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Animal Liberation to Remove Life Obstacles

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Rinpoche gave the following advice to a student with life obstacles.

My very dear Connor,
I was recently checking for one student and your name came up. Anyway, I checked and this year it seems there is some obstacle for you.

It came out for you to liberate 300 animals who are in the danger to be killed. It can be fish or some small animals and some big ones. If you don’t have much money, then you can also buy crickets or worms. In one plastic bag, there can be up to 1,000 crickets or worms, so you can do like that and include some bigger animals who are going to be killed if possible. If you can liberate 1,000 animals, this is best. You can buy them from a pet shop that uses them to feed to other animals, like snakes and so forth. That is one easy way to save many animals quickly.

Please make sure the motivation when doing the practice is not just for your long life, but for the long life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the long life of all the holy beings, the long life of all the Sangha who spread the Dharma teachings, so that Dharma can last a long time and for the long life of all the students who do good things, for all those who recite OM MANI PADME HUM and for all those who are doing good in this world for other people, for those who are living in morality and so forth. By dedicating to everyone’s long life, you collect most unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable merits.

It also came out for you to read the Amitayus Long Life Sutra 70 times. This is also great for purification. Then it also came out for you to take a long-life initiation—as soon as you can would be best.

With much love and prayers...