Helping Others With a Good Heart
Rinpoche gave the following advice to staff at the Shakyamuni Buddha Community Health Care Program, which offers health care and related services to the local community in Bodhgaya.
What you are doing here is the most important work in the world. In your life, the most important work is to help others with a good heart, with love and compassion.
Helping others is the most important thing—more than anything else. All your wishes for any happiness will succeed. All good things will come to you because of that.
Every action with a positive or negative mind has consequences as a result. Actions done with a good heart—without anger, without ignorance, without desire, without attachment— result in happiness. Happiness comes from good actions.
Other beings need our help so much. It is best to think of others’ happiness. By doing good things for others—if we help others with a good heart, love and compassion—this results in happiness.
Making others physically and mentally happy, this one act makes both you and others happy for all your future lives. This brings happiness to the whole world.