The Bodhgaya stupa with gold offered to the pinnacle... an incredible opportunity just by seeing this to rejoice in the offering. Lama Zopa Rinpoche says: All holy objects are the Buddha. It is said that holy objects are transformations of Buddha. Even though we dont have the karma to see the actual living Buddha, by manifesting statues, stupas, scriptures and all the other holy objects, Buddha allows us to accumulate merit. Some sentient beings can see these transformations of the Buddha, some cannot. In Tibet there have been people who have not been able to see the Guru Shakyamuni Buddha statue in the Jokhang temple. To them, the temple was completely dark; they couldnt see anything. One person with this problem, after doing much purification, could see the light of the butter lamps, but still could not see the statue. Another person saw big piles of dried meat on the thrones instead of the statues. It does not necessarily follow that everybody can see the statues just because the statues are there. It has to do with the level of the mind. The teachings say that animals cannot see holy objects. At Kopan, I lift the dogs up to try to get them to look at the thangkas, but I feel they dont see the same thing we see. It may be very rare for an animal to be able to see a statue; the texts say they dont see them at all. That we have the karma to see holy objects is unbelievable, and gives us an incredible opportunity to accumulate merit. Use all the holy objects you can see—all the pictures of deities in yo
Posted on: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:07:33 +0000
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