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About this talk. In this 134-minute talk at a Malaysian hospice center, Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches how the mind creates and cures sickness. He traces all suffering to ignorance about the self, then offers striking examples: 67 terminal cancer patients—including a Canadian businesswoman given months to live—who recovered through meditation and ethical practice. He explains how disease exists only when the mind labels it, how past negative actions ripen as illness, and how compassion is the deepest remedy. He recounts an AIDS patient healed in four days through meditation focused on others’ suffering, and a recent Italian woman who recovered from AIDS the same way. Grounding Buddhist teaching in Harvard research on compassion and physical health, Rinpoche presents mind training and compassion for all beings as the most powerful medicine.
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File: 21 2005 04 10 Healing Body & Mind.mp3
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Teacher: Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1
Collection: z Malaysia (Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1)
Date: 2005-04-10
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Duration: 133.8 minutes
Words: ~7,351
Hello. Good morning, everyone. I like offer my greetings to Penang Sanghas here and Doctor Rosalia Shao, Doctor Lewis Chin, Doctor.
Go Pik Bin and Mr. Wong Ke Eun, Mrs. Roc Siew Fumin. And organizers, of Losana Hospice Centre. And then all the rest, my brothers and sisters, everyone who gathered here in this room, in this hall, I would like to thank everyone and in particular, the Losana Centre, the hospice organization for arranging this occasion.
So I would like to thank you very much. And their service from from their heart to This project is utmost important service, this because it is a very crucial time for the personal passing away. Very, very important time, very crucial time, need help, need someone’s help, in such hard condition, difficult situation. Not only help the body, but especially help the mind. By helping the mind, then the person can have peace or end of their life.
However, the person lived life, in the earlier life, however the person lived life, but however, should have peace at the end, life should be complete with peace, especially this precious, this very precious human life. It should end in peace, not with the suffering, not with worry, fear, even though you spend your life with worry, fear in all life. But, we should help them to end their life in peace. For the time being, there is no choice. You have to go this circle.
Since you were born, since you took birth, there is sickness, old age, as a result. But if you are but in any religion, You see, if you are able to remove our anger, attachment, ignorance, the unknown mind, that which gives so much suffering to the world, to oneself, to the whole world, due to ignorance and due to from that hatred, the attachment, attachment, then hatred. These negative emotional thoughts, you see, which gives so much problems to you, to yourself, to your family, to our own family, to the world. So, if you have to remove this in any religion, we have to remove this completely and able to make the mind liberated from the cause of the suffering, then you are free from death. There is no cause of death.
Death is not coming from the outside. Death is coming from the mind, from negative thoughts, wrong way of thinking. You see, not knowing the very root, the very root from where death comes, and death is from where it comes, is from the ignorance, not knowing what is the I, what is the self. We talk I, self, twenty four hours. You see, from birth, even in mother’s womb, you know, there’s a concept of I, until death.
Twenty four hours, day and night, between I. But if somebody asks a question, what is the I? What is it exactly? You see, difficult to explain. We will fight for the I.
You see, We kill others for this eye, for future happiness for this eye. We kill ourselves for this hap for future happiness for this eye. Even people who commit suicide, they’re looking for happiness. The white committed suicide, white famous very famous singers, actors. There are many those who achieved all the reputation in the world, but among them, there are so many who are suicidal.
You see, there are so many among the world who have achieved the most wealth, regarded as the most successful person in the world, you know, who makes the most money, which is defined by who makes the most money. So there are many suicidals. So because when you counter problems, you don’t know what to do with it, you don’t know how to handle, you don’t know how to cope with it. You see, there is no meditation practice to apply for that. You see, we transform the problem into happiness.
There’s a mental practice to eliminate that, the problem which comes from the mind. So then the person thinks, oh, you see, the easiest way is to kill oneself. The easiest way to achieve happiness, which can’t handle the problem, so you kill yourself. So it’s done for happiness. However, it’s done for this I, self.
But you see, if you look for where? Where is that I? Where is that self? You cannot find. You cannot find.
