A blessed painting
One time a practitioner started to paint some images and put them in the store to be sold. I thought: “I can’t believe this person is just putting these things here for sale.” The painting was very ugly. Everything was different — the proportions, the colors. I knew it was me and my judgment, the issue of wanting something to be this or that. But I looked at the drawing and there was just no way for me to like it. In the end, no one bought the painting.
Later, at a certain point in Rinpoche teachings, he started to say that it was nice to make drawings during practice because, at first, the deities look more like demons than like the deities themselves. So by drawing them carefully, we could perfect our visualization little by little. Rinpoche concluded by saying that we shouldn’t draw as we wished, that there were appropriate proportions. Surely, I remembered that painting at once.
The thing is, the next time I saw it, it looked completely different. And I asked my friend: “Was it painted again?” He replied: “No, no, Rinpoche blessed the painting.”
[As told by a sutdent]