Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Jamyang Buddhist Centre - London

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Yeshe Buddhist Centre - Cumbria

Coordinator Brenda Fishwick

 Phone: 07887 846386

Email: yeshebuddhistcentre@yahoo.co.uk

New Advice from Lama Zopa

"FPMT is extremely fortunate, unbelievably fortunate...if you look then you can understand how fortunate we are having many qualified teachers, having the opportunity to study. Through that we are able to offer service to the world, to sentient beings: with our Dharma knowledge and practice we can enlighten other sentient beings, liberate others by giving Dharma education, by giving the light of Dharma to others, in their heart. In minds which are dark, where there is ignorance, we bring the light of Dharma, bring the wisdom eye. I think thats the best service to sentient beings, the best service to the world."

Read the whole advice at:
http://www.fpmt.org/teachers/zopa/advice/Default.asp#current

The Golden Light Sutra

Please recite "The Golden Light Sutra" For World Peace - from Lama Zopa
Rinpoche

"Anybody who wants peace in the world should read The Golden Light Sutra
This is a very important practice to stop violence and wars in the world. The Golden Light Sutra is one of the most beneficial ways to bring peace. This is something that everyone can do, no matter how busy you are, even if you can read one page a day, or a few lines and in this way continually read The Golden Light Sutra.

 The holy Golden Light Sutra is the king of the sutras. It is extremely
powerful and fulfils all one's wishes, as well as bringing peace and
happiness for all sentient beings, up to enlightenment. It is also extremely
powerful for world peace, for your own protection and for the protection of
the country and the world. Also, it has great healing power for people in
the country.

 For anyone who desires peace for themselves and for others this is the
spiritual, or Dharma, way to bring peace that doesn't require you to harm
others, doesn't require you to criticize others or even to demonstrate
against others, yet can accomplish peace. Anyone can read this text,
Buddhists and even non-Buddhists who desire world peace.

  This also protects individuals and the country from what are labelled
natural disasters of the wind element, fire element, earth element and water
element, such as earthquakes, floods, cyclones, fires, tornadoes, etc. They
are not natural because they come from causes and conditions that make
dangers happen. They come from past inner negative thoughts and actions of people, and from external conditions.

The benefits of reading this sutra are immeasurable: it is said in the
texts that even compared to offering precious jewels as numberless as the
amount of atoms of the Pacific Ocean to numberless buddhas, reciting just a
few lines of The Sutra of Golden Light creates more merit than making these
immeasurable offerings to the Buddha.

  Reciting this Sutra directs one's life towards enlightenment. There is
so much merit created by reciting this Sutra, everything is taken care of,
one's life becomes so easy, whatever one wishes for one receives. This is
because there is unbelievable purification and one collects extensive
merits. This is how one liberates numberless sentient beings from the oceans
of samsara suffering and brings them to enlightenment.

So here, I would like to make this request with my two palms together,
to please recite the Sutra of Golden Light for world peace as much as you
can."

You can download the Sutra of Golden Light in various languages from:
http://www.fpmt.org/teachers/zopa/advice/goldenlight.asp

Rinpoche is requesting all students to recite this regularly and
continually - there is no time limit, please just do as much as you can for
as long as there is a need for peace in the world.