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EXTRACT Nothing Is More Exciting Than Bodhichitta 27-Aug-2017

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In the following short video clip, #LamaZopaRinpoche explains that the greatest excitement in our life is to benefit all sentient beings. Listening to teachings, doing prayers and meditations, taking precepts, and living our life—all that—we dedicate to their well being. Here's a summary of the video clip:
 Rinpoche explains that we are listening to the teachings for numberless animals, in order to free them from samsara and lead them to enlightenment. 'Can you imagine? Do you understand?' Rinpoche asks. 'If you are not excited for this, then what else is exciting?'
'Other excitement is totally crazy,' Rinpoche explains. 'It is over hallucination. There is hallucination and over hallucination. So here, can you imagine?'
The reason we are doing meditation is to benefit all sentient beings, not leaving out one single tiny fly, not one single ant. There are numberless universes. But not one single ant is left out, because of all the kind mother sentient beings, Rinpoche explains. If you think of the details it's unbelievable!
So bodhichitta—practicing bodhichitta and benefiting sentient beings—is so great. 'What other excitement do you want? Something else is more exciting that this?' Rinpoche asks. Nothing is more exciting and to think this is very strange, Rinpoche explains. It is like your mind is not right. 'I’m talking including myself, not only you,' Rinpoche says.
Our reciting should be done with the thought that we are not leaving even the tiniest sentient being behind. We are reciting for everyone. 'We get up for them in the morning, wash, and do the motivation, especially the Mahayana motivation, bodhichitta, wow!' Rinpoche says. We need to be alive to practice Dharma, to be of benefit, so we have to eat. So we eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner for all sentient beings. We take precepts for them. We do meditation for them. 'Every prayer is for them,' Rinpoche says. 'Can you imagine?'
This video is extracted from the Light of the Path 2017 teachings, recorded on August 27, 2017, in Black Mountain, North Carolina, US.
Find oIn the following short video clip, #LamaZopaRinpoche explains that the greatest excitement in our life is to benefit all sentient beings. Listening to teachings, doing prayers and meditations, taking precepts, and living our life—all that—we dedicate to their well being. Here's a summary of the video clip:
 Rinpoche explains that we are listening to the teachings for numberless animals, in order to free them from samsara and lead them to enlightenment. 'Can you imagine? Do you understand?' Rinpoche asks. 'If you are not excited for this, then what else is exciting?'
'Other excitement is totally crazy,' Rinpoche explains. 'It is over hallucination. There is hallucination and over hallucination. So here, can you imagine?'
The reason we are doing meditation is to benefit all sentient beings, not leaving out one single tiny fly, not one single ant. There are numberless universes. But not one single ant is left out, because of all the kind mother sentient beings, Rinpoche explains. If you think of the details it's unbelievable!
So bodhichitta—practicing bodhichitta and benefiting sentient beings—is so great. 'What other excitement do you want? Something else is more exciting that this?' Rinpoche asks. Nothing is more exciting and to think this is very strange, Rinpoche explains. It is like your mind is not right. 'I’m talking including myself, not only you,' Rinpoche says.
Our reciting should be done with the thought that we are not leaving even the tiniest sentient being behind. We are reciting for everyone. 'We get up for them in the morning, wash, and do the motivation, especially the Mahayana motivation, bodhichitta, wow!' Rinpoche says. We need to be alive to practice Dharma, to be of benefit, so we have to eat. So we eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner for all sentient beings. We take precepts for them. We do meditation for them. 'Every prayer is for them,' Rinpoche says. 'Can you imagine?'
This video is extracted from the Light of the Path 2017 teachings, recorded on August 27, 2017, in Black Mountain, North Carolina, US.
Find out more about #LamaZopaRinpoche at http://www.fpmt.org

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