A Prayer Wheel for the Ocean in Vietnam

My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,
Thank you very much for your kind email and photos. I was very happy to receive them. I had the thought to build a prayer wheel in the ocean in Taiwan, where the water also eventually also connects with China, but so far it hasn’t happened.

I want to help with the finances for the prayer wheel, so I would like to make a donation. As the project progresses, if you can, keep me updated and let me know.

This prayer wheel that you are making that will help the numberless sentient beings in the water, also the human beings whom the water touches.

Please read the advice I have given and what we do in Washington to benefit the ants, the birds and all the beings in the lakes, as you will then understand all the different ways you can benefit.

Recently we went to a big lake that is connected to Canada. We put three big Namgyälma mantras in the lake, by attaching the mantra to some foam so it doesn’t sink. The mantra then floats on the lake and blesses all the beings in the lake. On the back of the mantra, we have this message, so that people don’t think it is garbage. It says:

“Please don’t think this is garbage! This is the most precious thing that makes the whole of this water holy. It purifies the negative mind which produces suffering of the fish and all others who live in or use this water, and it causes not only temporary but ultimate, everlasting and peerless happiness.”

I am sure you already know the incredible benefits of Namgyälma mantra, as I saw you put the mantra on the ceilings, but in case, you can read more here about the benefits.

This is what we did when we went out on the lake. I wanted to go into the water, because it was very clean. I wanted to wash, but there was no sun and I thought the water would be very cold. I wanted to wash there because I have never washed my body in the lake or ocean before. So there was a reason. I did walk into the water and I washed both my legs, but the water didn’t wash my whole body completely. Anyway, the water was not very cold.

The reason I wanted to wash there is that I try to recite the longest Chenrezig mantra, as well as the middle-length and short Chenrezig Mantra, OM MANI PADME HUM. I recite this two thousand times a day. I gave this commitment to myself; His Holiness the Dalai Lama gave the commitment to recite it one thousand times a day.

After you recite this mantra, it has unbelievable benefits. If you wash in the water or lake, then any being that the water touches, it purifies all the heavy negative karma of all those beings. Not only that, it stops their rebirth from womb, egg and heat, so that means it helps them to get reborn in pure land. Then from life to life until they achieve enlightenment and they are around buddhas and bodhisattvas. So, reciting this mantra has unbelievable benefits for sentient beings.

So in that lake I washed my legs, but I only have two legs. We had food on the grass, a picnic, so it was a very nice time, a meaningful time. Next time we go there I want to do chöd practice with everyone together. It is so good and meaningful.

I really want you to read all the different ways that we try to benefit the animals here in Washington. [Read more and find links here.]

I want to express so many thanks—billion, zillions of thanks—for how you are helping others and the beautiful animals.

So far we have put large Namgyälma mantras, floating on the ocean on foam, in two or three different oceans around the world. This is unbelievable, as it blesses and purifies the beings in the ocean, so they are not reborn in the lower realms and they receive a higher rebirth, and it might help them to meet the Dharma.

Please keep in touch regarding how the prayer wheel is progressing, the plans. I definitely want to help with some finances.

I wanted to make a prayer wheel in the water in Taiwan, in the same water that goes to China. The prayer wheel would be half in the ocean and half above, so it would be turned by electricity and people could go around it, so a bridge would go around the prayer wheel. But it hasn’t happened yet.

In Tahiti they are building a prayer wheel, but I don’t know how it’s going. They have built a grass house for a prayer wheel.

In Solu Khumbu, I helped to build some prayer wheels, which are turned by the water. They brought the water through a hollow tree, so it goes down and in this way the prayer wheel gets turned. The water passes through the prayer wheel and then it purifies the negative karma of numberless animals and people—those who use the water, who drink it and go in the water. The negative karma of numberless sentient beings is purified and they get a higher rebirth and so forth, so there are unbelievable benefits. This is what we helped with in Solu Khumbu, Nepal. [Read more here and here.]

Thank you very much for your email and information. It made me very happy.

Please remember what makes your life most meaningful is meditation on the lamrim, and to live your life with bodhicitta motivation. This is the best.

With much love and prayers ...