Spring Cleaning

EVENT: Spring Seasonal Cleaning - Saturday, April 20, 2013
TIME:  10 a.m.- 1 p.m.
FOOD: Pizza will be delivered after for us to share
SUBJECT: The Benefit of Cleaning Your Center – Wow!

By now we’ve discovered that our beloved Kadampa Center is not a self-cleaning oven!  Just shocking. This is very clear to the incredible volunteers that showed up for the Winter Cleaning.  Thank you so much for your effort!  And thank you to Kim Goll for leading the cleaning since I had to be away.  Given that I missed the first official session, I promise to work doubly hard with the next set of volunteers for the Spring Cleaning.  It’s time to blow the cobwebs (not the sentient spiders) out of the Center and freshen up everything.

I found a letter on the FPMT website that our spiritual Director Lama Zopa Rinpoche, wrote about service to your Center:

Letter from Lama Zopa Rinpoche, our Spiritual Director
“Thank you very, very much for working for the center, arranging facilities and so forth. The Dharma center is to benefit sentient beings, to free them from the oceans of samsaric suffering – all the sufferings – and bring them to enlightenment. So you working for the center means that. You are working for every single animal, even the ants you see on the road and the birds that fly in the sky. You are working for every one of them, from the tiniest insect that you can see only through a machine to the largest ones in the oceans like the whales. There are so many animals living in the depths of the oceans. There are big ones that eat so many small ones and many small ones that eat the big ones. You are working for every single cow and sheep, for all the animals, for them to achieve liberation from samsara and full enlightenment, as well as for every single hell being, every single hungry ghost, every single human being – not only in that state, not only in that country, but every single human being in the universe, in all the universes – and every single sura and asura being. You are working for everybody, EVERYBODY, to bring them to full enlightenment.
People come to the center to meditate on bodhicitta and to achieve enlightenment for sentient beings. You can’t imagine the benefit to everybody who comes to the center to do this, working to achieve enlightenment for sentient beings. So the work can be hard, but can you see the benefit? Can you imagine the benefit? Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow! The benefit to every living being! Can you imagine the benefit of working for the center?
For example, you work for the people coming to the center with the motivation of bodhicitta and they practice Dharma to benefit sentient beings. Can you imagine? Even by that? Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.
With much love and prayer from crazy Lama Zopa. Getting crazier every second, ha ha!”

If anyone was looking for motivation, this letter does it for me!
Thank you for your support ahead of time,
Big ‘ol love,
Jill Marie