My most dear, most kind, most precious wish-fulfilling ones, those who want to make their life meaningful and beneficial for every sentient being—the numberless hell beings, hungry ghosts, animals, human beings, suras, asuras and intermediate state beings,

Here is just a short message. The FPMT centers, projects and services have been growing due to your kindness and help. Now there are more than 161 such activities around the world and more are happening all the time. This benefits all the six-realm sentient beings, from whom you receive all your past, present and future happiness—even the comfort you experience in a dream—and who have been your mother numberless times from beginningless rebirths. As your mother, all these sentient beings have been so kind, giving you your body, protecting your life from danger countless times, bearing many hardships for you and giving you an education. Even Buddha, Dharma and Sangha come from all sentient beings, and by taking refuge in and relying on Buddha, Dharma and Sangha, you become free from the lower realms, free from samsara, free from lower nirvana and achieve enlightenment—and you do this for the sake of numberless sentient beings. Since Buddha, Dharma and Sangha come from the kindness of every single sentient being, sentient beings are most precious, as I just mentioned.

The FPMT exists to help others and the FPMT exists to help you, providing education to all through books and teachers, showing you and others how to benefit sentient beings and attain enlightenment.

From the depths of my heart, I want to thank you numberless times for all the help you have given the organization with your body, speech and mind. This is what has allowed the organization to continue and become stronger and stronger in order to help and benefit sentient beings as infinite as the sky, more and more and deeper and deeper.

Also, I have really seen that many people in the FPMT have become increasingly compassionate, which also benefits other sentient beings more and more. So that is one benefit. The second thing is that we’re providing more and more Dharma education so that students can understand and learn the base—the two truths and the path of method and wisdom—and the result, dharmakaya and rupakaya, Buddha’s holy mind and holy body. By receiving more and more education in topics such as the four noble truths and so forth, this is what you achieve. Without such education there is no way to be free from samsara.

So these are the deep benefits that students receive and although Dharma education is the general essence of the FPMT, we also provide many social services.

Thank you very much again,

With much love and prayers,

Lama Zopa Rinpoche

PS. I would like everyone to practice The Method to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness and to read this advice I gave recently on How to Make Your Life Most Beneficial, Even with Your Speech.