Balloon Liberation Messages

Balloon Liberation Messages

Date Posted:
September 2013

Rinpoche advised the following, to be written on balloons for a Balloon Liberation ceremony.

1. May the mainland Chinese government realize that His Holiness Dalai Lama is the embodiment of all the buddhas, be totally devoted to his holy wishes, and invite His Holiness to China. May billions of Chinese see His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s face and hear his Buddhadharma. May they totally enjoy the happiness of Dharma and may they offer Tibet back to the Tibetan people. May His Holiness Dalai Lama be the religious and political leader and establish Buddhadharma, so that there will be millions more bodhisattvas than before. May that help to spread Buddhadharma in the world and may people have the opportunity to achieve enlightenment.

2. May we continue forever to offer service to the monasteries that preserve and spread Dharma, offering salaries to all the teachers who educate and offering all the expenses for the geshes’ examinations and the Jamyang Kunche debate. May special offerings be given to the monks who memorize thousands of texts and expand and spread the Dharma. May the monasteries produce more realized and learned pure good-hearted teachers, spread Dharma all over the world and bring all sentient beings to enlightenment.

3. May we be able to build stupas and scriptures, especially the two very large Maitreya Buddha statues, to purify sentient beings’ karma and defilements, and bring them to enlightenment as quickly as possible. May we especially generate love and kindness and bodhicitta, and bring sentient beings to enlightenment as quickly as possible. May all the funding be found immediately.

4. May Dharma books produced by the organization be most beneficial for sentient beings, not only by reading or doing practice, but by keeping them in the house, seeing and touching them. Just by that, may all their holy wishes succeed immediately according to holy Dharma.

5. May all the suffering of sentient beings be healed and may their negative karma be purified immediately. May they immediately actualize the path of guru devotion, the three principal aspects of the path, the two stages and the unified state of Vajradhara in this lifetime. May everybody immediately abandon thoughts of harming others and only become a source of happiness to others.

6. May all the hospice patients who joined the FPMT purify the negative karma accumulated from beginningless rebirth immediately. May they die with compassion for sentient beings, and faith in the Buddhadharma, with no fear of death and may they be extremely happy. May they be born in a pure land and get enlightened. May they receive a perfect body, meet a perfect teacher and achieve enlightenment.

7. May Geshe Sopa Rinpoche and all the gurus have a long life.