The venerated Tibetan Buddhist monk, Khen Rinpoche Geshe Kachen Labzang Tsetan, head abbot of Tashi Lhunpo Monastery in Exile visited Unity Church of the Hills on Sunday, June 14. It was a day we had designated as “International Sunday.” We focused on our international outreach programs including formally introducing Maggie Miller to the congregation as our Team Leader of the International Outreach. And Maura Rehfuss who will soon leave for South Africa for several weeks of service to children orphaned by aids. In the second service that morning, the Rinpoche blessed some three hundred bracelets that Maura will take to give to these precious children.
The evening before that Sunday morning, Mary and I had been invited to a reception at the home of Gaea Logan, the host of Khen Rinpoche. His beautiful heart was instantly apparent as was his ease with being with a variety of personalities and backgrounds. After a time, we all gathered into Gaea’s living room to listen to Rinpoche and watch brief DVDs on the monastery and the Siddhartha School that he has been a part of since founding it in the 90s.
What was apparent to us is his deep love for those children and for the monks in training in the monastery and their love and respect for him. We saw and felt that on Sunday at the church as well. And now we are, as a congregation in that circle of love and kindness and compassion. And he is in ours along with the new friends that Mary and I made, some of whom have blessed us with their presence at the church. To know that his love accompanies Maura on her way to South Africa, that it blesses Maggie in her work and that it is active in our hearts is a true gift from Spirit.
In Love and Peace,
Rev. Steve Bolen
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