Advice to Center Directors

My very dear one,
Thank you very much your nice offering and picture. I heard you are doing very well at the center. Thank you very, very, very much.

You are serving His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Lama Yeshe and Mickey Mouse (me) and all sentient beings, as you are doing the work with bodhicitta motivation. I heard really good things, that you are doing very well. Thank you very, very, very much.

What else is there that we should be doing in the world? There is nothing better than this.

With much love and prayers ...

My most dear, most precious, most kind, most dear, wish-fulfilling director,
Numberless thanks from my heart, for every month, every week, every day, every hour, every minute, every second of your dedication, your service. You are bringing happiness to sentient beings not only in this life, but in their future lives, which is much more important. Even more important is bringing their ultimate happiness, nirvana, the blissful state of peace, to be free from samsara forever. The most important is buddhahood—the cessation of the obscurations and completion of all the realizations—and then bringing all this happiness to all the sentient beings. All this comes from Buddhadharma, therefore your service is for the Buddhadharma, to preserve and spread it to sentient beings even in every second.

Buddhahood is to free the numberless sentient beings from the oceans of samsaric suffering and to bring them to buddhahood, the peerless happiness. The Buddha practiced during the time he was bodhisattva. He practiced the six paramitas, such as charity, giving his own life numberless times for three countless great eons, giving his limbs and eyes and so forth, making charity to other sentient beings. With so much hardship he practiced morality for three countless great eons; he practiced patience for three countless great eons; he practiced perseverance for numberless eons; and he practiced concentration and wisdom for so many eons. He completed collecting the merits of wisdom and merits of virtue, and achieved the result, dharmakaya and rupakaya, and then buddhahood. He achieved full enlightenment for us sentient beings, for you and for me, for everyone.

Numberless bodhisattvas only cherished other sentient beings and then worked, dedicated their body, speech and mind, every second for us. Numberless buddhas only cherished other sentient beings and worked effortlessly to benefit us sentient beings, the six realm sentient beings, even up to achieving enlightenment.

From this you can see the only thing is to work for sentient beings, therefore you can see the benefit of working for sentient beings by offering service. You can see it is the most important thing. This is what makes your life the happiest, most meaningful, most beneficial for all the sentient beings.

Again, thank you very much from my heart.

With much love and prayers ...

My very dear one,
How are you? Billions, zillions and trillions of thanks, always—every day, every hour, every minute—for your complete dedication to sentient beings, in order to free them from the oceans of samsaric suffering and to achieve peerless happiness, omniscient mind, and for your dedication to numberless buddhas and bodhisattvas and their teachings, and to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and to me, little Mickey Mouse.

I want to mention two quotations. One is from Sakya Pandita. I have mentioned it before, I am sure you heard it a few times from me in the past:

If we have collected merit for one thousand years by having made charity of our head, hands and legs to the sentient beings, in regards to fulfilling the guru's wishes and advice, all that merit happens in one second by following the guru's path.

This means that every minute, every second of your work, your service, is like this. Then, as it is mentioned in the Drop of Mahamudra text:

Just as fire burns wood and turns it into ashes in a second, like that, if we please the glorified guru, our negative karma is burnt in a second.

That means the heavy negative karma collected in the past gets purified in one second just like that; also the heavy negative karma collected from beginningless rebirths.

I hope you achieve the same realizations as the Fifth Dalai Lama. [A photo of the Fifth Dalai Lama was enclosed.] Then the Potala Palace will be offered to you and you can go and stay there. How about that? You can't say no.

With much love and prayers ...

My most dear wish-fulfilling directors,
Your work at the center is fulfilling His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s wishes, who is the sole object of refuge of all us sentient beings of the six realms, as well as fulfilling the wishes of Lama Yeshe and myself, no question.

Every hour, day, minute you work at the center as director you collect extensive merits and purify many eons of negative karma and defilements, and it brings you closer to enlightenment, minute by minute.

It is said by Sakya Pandita:

“One thousand eons that one has collected merits by making charity of one’s own body, head and legs and hands,
And even if that merit is dedicated towards sentient beings,
All that merit is condensed in one second by practicing the Guru’s path.”

Nagarjuna said:

“Abandon all the other offerings, only make the offerings to the Guru.”

Nagarjuna is saying this because it is emphasizing that when you make offerings to the guru—for example offering one tiny drop of scented water on the tip of a needle to one pore of the gurus, so here it is very, very tiny—if you do that then you collect far greater merit than having made offerings to numberless Buddha, Dharma, Sangha, statues, stupas and scriptures. It is the greatest, highest merit. That is why Nagarjuna said to abandon all the other offerings and attempt to make offerings to the gurus.

Thank you very much. Please enjoy your life, and always have a meaningful life as much as possible.

With much love and prayers...

 My dear Jackie,
I hope you are well. I enjoyed very much meeting your mother and you, I liked her very much.

I am very happy, inspired and excited by this land you found and very grateful to the couple who are offering it. We need a lot of merit to use this land for the Dharma, so we need to make this statue of thousand-arm Chenrezig nine feet high. I don’t want you to faint at the height. I know you may not be familiar with my sizes, sorry. But this will be of unbelievable benefit for your country, to develop compassion, through nyung näs and Chenrezig retreats. I think it will be so good. OK? We can keep talking if you like.

Much love and prayer...

My very dearest George,
I am very happy you have the big heart to help the center. You can think that this group is like the son and the center is the mother.

With much love and prayers...