Heartfelt Thanks For Helping the Center

Heartfelt Thanks For Helping the Center

Date of Advice:
January 2014
Date Posted:
November 2016

In this letter to a benefactor, Rinpoche explained the benefits of helping the Dharma center. Rinpoche said this advice can be shared with others who are generous and in this way are bringing sentient beings to enlightenment.

My very dear one,
This is my heart message to you. Of course we put effort into the center not just [teaching] Dharma, but in other areas such as social service, where people really need help. Also to have other Western Sangha there would be good so we can help others, and to do consultation, like counselling. We need to research what is most needed in that area.

The Buddha’s teachings are priceless. Their preservation according to Hinayana and Mahayana, and within Mahayana Tantrayana, is really, really, really important. Mahayana Tantrayana is especially important.

Even if one sentient being just hears the Buddha’s teaching, that not only causes higher rebirth but liberates from samsara. There really is unimaginable benefit; unimaginable, unimaginable, unimaginable benefit. This is something really priceless; something hard to imagine and this is the result of your kind contribution. That is the result of your compassion for sentient beings and that is the reality.

Skies of thanks, with my two small hands, putting my palms together with one hand in stroke aspect. My heartfelt thanks to you.

With much love and prayer,