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Liberating for Rinpoche's Long Life

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Liberating Animals

Practices for Rinpoche’s Health and Long Life

 April 2013

As many of you know, Khadro-la (Rangjung Neljorma Khadro Namsel Drolma) has provided advice for practices that FPMT centers, projects, services and students can do to help remove obstacles to Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s health and long life. One of the practices that Khadro-la specifically mentioned was to liberate many animals.

Animal liberation is a powerful Buddhist practice often done to prolong life when an untimely death is threatening. According to Lama Zopa Rinpoche in “Liberating Animals” (FPMT Practice book), the practice of liberating animals is primarily for prolonging life and the recitation of mantras is more for healing sickness and providing protection from the harmful beings that become conditions for certain diseases.

He goes on to say:

“It is best to liberate an animal that you are able to look after yourself. By feeding them every day, you perform the Dharma practice of giving charity and create much good karma, the cause of happiness.”

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Kangaroo caught in a fence during a fire

Fires in Australia

January 2013

Please spare a thought for those animals (and people) caught up in the terrible fires in Australia. An EFDA project coordinator is at the Coonabarabran fire with an animal rescue and treatment team from Tree of Compassion trying to help where possible. This photo is very shocking, but Lama Zopa Rinpoche has said to us before we should show images of animal suffering so that we can all generate more compassion for those suffering in the animal realm (and presumably to use that compassion to motivate us to act in ways that can benefit others and ourselves).


 

Rinpoche Asks Students to Go Veg!

Kyabje Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, Spiritual Director of the FPMT, has called on his students to become vegetarian.

"When I was in hospital I saw a program about animals that were sold to be killed in Indonesia and other countries (live export), I don’t know how long this has been going on, must be already for a long time".

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