Animal Liberation

My most dear, most precious, most kind, wish-fulfilling one,
My congratulations to you. Welcome to nirvana, to the end of the oceans of suffering of the six realms.

Please live the life with bodhicitta. This directs your life towards enlightenment, to free numberless hell beings, hungry ghosts, animals, humans, suras, asuras and intermediate state beings from the oceans of samsaric sufferings and bring them to full enlightenment, the peerless happiness.

So, a billion, zillion, trillion, numberless times, numberless times, thank you. I am thanking you on behalf of all the buddhas and bodhisattvas and all sentient beings, who are clapping their hands. Even the mosquitoes are clapping their hands, every single rat is clapping its hands, every spider is clapping its hands, and every single snake—but they don’t have hands, so they have to first take rebirth into a body that has two hands and then they will clap their hands. All sentient beings are saying thank you very much for liberating all the animals, from the beginning up to now, and also for all your practices. Also all the buddhas and bodhisattvas thank you very much for the recent animal liberations and most secret Hayagriva mantras you have just done. Thank you very much.

I just came back from Mongolia from the 100 Million Mani Retreat. It went very well. All the students recited 108 million mantras; it was so good and I hope this will be an annual event.

So all the buddhas and bodhisattvas are saying to you: welcome to enlightenment and to enlightening all sentient beings. Thank you very much. I hope to see you soon.

With much love and prayers...

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. In this life we are human beings, which is due to our past good karma ripening. But human beings have so much physical and mental suffering, no freedom, and are completely overwhelmed by delusion and karma. Fortunately, we have met the Dharma. The animal realm has terrible suffering, and the best thing is to think of something that benefits them. The best thing one can do to benefit animals is to circumambulate them around a stupa or statue as many times as possible. This means they have a chance to purify negative karma, and have a cause for enlightenment and liberation from samsara. That is what they need. If you circumambulate 100 holy objects, you create 100 causes for liberation and happiness. If there are 10,000 holy objects present, then you create 10,000 causes for happiness and so on. Each insect, worm, frog, shell, fish, or ant creates 10,000 causes for enlightenment. That is the best thing to do. Start by reciting mantras over some water, which blesses the water, which you then pour or sprinkle on the animals. Then you can say prayers and take them around the holy objects. They get so many benefits from the blessed water. Not all animals can listen to your prayers, but birds and frogs can hear you chanting the mantras when they look at you with their big eyes and stop making a noise.

By reciting prayers and chanting powerful mantras for animals, they attain a higher rebirth and liberation. You can perform Refuge Practice, Thirty-five Buddhas, and Vajrasattva practice. This purifies so much suffering and can definitely help them. If you have strong compassion, bodhicitta, and a realization of emptiness, when you blow on the water to bless it, it has greater power, and karma can be purified.