From tip of the head down to the toes, cannot find, cannot find, can’t find anywhere in this body. So if you meditate, if you analyze, if you research, where is the eye? You cannot find. But when you do not analyze, you see, when you do not analyze, it looks like that. But the minute when you analyze what looks like that, it will be unclear.
Then, I say, more research cannot find. So, anyway, death comes from death. It’s not I’m not saying there’s no I. There’s I. I who help others.
I who do positive things and brings happiness to you. I who do negative actions harms others, harms you. There’s I. You see, we stop. As by stopping the cause of suffering, non virtue, negative action, and by the I create positive action, which is a result of only happiness.
That’s I. I’m not saying there’s an I. But in this body, can’t find. We cannot find nowhere. Not of the body’s I nor the mind’s I.
None of this I. But doesn’t mean there’s an I in this whole now. There’s an I on the chair. There’s an I self on the chair. But there’s an I in the body.
In the body or on the body, on the, I guess, on the collections of body and mind, there’s an I, cannot find. But there’s an I. While your body position, your body mind is on the chair, there’s an eye sitting on the chair. There’s an eye in this hole, the self. Sort of that.
So it is however, that is something very how’s it? Getting into very this is getting into a very subtle point, very subtle analysis of phenomena, the eye, for what it is, involves very subtle scientific, I say, meditation or scientific analysis. So, anyway, what I was saying, death didn’t come from outside. The main cause of death is not outside. Is you see what?
Mind. What is that? The ignorance, not knowing what is I. That’s the root. From where sickness come, from where all ages come, from where the suffering of birth comes, everything is here.
The life that suffers so much, you know, with dissatisfaction. You see, whatever you do in this world, externally, not mentally, but externally, how much you put effort to achieve happiness. Friends, wealth, money, all these reputation. As I mentioned before, among the singers, famous actors, there are many people who suicidal. So you have to think why among many wealthy people you see?
So I have to think, what is it? Why did they choose this life, suicidal? Something not nice? Nobody kills you, you kill yourself. So this suffering in the life couldn’t get satisfaction.
All this came from the mind. So, you see, root, not knowing what is I, self. And then, other things like this, in the selfish mind, you see, ego. So, Just put that in. Sorry.
So here, I think any other religious, Hindu, Muslim, any other religious, anyone here, or brothers, my brothers and sisters, anyone who is here from any region, I would like to say thank you very much for attending this function. Sorry, I had this problem. That makes it difficult for a translator. We have oh, first, I suppose, based in Australia, in Brisbane. One student monk who was whose profession is a psychiatrist.
So, he stopped that and he established hospitals in Brisbane. So, it has been developed very much and it has been extremely successful. And it had the Australian government support, and it had a very good reputation. When I was in Australia, I heard from the director of Australian nun, Sangye Khadro, who runs the hospitals in Brisbane. So the people, they talk that if you are if you say if you’re cancer, if you’re dying, then it’s very good to be in the hand of the name of the hospital is called Karunā, means compassion.
Karunā is Sanskrit. So people say that is very lucky to be in the hands of the Karunā Hospital. So it has been very, very successful. So that inspired me to establish in every city, Melbourne, Sydney, many different cities also. So we have also the States and also in this hospital, so a few different places.
Sorry. I have some coughing, but of course, it’s no longer this time. It’s part of my life. It’s part of my life. Part of my life.
So people who have been listening to my talk, you know, so it’s is part of is part of it. Part part of the subject. I would like to mention a little bit about the beginning, about AIDS and cancer, just my own experiences. It’s not that I have AIDS and cancer at the moment, dealing with people who have cancer and AIDS, that is what I’m talking about. Anyway, So, as far as cancer, by giving meditation to people, practices, At least there are people who I don’t remember, and their cancer completely recovered.
So at least what I recollect is sixty seven people whose cancer is completely recovered, all their cancer is a terminal cancer, life threatening cancer, which are told by the doctors they would last only, they would live only three months. So, completely recovered. What I can remember, sometimes the doctors might not recollect. So, the very first person who had cancer, one business person, lady from Canada, who sells next year fashion next year fashion dress, the idea what people would like. So, who sells the idea to business people and for one hour and make so she makes one thousand dollars from that, so somebody would test that.
