Tashi Delek! — May you have auspiciousness and causes of success!

བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་

Tashi Delek, that’s a Tibetan greeting that I have recently learned. The previous pre-dawn, I woke to a chorus of myriad voices singing, “Have it all! We want you to have it all!” repeating over and over in my head to the tune of Jason Mraz’s “Have it All”.

Tashi Delek (བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་) has only four syllables, and yet it expresses so much more than that! If human expressions have measurable weight, imagine 34 trillion kilograms of different loving expressions packed into a neutron star the size of a one-inch-jawbreaker candy! Sweet.

In short, it means, “May you have auspiciousness and causes of success”.  When Jason Mraz learned this meaning from his translator during his Myanmar tour, his reaction was, “Wow, that is a lot of syllables packed into ‘Tashi Delek’.”

And then this beautiful blessing in a song expressing Tashi Delek unwrapped like a gift as “Have it all” was revealed. It is a fitting and beautiful song of well wishes beautifully wrapped in four syllables, Tashi Delek (བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་).  I joyfully danced to this song through what was left of the morning and part of the afternoon like no one was watching. Actually, no one was watching. I made sure.

Put on your headphones or earphones and enjoy “Have it all”.

Tashi Delek and Happy New Year!

May you have auspiciousness and causes of success!

I want you to have it all!