Lama Zopa Rinpoche

esult of negative karma is rebirth in the suffering lower realms—the hells, the hungry ghost
realm or the animal realm—or that the result of positive karma is the happiness of the
human and god realms. And this is without talking about what is beyond samsara, about
nirvana, the total cessation of the oceans of samsaric suffering and the five paths that lead to
liberation and enlightenment.
There are five paths to peerless happiness, buddhahood, the state of the omniscient mind,
the elimination of all obscurations and the completion of all realizations—sang-gyä. Even
before reaching that goal, simply progressing through the five paths and the ten bhumis
brings unbelievable happiness and bliss.
Even on the first bhumi a bodhisattva is able to go to a hundred different buddha pure lands
and receive teaching from the buddhas there at the same time and with a hundred different
bodies do prostrations to the buddhas there. Then, when he achieves the second bodhisattva
bhumi, he is able to go to a thousand different buddha pure lands and receive teachings and
manifest in a thousand bodies and give teachings to sentient beings. With each succeeding
bhumi the numbers increase and with the eighth, ninth and tenth bhumis the bodhisattva
can go to billions and zillions of pure lands and receive teachings and do prostrations there
and is able to manifest in billions and zillions and trillions of forms and give teachings,
getting ever closer to enlightenment like that. He can manifest as a river, a bridge, a
mountain, as all kinds of things to benefit sentient being. What a bodhisattva can do to
benefit sentient beings is so amazing it doesn’t fit our ordinary, limited concepts. If this is
what a bodhisattva can do, there is no question what a buddha can do.
Saving animals and humans
There are many stories about Khadro-la that I have heard as well as many stories I have yet
to hear. Besides the earthquake that Khadro-la predicted in Dharamsala, there’s also the
huge California earthquake that Western scientists predicted a long time ago and announced
again at the beginning of 2014. She has also spoken about that one.
Normally our organization liberates animals. The FPMT center in Singapore has already
liberated almost two hundred million. They don’t liberate them the way we normally do, just
buying them from where they are going to be killed and releasing them. What they do is put
small insects and shellfish into sacks and frogs in containers and circumambulate them
around many stupas filled with mantras, including the four dharmakaya relic mantras, and
also many texts, such as the entire collection of teachings by Lama Tsongkhapa and his
disciples. There are also the Kangyur and Tengyur and many collections of all the
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Carrying the animals by hand, all the children, parents and grandparents circumambulate the
holy objects. With each circumambulation they all create the karma to achieve highest
enlightenment, even the insects. In one plastic bag there may be a thousand crickets. As
many times as that bag is taken around, the closer to enlightenment those thousand crickets
come. That includes nirvana, the blissful state of peace, liberation from the oceans of
samsaric suffering as well, and a good rebirth in the next life and temporary happiness—all
those things are contained in that. So it has amazing benefit.
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