So, I didn’t meet her, but through a student, she came to the United States, California, as we have one Dharma center in the forest, a retreat center. So, she came somewhere there. She actually hadn’t studied Buddhism, just some interest. So anyway, that information was given to me through a student who met her. So, I was in Australia, sent a practice to save the lives of animals.
So, here, you cause long life to others, worms, chickens, animals. So, she did have she did, say, many thousands of worms She brought and liberated it around her house, so they go in garden, she go inside. And chickens, and then she put it at a farm, and she paid money for the people looking after her. So, that then, meditation, there’s one enlightened being particular dealing with cancer, you see. Because, you see, there’s many more, there’s more cause and condition.
Not in what hospital explains cause of cancer is not that’s very limited, very limited information. That doesn’t really give full explanation of all the causes and conditions. So, there is a cause that which are not explained or educated, that is coming from the mind. This ego, not pure mind, the the negative thoughts. So, as I mentioned before, then there’s a condition.
A condition is not what what is possible. Don’t know if there’s a clear cause and condition of this explanation, but however, there’s more conditions of cancer. There are other beings involved with that, other living beings involved, that is a condition to cause sicknesses. The cancer, there’s a particular thing called nagas, a condition that harms. Mainly, these mistakes from mistaken way of thinking, negative way of thinking, which harms to ourselves, which harms others.
So, those delusions are the main cause of the cancer. Then, the beings also harm, you see, related with these negative thoughts and negative action motivated by that. So, they see, I said their harm is also a result of the those things harming, causing the sicknesses, different sicknesses, is also a result of the negative thoughts and the actions, just like that. So, enlightened being, you see, whose particular function is to protect the living beings from those beings harm. So, she did the mantra, and then a lot of thought of benefiting others, saved many lives of worms and chickens like that.
So, you cause long life to others, then that affects back to you, you have long life. So, consequence is so you cause long life to others, you see other human beings or with animals, whatever you see. For example, sick people give medicine, who are doing the of people who need food, food, shelter, all those costs no longer to others. Cause a long life to human beings or any other beings. So that has consequences there.
It affects back to you. What do you do in normally in our daily life, whatever you do, it affects back to you. If it’s negative, it has negative effect back to you. If it’s positive, it has a positive effect back to your life. So whatever you do, see that action, you see, it is effect positive or negative back to you in your life.
So, here, it causes a long life. So, that when there’s a cancer, need to do healing, to heal the cancer. Course, the cutting the operation, of course, there is this. Then sometimes, for some people, still comes back, comes back again and again. So I heard yesterday, some days ago, my close friend, who helped me when I came to Malaysia in those past years.
When there was no center, no central center who helped me in Malaysia to say, ranging place, all the things, you see, twenty one. So, he told me that his brother, eight times, he had cancer and recovered, and he came back, recovered, and come back, and recovered eight times. So he told me that so now, at the end, I guess, I decided concluded rather rejecting, you accept the life. Know, death, whatever, you just accept rather rejecting. Rejecting becomes a problem because you have to go through it.
At the moment, no choice, as I mentioned before, until until you remove the cause of death from mentally. You see? So, there’s no choice. You have to go through this cycle. So, what he is what they conclude, his brother and him say, better to accept.
So bring it give it give peace to you. You see, we accept as happiness. You see, but at the moment, no choice if you go through this situation. So accept, you have peace, happiness. So, if you end up with with with the satisfaction and peace, you see.
So, it doesn’t worry. So, you die with the peace. So, your family members don’t have to worry, you know. You see, so much emotional, see, doesn’t have cause on that. Then you become an inspiring example for others.
You die with peace, you know, with a satisfied mind. So, you see, then you become an inspiring example to others. Like that, to think this way, accepting the situation which you have to experience without choice, accept that, no problem. So after she did the meditation, liberated animals, then her cancer was completely heart terminal cancer. The doctors told her that she would live only two, three months in very short time.
So so so she went to check, and the doctors did examination, could not find cancer at all. So they were completely completely shocked. And because that’s the first time experience, you see, without the treatment, hospital treatment. So they didn’t believe that meditation can heal cancer, but it’s the truth they see, even though it cannot be seen. So then doctors said that they want to write a book about how the meditation heal cancer, want to write a book.
