Ordained Mother and Daughter
Rinpoche wrote the following letter to a woman who had been ordained some years after her daughter had become a nun.
Dear Mum,
Thank you for being a mum to your daughter. I appreciate your views and your kindness in your recent message to me.
Please continue to help others, which is helping yourself to achieve enlightenment. Offer service and teach, as you can, what you can. This is serving all the buddhas and bodhisattvas. Your teachings and actions are the best example to others. It is the best way to teach others. This is not the happiness of suffering. It is Dharma happiness.
Maybe later your daughter can meet you and teach where you are living. This could be a change for her, or sightseeing in samsara and sightseeing in nirvana.
Much love...