Relic Tour Brings World Peace
Rinpoche made the following comments on relics.
The relics are manifestations of Buddha’s actions to benefit sentient beings. By showing devotion to the relics one receives blessings, from blessings one receives all the realizations on the path to enlightenment. This is how the relics are bringing you to enlightenment. This is also how the relic tour is bringing world peace, through changing people’s minds in this way.
Through inner peace, then outer peace comes. This is how to be free from violence and the dangers of weapons, also the elements. All the disasters of the elements actually come from the mind, so through transforming the mind outer peace comes.
The relics play a very important role in world peace. I met the President of Kalmykia (in Russia) and he really wants the relics to come to Kalmykia.
There is not one single action that the Buddha did that is without benefit. Every action is to benefit sentient beings. When sentient beings see Buddha’s relics, they purify 100,000 eons of negative karma. When people offer service to Buddha’s relics, then in future lives they will be free from the eight things (such as no opportunity to practice Dharma), they will always have a perfect human rebirth, always be able to practice Dharma, to meet a virtuous friend, and buddhas and bodhisattvas will help them. There are many important benefits.
The FPMT is very fortunate to have these relics in the organization to be able to bring benefit in this way.