Practice Advice for Centers

Practice Advice for Centers

Success for New Director and Center
Date of Advice:
September 2017
Date Posted:
September 2021

Rinpoche advised these practices to overcome obstacles for a new director and for the center.

To overcome obstacles, you need to recite the Buddha’s Name and Mantra that Fulfills Wishes. [See The Method to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness (Including Enlightenment)] Recite at least one mala a day. This should be ongoing and is for you and for the center’s success.

DE ZHIN SHEG PA SA DZIN GYÄL PO LA CHHAG TSHÄL LO
TADYATHA / OM DHARE DHARE / DHARANI BÄNDHE SWAHA

Palden Lhamo puja has to be done for the center. This should be done six times at the center.

It is important that the center regularly does Four Mandala Offerings to Chittamani Tara puja.

Tsog puja should also be done regularly on 10th and 25th of each month. These are important pujas for the center to do.

Harmony and Success at the Center
Date of Advice:
January 2015
Date Posted:
April 2021

Rinpoche advised students at a Dharma center to do the following practices for harmony and success.

Pujas for New Apartment
Date of Advice:
August 2013
Date Posted:
December 2020

Rinpoche advised these pujas for students at a Dharma center so they could create the karma to get an apartment.

How Precious Having Met Dharma
Date of Advice:
October 2015
Date Posted:
April 2019

Rinpoche sent this card to students at a center.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche releasing butterflies with children at Chenrezig Institute, Eudlo, Australia, September 2014. Photo: Ven. Roger Kunsang.

My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling students and brothers and sisters,

How are you? I hope everyone is happy, because of having found the most precious human rebirth and having met the Dharma, Mahayana Dharma. This means Mahayana teachings and lamrim, which show how to practice Dharma—the Hinayana and Mahayana sutra and Mahayana tantra taught by Buddha, the graduated practice to achieve enlightenment.

Please continue to make your life most beneficial for every single sentient being—for the numberless ants, numberless mosquitoes, numberless insects, numberless fish in the ocean, and the smallest insects—so that means naturally for yourself, by the way.

Live life with bodhicitta, for sentient beings. Thank you very much, I hope to see you soon.

With much love and prayers ...

Feng Shui at the Center
Date of Advice:
January 2000
Date Posted:
January 2018

This advice about the benefits of feng shui was given by Rinpoche to all FPMT center directors. Rinpoche also asked the centers to put up a picture of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, in order to create the causes for him to guide us.

Dear center directors,
The main cause of success and difficulties is good karma and negative karma, but there are external conditions for success and prosperity, and also for problems.

The correct feng shui is set up inside the house and in the external environment, by placing cures for a disturbing environment. This is done in order to bring success and to stop problems. These are the conditions. However, when good karma is very strong, the external and internal conditions naturally change due to the power of this good karma, even without any idea of feng shui.

Having an understanding of feng shui helps, therefore I am sending this book [about feng shui] to all the centers, especially for those centers where there is a lot of disharmony and many financial problems. This can help to solve these things, depending on how extensively correct feng shui is done. Feng shui can even help the FPMT centers that have been developed for many years and are doing quite well due to much purification, merits and correct Dharma understanding.

Within the organization, we are building retreat centers and setting up city centers, so we need many things for success, to benefit Dharma. When there is much harmony, stable finances and things are going well, people can have more space in the mind to develop compassion and a good heart. In this way they are able to continue their practice without much pressure, worry and fear about running the center. Also, they will be more mentally clear and physically healthy.

Of course, for bodhisattvas the harder it is the happier they become, because they have the opportunity to sacrifice their life and bear hardships for others.

I feel that the first, best and biggest benefit, and the main solution, is Dharma. I think feng shui is the next most important solution to help others and to stop the normal problems that people always talk about, such as their relationships, jobs, health, education, wealth and long life.

I would also like to request all the centers to put a picture of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in the south-west part of the director’s office at the center. This is to create the causes for His Holiness to guide us.

Thank you very much and have many, many, far-out good luck.

Practices for Center Success
Date of Advice:
January 2015
Date Posted:
November 2017

Rinpoche gave this advice to a center director for success and protection of the centers in the area.

My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,
Please read the Golden Light Sutra five times in each month. This can be done as a group at the center, or individually, for success of the center. This will enable people to connect to the center but it also depends on the other teaching schedule. When reciting the sutra, it is important to meditate on the meaning, so recite it skillfully.

If there are many people coming to the center it is good to do social service. Also pray to Medicine Buddha or Tara.

To protect from pollution, it’s good to have Lama Atisha stupa protection. [You can find the downloadable Lama Atisha Protection Mantra at FPMT's Foundation Store.]

It is also often with the Namgyalma protection. This will protect people in the place from pollution, so you don’t get pollution from people who have broken samaya with the guru. The Namgyalma Protection Amulet you wear has both. You can wear it, but also put it in the gompa to protect the place.

Thank you very much. Try with a good heart and bodhicitta.

With much love and prayers ...

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