Healing words by Ms Lindsay Wagner
When I was a kid, one of my topmost favorite shows was THE BIONIC WOMAN. On the nights the show was going to play, I got my chores done sooner and my homework too so I can relax and watch. I would be on my best behaviour so my mom wouldn’t punish me by not letting me watch. Many of my classmates and my school friends loved the show. Everyone watched it. The minute I finished an episode, I would call up my friend Pat (who lived across the street) and we’d excitedly talk about it. He loved it too. Hehe. And in school I talked about it with some friends too…
I loved the fact she was humble and didn’t show off her powers. She always tried to help people. She was caring and non-judgmental and very accepting in her character of the show of the many characters she came across. I love the setting as it was in Ojai, California as I would love to live in Northern California. I loved the adventures she get into and how she spoke-very kindly to everyone. I still have all her shows now and do still watch it. I love it. Any other bionic woman fans out there please here where I live???
Well I came across a YouTube clip of her talking about healing. And looks like in real life she is very kind, spiritual and open also. I heard from someone that she attended a initiation of Tara by HH the Dalai Lama a few years back!!! This person told me they met her there… Wow!!! I am so happy for her. Tara is perfect for her. Perfect Yidam and perfect healer!!
She says in the interview when you can share with others and heal others, it changes your life so much. I agree. It opens you up exponentially. Whatever you do with a good agenda for others always makes ourselves grow. The way to ourselves is through others. The way to real acceptance is through others.
Please watch. I hope one day I can meet her and present a gift to her personally. I would love to give her a Tara statue for being such a beautiful person.
Tsem Rinpoche
I love how she speaks here… Watch the video please… It is about our programming and how we react to things that gives us the pain… the programming is not static and we can change it… I love the message she shares with us in this short but meaningful video… do think about it please… TR
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Childhood experiences plays a key influence on our experience of any adult life circumstance. Often children were not able to process their emotions, the emotions that is not resolved, such as a sense of fear and helplessness, anger, dissapointment etc, would shape as perspective.
What Lindsay said is true, when we become aware of how our perspective shape, thus we realize not the incident or the stimuli itself, not that person, not that moment in time but our response to it, our perspective of it. It can be scary or shock when we see that we have live an entire life based on a perspective that is not truth. Lindsay is so loving to say we are human and we go through all these experiences. She is kind to ask us to embrace that pain that comes up in us, like we would do for a little child who is in hurts. There are a lot psychology therapy to help us discover and the good news is we are able to reprogram our perspective for meaningful life changes.
The ‘BIONIC WOMAN’ actress Lindsay Wagner ….was one of my favourite TV shows many years ago. She is a trainer and author of several books on health and beauty. To awaken our amazing human potential and heal the body, has always been Lindsay Wagner greatest passion. Inspiring…… She runs a workshops and retreats that have developed out of her own experience, which promotes spirituality and meditation. She displayed so much of wisdom and beauty both inner beauty and outward through the video. She has use her popularity to help people. In order to experience the difference we need to change within ourselves of our perception.
A powerful quote by Lindsay Wagner “Shift your perspective……..experience the difference.”.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing .
Short and sweet inspiring teaching from a beautiful lady. She speaks in a very soothing, calm and peaceful manner that grab my attention so much. She sounds like a peaceful renounced Sangha who has her perspective in life changed because of realization through studying and practicing Dharma.
I like the part where she spoke about we should be responsible/response-able for our feelings and projections towards a circumstance that might bring us down. If each of us take charge of what we say and do, be more responsible to ourselves, peace is not difficult to achieve.
Dearest Rinpoche, yes, yes, I must confess that I was a Bionic Woman fan too. Growing up in Malaysia and being of the same age as Rinpoche meant that this was one of the few precious family TV programmes I got to watch during the week, in black and white. It was such a treat. Why were we attracted to her personality, well I think maybe studying Sigmund Freud might help :). Nevertheless, she certainly showed her motherly, caring, compassionate character in the series, albeit in a neat package, and I never knew why she liked that fella Steve Austin! Thank you for the video. What she says rings so true and what she says she is practising. Very happy for her.
beautiful, inspiring
Linday Wagner sharing of her realization is what Rinpoche is teaching us:
Programing and conditioning from self, society and environment.