Then she said, No, I want to write a book. So Su Su didn’t get cancer back. Now, it’s been many years. That’s my first experience. So, you see, after some time, her life was a little bit undisciplined, you know, didn’t do the practice and a little bit undisciplined.
Then, I think she started with the virus or something like that. Then again, she put her she she did those practices, they called her taking ethical life, you know, the called the eight Mahāyāna precepts, you see, living an ethical life, taking eight vows in an ethical life. So she did those. Then again, once she put her life in this, you see, in the practice, then again, the virus went away. So that’s my first experience.
And there are quite a few others through meditation of the cancer completely. Sorry. It is I heard that in the West, see, maybe through a scientific research. However, I heard from the doctors that if the patient has lot of worries, then you see, then you see, one gets cancer. I heard also that that’s through analysis, I think, in the West.
However, that also shows that the main cause of cancer is not upside. It’s a one’s own mind. It shows us that from that Western analysis. And then it is mentioned that there’s one book I don’t remember the title, but written by maybe American husband is doctor or the wife is a psychologist. So they explained through the analysis that cancer is a result of the impurity.
You see, the attitude of life, not pure, you see, impure. So, the those who do deeper research, you know, this is what they this is what how they found even in in even in the West. That there’s there is Indian Of course, in London, even in America, many places, sometimes the very top doctor in the hospital is Indian. However, in Delhi, there’s one doctor, and his analysis, what he discovered is that the health problems are heart attack and so forth, the blood pressure, difficult blood circulation. So these health problems, his discovery is that instead of putting positive labels to other people, and putting negative labels to other people, See, labeling negative, you know, to others.
This person bad, this and this and this. So, know, mind is sort of, say, engaged, say, on so much putting negative level, you know, how it does bad. So this doctor, I don’t remember the name, I kept the article, but I lost. It’s very interesting, you see. So he said, from that, then that caused the, heart attack, all these health problems.
And think that’s very true. Now, I would like to mention this. That’s very true. That’s very true. You see, until I want to say this.
Until, until, you see, the age doesn’t exist, until the mind labeled AIDS. I’m talking general sense. AIDS doesn’t exist. It came in existence when the mind labeled AIDS. Same cancer doesn’t exist.
It can be existent when mind labeled cancer. In the life, there is no problems. Until your mind labeled the situation problem. You see, some change happened. Your friend, you see, way of thinking towards you, change.
You see, from from like to dislike, change from like you to dislike. So, it’s it’s just it’s just different way of thinking towards you. You see, it’s just different way of thinking towards you. So, say, so, see, once the mind labels, instead of looking at the positive, one looks at it negative, you know, bad. Bad, harm, problem.
What your mind labels it problem. You see? So, then, after your mind labels the problem, you believe your you believe with your label, what your mind label, and then you see a problem in your life. But until that until that, you see, until your mind put a negative label, your life situation, problem, until you do that, there’s no problem. Problem doesn’t doesn’t exist.
Problem came in existence, problem came in existence, you see, after your mind is labeled and believed in that. So, suddenly it’s cancer. So, how they come into existence, you see? So, again, came from the mind, mind impure mind. So, good and bad, good and bad in our life, good and bad.
You see, imputed by the mind. So, came from the mind, didn’t come from outside. So, therefore, how to achieve happiness in the life? Eat from your mind. Not from outside, from your mind.
Is if you want happiness all the time, then your mind is dependent on your mind. So your mind should always put a positive label in the life situation. Whatever change happens, always you put a positive level. Then you see good, you label good, you see good, then you see you see good, then that brings pleasant feeling. You see?
One thing is very good, then you have pleasant feeling. You see, if you label bad, you you see bad, then it’s then you see the contacting sense contacting bad object, you see, which your mind labeled, then you get unpleasant feeling, suffering feeling. So, that’s how your mind creates suffering in the life. That’s how your mind creates happiness in your mind. So, you see, the mind your your your say, attitude of your mind, you see, is the how’s it?
