A Rare Prayer

A Rare Prayer

Date of Advice:
March 2019
Date Posted:
November 2021

Rinpoche sent this message to a student who prayed for obstacles to Rinpoche’s life to ripen upon her. The student had become very sick after doing that.

My dear one, 
That is so good you made that prayer at the stupa. There is old student, a French lady who I often meet in Bodhgaya. She told me a few times that if there are obstacles to my life she would take them and die, instead of me dying. She said that very sincerely. That is a rare prayer, as a practice. It is the most important prayer and it pleases the brave warrior bodhisattvas.

All sentient beings’ suffering and the cause of suffering, the conditions, any undesirable things, you take on your own self-cherishing thought, which has been causing all the suffering of samsara, the six realms. It is very good to remember the outlines of suffering in the lamrim and from your experience. What you discover is that from beginningless rebirths, again, it is endless.

This is what makes us suffer, because it not only totally block us from achieving full enlightenment for numberless sentient beings, it also harms them. [We need] to free sentient beings from the oceans of samsaric suffering and lead them to full enlightenment, so they receive the dharmakaya. So I highly rejoice.

Thank you, billions and zillions from my heart, especially for taking the sufferings, the undesirable things, what your enemy suffers. That is so good. You say you made prayers so that my obstacles of life may be ripened on you and you got very sick after that.

I have advised this, and I highly rejoice. Thank you billions and zillions.

With love and prayers ...