With regard to your question about introducing the death evolution for people to understand about the mind and about reincarnation, and for them to understand how this life came from karma, it is true that in the past during the Kopan courses I tried
This is a lightly edited transcript of a handwritten note that was posted to an old student.
This extensive advice was given to a feng shui master who had asked Rinpoche about the best and quickest way to generate bodhicitta.
My very dear David,Thank you very much for your kind letter, especially after ten years. Yes, that’s the benefit of pure love and joy—then definitely you will be kind to people and people will like you. That is very good.
My dearest Anna,How are you? I hope you are very well and everything is going well. Please continue Tara nature compassion for all sentient beings, even for your enemies.
Before climbing, you can ask permission from Guru Rinpoche and think that he has accepted. It’s okay to climb on the statue because of the purpose. When you climb on the statue visualize yourself as a deity, so not as ordinary.
My very dear Adrianne,So many people have visited the Jade Buddha, it is really amazing. It is really having an effect in the world. So many millions of people in Vietnam came to see it.
My dearest John,This is an example for the Buddha’s eyes. Of course, the actual “I” of the Buddha is beyond, not just this (eye).
My most kind wish-fulfilling benefactor,I am extremely happy with your help and service.
Padmasambhava said:Listen, beautiful one having the form of a goddess,Those sentient beings who have not met me,Then statues of me in the future,Will become the light, eliminating the darkness of ignorance.Whoever builds such statues of me,That becom
