Pray for Success and to Benefit Others
Rinpoche sent this letter and a photo of the Twenty-one Taras to a new student he had recently met.
My very dear one,
I was so happy to meet you. At that time I missed the opportunity to give you this photo of the Twenty-one Taras.
Tara is the embodiment of the numberless buddhas’ holy actions, in order to fulfill the wishes of all the sentient beings, to grant all the happiness, temporary and ultimate happiness, liberation from samsara and peerless happiness, enlightenment—the cessation of all the obscurations and completion of all the realizations—in order to free sentient beings from the oceans of samsara’s suffering.
You can use this to pray for success and to benefit others. You can pray according to the advice I gave to one student’s mother, for herself and for others:
Due to all the merits of the past, present and future collected by me, collected by numberless sentient beings and collected by numberless buddhas, may (name of the person) never ever be reborn in the lower realms. If they are already born in the lower realms, may they be free immediately from that. May they be born in the pure land where they can achieve the total cessation of obscurations, gross and subtle, and the completion of all the realizations—buddhahood, full enlightenment. At least may they receive a perfect human rebirth and meet the Mahayana teachings; may they meet a perfectly qualified guru who reveals the unmistaken path to enlightenment and by pleasing most the holy mind of the virtuous friend, may they achieve enlightenment as quickly as possible.
When you say “past, present and future” in this prayer, “past” means from beginningless rebirths, and “future” means not just in this life, but in all the future lives. You can also recite the same prayer for yourself every day, by changing the name to “I” instead of using the other person’s name.
Later, if you want to do meditation, I can send you the morning motivation, what to meditate on, How to Make My Lives Wish-Fulfilling: The Method to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness. This would be your morning practice, transforming your mind into Dharma, so that whatever action you do becomes only the cause of happiness and all your actions become only the cause of enlightenment, buddhahood, peerless happiness, the total cessation of all the obscurations and completion of all realizations, by your mind becoming bodhicitta.
It includes the meditation on blessing the speech, which multiplies the merit millions of times, so your speech becomes very powerful, to bring success. Then even gossip can become the same as reciting mantra. Any mantra you recite after reciting the mantra blessing the speech increases the merit millions of times. Then you can bless your mala and so forth. If you feel like doing this, I can send it to you later.
Thank you very, very much. I was very happy to meet you. You are usually in my prayers. Thank you very much.
With much love and prayers