Geshe Kelsang Gyatso - Empowerment Talk - Fall Festival 2013

With wisdom we can understand what we need
to know -- what we need to know really -- what

we need to abandon, what we need to practise,
and what we need to attain, because we are

human being we have special capacity and ability,
which is different from animals' capacity.

We human beings have special capacity. Therefore
we should know what we need to know. Of course,

we need to know how to use computer, of course,
but this is temporary. If we die today computer

useless, if we die today everything normally
we established, worked very hard to creating,

everything useless. So of course we need human
conditions, such as including money but we

cannot ... it is just temporarily beneficial.
If we die today they will deceive us, we cannot

carry all these things with us when death
comes. So therefore what we really need in

reality is wisdom.
With wisdom we can understand what we need

to know, what we need to abandon, what we
need to practise, and what we need to attain,

while we have human life. With wisdom we can
fulfil all our wishes. Normally we have strong

attachment to the fulfilment of our wishes.
You know. Because this attachment is so strong,

so when we are not fulfilled important wishes
we experience pain, discouragement, unhappiness,

getting angry. Even those who are wealthy
people who have higher reputation, generally

they have every condition, external condition,
everything but still problem is problem of

not fulfilling their wishes, what they want,
not fulfilling their wishes. Because they

have strong attachment to the fulfilment of
their own wishes so when their important wishes

not fulfilled then they experience pain and
discouragement and then when they have this experience

continually they want to die, they even commit
suicide. The source of this problem is the

attachment to the fulfilment of our own wishes.
So why even they have everything, external

condition, but still why they will not fulfilled
wishes. It looks like they have everything,

but still they have problem from not fulfilling
their wishes. Why is this? Because they did

not find correct method to fulfil their wishes.
So probably they wanted some specific wishes

and to fulfil these they are doing wrong methods.
Method is not correct so they cannot fulfil

their wishes. So with wisdom we can find correct
method for the fulfilment of our wishes, so

that we will fulfil every wishes. Wisdom prevents
us from developing wrong wishes, so then correct

wishes develops, then we will fulfil our correct
wishes through using our wisdom. So therefore

the main point is that with wisdom we can
find the fulfilment of our wishes. This means

with wisdom we can fulfil all our wishes.
Especially with wisdom we can find the spiritual

path which leads us to the pure and everlasting
happiness of liberation and enlightenment.

Through receiving the empowerment, which means
receive the special blessings of the Great

Mother Prajnaparamita we can develop all these
wisdoms, especially perfection of wisdom and

higher perfection of wisdom, which is a quick
path to liberation and enlightenment. Through

receiving the empowerment, which means through
receiving special blessings of the Great Mother

Prajnaparamita we can develop all these wisdoms,
especially the higher perfection of wisdom,

the quick path to enlightenment. Understanding
this we should deeply rejoice in
our good fortune in having the opportunity

to receive this empowerment.