Explanation of Logo

The five hearts represent love from five directions, coming together in unity and harmony. The orange light in the centre represents the sun (of hope), with its glow of sun rays gradually growing to become red, the color of strength and energy. This symbolizes a heart full of love that illuminates from self to others, with the thriving selfless energy to extend love in the form of humanitarian activities to those beings in our world. The external circle which is orange in color symbolizes the perfection of the beneficial activities that are carried out with fearless confidence and definite success.

Live to Love! - I have been thinking about this and practically, we all should be doing it together. Instead of only myself and a few of us practically doing this, I think everyone, starting from my monasteries, nunneries and centres worldwide, can start thinking about how to do this based on the 5 directions I have given. I feel that, all my organisations and those of my colleagues who would like to join us (no obligations, of course), should dedicate the 3rd Sunday of each month to carry out activities in regards to "Live to Love". For example, some activities such as joining with other humanitarian organisations or doing on our own about helping other human beings, releasing lives, visiting homeless people with genuine and sincere care for their well-being, look around the areas where the centres, monasteries or nunneries are located and see if our own local communities need any kind of help. We can provide this kind of very simple and convenient help, to start with. Some people will ask why the 3rd Sunday, why not 1st Sunday, 2nd Sunday or 4th Sunday? Well, I have a few reasons. One is that the number "3" represents the Three Jewels; second is that most people are very busy in the beginning and at the end of the month, for various reasons. I am not daring to ask everyone to do on every Sunday, because this is just the beginning, to do something good and beneficial to your own local communities, practically, this should not add to your already stressful life. Let's start to do this once a month, 12 times a year, to be living genuinely for others' benefits - Live to Love!

I hope that everyone who follows my simple advice is able to do this happily and willingly. I don't know how this will affect your daily life, but I am sure taking 12 days out of 365 days to do genuine beneficial deeds for the sake of others is not asking too much, I hope. This should be a support to your formal practice, that is to say to put your formal practice into practical use, and you can check then how much Bodhicitta you really have, you should at least be honest to yourself. I would be so happy to get news from all my organisations what they are doing every 3rd Sunday and I would love to have these news posted on my web or the live to love website, which I hope someone is doing up now. I was told that Druk Foundation Ltd. has registered this Live to Love logo and the words for the lineage, so it's good that if we can all use "Live to Love" to represent all the humanitarian and beneficial activities, without boundary of religions, nationalities, etc.

More on Live to Love at:

http://www.l2love.org/index.php/about

http://www.drukpa.org