That door for one negative way of thinking is the door for door for suffering, problems, opening the door for problems, one way of thinking. The different way of thinking brings happiness in your life, like sunrise in the world, it brings happiness in your life. Your life to happiness. So that’s not a particular religion. It’s just a science, it’s just natural, from where happiness comes, from where suffering comes, from your mind, your own mind.
So your world, your life, your world, your own world, happy yourself, whatever, created by your own mind. So, this is, see, is, say, nature, scientific, you see, and one can see, you know? So, there are some times like this. For example, you see, when somebody when somebody feels such to you or somebody didn’t didn’t do what you wanted, you know, didn’t do what you wanted, then you see there’s sometimes there is sometimes there is sometimes there is have choice, you know? Of course, some other times, the anger just comes.
Anger just comes like like a tsunami like the tsunami, see, Indonesia. Indonesia, actually, Lanka, places like tsunami, these waves, the waves can this is sudden, you see. So, like that, the anger just rises and takes over, takes over you. You are completely smashed, you see. Like that wave.
So, but you see, sometimes they sometimes you have choice, you know. What to get angry to this person? Or don’t get angry. Sometimes you have choice. You by thinking what this person did is bad, bad, bad, it makes you angry.
Or we don’t think that, you know? That happens at peace. You see? So that’s the choice which way, which direction you want to take To not get angry or to get angry by thinking what the person did, say, is bad. Know, think it’s okay.
It doesn’t matter, you see. Then you don’t get angry. It’s okay. You have peace and happiness. Or you look at it positive.
It’s even greater, even greater happiness. Yeah, you see, peace in your life. You are so happy with that person, that person is happy with you. So, I say, you have a very good relationship, happy world, happy family, happy world. Sorry.
So, from the United States Boston University, the Harvard University, there has been a group who have been doing research, about how compassion you see, the mind, the compassion, the positive mind compassion. How it affects the person’s life? Does it help? Make difference to health. You see, they did to there’s a group from Harvard University to research.
So, by doing research, they found there’s big differences between the person who live life. The person who live life, you see, say, living with others. You know, in the daily life, mingling with others. She means benefiting others, help others to be free from problems, to cause happiness to others. And person who’s who lived like they like a selfish mind.
So, they they they did analysis the difference of effort to the life to get the health. So So, make three situations. One is to check how much person has thought to benefit others, compassion to others. I think what I remember, one thing is maybe I think maybe to give money or something, the first thing, see what the person said. Then next checking.
The third checking is that person to come to stay, to come to I’m not sure, leave your stay, but at your house. So, there’s first, harder than that, then the third, hard to accept, to give, to offer service to others. So I think people are coming to live in your house, something that third is multiple. So experiment how much the person has good heart, you see, by questioning. However, they found out through research, found out that some sickness of heart I don’t remember the term, heart attack, there’s some particular sickness.
So, they found out a person whose attitude in their life is compassionate, thinking of others, do not have that particular heart disease. I don’t remember the name at all. This is what they discovered. This is what they discovered. So, they definitely found through research, you see, having compassion in their life definitely makes a difference in their health.
So in the health, you see, in the fifth even the physical situation. So, however, there’s so much peace and happiness, you know, in the life. It it cuts it cuts out negative thoughts through compassion. Is, you see, talking of others, then it cuts down all these negative emotional thoughts. Negative emotional thoughts and negative actions harming others, harming themselves.
It doesn’t happen. So there’s so much peace and happiness you offer to others, and the result of what result by giving happiness to others, you get happiness in your life, in your heart. It’s a it’s a a consequence of that action, So, now connected with compassion, I want to talk about aids. So, there happened many years ago, there happened one Chinese student. Came from Dharamsala, where where Mr.
Lama lived. So, then he found that he had AIDS. So then, he wrote to Dharmasala, his guru called Lama Zopa Rinpoche, one of one one senior senior lama. Then the the lama, he the true he dictated the meditation through the phone that one was a was a one western lady who does translation. So, this lama dictated to her the meditation.
This is the most powerful meditation of healing through mind. The most powerful meditation is healing your sicknesses. And, healing others, healing your sicknesses. And, this is the most powerful meditation, how to transform your problems into happiness. Looking at your problems past it, and then you’ll enjoy your life without Lot of worry and fear, all that thing.
