Enjoy Your Life for Sentient Beings

Enjoy Your Life for Sentient Beings

Date of Advice:
June 2018
Date Posted:
November 2023

Rinpoche sent this advice to a nine-year-old child who had been coming to the local Dharma center.

Mantra calligraphy by Lama Zopa Rinpoche

My very dear, most precious, most kind, most dear, wish-fulfilling one,
I am very happy to have met you at the airport. I want to suggest that you should first read Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand. Actually, first was the lamrim red commentary, but that is not yet translated into English, therefore you can’t read that.

So read Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand first, then later read Lama Tsongkhapa’s teachings, called Lamrim Chenmo. Then you will get the essence of the entire Buddhist path. Read it slowly, and anything you don’t understand you can write in a new notebook then discuss with Geshe-la at your center.

For your daily meditation, first you can study The Essential Nectar or the outlines of Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand. But you need to do that on the basis of understanding the commentary (that means Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand). Or you can use The Essential Nectar, which is not very short but not too long. It’s quite good; it goes straight.

I am sending a mala for you to recite OM MANI PADME HUM.

You were born with many good qualities to develop Dharma understanding, to reflect and meditate so you can achieve the path to enlightenment and free the mother sentient beings from the oceans of samsaric suffering and bring them to buddhahood, the total cessation of obscurations and completion of realizations. You can do that, so for that reason you can be most happy and you can most enjoy your life for sentient beings.

Please write to me with anything you want to say. Thank you very much.

I must say, you are most welcome to the human world, that you took birth in order to benefit others.

With love and prayer ...