Our perspective and projection. From these, our expectation for other people and things to change make us suffer.
To take charge of our life and situations and be responsible.
I feel she has wisdom from the clarity of her short message, and she looks at peace and calm, qualities of a realized dharma practitioner.
I love Lindsay Wagner too and loved watching Bionic Woman as a kid. I can even attribute some scars on my knees from trying stunts and wishing I was her… hehehe. I have heard her speak on shows before and have always thought her to be articulate and well spoken. This video sums it up really! WOW! Such and inspiration to hear her speak of her realization and she is mesmerizing to say the least (and looks great for 62 years of age). I have transcribed her words here below for those of you who have problems with the accent or language.
We are indeed so conditioned by our parents, by our friends, by society, by ourselves, by all the outside influences that we always tend to blame the situation/person and not our “experience” of or what we take or learn from it. We are, after all, the masters of our own feelings!
Makes me think about how I feel personally about the death of Justin Ripley, our dear Dharma brother who literally died in my arms. Tears still well in my ears thinking of that fateful night. The multitude of emotions and feelings I felt in that moment and the moments after are intense. From guilt, to sorrow, to pain, to fear, to hopelessness, to anger, to numbness… but all that will not bring Justin back! What I know now is that the memory of him, his silent strength, his willingness to help, his smile and his simplistic look at life, makes me realize how little time we have to worry about petty things… and to be the best person I can be in this life and stop dwelling over things that do not matter, that I cannot possibly take with me at the time of my own death!
Thank you Rinpoche for yet another magnificently inspiring blog post. Much love… Andrew
(transcribed from video above)
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The most empowering realization that I have had… that to me profoundly shifts your journey, whatever it is, whatever path, whatever methodologies you use, is that our experience of any life circumstance is a function of our perspective of it. Not the incident or the stimuli itself, not that person, not that moment in time but my response to it, my perspective of it. That’s what brings up the feeling I have in the face of that moment.
And we are constantly trying to change all that out there so that we can feel better. But in fact that feeling is coming from in here, from my programming, from my conditioning. And granted it doesn’t feel like that at times, most of the time as a matter of fact. Until we start getting a sense of the fact that it IS only a program. And that, as we shift our perspective, on that very same thing, our experience starts to change.
Think about the word responsibility. Taking responsibility for the way we feel in the face of anything means becoming “response-able”… responsible… response-able! There is no guilt here, there is no guilt there. We are human and we go through these experiences. And when we can embrace that pain that comes up in us, as we would a little child who hurt themselves… and address it with techniques whether they are mine or yours or anybody who has found ways and spends their time or at least part of their time helping other people learn ways to do that. You know, life just exponentially changes!
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She speaks dharma! It is so nice and soothing to hear her speak. I personally think she also went through a lot and gain some realizations over the years. I am glad that she got Tara initiation His Holiness. For some reasons I really like listen to people’s experiences in life and how they overcome unhappiness. Lindsay speaks so profoundly of our own perceptions that cause our own sufferings. Because it is from our very own habituation and “programmed” whether it’s from ourselves or society. Hence, when result is not what we expect it to be.. We get disappointed, angry, sad etc…
It is when we change oneself, our perception only we can experience differently. It is easy to say then said and done. That is why we become selfish and so self absorb with our own feelings…
Bionic Women is really inspiring, she use her fame and ‘power” to continuously heal people on/off the tv screen, i wish she can come to Malaysia and work together with Kechara Bionic women Vajrayoni herself, and thru Kechara World Peace Center, sending peace to the whole wide world.
Oh WOW!
I am blown away by how well and clearly Lindsay Wagner speaks about experiences coming “from us” and not “at us”.
How we constantly try to change things “out there”, when we should actually change things “in here”.
How the way we perceive things (coming at us) is so strong that we get blinded and react to them in in-efficacious ways (trying to fix the things “out there”).
How our “programming” (and here I understand karma) can be shifted, it can CHANGE, and through that process we can better ourselves and change how we experience the world “out there” for the better.
I totally agree with her “change is from within us” – it is up to US, OURSELVES, to change and there in no one whom can help or make us change. Our destiny is in our own hands.
