Working for the Guru Purifies Eons of Negative Karma

Working for the Guru Purifies Eons of Negative Karma

Date of Advice:
March 2019
Date Posted:
September 2020

A student wrote that he hadn’t started a Vajrasattva retreat because he had been serving the center and didn’t yet have the time. Rinpoche had advised him to do the retreat some time ago.

When you work for the guru even if it’s not meditation, even if it’s physical work, because there is a need for that, it contains so many thousands of mandala offerings, prostrations, etc. It purifies so many eons of negative karma and it is the greatest purification. It is said in the sutra Donpo gopai do that serving the guru makes us achieve enlightenment.

You can do Vajrasattva as planned or do a little each day.