The Benefits of Tsa Tsa



Blessing Guru Rinpoche TsaTsa Amulet 

The existence of holy objects is to transform the mind and to be able to realize the path to enlightenment. In the present moment, one cannot see the Buddha...therefore, the Buddha manifests in the body, speech and mind of statues, enabling one to collect merit, which leads to realizations along the path.
This is a most powerful way to purify obstacles and to collect extensive merits. The motivation should be for people to have these holy objects more than as a decoration -- then it is extremely beneficial. Just by seeing one thangka, one statue of Buddha, even if one has negative thoughts, this still becomes the cause to see millions of Buddhas. Even one look at a Buddha out of anger causes one to gradually see the Buddha, it purifies the mind and brings total liberation from all sufferings. Even if one looks with a negative mind, gradually it purifies the mind; purifies defilements and obscurations; creates the cause to see Buddhas and receive teachings; and leads one to enlightenment.
One must see them (tsa tsas) as holy objects. This creates positive imprints. Every time you see Buddhas in different rooms (as holy objects) you get all this incredible benefit for the mind; the more holy objects you have, that much more benefit you will receive. With so many, one must make many offerings and one must make respect with the hands in the prostration mudra, doing pure prostration from the heart. With one statue, putting the palms together is the cause for a good rebirth, leading to liberation from samsara and eventual enlightenment. With one thousand tsa tsas, putting the palms together in prostration one gets one thousand times the causes of liberation. With one hundred thousand tsa tsas, one gets one hundred thousand benefits. Any offering done to holy objects is the same as how many holy objects there are in the house; how many times one circumambulates creates that many causes. Even with light offerings, offering one to so many holy objects creates so many causes.


Ten specific benefits of making Tsa Tsas:

One achieves a perfect rebirth - with perfect body, senses, limbs, and so on.
One achieves perfect surroundings, and is able to fulfill all wishes in benefiting other beings. The surroundings are harmonious with your mind and you are surrounded by people who support your practice. Otherwise, one cannot practice Dharma.
One actualizes pure morality (moral conduct). Without this, one cannot achieve the path.
One generates devotion towards one's teachers and the Buddhas.
One generates courage (perseverance) - the supreme courage to do things in public to benefit others.
One is reborn in the human or deva (god) realm to benefit others.
One achieves the bodhisattva arya's path of accumulation.
One achieves the bodhisattva arya's path of seeing, where delusions and defilements cease. On this path, one stops creating karma, is freed from delusion and karma, and thus is freed from cyclic existence and rebirth. In tantra, the arya's path means one has attained the wisdom of direct perception of emptiness.
One achieves the path of meditation.
One achieves the path of no more learning, where one is totally freed from rebirth, old age, sickness, and death, and attains a spiritual body. One will achieve the actualization of the body, speech and mind of enlightenment. 



Even in this life, you will have less disease, your enjoyments will increase, and you will achieve a long life and good reputation. It is the best method to betray death. Making tsa tsas purifies obstacles, bad conditions, accidents, and sudden diseases like heart attacks and paralysis. By making tsa tsas you pacify enemies, interferers, and harms. You accumulate all merit, purify all obscurations, and achieve the resultant three kayas in future life.
Know the benefits of making tsa tsas and tell others how to use them, what they are for. Then, the attitude will be more to use them to purify the mind and accumulate merit, with a deeper benefit to sentient beings, purifying what you don't like, collecting what you do like.