Ven. Lobsang Kalden

Taken from a conversation with Lama Zopa Rinpoche on the benefits of wearing one’s monastic robes in public:

“If you were sangha but you didn’t wear robes, then people would not know [that you were ordained], but with robes on there is no question. That is how the robes have such incredible benefit for the mind. It is planting the seed for enlightenment when people show respect to your wearing of the robes, or to the robes themselves: This is planting the seed of liberation, and is a way of benefiting sentient beings…”

Read the full conversation online …

From Mandala August-September 2007