This audio features Lama Zopa Rinpoche reciting the Maitreya mantra.

While practicing as a bodhisattva Maitreya specialized in the meditation on great love. He not only taught this path to others but also meditated upon it continuously himself, often stationing himself at the gate of a city and contemplating deeply on loving kindness. His meditation was so powerful that people passing by close enough to touch his feet would themselves receive the realization of great love. This greatly pleased the tathagatas of the ten directions, who rejoiced in his actions and predicted that in all his future lives as a bodhisattva and a buddha he would be known as “Love” [Skt: Maitreya; Tib: Jampa]. This is how he received his name.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the benefits of reciting this Dharani:

• By listening and reciting the mantra daily, and reflecting and meditating on the meaning, one will not be reborn in the lower realms. Even if an animal hears the mantra, it does not get reborn in the lower realms.
• One will be reborn as a Wheel-Turning King for thousands of lives with a lifespan lasting thousands of eons of devas' lifespans.
• One is able to engage and live in the path of the ten virtues.
• One receives all the enjoyments one is looking for.
• Maitreya Buddha will never let this sentient being suffer poverty and so forth.
• Even when a sentient being is in hell, Maitreya Buddha will definitely come and look for it and will give the prediction of enlightenment by causing the being to reincarnate in the human realm.

For more information on Maitreya Buddha, check this article from Mandala Magazine.

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