Full Ordination for Nun

My very dear Venerable,
Thank you very much your kind letter. It would be very good for you to take full ordination. I hope the reason you want to take it is not because it looks good, or because it is a fashion to enjoy for some time. This is really a serious matter and decision in one’s life.

The thought that you should have every day, the basic idea, is this:

"I am doing this to achieve liberation and the total cessation of sufferings and their cause—delusion and karma—which have no beginning. But not only this, the reason that I have taken these vows is to free the countless hell beings from sufferings and their causes and bring them to enlightenment; to free the countless hungry ghost beings from sufferings and their causes and bring them to enlightenment; to free the countless animal beings from sufferings and their causes and bring them to enlightenment; to free the countless human beings from sufferings and their causes and bring them to enlightenment; to free the countless asura beings from sufferings and their causes and bring them to enlightenment; to free the countless sura beings from sufferings and their causes and bring them to enlightenment; and also to free the countless intermediate state beings from sufferings and their causes and bring them to enlightenment. Therefore, I must achieve enlightenment. For that reason I am living in ordination.

"To liberate and enlighten other sentient beings is the ultimate goal of my life. That’s why I have taken this human body, for that aim: to actualize the path, achieve enlightenment, and liberate and enlighten all sentient beings. The human body gives all the opportunities for this, including achieving enlightenment in one life. This is on the basis of this human body, born in this southern continent, where tantra is existing. This body is the only, best thing, which gives all these opportunities.

"I have collected merits, by practicing charity and dedicating merits, to receive a perfect human body for so many lifetimes. I have worked so hard for thousands of lifetimes to receive this human body, so therefore I must use this human life in the best, most productive, beneficial way for all sentient beings, not only for myself."

This is what you should think every day. Learn the vows and try to live in them as much as possible, otherwise you take the vows and are very virtuous at the beginning, but after some time they mean nothing, you just see a person’s robes, and that’s all. It shouldn’t be like that. Thank you very much for your letter.

With much love and prayers...