Sutra of Golden Light - Lama Zopa Rinpoche

"If you follow self-cherishing thoughts, those thoughts become your identity. Then anger, pride, the jealous mind – all this negative emotional stuff arises. When you let go of the I and cherish others, negative emotional thoughts do not arise. That’s very clear. Anger does not arise at those you cherish."

Lama Zopa Rinpoche

At the beginning of the Sutra of Golden Light, Buddha Shakyamuni, the Tathagata, the Arhat, the Fully Enlightened, calls to anyone experiencing misery and affliction, bad health, poverty, loss, abuse, ill will, fear, nightmares, or other harms. He says to make the mind virtuous and to come and listen.
This “King of Glorious Sutras,” contains everything needed, from daily happiness to complete enlightenment. It contains a heart-rending practice of confession and rejoicing, profound teachings on dependent arising, reliable assurances of protection, guidelines for ideal government, and awe-inspiring stories of the Buddha’s previous lives, in which the Buddha shows how, even before he had completely eliminated the delusions, he liberated countless beings from the ocean of suffering through compassion and personal courage.
One of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Vast Visions for the FPMT organization is for this powerful sutra to be recited around the world for world peace. On July 10, 2007, while attending the Deer Park Summer Course, student Beth Simon (now known as Ven. Lobsang Tendron) made this request to Lama Zopa Rinpoche: “Please tell me what would please you”. Rinpoche told Beth to recite the Sutra of Golden Light and to tell her friends to recite it.
Rinpoche said, “This is what I want. This is what I ask. This will make me happy.” With that, Beth began to organize many helpful resources for those wishing to engage with Rinpoche’s request to recite this sutra.

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Source : http://fpmt.org/education/teachings/sutras/golden-light-sutra/#receivetransmission To these sentient beings I shall reveal this sutra called Sublime Golden Light, which rids one of every harmful misdeed, and expounds upon the profound.