07/09/2025
We wrapped up the summer seminar with Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche yesterday.
To celebrate this we share some photos and the thoughts of rejoicing and gratitude we shared in the last day at Gomde.
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It has been an amazing week here at Gomde Pyrenees.
Thank you to everyone!
Profound teachings. Practicing together. Laughing together. Celebrating Rinpoche’s birthday with the worldwide sangha. A feeling of harmony.
Thank you to everyone — we all made this happen together.
Yesterday evening, I noticed people chopping vegetables. At another moment, someone was cleaning the kitchen floor. At another, someone was taking care of the rubbish.
When we go to a hotel, all of this is done for us without us even noticing.
But here, a big seminar at Gomde is a living example of all of us contributing: time, money, energy, patience, effort.
It is a joint effort. All of us together, taking care of our Dharma home that belongs to all of us.
Thank you to all who came here to practice and made this seminar possible.
And thank you to the volunteers who cooked for us while we were in the teachings.
It is difficult to mention everyone by name, but I would like to bring out some.
Thank you, Rinpoche, for guiding us and sharing the teachings.
Please return to teach many, many times.
May your activities flourish and lead every single sentient being to enlightenment.
And may all of us, your students, put your teachings into practice with pure and genuine motivation, making your busy schedule and travels truly meaningful.
Thank you, Lama-la, for always leading us in practice.
May your life be long, and may you be able to practice deeply as you wish, while helping us deepen our own practice.
Thank you, Khenpo-la, for the very clear teachings you have given us, for taking such good care of Rinpoche, and for always answering the many questions we bring to you.
Thank you, Catherine, Maitri, and Chloé, for making it possible for most of us in this room to understand the profound Dharma.
It is so inspiring that you have devoted your lives to Dharma. With your intelligence and abilities, you could be pursuing many other careers, but, you are here helping us.
May you always have all the support you need to continue this essential work.
Finally, I would like to thank some people who have put especially much effort into making this seminar happen:
Ana, Esmee, Hilary, and Dasha — who have organized so much.
Pauli — who works tirelessly. Or perhaps it’s more accurate to say: even when completely tired, he still works.
Toni — who came to lead our kitchen and make sure that more than 100 people had food on the table.
Andrea, Claudia, Susi, Eduardo, Anjua, Stefan, Jacint, Tur, Miriam, Dirk and many others who have been helping here for a long time and who return again and again.
I am sure I have missed many names — but all of you are loved!
And thank you also to all the board members and everyone else who constantly puts in effort so that Gomde is here for us to come and practice.
I also want to acknowledge the three-year retreat. All those practicing in retreat now — and those who will in the future — make all our work here so meaningful. Let us take a moment together to rejoice in the amazing practice being done.
And thank you to Eudald, Gini, Mimi, and Pauli, who are the main people supporting the three-year retreat on a daily basis.
Finally, thank you, Rinpoche, for bringing us all together and for manifesting this extraordinary Dharma centre — far from everything, yet perfect for the practice of the nature of mind.
Amazing!
