January 18th, 2011 - Hong Kong, China

Quick Visit to a Fast City: DPR in Hong Kong

In the first weeks of 2011, Dzogchen Ponlop found himself passing through the beautiful, bustling borough of Hong Kong. With its fast pace, exciting architecture and romantic night lights, this Pearl of the Orient is a favorite stop. After just a few days of enjoying some shopping, good food and old friends, it was back on the road.

There's more to Hong Kong than just a shopper's paradise, financial center and crispy buns at Tsui Wah. Here a small but dedicated cadre of Rinpoche’s students sing songs of the profound view and mediation: Nalandabodhi Asia. On January 18th, his last night in town, in a yoga studio in Wan Chai, Rinpoche had a discussion with these lucky students about exploring the mind and the power of radical questioning. When we explore our mind we can find other possibilities. This can only come about from curious investigation, radical questioning: “every good thing in the world basically came about from questioning.”

Sometimes we get obsessed about forms, containers, methods for the questioning. Who’s forms are best? Every form has good qualities, and problems too. When we focus on outer forms, this questioning is reduced to competition. However, if we can explore, in an innocent, interested way, we discover love and openness that we can’t help but share with the world. What is fascinating about the mind, Rinpoche said, is that we don’t have to try and become a better person. By only working with our mind, exploring our mind, we naturally become better people. This is the process of meditation.

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