It’s good to take care of the flowers. I gave money for the flowers and also other monks bought many flowers with their own money. The flowers don’t just come.

I made extensive offering of the flowers to Buddha, Dharma, Sangha. Every day when you make offerings, you can think of offering all the monastery flowers, plus when you recite the Clouds of Offerings mantra. You then collect most unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable merit. You have to know that. And the result is not only in this life but in all future lives up to enlightenment. The greatest benefit is that you can free all sentient beings from all their suffering and bring them to enlightenment.

You can’t imagine the result—bringing all the numberless sentient beings to full enlightenment. So the result is even more amazing, amazing. Just even yourself freeing all the hell beings, hungry ghosts, animals, human beings, suras and asuras from suffering is amazing, amazing, without mentioning enlightenment and benefiting sentient beings.

Also, when people come here—I’m not sure about the kangaroos, but when human beings come here they enjoy so much, especially the way all the flowers have been put together. The way the flowers are put together is amazing. And, of course, I myself enjoy the flowers. When people come, they will be so happy. A bodhisattva works for sentient beings; a bodhisattva cherishes and works for sentient beings. This means bringing happiness to every sentient being, temporary and ultimate, with the third ultimate, full enlightenment. Numberless buddhas work for sentient beings.

You have to know that the essence of the whole practice is to cherish sentient beings, to work for sentient beings, freeing them from suffering and bringing them to enlightenment. Learning all that is what you do. The ultimate aim of your life is not for yourself but for sentient beings.

Please take care of the flowers. That means you have to know a little bit about the flowers, how to take care of them.

Of course, I don’t remember every time, but when I see a flower, I do make offering to the root guru, His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Of course, that means you collect the most merit, more than making the offering to numberless Buddha, Dharma, Sangha, statues, stupas, scriptures.

Thank you very much.