A Beneficial Life
Rinpoche wrote the following note to a student.
My most dear Jessica,
I was happy to meet you and have a talk, to come to know you little by little. You are a very sincere person trying to make your human life as beneficial as possible for other sentient beings. That is the most important goal of life.
If we always do that every day, just in our normal life, when we are eating, sleeping, walking or talking—if everything we do is for others, for the numberless sentient beings—WOW! What happiness, joy, the best life! It gives meaning to everything we do, even going to the toilet. Can you imagine!
Then, when we do traditional practice, sadhanas, prostrations, offerings or any other practice, even retreat, for sure it becomes for other numberless sentient beings. This is the most meaningful, happiest life, bringing the quickest enlightenment in this life.
It comes out very good, best if you can do shi-nä retreat. That doesn’t mean right now, just that you need to study the shi-nä text. For that retreat, you need to choose the place, which has to be checked. Study the clear explanation of shi-nä in Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand. There may be other texts also.
With much love and prayers...