The Best Offering and the Greatest Joy

My most dear most kind wish-fulfilling one,
How are you? I know you are the director and have to do everything and you must be very busy. From my heart I want to say I highly appreciate you and all that you are doing with your body, speech and mind.

I want to send billions and zillions of thanks to you for every single action of your body, speech and mind, dedicated for the sentient beings, for the teachings of the Buddha, for His Holiness the Dalai Lama and for Mickey Mouse me. I am very small, like dal. I hope not black dal, but orange dal! I hope to see you very soon. Maybe if there is time I will come to visit the center.

You have to know that every sentient being is cherished most by the numberless bodhisattvas who purified negative defilements collected since beginningless rebirth and collected all the merits for them. Even their breathing in and out is for the numberless hell beings, hungry ghosts, animals, humans, suras, asuras and intermediate state beings, in order to free them from delusions and samsaric sufferings and bring them to the omniscient mind, enlightenment.

Even Shakyamuni Buddha collected merit over three countless great eons. He made charity of his own life and limbs to numberless sentient beings and practiced morality for numberless sentient beings. He practiced perseverance and so forth for three countless great eons and completed the path, achieving enlightenment for every sentient being—for the numberless hell beings, numberless hungry ghosts, numberless animals, numberless human beings, numberless suras, numberless asuras and numberless intermediate state beings.

That is incredible! So the numberless buddhas became enlightened for every single sentient being, including those who come to the center. You are teaching Dharma and awakening the sentient beings with your body, speech and mind; this is serving sentient beings.  Numberless buddhas became enlightened for this, and every sentient being is cherished by numberless buddhas.

Of course, whatever you can do, try to serve them, help them and bring them happiness—even just a little bit, but as much as possible—helping to free them from suffering and achieve happiness, especially bringing them to the ultimate happiness of liberation from samsara and enlightenment. That is the greatest joy, the greatest happiness, the most meaningful life. So you are offering service and each time it’s not only for numberless sentient beings, but also for even one sentient being who comes to the center. This is the best offering to numberless bodhisattvas and buddhas, so you have to know that.

As Sakya Pandita said:

Even if you practice the paramita of charity for a thousand eons by giving your arms, legs and so forth to sentient beings, and you dedicate the merit of that to them, you collect all that merit in one second by offering service to the guru.

Sakya Pandita also said:

Just as fire burns wood and in one second it becomes ashes,
By pleasing the guru, then our negative karma is purified in a second.
And many eons of heavy negative karma are ceased.

Thank you very much. I hope to see you soon.

With much love and prayers ...