The Importance of the Sutra of Golden Light for World Peace
Sutra of Golden Light Recitation for World Peace
by Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Those who want world peace should read the Sutra of Golden Light (Ser-ö dam-päi do wang-gyi gyäl-po).
This is a very important practice to stop violence and wars in the world.
The Sutra of Golden Light is one of the most beneficial ways to bring peace.
This is something that anybody can do no matter how busy they are. Even if you can read only one page or just a few lines a day, if you do so continually you eventually finish reading the entire Sutra of Golden Light.
The holy Sutra of Golden Light is the king of the sutras.
It is extremely powerful, fulfills all your wishes, and brings peace and all happiness up to enlightenment to all sentient beings as well.
It is also extremely powerful in promoting world peace and protecting you, your country and the world. It also has great power to heal a country’s people.
For those who desire peace for themselves and others, this is the spiritual, or Dharma, way to bring about peace in a way that does not require you to harm, criticize or even to demonstrate against others.
Just reading it can still bring peace.
Also, you don’t have to be Buddhist for reading this Sutra to bring peace. Even non-Buddhists who desire peace can read it to good effect.
The Sutra of Golden Light also protects individuals and countries from so-called natural disasters—disturbances of the wind, fire, earth and water elements—such as earthquakes, floods, cyclones, fires, tornadoes and so forth.
Actually, such events are not natural because they derive from the appropriate causes and conditions—people’s past inner negative thoughts and actions meeting certain external conditions.
Thus the benefits of reading this Sutra are immeasurable.
It is said that you create more merit by reciting a few lines of the Sutra of Golden Light than by offering infinite buddhas precious jewels equal in number to the atoms of sand in the Pacific Ocean.
Reciting this Sutra directs your life toward enlightenment—it’s an unbelievable purification, it creates enormous merit, everything gets taken care of, your life becomes very easy, you receive whatever you wish for—and you also liberate numberless sentient beings from oceans of samsaric suffering and bring them to enlightenment.
So here, with my two palms pressed together, I request you to please recite the Sutra of Golden Light for world peace as much as you can.
-Lama Zopa Rinpoche
