We have two cars at the Aptos house in America that have messages on the back. I wrote the message: “No anger, no enemy.” At airports or restaurants some people copy it. They learn from the car. It is a very important message, so important now, especially now you look at the world, it looks like boiling hot water. Because so many hundreds of thousands of people get killed, die or suffer, that message is very important. You don’t need to fight [any external enemy]; you fight your enemy inside, the one enemy, anger. Kill that and there is no outside enemy. By having patience you can’t find an outside enemy.
The message I have at the front of the car might be harder for some people to understand; anger might be easier. It says: “Less desire means more happiness.” That is at the front car at the bottom. At the top there are many mantras, which are supposed to purify or bless any insects that hit the car.
Of course, it has Namgyälma protection for the many insects and ants that get killed by being hit or run over by the car. The car has become holy by having the protection of the Namgyälma mantras, which are extremely powerful purification. Stuck on the car, however many insects get killed are all purified and don’t get reborn in the lower realms. Due to negative karma they would certainly be reborn in the lower realms, but because the Namgyälma mantra is stuck on the car they don’t get a lower rebirth and they get a higher rebirth. There are many mantras on the car for people to see, like OM MANI PADME HUM and other mantras. By seeing them people purify the negative karma of killing their father and mother or an arhat, causing blood to flow from a buddha, or causing disunity among the Sangha. All those are purified by seeing the mantras and it plants the seed of enlightenment.
On the back of the car, on the wheel, I have the message, “Anybody who sees the car, touches, remembers…,” anyway, like that, “…not to be reborn in the lower realms,” I think, “…and to achieve enlightenment.” That dedication has been put on the back of the car, on the wheel. Many people copy those sayings when the car is parked, or sometimes when we go to the airport or drive around. Other people do like this [Rinpoche shows thumbs up gesture]. On one side of the car it says, “Kindness is my religion” by His Holiness and on the other side of the car it says, “Cherishing others is the source of happiness.” Probably not everybody can know about that. You have to collect a lot of merit and be intelligent to know how that is important.
Wherever the car goes, driving back and forth, it is giving education to people, as the world has so much suffering. But that message, “Less desire means more happiness” is so important to know in life. When you have less desire, your peace and happiness naturally increases. Millionaires, billionaires, zillionaires have unbelievable, unbelievable dissatisfaction, unbelievable suffering. That is because their desire doesn’t become less, it increases more and more. That is how they have incredible, unbelievable dissatisfaction and so much suffering.
It is said in Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand that [when they are faced with their own death] the suras have mental suffering thirteen times greater than hell beings. Hell beings have unbelievable physical suffering but suras have thirteen or fourteen times more mental suffering than them. The suras have unbelievable sense pleasures. The most developed country in our world is very primitive compared to theirs. Even what we think of as so rich is very primitive in comparison.
I heard that in President Trump’s house in America everything is gold. The water taps and everything are gold. It is a huge house he gave to his son or something, huge, beautiful, but that is nothing, that is like a beggar’s hovel compared to the sura’s world. But mentally they have more suffering, just as in the human realm millionaires, billionaires, zillionaires have great dissatisfaction, great suffering. They have much more mental worry than a beggar outside begging for food every day. This psychology was not made up by somebody, not figured out by somebody; it is experience. “Less desire means more happiness” is according to practitioners’ experience, not made up by some psychologist. Sorry. Not like that. It is the experience of Dharma practitioners who renounced attachment to this life. That is the first thing they experience.
That is the solution in the West, especially in the West. Less desire means more happiness, more peace. That is the main solution; that is the main psychology. That is the main thing if you don’t want problems. That is the thing just there! You don’t have to go anywhere. It’s just there. Inside here, you have to get peace just there. There or here? There or here, what do you think? There? In the brain, not the heart? Anger doesn’t come from here. [Rinpoche points to his head] Why do you think it comes from here? In the West the brain is everything. But anger doesn’t come from the brain, compassion doesn’t come from the brain, it comes from here, loving kindness and compassion come from here, [Rinpoche indicates his heart] not there. You understand? You analyze.
So, I didn’t finish.
When we drive around in the car with messages like His Holiness’ “Kindness to others is my religion,” I don’t know, maybe some people, maybe some missionaries, don’t like it because it mentions His Holiness’ name. Sometimes they do like this. [Rinpoche gives a thumbs down gesture] Is it bad upside down like that? And then some cars circumambulate our car like this. [Rinpoche indicates with his hand circumambulating] They might be students; they go like this, circumambulating us while we are driving.
