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