Numberless Buddhas and Bodhisattvas Cherish Us

Please tell that person that she does not know at all that Shakyamuni Buddha and numberless buddhas and bodhisattvas cherish her most; a hundred times more than the mother who cherishes her child so much. Her husband’s love is hardly anything compared to this. It shows that soon we all have to die, because we are under delusion and karma. Nobody lives [forever] in this world.

Now she must know this and be mindful that numberless buddhas and bodhisattvas love us most, with unconditional love. They have renounced the self for us; even before bodhicitta realization, Buddha Shakyamuni sacrificed for us. He practiced charity, for example, he gave his holy body to the tigress; he gave different parts of the body for three countless great eons, like that. He also practiced morality for three countless eons, and he practiced patience and perseverance, concentration and wisdom. He purified the two obscurations, completed the path and became fully enlightened for us, to perfectly guide us.

Usually when we have very strong worldly concern and strong attachment to this life, if we do not get something we exaggerate, we make the problem so big, then there is no space in the mind and the suicidal thoughts arise. Also related with such a strong selfish mind, at that time a spirit possesses our mind. The  spirit overcomes us and makes us think about jumping in the river or different things.

At Buxa, when Sera, Ganden and Drepung monks gathered there, the leader of the prayers and pujas was found one day hanging very high on the branches of a tree. He alone could not have hung himself up that high. I saw this myself. It was quite far outside and he alone would not do that at all. It was a huge disgrace to himself; he would never do that.

In Japan at the train station the spirit told someone to push the man standing next to him. He pushed that man, who fell down and because a train was coming, it went over him and killed him. Most people do not know this is influenced by a spirit. It is not yet known in the West by the scientists and colleges and so forth, that the mind being influenced by a spirit causes that person to commit suicide.

There is an evil being wearing garlands of lotus flowers, and that being has an entourage of four worldly guides and four mara pretas. What they do is make people fight. Their main function is to harm people who are trying to practice Dharma, causing them to fight, to be ignorant and foolish. It makes them go completely unconscious. No mind; they cannot think!

[The maras] shoot five arrows of delusion. It is to make the practitioners fight and be distracted, to feel drowsiness, to feel sleepy and for their lives to be attracted by the five external sense objects. So [the practitioners] are unable to practice Dharma. Especially it causes them to increase attachment and especially to change the recognition. It makes to arise attachment to sex. Before they didn't have that and now they change their mind.

It harms those who have taken ordination; those who have renounced the worldly life. For example, even in the dreams [the maras] manifest as women, arising attachment and causing loss of sperm. Remembering food, drink and dance, attachment arises. The families and friends harm or delay the practice, like retreat etc, with so many ways to try to harm and degenerate celibacy.

Due to the four maras pursuing the mind, the nagas and evil beings take the life of the practitioners and cause the disease. They show ugly form and many uninteresting sounds to the meditators. They destroy the practitioners. They even manifest as buddhas, showing holy signs and exemplifications, and causing [the practitioners] to develop and feel pride.