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The country has become a carbon sink.
Being a carbon sink means that
Bhutan absorbs over six million tons of carbon annually :smile:
while only producing around 1.5 million tons.
Bhutan also exports most of the renewable hydro-electric power
they generate from their rivers.
This offsets millions of tons of carbon dioxide.



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"...When I was a child, I heard my father talk often about the amazing qualities of the Buddha.
One day I asked: '...If the Buddha’s so great, so wonderful and perfect,
why can’t he make sick people healthy? Why doesn’t he just pick up the beggars in Kathmandu
and toss them into the pure land?...'"

“Karma” my father answered.
“Everyone has their own karma to work out :smile:
No one, not even the Buddha, can change our karma.”

I continued to press my father, asking
“....If the Buddha can’t help people who are suffering
then why are all these people prostrating and chanting mantras
and making offerings?”

“...They are changing their own karma” he explained.
“Only you can change your karma and make your karma.
The Buddha cannot do that for you, but practicing Dharma can.
We pray to the Buddha, but even though the Buddha cannot change our karma
praying itself changes our karma.
Seeing the enlightened qualities of the Buddhas brings us closer
to seeing those qualities in ourselves.
In this way, practicing Dharma becomes our active role
in changing our own karma. Our sense of who we are begins to change
In order to eliminate suffering, we need the supreme protector, which is Dharma.
It is Dharma that can really save us from samsara.
Only by following the path of Dharma
—which means practice
—can we develop self-realization...."
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
From an article:"When the Retreat is Over"
https://www.lionsroar.com/why-we-take-refuge/


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