You Are Unbelievably Fortunate

You Are Unbelievably Fortunate

Date of Advice:
March 2018
Date Posted:
June 2019

A Tibetan student who had cancer took ordination, following Rinpoche’s advice. The student wrote to let Rinpoche know.

My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,
You are so fortunate. You are unbelievably, most unbelievably, most unbelievably fortunate to be a nun before your death. It gives you an incredible opportunity to collect more virtue and it becomes so easy to practice Dharma.

Then your life becomes a Dharma life, free from the lower realms; then it’s so easy to be free from samsara and easy to achieve enlightenment for sentient beings.

So thank you very much for doing this, for taking the opportunity. Do everything as much as possible with bodhicitta motivation and live your life for sentient beings as much as you can. That means doing everything for sentient beings as much as possible, in order to free them from suffering and to achieve enlightenment.

I’m sure you must be doing this, but if not, at the end of every day do the King of Prayers, that would be so good. This is an extensive dedication practice for sentient beings.

Perhaps you may be doing Medicine Buddha practice already. That is a very important one for you to do, even the very short one. If you can, do the short Medicine Buddha practice written by Panchen Losang Chökyi Gyältsen or the slightly longer one written by Kanchen Yeshe Gyalten. This is slightly longer, but there is a shorter one. We have the shorter one in English, but it is also in Tibetan.

I have a new practice of Medicine Buddha, but it’s not quite finished. I have it in Tibetan, but it’s not translated into English yet. When it’s finished, I will send it to you.

Please take care with bodhicitta. Thank you very much.

With much love and prayers ...