Enlightenment for the dear Animals
Your Pet
“If you love your animal very much, this is what you must do for them, for their good rebirth and quick liberation from samsara. When the animal is dying or has died, recite OM MANI PADME HUNG, Heruka mantra and Heruka root mantra, and other mantras such as the Milarepa and Namgyalma mantras. You can recite the long mantras 21 times or more, and one mala or more of the short mantras. Blow strongly on the animal’s body after each recitation. Or, you can blow on water, visualizing each deity absorbed into the water. Each drop of water now has the power to purify negative karmas. Then, as you pour the water on the animal, all its negative karmas are purified.
If the animal is dying, you can do Medicine Buddha practice, visualizing the seven Medicine Buddhas on the crown of the animal. Then, you can also do 35 Buddhas practice, with nectar coming out of the 35 Buddhas and purifying the animal’s negative karma. Do this with strong refuge in the 35 Buddhas to protect and guide your animal.
When the animal is in the process of dying or even after its breath has stopped, if you have some sand from a Kalachakra sand mandala, you can mix it with butter and put it on the crown of the animal’s head. Each sand grain has many Buddhas abiding in it. It’s especially good if it has been blessed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama”.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche
From www.lamayeshe.com
Who We Are
Enlightenment for the Dear Animals is a new FPMT (Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition) project aimed at helping people, particularly Buddhists, to benefit animals. The website aims to be a resource for Buddhist students, centres and projects by providing advice, news, and linking projects and people who are helping animals around the globe. As fellow sentient beings, animals are not just creatures to whom we should do no harm, they are beings who also have the potential for Enlightenment and hence we can assist them in meaningful ways to achieve happiness and freedom from suffering. We ask for your patience while we build this site. "This is the biggest present you can give them: good rebirth, finish samsara, liberation, and the positive imprints of the Mahayana teachings and mantras also lead to enlightenment. "If you liberate animals, it helps you to have a long life, or you can dedicate the merit from their liberation to those who have life obstacles." Lama Zopa Rinpoche
10 Malas a day  
10 Malas a DayOne simple way to constantly be benefiting animals is to do mantras to purify your body so that wherever you go, beings in your vicinity are blessed: “..when a person who has recited ten malas of Om Mani Padme Hum a day goes into a river or an ocean, the water that touches that person’s body gets blessed, and this blessed water purifies all the billions and billions of sentient beings in the water. So it’s unbelievably beneficial.” Kyabje Thubten Zopa RinpocheLast Updated (Sunday, 07 March 2010 21:40) |
Eating for Climate ChangeEveryone is talking about climate change these days, and it’s about time. What few people realise is that meat eating is also a major contributor to climate change. A recent United Nations report [1] co-ordinated by the UN’s Food & Agriculture Organisation found that “the livestock sector is a major player, responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions measured in CO2 equivalent. This is a higher share than transport”.
World Animal Day 2009How Did You Celebrate?
World Animal Day was celebrated across the globe on Sunday October 4th. What did you do? World Animal Day is on the Feast Day of St Francis of Assisi, who is Patron Saint of Animals and the Environment, and it is celebrated all over the world. Buddhists strive to extend their compassion to all living beings, both human and animal. Like us, animals have the capacity to feel pain, fear, love and kindness. Many Buddhist centres held special pet blessing events. Kyabje Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche encourages people to do this. He says: "The purpose of this is to bring peace to the animals and to make their lives meaningful, so that sooner or later they can be fully awakened and achieve highest happiness." Please let us know how you celebrate so that we can share your news with others and all rejoice. Email us on This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . |
