Human Body Exhibition

Human Body Exhibition

Date of Advice:
January 2009
Date Posted:
September 2023

Rinpoche wrote this message in a visitor’s book after seeing a human body exhibition in New York in 2009.

Thank you very much for the organization of this rare, extensive exhibition of our human body, especially the exhibition that shows how smoking is so bad, how it’s an impure substance, how cigarettes shorten your life. That helps for a healthy body and mind, a clean place and atmosphere.

This helped me to think how [the human body is] precious. We need to actualize the spiritual path that removes the cause of taking such a body, whose nature is suffering and has a basis of suffering. We need to achieve the spiritual holy body, which has no suffering. It only benefits and does no harm to numberless living beings. It inspired me to learn the spiritual path to be free forever and cease suffering!

Thank you,
Lama Zopa