It takes considerable good fortune to get to a point where we can even remotely consider that there may be another perspective to things. It is very hard to realize that on our own.It takes even more good fortune to be shown the methods to re-wire our “program” and to be provided with infrastructures such as the Dharma centre wherein the rewiring can be practiced and reinforced. Once we start to look at ourselves from a different angle, we may panic and see that we have built an entire life based on a plan where the axes are all wrong. Pain and guilt can be very crippling and the original program is always wanting to jump in and over-ride the change and every day there is this tug-of-war going. Lindsay Wagner speaks of empowerment and when we are too weak by ourselves, the empowerment comes from others we respect and love who see our potential. We do it for them and gradually it gets a bit easier because we actually are able to tangibly feel the changes within ourselves when we change our views. Every time we feel the pain from the struggle, we know we are still alive and the fight is still on. That is good news because there is no other way.
I like what she says about how we are responsible (response-able!) for how we feel and what pain we allow ourselves to experience or not. I think if we each did this more, we’d be a lot less angry at ourselves and other people. I guess we’d stop talking and pointing and looking outwards and thinking instead of just what WE could do to change a situation. It’s more empowering that way than to sit and lament about something, blame, complain and just sit in the bad feelings.
certainly does seem like she’s bionic in more ways than one! :p
The first thing I thought after listening to this video is..wouldnt the world be a much better place if everyone’s perspective of things going on in our lives are positive?
Ever since gaining some dharma knowledge, I started to approach matters positively and of course with a sense of dharma. I do feel the change. When we start looking at the bigger picture of things, we won’t feel so ‘trapped’ inside. I learnt that letting go of our ego is important for us to understand the dharma better. We are open to ideas and knowledge.
Like HHDL said, we only live for around 100 years or less. Why not take the opportunity to do something useful and beneficial?
For a matter a fact, we create so many problems for ourselves, both this life and future lives. Yes when our negative karma ripens, we can’t do much. But what we can do as Rinpoche has always said is to do more dharma work to gain more merits, or simply to be altruistic. This is so we can ensure our future lives to have dharma or at the very least reborn in the human realm so we can practice and be close to the dharma.
“We are visitors on this planet. We are here for ninety or one hundred years at the very most. During that period,
we must try to do something useful, with our lives. If you contribute to other people’s happiness, you will find the
true goal, the true meaning of life.” -HH the 14th Dalai Lama
She clearly said what Dharma is all about, changing of our mind/perspective will help us to get through the pain and unhappiness. We create sufferings with our mind and expectation. In order to be freed from sufferings, we just have to change our perspective. Learning Dharma is one of the ways to achieve it.
Dear Rinpoche
thank you for sharing this with me. I have been thinking deeply about my feelings for many months. Why I dread some event, while I look forward to other events. I feel so unstable and try to find a solution to this. When I analyzed the cause deeply, it is about my perspective, expectations, and my brain program as to what is pleasant and unpleasant. For example, I like to be alone and don’t really like to go out to meet some people because I feel they will drain my energy with their problems and imposing their expectations about what I should and should not do. Very irritating sometimes.
But, due to the nature of my day job and charity work, I have to continuously meet a lot of people. Since I have nowhere to hide anymore, I just change my perspective and expectations, try to control my reaction, like and dislike. Surprisingly it works – and it is very empowering.
So I agree completely with Ms. Lindsay Wagner. I just wish that watched this video many months ago.
Much care
Valentina
We are stuck coz we have programmed ourselves to react like this or like that. Now I think about it the programming is so deep and ingrained that we think if it is A it is pleasant, if it is B it is not pleasant. I think labelling has a lot to do it with it as well. And I think meditation we let ourselves let go of the labels.
I feel she has realised a lot and that she is able to overcome many years of her habituation, conditioning, programming.
You are right is is not easy. It doesn’t sound easy to me either. But I always ask myself, what are the choices? Keep the disease and deny the cause. Don’t heal the cause? Or attack the cause and the disease at the same time which is double trouble and double pain. Unwinding our views that have caused us so much problems IS NOT EASY AND NOT FAST AND WILL NOT BE OVERNIGHT…you are right. I agree with you. But please think…it’s nice to even hear it-a possible solution…it’s soothing just to hear there’s a solution because that is an indication it is the right direction. Imagine if beyond hearing we do something about it?? Tsem Rinpoche