So, this practice, you see, with compassion I say, with compassion, you say, take others’ sufferings and cause of the sufferings within you within you, and you see, give it to the ego, give it to the give it to your enemy. Your enemy who gives all the problems, who creates relationship problems, see, there’s someone in your relationship in the family, wife, husband, between children, whatever. You see, this ego has self-cherishing thought which causes longing and which brings all the depressions, things what selfish mind, self situation for one expecting didn’t happen, you see depression. So, this ego self-cherishing thought, which brings all the problems in your life. So, obstacle, for the mind to develop in the path, in the path to total ultimate everlasting happiness, liberation, or the fearless happiness, enlightenment, see.
So, it doesn’t allow to complete the path, the spiritual path, see. So, harms you and harms others. So, you see, you take all other sentient beings, all other living with suffering and cause, use as a weapon to destroy your enemy, who cause all the sufferings, all the obstacles, including black magic, everything. Who causes to who causes to receive black magic? Even there are other people doing something, but if you don’t have karma from your side, if you don’t any mistake, if you are pure, you live ethical life in the past.
You are pure. You can’t receive black magic from others. In order to receive black magic, you see, you have to you have to make a target. In the past, you did something wrong. You know, you put the target.
You see, negative action done. You see? So then you put this target, then this you know, then then somebody see whatever doing things. So then you will see harm. But if you’re pure, if you didn’t do a mistake, you know, make your actions to receive harm, which makes you experience black magic.
If you didn’t do that, you know, nobody could nobody could harm you. You see, no one can harm you. So, you see, if you haven’t created a cause to receive harm from others, if you have done that, nobody can harm you. It’s like those saints, those holy beings, you see, like those holy beings that has no who is totally free from ignorance, anger, desire, completely free from those emotional negative emotion thoughts. So, there’s a cause of suffering.
So, you don’t receive harm from others. Not at all. No reason to receive harm from others because you don’t have a cause in your mind, in your memory. So, you see, in any religion that you’re holding by this, cannot receive any harm from others. Impossible.
Which there’s a cause in your mind to still humble others, you see. So that so anyway, example of that. So so the ego this the ego is self-cherishing thought. And so that makes you to engage unrighteous actions. Negative actions harm others harm you.
Then, that did something for others. Then similar, then as a result, you receive harm from others, black magic, whatever. Similar, you’re driving the you’re walking the road, some unknown person should shock you, you see, with gun, you know, or child. You see, suddenly you’re walking the road or driving a car, suddenly some unknown person should so, you see, that one, there’s no there’s no story in this life. Oh, you know, you gave harm to that person.
Now, this person revenge him. There’s no story of that. You see? Unknown person. You see?
This is my first time. So, this happens normally. So, there’s a cause in your mind to receive. You create the cause already in the past. So, then that cause is ripened today, like we plant a seed and it is ripened.
It brings sprout. Causes ripened, so this result she causes something that similarly harm others. So today, this cause has happened. This imprint left on the mental imprint. Happened.
So then this person, even it’s unknown, so this gives this problem, this short or whatever, harm. So I have lost my talk. Suddenly wrong. Maybe you need me to translate the first. So maybe I’ll remember.
Perhaps. So, take all other living beings suffering cause, all the problems, cause of the problems. Take it the form of in the form of, say, the pollution of small water, then take it then take it with one’s self and see, and was hard and to give it, then destroy the you see, you you will use as a weapon to destroy the your enemy. You see, say, the self-cherishing thought. Your inner enemy.
That your inner enemy, you see, which makes makes outside living beings to become enemy to you. You know? So, due to self-cherishing, due to ego, self-cherishing thought, then anger arises. Connect to that, self-cherishing thought, what you want, what is expected, didn’t any chip, or something hurt to the ego self-cherishing thought, then you see, and then anger rises. Then you anger rises rises to other beings.
When it anger rises other beings, then you see that those other beings become enemy. You see, say, they appear to be enemy because of because of your anger. But, you see, if the anger did not rise, you don’t see enemy outside. Without anger, you cannot find the enemy in the world. First, it should get clear.
