto old fears? Old fears when overcome make you stronger to challenge bigger and more worthy fears that needs to be conquered for success. Yes for success. Who does not want to succeed. Why do some people become mentally unstable? Perhaps fear of not succeeding or not achieving what they set out to do? Maybe. I can only hypothesize. Some even opt out to disappear and go away? Why? They are not running away because of you, but because of the glint of their potential you show them but they are afraid of this potential. Why afraid, because they know there will be failures before the rainbow, and they don't focus on the rainbow.

I decided to do a reading on tape and post it here. I sincerely from the bottom of my heart wish to share this with all of you. I am not a fan of Harry Potter (sorry). I did not enjoy the movies much. I did not read the book, nor intend to. But I admire and respect the author. You see just because I do not particularly favour her work does not mean it is not excellent, which it is. Her work is excellent. Ms Rowling is excellent. Her fortitude to do what she dreams after decades of struggles and humiliation rings terribly loud in my head. I respect her so much for doing what she wanted to do against what society says she has to do. She didn't fight society, her parents or her poverty. She didn't enjoy her poverty. But she saw the worth in it. She saw who she is today is what she embraced of herself in the past. Embracing the past should not be future tense. Embracing yourself means to do what you need to do no matter what the struggles are. What the difficulties you have to endure. Just do it.

Tsem Rinpoche

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'The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination'

Ms. Rowling's entire speech can be found here:

http://blog.tsemtulku.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/inspiration-worthy-words/a-powe...

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[gabrielgal18]

rowling must be a bodhisattva.

[uranian99]

Congratulations, Rinpoche. You have just read and expounded upon the most important thing J.K. Rowling ever wrote.

[urhart]

Very good aimoylin.

[aimoylim]

@urhart. Rinpoche has shown us here that Miss Rowling possesses great moral courage and spiritual wisdom in using failure to liberate herself from the shell of a persona that conventional norms and dictates had built around her. She was able to face herself honestly and strip away all the "inessentials". With that she was able to move forward in life. So she is HAPPY and at PEACE with herself now, as she has found her true self and has moved on to great success.

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[urhart]

Loved hearing your take on J.K. Rowlings speech. I love the Harry Potter series, and love the magical possibilities that many older Cultures ( No. Am. Ind.) have actually done The human potential is greater than any technology . The things missing in her stories, is the Spiritual aspect and RESPECT for the elements ; a separate evolution from the human soul responsibilities.

Follow the HEART,to be in harmony with the WILL of the Creator. Rather than HAPPINESS , I would say PEACEFUL HEART.

[KOTAROINUGAMIsama]

om mani padme hum