Finding a Retreat Center
A Dharma center in the UK asked Rinpoche what practices they should do in order to help them acquire a retreat center.
My most precious brothers and sisters,
In order to be able find and buy a retreat center, please recite the Sanghata Sutra 108 times and the Golden Light Sutra once.
You can also organize a special day where you offer drinks, food, snacks, English food, mashed potato…just joking!
You can see in the world that so many people get an education, then wealth, power, and so forth, and then they use it to harm others, harm the world, and harm themselves. What you are doing is the opposite, bringing joy, freedom, happiness, peace, now and also in the future, forever, to so many sentient beings, not just for yourself, your family, England, the rest of the world, but for all sentient beings.
This is the total opposite to what most people do in the world. Your aim is not only for temporary peace and happiness, your main aim is for ultimate peace and happiness, total liberation from the suffering of samsara, great liberation, peerless happiness, and full enlightenment.
So, therefore, develop compassion and wisdom and enjoy, be happy! Thank you very much.
With much love and prayer from the Mickey Mouse from the Himalayan Mountain who is currently at Osel Ling.
Also, zillions of thanks to Geshe-la, and billions of thanks to all the rest – the director, education manager, house manager, bookshop manager, cook, book-keeper, Geshe-la’s attendant, all the students, and everyone who comes to serve and practice.