Lama Zopa Rinpoche

She was finally able to complete all the stupas in different colors. One was built at the
Tibetan nursery school and another one at Norbulingka in lower Dharamsala where the
Tibetans who have come from Tibet have art and handicraft shops and restaurants. There
are many statues there.
She explained this to me in detail, how although the major earthquake could be prevented
there would be a very small one that could not be stopped. That has already happened in
lower Dharamsala and I think one cow died, but the major earthquake with the volcanic
eruption has been stopped.
Once, when she was on a beach in Taiwan, there was about to be a typhoon. She did some
prayers, nothing long at all, and the typhoon stopped. The students who were around her at
the time actually saw this happen and they told me.
She is very powerful. The nagas and worldly protectors who cause violent weather—all those
hail storms and winds and such things—react depending on what people do. If people do
positive things the weather is subdued but violent weather is the result of people’s negative,
violent minds, their violent thoughts.
I’m telling you this in case you are wondering whether it is possible for Khadro-la to go to a
pure land. Maybe you believe it or maybe not, but I can tell you other things so you can
understand what she can do.
The power of the bodhisattvas
Of course, such powers as being able to influence the weather are as yet unknown by
Western scientists. They attribute bad weather to other causes. They can see the physical
conditions but they have yet to understand the most important thing, the inner cause, karma.
Not even the most expert Western scientists have discovered this but it seems their thinking
is getting more subtle and they are getting closer to the Buddhist views.
For example, they used to believe that there were no sentient beings on Mars but then—
before I left America for India last year or the year before—it was announced that they had
discovered the potential for life there. 51 So, it is changing, and it will continue to change the
deeper they check.
Karma has yet to be discovered by the scientists. But once it is discovered—how all
suffering comes from negative karma and all happiness comes from positive karma—it will
blow their minds! It will be such an unbelievable shock. This is what I think. At the moment,
because it is not within the scope of scientific thought, people in the West don’t think about
it. Some people might even think that concepts like karma and reincarnation are crazy, that
they come from people’s imagination. Such people either don’t think about future lives or
what death means or their thoughts are very vague.
One time, on an airplane, I was watching my fellow passengers put their luggage up before
the flight. They were well-dressed, maybe in clothes worth a thousand dollars, and talking
about nothing but this life, nothing else, about how they made ten million dollars and things
like that. But they had no idea at all about the life after this. They had never heard that the
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