Long-life puja

I want to say thank you very much for organizing the long-life puja. It’s also a long-life puja for you; in reality it’s everybody’s long-life puja. Now that I’ve become millionaire and billionaire, I want to go to the beach, maybe a very famous beach like Tahiti or somewhere! Maybe I’ll build a celestial mansion at the beach!

As I mentioned, all the money that’s offered here goes to Kopan Monastery and nunnery, and also to Sera Monastery, which has many expenses; there’s the food and so on. There are special offerings to those who memorize many hundreds of thousands of pages of Dharma texts, the philosophical texts. We have been offering special gifts to thank them and to help with their expenses and so forth. There are also the expenses of the examinations, the very special studies, the special training and debates. Some monks have to go from Sera to the other monastery in Mongolia, so there are also travelling expenses. Then, there are many other projects, so the donations are divided in that way.

And then I think there can also be some money for Solu Khumbu, down below Lawudo, where there were some monks and nuns, but now they’ve all left for the pure land, they’ve all passed away. The rinpoche who founded their monastery, who really was like one of those ancient Kadampa geshes, has built a new monastery for those who have reincarnated. We try to offer them a donation of food, but just one meal. Then, there is also a donation for the Maitreya Project as well. There are many projects. So that’s it.

I myself am a totally ordinary person, with no freedom over death, no control over death and rebirth. However, the little I can to benefit the world, to benefit the Buddhadharma, I try to do. So, thank you very much. That’s it.