Teachers Day Celebration, 2016

We could have never become a better person without teachers that we have come across in our lives. Today, we enjoy the fruits because our teachers have shed so much of sweet to make us a better person. We should be filled with gratitude for them. 

Teachers Day was celebrated at Gaeddu College of Business Studies on 2nd May, 2016 coinciding with the birth anniversary of fourth Druk Gyalpo Jigme Dorji Wangchuk. To mark the occasion, various cultural programmes were held by the staffs. 

The programme began with a recitation of prayers and offering butter lamps. The staffs of the Gaeddu College of Business Studies put on a scintillating cultural show. 

Director General and other staffs offering butter lamps to mark the occasion.

Cultural Programme by the Staffs

Teachers are the light that dispels the darkness of the world. There is no way that so much of development would have taken place around the world without teachers. Today, we know how to read and write because our teachers have taught us. We know what is good and bad because teachers have shown us the way. We should be enormously be thankful to teachers.

People who misinterpret and criticize their teacher is said that they will fault even in the Buddha if they were to live with him long enough. 

During Buddha's time, Buddha's half brother monk Sunaksattra served Buddha for 24 years. Sunaksatrra started to think negative about Buddha as time went by. He saw everything the Buddha did as deceitful, and eventually came to the wrong conclusion that, apart from an aura six feet wide, there was no difference between the Buddha and himself.

Apart from that light around your body six feet wide,

Never have I seen, in twenty four years as your servant,

Even a sesame seed’s with of special qualities in you.

As for the Dharma, I know as much as you-and will no longer be your servant!

So saying, he refused to serve Buddha and left. Then, Ananda became the Buddha’s personal attendant. He asked the Buddha where Sunaksatra would be reborn.

The Buddha replied, “In one week’s time, his life will come to an end and he will be reborn as a hungry ghost in a flower garden.”

Ananda went to see Sunaksatra and told him what the Buddha had said. Sunakstra thought to himself, “Sometimes, those lies of his come true, so for seven days I had better be very careful. At the end of the week, I’ll make him eat his words.” He spent the week fasting. On the evening of the seventh day, his throat felt very dry, so he drank some water. But he could not digest the water properly, and died. He was reborn in a flower-garden as a hungry ghost with all nine marks of ugliness.

We should feel deeply ashamed whenever we see faults in our teachers. Instead reflect that it is our mental vision that is impure, and that all the actions of teachers are flawless. We should increase our faith in teachers by removing negative thoughts.