Death of Grandfather
A young student wrote to Rinpoche saying her grandfather had just died and she was very sad. Rinpoche sent her the following note.
My very dear Eliza,
What happened to your grandfather is a great teaching for us; it shows the reality of life. It is telling us what we need to do with our life. There is nothing more beneficial than holy Dharma. That doesn’t mean just talking about Dharma texts, it means one’s mind being transformed into virtue, and especially transformed into the path to liberation and enlightenment, which means liberating all sentient beings from the oceans of suffering and its causes, and bringing them to enlightenment, which is peerless happiness. This is something they have been longing for and is the most important need. This is what everyone is longing for but is not really aware of. They are not aware that such a thing as the highest, peerless happiness can be achieved.
With much love and prayers...