A Wish-granting Life

A Wish-granting Life

Date of Advice:
September 2017
Date Posted:
April 2018

Rinpoche sent this personal advice about the importance of the morning motivation, along with advice for a new study group to become more successful.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Portland, Oregon, 2006. Photo: John Berthold.

My most dear, most precious, most kind, wish-fulfilling one,
Thank you very much for your kind letter.

I am sending my morning motivation, The Method to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness (Including Enlightenment.) This is my most important advice. I often say this is what transforms our kaka life into gold, transforms iron into gold, or even transforms to a wish-granting jewel, a wish-granting life. This morning motivation is to transform our mind, so that all our daily actions, instead of becoming the cause of hell, become the cause of enlightenment; instead of becoming the cause of samsara, become the cause of nirvana; instead of becoming the cause of problems, become the cause of happiness.

What came out best for the study group is to do the middle length Medicine Buddha puja. Do this Medicine Buddha puja and dedicate for the study group to be most beneficial for sentient beings, to free them from the oceans of samsara’s sufferings as quickly as possible and to bring them to enlightenment as quickly as possible, and to be able to benefit anyone who comes to the study group.

With much love and prayers ...