My Most Dear Janine,
I am extremely happy. I highly appreciate your devotion, your inspiring mind that wants to benefit the world, to liberate sentient beings through various means, not only teaching Dharma, but with the relics.

First of all, thank you very much for the very first relic of the first Karmapa – the first of the first (just a little joke). Now, there is the second, which I have here now. It will go on the tour. The relics have been an unbelievable benefit to the world, to sentient beings. I didn’t think that there would be such incredible benefit. Partially, the tour was to generate income for the Maitreya Project, but it has been unbelievably beneficial to the world. The minds of so many people are moved and very strong devotion arises. Some see light. Definitely, there is so much benefit to people’s minds, because there is so much devotion. That is exactly what we need to happen in the hearts of sentient beings. Without devotion and a transformation of the mind, we cannot receive blessings. When there is no transformation in the mind, then we cannot achieve realizations, and can’t reach liberation and enlightenment.

From devotion, then practice comes; otherwise, there is no practice. We have to purify the defilements, negative karma, and collect the necessary conditions, merits, then also study the path and meditate on the path. Also, I saw in the text that by seeing Buddha’s relic, it purifies 1000 eons of negative karma, also just by remembering it. It also plants the seed of enlightenment from the root – guru devotion – then renunciation, bodhicitta, right view, and the two stages of tantra.

All this inspiration and these blessings come from your offering the relics. So many sentient beings in this world are able to see them. So, please rejoice and enjoy this incredible opportunity for sentient beings to achieve enlightenment.

Again, thank you very, very, very much.
With big love and prayers...