"The world people are suffering so much with self-cherishing mind and the root of samsara—ignorance, the three poisonous minds and so forth, full of hallucination with all the wrong concepts. I don’t have those things because I found the right path which purifies that. I have the most incredible peace and I don’t harm anybody. I feel a little bit shy because I have too much happiness, more than others. So I stay quiet myself."
– Lama Zopa Rinpoche
I thought to write at least one mantra on each toy so when people look at it, their lives become worthwhile, their kaka life becomes like gold. One mantra, by seeing, it purifies so many eons of negative karma. So, I will write a mantra for each one. [Rinpoche indicates toy] This one I have done; it has A A SHA SA MA HA. By seeing this mantra, after fifteen days all our heavy negative karma gets totally purified. The negative karma collected not only in this life but also from beginningless rebirths is purified by seeing this mantra.
[Rinpoche reads message on dolphin] “The world people are suffering so much with the self-cherishing mind and the root of samsara, ignorance, the three poisonous minds, and so forth, full of hallucinations with all the wrong concepts. I don’t have these things because I found the right path which purifies that.”
It should be “I actualized the right path,” but it is OK now. “Found” means actualized. “Which purifies that” means all the wrong concepts [are purified.] “I have the most incredible peace” means not only nirvana, but great nirvana, enlightenment. “And I don’t harm anybody. I feel a little bit shy because I have too much happiness, more than others. So, I stay quiet myself.” [Laughter] You like this?
Excerpted from “Teachings on Thought Transformation During the Time of COVID-19, Video 59: Subdue Your Mind by Meditating on Death-Impermanence,” Kopan Monastery, 11 August 2020.
View or download a PDF of this teaching excerpt and image (pp. 16–17, Rinpoche's Animal Friends).
