Savings Lost in Stock Market Crash

Savings Lost in Stock Market Crash

Date of Advice:
August 2014
Date Posted:
April 2016

A student had lost all his money in the stock market, and he had became dependent on someone else for financial help. He was very, very worried about his financial situation and he asked Rinpoche if there was anything he could do to improve his financial situation.

My most dear, most precious, most kind wish-fulfilling one,
I am so sorry for the long delay in replying to your email. I checked and you should recite the Verses of the Eight Noble Auspicious Ones two or three times every day. Also recite the prayer In Praise of Dependent Arising and the eliminating obstacles prayer (Tendrel Nyesel), Padmasambhava's prayer, every day. Then recite the Celestial Mansion mantra and the mantra from the Sutra of Golden Light a few times each day.

Think that those people who have lost their jobs and all their money are numberless in the world and also in the numberless universes, which are even mentioned scientifically and also by Buddha. So there are numberless people who have lost their jobs and all their money, not only you.

Other suffering beings are numberless—there are numberless hell beings suffering, numberless hungry ghosts suffering, numberless animals suffering, numberless human beings sufferings, numberless suras suffering and numberless asuras suffering and also there are numberless intermediate state beings suffering.

For example there is the suffering of pretas, who cannot find food for even 10,000 years. There is the suffering of the hell beings—if all the suffering of just one hell being was materialized it would be difficult to fit in this world. There is the suffering of animals, who due to ignorance are killed by another one, eat one another or get eaten by another one. [They experience] the suffering of cold and hot, or human beings eating or torturing them, etc.

Please continue to make your life most meaningful with the thought of bodhicitta day and night and in every action you do.

With much love and prayers...