Pain After Car Accident

Pain After Car Accident

Date Posted:
August 2009

Rinpoche sent the following letter to a student in hospital, who was in a lot of pain after a car accident.

My very dear one,
What a most fortunate being you are, that you are able to be alive and to still have this most precious human body. Since you still have this precious human body, then you still have this mind, so what you can do is unbelievable. Why? Because you can still practice Dharma, and that is totally amazing. Amazing.

You can still achieve the three great purposes of your life: happiness now, happiness in all your future lives, liberation from samsara, ultimate happiness, and enlightenment. You can achieve all happiness within one second: temporal happiness and ultimate happiness. If you create the causes for this, then you can achieve it even in one second. So, please practice bodhicitta—that is the best cause of all happiness, so it is unbelievable that you have the opportunity to do this.

You have this human body, this is so precious, because every day, even in one second, think of what you can do. Please rejoice all day long. Rejoice every day, every minute you can. You can fill up your mind totally with happiness and joy. If you can, you can even fill up your nose with all happiness, or your toes, fingers, or at least your head.

With much love and prayers ...