Back Scratching

Back Scratching

Date Posted:
September 2011

Rinpoche made the following comments about scratching your back, while chatting to a nun. He scratched his back with a scratcher, while saying the following.

Rinpoche: One time in Varanasi, when Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche was teaching Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand from his notes, I was invited to his room and asked to scratch his back. I did it just a little. I thought, what unbelievable fortune I had, that he gave me that opportunity to accumulate enormous merit through that action. Hence, perhaps now, today, that is why I have to scratch my back.

Nun: Rinpoche, if that created so much merit, why is the result an itchy back that needs scratching?

Rinpoche: It was incredible purification to do that action. The result now is from that opportunity to create the cause to purify.