[Teaching on Songs of Barway Dorje, Part 9, by Bardor Tulku Rinpoche. Translated by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso.]
We fixate on the calendar. While we fixate on what month it is, what day it is, we may in fact forget the whole point of a calendar, which is to mark and remind us of the fact that time is passing. Time is never still. No-one has managed to remain for a prolonged period of time on the same date. Time keeps on moving. That is really the most important thing that we can learn from all these dates that we care so much about. So the most important thing we can observe at the start of the new year is that we have no time to waste.
