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Lama Zopa Rinpoche continued his video teachings on thought transformation from Amitabha Buddhist Centre in Singapore in August. Here is a summary Thought Transformation video #132, offered on August 14, 2022: Make your suffering into the best happiness, Rinpoche urges us. All of the pain we face in life came from our mind—our self-cherishing thought with attachment, anger, and ignorance harmed others and now we experience the evolution of that. We can use our pain as a cause to achieve enlightenment, not only for ourselves like taking drugs for our benefit alone, but for all sentient beings. This is so important to write down and remember every day. When something undesirable happens, remember this. Whether physical or mental pain—we can make it into the best happiness by enjoying it. Every single suffering of all sentient beings we take onto the path of enlightenment. This makes life so happy.
Whenever we see a suffering sentient being we can do this, we can practice tonglen, by sincerely taking on other sentient beings’ suffering and giving our happiness to them in return. Each time we do tonglen, we collect more merit than the sky and become closer and closer to enlightenment, and more and more distant from samsara.
The goal is to experience the suffering of sentient beings so that they become enlightened, free from samsara. While there is pain, death, relationship problems, etc., we experience it for all sentient beings, for them to be free from suffering and achieve enlightenment.
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche continued his video teachings on thought transformation from Amitabha Buddhist Centre in Singapore in August. Here is a summary Thought Transformation video #132, offered on August 14, 2022: Make your suffering into the best happiness, Rinpoche urges us. All of the pain we face in life came from our mind—our self-cherishing thought with attachment, anger, and ignorance harmed others and now we experience the evolution of that. We can use our pain as a cause to achieve enlightenment, not only for ourselves like taking drugs for our benefit alone, but for all sentient beings. This is so important to write down and remember every day. When something undesirable happens, remember this. Whether physical or mental pain—we can make it into the best happiness by enjoying it. Every single suffering of all sentient beings we take onto the path of enlightenment. This makes life so happy.
Whenever we see a suffering sentient being we can do this, we can practice tonglen, by sincerely taking on other sentient beings’ suffering and giving our happiness to them in return. Each time we do tonglen, we collect more merit than the sky and become closer and closer to enlightenment, and more and more distant from samsara.
The goal is to experience the suffering of sentient beings so that they become enlightened, free from samsara. While there is pain, death, relationship problems, etc., we experience it for all sentient beings, for them to be free from suffering and achieve enlightenment.
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