Offering Service

My most dear one,
How are you? I hope things are going well with you regarding receiving investments.

Everybody here has read the Arya Sanghata Sutra, even the dog OM MANI PADME HUM might have read a few words, and dedicated them sincerely to your receiving all the investments that you wish for.

We also recited all together the Padmasambhava prayer Fulfilling spontaneously all the wishes.

I will also read the Golden Light Sutra, and I will check what more can be done. I am also continuing to write the Arya Sanghata Sutra and I dedicate this for my most dear Charles. I will also dedicate water offerings to Dzambala, other pujas, and some other practices to you. My heart is there with you.

Thank you very much. There are no words left to say. I enjoyed staying with you very much, even though it was a very short time. Even though you are so busy, you took care of me, of every single need, and did not forget anything.

It is amazing! Your precious heart, your wish-fulfilling heart.

I was very impressed how you have taken care your of all your workers, the maids and bodyguards. I really saw how you care so much for them, all their needs, where they sleep, and their freedom, totally. One time I came down to eat and I noticed that you smiled at them from your heart, not a political, forced smile, around the nose (left and right side), but a happy smile.

You have really shown care for them and I was amazed to see your good heart. You are such a good model, a good example, and you have helped them to be very good human beings. They care for other beings, and this is from your example, from having lived together for so many years.

My example is just words from the throne. People can be kind and nice for a few days at the very beginning, but then they forget; their anger and emotional mind arises, and they become unpleasant and negative again.

Also, your children, even though I haven’t seen much of them, or been with them for long, seemed to be very well behaved and quiet and enjoy themselves, not wild, crazy, spoiled children. So many rich people in the world and their children are extremely spoiled, very uncontrolled. They become a huge worry for the parents, and the parents don’t know what to do. I think this is because from the beginning they didn’t know how to take care of their children.

I give all my merits to you; whatever virtuous activities I do are all yours.

With BIGGEST love and prayers... 

My very precious wish-fulfilling friends, whose minds are enriched with devotion to the triple gem,
Whose minds are enriched with devotion, being the source of compassion – root of all beings’ happiness,
Whose minds are enriched with devotion, being the source of all goodness – up to enlightenment.

With my hands at my heart I very sincerely thank you all, give numberless thanks, for your generous support to me in my Dharma activities, supporting my office and all the Dharma projects.

Please do not misunderstand the quote below, this is not meant to mean I am a Buddha. I want to say something here that comes from the Arya Sanghata Sutra:

If one plants a seed in the supreme field of the Buddhas it has great results. In this way, you will enjoy so many results; those wise ones will have happiness. You will abandon negative karma and engage in so much virtue. Anyone who makes charity to my teachings, even the size of a hair, will have great enjoyments and so much wealth for 80,000 eons. Wherever that living being is, karma will always be generous. Like this, giving to the Buddhas is very profound and has a great result.

My most dear precious Kim,
Good morning. How are you? I thought to send this short happy message to you, like official work, ha ha. Roger explained to me what you have said, that you want to do whatever I say, and support me, by wanting to accomplish projects like the Maitreya project. It relieved my heart and relaxed me. Space and happiness came into my heart. I have a purpose, to try and live in this world.

With big love and prayers,
Zopa

PS: Hospitals and schools are very needed, but these are just for this life’s happiness and that is very short compared to all future lives, while you are in samsara. Without Dharma there is no end to suffering, there is no end to rebirth, death, sickness, and all the problems. All of this is mentioned in the Buddha’s texts and in the existing teachings of the great lamas. The teachings of the Buddha and the great lamas depend on the existence of holy objects of the Buddha. Building holy objects, as well as preserving scriptures that are used to learn and to purify negative karma, creates merit. Even just seeing holy objects creates positive imprints and creates the cause for enlightenment.

The Buddha has explained in the sutra called the Mudra Developing Devotion how unbelievable merit is collected by sentient beings just by merely seeing holy objects. It also purifies so many obscurations and plants the seed of enlightenment, which eventually brings one to enlightenment. Also, by building holy objects, so many people get jobs and are able to feed their family, educate their children, send them to school, etc. So much social service can happen, and this is the best social service, with this kind of project. It offers the best kind of social service for this life and spiritual benefits for future lives, both. Ha ha ha hah!

Thank you very much for your kind letter and your Merit Box. I will dedicate the money to making the two-story statue of the female deity of controlling. This is to help my project. A student is trying to get a position in the Singapore embassy, he also needs this statue, and I will dedicate your money to this project.

Thank you very much for your devotion to guru, Dharma, and Sangha and your compassion for the most precious, kind sentient beings. Serve sentient beings, please continue your Dharma practice in this way, and also meditate on the lamrim. Develop realizations step by step. Success will come with these conditions, and the most important one is to make your realization of guru devotion stable. This is the most important realization to develop, using the methods of strong purification and of extensive collection of merits.

Then, every day, pray with that strong guru devotion to the direct and indirect guru to grant realizations.

With much love and prayer...

My very dear James,
I hope you and all your family are well. Please give my sincere regards to your family.

The following quotation is from the tantric text called Oceans of Wisdom: “For those who are wise and fortunate in doing the guru’s activities, this has greater meaning than having made prostrations to the three times’ buddhas for one hundred thousand times ten million eons. If one accomplishes the advice of the guru, one will accomplish all one’s wishes and create inconceivable merit.”

According to the Glorified Kalachakra Tantra: “Even if one has made offerings to the Three Jewels for three countless great eons, and saved the lives of ten million living beings, one can’t achieve enlightenment in this life. But if, with a devotional mind, one pleases the guru who has oceans of qualities, one will definitely achieve sublime and common qualities (realizations) in this very life.”

I am not saying I am the guru who has oceans of qualities, but am referring to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Lama Yeshe.

Another quotation: “Even if one does oceans of good things for eons, one can’t achieve enlightenment in this life. But if one pleases the virtuous friend, one will achieve sublime realizations (Mahamudra clear light), and enlightenment, which is obtained from the direct cause, clear light.”

As it is said: “Enlightenment, which is so difficult to achieve, from many millions of eons, is granted in this very life of the quarreling time by the guru.” This is the reason why one offers to be a servant and to please the guru.

So, dear James, in the past I asked you to invite His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and you did, and that was very beneficial. Again, I asked you to invite His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and that visit was incredibly beneficial. The largest number of people came to that event. Now you have a third opportunity to offer service to His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Also, for so many years you have been putting your heart into the organization and offering service. Everyone can understand the great benefit the organization has received from you. This means you have offered great service to the teachings of Buddha and to sentient beings.

My very dear John and Nicky,
Thanks very much to both of you for your service. It is very kind of you. Of course, it is not an easy job. Here I would like to express what the great yogi Milarepa said:

Ha Ha! The meditator meditating on the rock and the benefactor offering food have an auspicious arrangement to achieve enlightenment together… Ha Ha!

It is exactly the same in your case, with both of you offering service to the meditators, which gives them a chance to continue their retreat. This retreat is not just focusing on breathing, and watching where thoughts are going and what they are doing; it is not only that. They are meditating on lamrim, on the whole path to enlightenment, especially bodhicitta.

With much love and prayers...