If you don’t have anger, you don’t have enemy. Enemy, you cannot find the enemy at all in the world, in your family, say, in your earlier, say, in in the universe, you cannot find the enemy. You don’t have the enemy if you don’t have anger. If if if do get angry, then you find the enemy outside. Anger, the anger projects the person undesirable or something objectively.
You see harm, you see, like that project project. So so therefore so therefore best so therefore quickest way to destroy enemy, to you for you to not have enemy in the world is to destroy it, is to is to is to practice patience and to not have anger. You see? To practice patience, to practice compassion. Then you can’t find an enemy in the world, in the universe, wherever, even you I say, whether you go on the moon or sun or wherever you go, you can’t east or west, wherever.
And then the ocean, wherever you go, you won’t find it. There’s no enemy for you. So, so so you use you take all other living beings’ suffering, take it inside yourself, destroy it like like bombing on the like bombing on the enemy. Here, the enemy is inside you. See?
You use all that stuff like bomb to destroy that. But then, you see, then, generating So this here, you have to realize you’re destroying the root, the root or the cause, you see, from where all the problem comes, all the obstacles, all the unhappiness comes, you are destroying that. You see, then there is only thought to challenge others, only thought to benefit others, only thought seeking happiness for others who are numberless. So, before seeking happiness, working only for yourself, among the holy beings, saint, enlightened beings, and then numberless living beings. So, you see, numberless living beings.
Even the human beings not only not only on the Earth, there are other worlds, there are other universes, are numerous universes where there are human beings. So, there are a number of human beings, number of animals, and other types of beings, there So, I’d say, among all these things, you see, cherishing cherishing on the cherishing on this arm, on this person, on this arm. And and then everything then whatever you do, eating food, sleeping, working, doing a job, everything, everything, all the expenses that you have from kindergarten, primary school, high school, college, university, all this likely a family education. Then after a degree, then you get a job, then all the money. However, everything is done for this eye, all the money after you get a job, everything is spent for this eye.
There are numerous other beings who are suffering, who need help, but you see, all this is spent, you know, all this money after many years of education, then for an eye, all this money, then with exhaustion of body, mind, so he can work all the money. Correct? Then only used it for this. I said, respect for this I, this one person. You see?
So with that. So but still but still, you don’t find satisfaction. You don’t find happiness in your in your heart. There’s no happiness in your heart. Your heart is empty.
Inside your heart is empty. You see? Whole, you see, you have a whole empty state. There’s no peace, happiness. You just fill up.
So, so let’s say, dissatisfaction, misery. When you really at your inner life, you see, there’s no peace now. So, you see now here by destroying this, then you you cherish others, seeking happiness for others, see everything what you do for others, for a number of us to achieve happiness within, to achieve all the different levels of happiness within. Happiness is this life, happiness is the future life, ultimate happiness, everlasting happiness, then happiness for enlightenment others. So, therefore, you see, then with this attitude, your life become your life become so special.
Your life become, I say, you become the you here, you become the source of happiness for all living beings. You know? You become the sun rising in this world, you know, give happiness to so many beings, so you become the source of happiness of all living beings. So so you see, so so what?
There is no there is no happier life than this. You see, you become the you you see, become the root of happiness of all living things, you see, by changing the attitude, you see, from cherishing I, working for only oneself, then to working for others. So, you see, so this is the more this is the happiest life. You see, there’s no great there’s no greater happiness life than this, you see. Most more satisfied, most fulfilling.
So when you come back, you generate loving kindness, then you give everything, then you give then you give your good your merits, and all the result happens, and your body, possession, everything, your merit, you know, you do meditation and visualization, giving to all living beings. Then they receive all the happiness from that. They go to everything whatever they want, everything. Those who want to find a friend, they want a friend, and those who want wealth, receive wealth. And those who are suffering from depression, their heart feels great bliss.
So, those who want to achieve spiritual path, they achieve spiritual path, so you see, there is everything. Those who are looking for guru, there is a perfect, perfect guru, who show the whole path, and so they receive all the happiness, you know, up to full happiness in one. And so so anyway, so I was just this year, I’m just describing the meditation. So, how about the guru, this Chinese disciples, you see, his guru sent this meditation to him, and then you see, after that, he did meditation only four days. He practiced meditation only four days.
