The Happiest Life

The Happiest Life

Date of Advice:
January 2017
Date Posted:
September 2018

This advice was handwritten by Rinpoche and sent to a young child.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche gives a toy koala to a child at Chenrezig Institute, Australia, Sept. 2014. Photo: Ven. Roger Kunsang.

My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,

The happiest life is to do everything with a good heart and especially bodhicitta, to free others from the sufferings of samsara and bring them to the peerless happiness—buddhahood, the total cessation of all the obscurations and completion of all the realizations.