The Obstacles Are Purifying Your Karma

The Obstacles Are Purifying Your Karma

Date of Advice:
December 2020
Date Posted:
August 2024

A student wrote to give Rinpoche an update and mentioned all the obstacles they had been experiencing.

My very, very dear one,
As you have been doing in the past and continue to do, you have been serving the center with the motivation of bodhicitta. The success of that is the root of the path to enlightenment, devoting to the guru, like with Lama Yeshe and His Holiness the Dalai Lama and then me, but I’m like a sloth going so slow.

So doing this with guru yoga, for you that’s the highest merit and the greatest purification. I’m very happy. I hope all your family are well.

The obstacles you are experiencing are purifying your karma, etc. Please make the following prayer.

The great Lama Choje Gotsangpa said:

By my experiencing this karma, may all the four things —all my negative karma, sickness, obscurations and spirit harm—be purified.

You can recite this, say one mala or two malas each day.

With much love and prayer ...