Then, you see, he checked in the hospital and the doctors could not find AIDS. The doctors could not find AIDS after four days of meditation. There’s a virus, but there’s no AIDS. So, that’s what happened. So, when I asked him, I asked him, how many hours you did your meditation?
I thought he did many, many hours, I thought he must have done many, many hours. But actually the person did only four minutes. Only four minutes each day for only four minutes, the meditation. But why? But why the AIDS is gone even only four minutes each day?
Why? Because because when he was doing this meditation, no no space. There’s no space to think of his own problem. It’s in his mind, in his mind. His mind filled compassion to others.
So much compassion, all those other people in the world who have AIDS, so much compassion. You know, unbelievable compassion, he feel, and all other living beings. He feels so much compassion. So, came out. You know, so much during that time, these four minutes, tears come out.
So, feeling so much compassion. See, no time, no space to think about the problems. Just, I’m a little convinced that all the people in the world who have AIDS, then all other people have problems, suffering. So, here, you see how his AIDS healed only doing meditation four days, even that four minutes each day, is because of this incredible, unsurpassable compassion to others, strong compassion. So, normally, you see, in any Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, any religion, anybody, any religion, anybody who feels such incredible compassion to others, You see, then that purifies that positive mind, purify purify the the past, you see, the negative action that one did, cause of the negative action that one did, you see, also which is called karma, negative action that one did engage in the past.
You see, the other immoral actions were unrighteous actions. Let negative imprint on the mental continuum. Then this time, you see, manifest into sickness. So that’s similar to cancer or diabetes. So here, you see, it’s like diabetes, the same is same, past the past negative action.
That is, you see, now, left imprint left on the mental continuum to manifest in this. So so you see, so strong compassion purified that past negative action. You see, purified. You know? So because of that because of that, then the result, the sickness is healed.
So, you see, here in this context like this, so there are many other stories, there are many other mind blowing stories. Mind blowing stories? I don’t know how to say it in Chinese, but anyway, so there’s so many other stories. See. You see.
But, see, pure, so powerful to purify the the how’s the defilements. You know? Mental pollution, the defilements. Past negative actions. And then incredible things happened, realizations, you know, unbelievable things happened.
Then going to able to go to pure land. If able to go to pure land for certain enlightened beings, then you become enlightened there. You then purify, then you see enlightened beings, then you receive teachings from them, then you are able to benefit so many living beings, you see, able to liberate them, purify them, liberate them from all the sufferings and bring them the purest happiness enlightenment like that. So, there are so many other amazing stories. See, generated such strong compassion and become so powerful to people.
So that so you see, so here, you see, here your mind, your positive mind heal your sicknesses. You see, like that, able to heal your sicknesses. You see, your mind has power to heal your with such this of course, a negative mind then has negative power, then brings cancer, AIDS, all the sicknesses, you see, problems with the body and mind. But here, the positive mind, compassion is the the power, to complete your happiness, Perfect bliss. So before ending, just want to mention this.
Recently, one Italian lady, she had AIDS, and I sent a meditation practice to do, and then completely recovered her AIDS. So I didn’t remember what practice I gave. So later during the retreat in Italy, Pomaia, recent time, so I met her. So I asked her what practice she did, because I don’t remember what I told her. So her age, so completely, completely healed, but that other person, through meditation, they healed.
That’s a recent time. However however, the cherished I seeking only happiness for oneself, is opening the door for all the problems, obstacles. And, you see, think of others, cherish others, working for others. You see, it’s opening the door for all the happiness you achieve and every numberless other living things you you are able to keep, you’re able to cause. So so so this is this is the real meaning of real meaning of why why this time, why we are human beings, why why we have chosen or received this precious human body is to benefit others, to live the life for others.
Benefit others who are numberless. So, this is the best way to bring all the success, all the happiness. So, I’ll stop here. So, you very much. There’s some worthwhile, some benefit in my my problem this morning.
So I’m gonna pray to actualize this conventional loving kindness thought in everyone’s heart. We pray through this good heart, generating in everyone’s heart, everyone’s heart, and have a complete world peace. Peace in each individual and global peace. Thank you very much. Thank you.