Prayer Flags Have Bad Days... Really!?

Prayer Flags and Auspicious Days
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
This teaching appears in the March-April, 1997 issue of Mandala, the newsmagazine of the FPMT.
Prayer Flags
When you put up prayer flags to bring success, if you put them up on the wrong astrological dates [paden tharwo], you continuously receive obstacles. For as long as the prayer flags last, obstacles will continuously arise. This also applies to long prayer flags and to banners. The following are the wrong dates according to the Tibetan calendar:

• 10th and 22nd of the first, fifth and ninth months
• 7th and 19th of the second, sixth and tenth months
• 4th and 16th of the third, seventh and eleventh months
• 1st and 13th of the fourth, eighth and twelfth months

Even though I did just hang my prayer flags and it is the SECOND day of the EIGHTH month... I don't buy it. I just don't. Like eggs are bad for you. People are just often misguided. My opinion... that's all this ever is... my opinion.

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