Service in Delhi
Rinpoche wrote the following letter to a student who had offered service in the center in Delhi. Rinpoche referred to her as Rinpoche.
My very dear Elizabeth Rinpoche,
How are you? I think Delhi Tushita is the best place on earth for only you. For some Sangha it is like being in hell.
Just remember, for great bodhisattvas, brave-hearted ones, hell is the best pure land, so that they can suffer for numberless sentient beings, even for one sentient being, and especially for the hell beings.
What a joyful, lucky, fortunate one you are.
Give yourself to those simple, ordinary people who have problems. Guide meditation, chat to them, as they need that happiness, and teach them, making your body, speech, and mind theirs.
You are like my limbs, a part of my body, my representative, an embassy of the FPMT. In other words, I want you to think this way.
Please have a long life so I can fulfill my wishes, which are the FPMT’s wishes, for the whole organization, students, non-students, non-Buddhists, Buddhists, and sentient beings.
With Biggest Love and Prayer.
Billions and billions of thanks for those small, beautiful, precious statues of buddhas that you bought for me to inspire others, liberate them, and eventually enlighten them. HA HA HO HO. It is very easy to carry them, while traveling on the earth or flying in the sky. Again, Biggest Love and Prayer,
Zopa
PS. This is your style of temple to have a very quiet time, just deep sleep or Zen meditation, and to hear the bird song. HA HA. Do you think this will happen? Yes, it will. When you offer one mandala, this is the tiny result of that mandala offering, which makes skies of offerings.