By Doing Vajrasattva, You Are Doing Exactly What You Need to Do

“Your coming here to do Vajrasattva, wow, that’s really what you need,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche told the students attending the three-month Vajrasattva retreat at Kopan Monastery in Nepal on April 26, 2022. In this teaching, Rinpoche discusses how our ignorance leads to attachment and anger, which make us miserable. By attending courses, studying, and meditating, we can come to understand how our our minds hallucinate. The more we understand about emptiness and how things truly exist, the happier we become. In addition, developing our compassion and living in service to others gives us the greatest happiness.Rinpoche offers three ways to meditate on emptiness and provides commentary for each (starting at 1:38:40 in the video): 1. Meditate that everything is a hallucination. 2. Meditate that everything is merely imputed. 3. Meditate that everything is empty.We invite you to go deeper into the topics presented here, plus many others, by watching Rinpoche’s videos. Find links to more resources, including the transcript:https://fpmt.org/lama-zopa-rinpoche-news-and-advice/advice-from-lama-zopa-rinpoche/by-doing-vajrasattva-you-are-doing-exactly-what-you-need-to-do/