Lama Zopa Rinpoche

One day the manager of the restaurant was possibly thinking of having physical contact with
her, maybe sex, I’m not sure, and she pushed him away—just a little shove—but he was
flung really far. Then his mind completely changed. He said, “Now, whenever you want
something from the refrigerator, Coca-Cola or anything, please take it any time you want.”
Her wrathful aspect had so shocked him that his mind completely changed.
She tried to meet His Holiness for a year but a lay lama who was a religious head wouldn’t
let her. That happened at the beginning of her troubles. She may have told me before not to
mention this but anyway, she went to a place in Dharamsala where the water comes down—
I don’t know what it’s called—and picked up a stone. After she touched the stone it became
water, like nectar. She took this to offer to His Holiness. She often went into a trance,
outside looking like a ten-ma, 91 and then something like blood would come.
Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche was the one who helped her meet His Holiness. He told her, “I
myself will make the golden bridge connecting you and His Holiness.” Once he had made
that connection she was able to meet him. She told me that she went to see Kirti Tsenshab
Rinpoche a few times and he told her, “Even at the very end of my life, you are the object of
refuge I rely on.”
From that time on she was given a house to stay in and an old lady to take care of her. Early
one morning the old lady saw a lot of mule prints on the floor of her room. It seems that
during the night Palden Lhamo had come to protect or serve her.
And similarly, in the middle of the night an old Nyingma lama—I can’t say whether he was
enlightened or not but he was very highly realized—who had just passed away came to speak
with her. The old lady who cared for her was in the next room and she could hear talking,
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, so the next morning she scolded Khadro-la. “You have a
boyfriend! You have a boyfriend. You are a complete liar!” I think she scolded Khadro-la for
a few mornings, not only the one time. Khadro-la just said, “No boyfriend.” The lama came
in middle of the night to speak with her, to give her teachings or something like that. He had
other powers, so I think His Holiness also knew. But to the old lady listening from the next
room it seemed that Khadro-la had a boyfriend so she scolded her, saying she was a total
liar. Then afterwards she realized it wasn’t like that, that in reality Palden Lhamo was
Khadro-la’s servant. That is what I wanted to tell you.
Benefiting sentient beings
At this time we have received not just a human rebirth but a perfect human rebirth. Each
day, each hour, each minute, even each second, how many sentient beings from the
intermediate state are reborn in the hell realm? It’s as many as the specks of dust of this
earth. Each day, each hour, each minute, each second how many sentient beings from the
intermediate state are reborn as hungry ghosts? It’s like the number of the sand grains of the
Pacific Ocean. Each day, each hour, each minute, each second, how many sentient beings
from the intermediate state are reborn as animals? It’s as many as the blades of grass growing
on all the mountains and the ground everywhere—and of course there are numberless
universes—so it’s uncountable. We have to think about these things really well.
There are so many kinds of animals in the oceans. Some, like whales, are as huge as
mountains; others are so small that we can see them only through a microscope. I remember
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