Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 3-minute closing to a Lam Rim weekend course, Geshe Dhawa Gyaltsen makes a final point about personal responsibility: the teaching itself is faultless, but realization depends entirely on each student’s effort and practice. He then addresses a distinction often misunderstood—dedication and prayers are different. Dedication takes merit accumulated from virtuous actions and directs it toward generating compassion and bodhicitta for all beings. Prayers, by contrast, are wishes for future achievements. Geshe Dhawa concludes by inviting participants to dedicate the virtues they created during the course toward developing this compassion-centered mind.
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Teacher: Geshe Dhawa Gyaltsen
Collection: Lam Rim (Geshe Dhawa Gyaltsen)
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Words: ~322
So, therefore, it is there isn’t any fault in terms of the teaching, but it is our duty now. It is our enthusiasm and our practice whether or not we achieve such realization. So thus, I urge you once more to, what’s called, to strive or to exert your energy in terms of practicing which is most beneficial to you in terms of receiving the in terms of receiving the purpose of this life as well as the future. Yeah. That makes sense.
What is you are to swing? Just think very strongly that whatever we might have create some good virtues during this course, may maybe we can able to dedicate it for all. Before doing the main dedication, probably I might like to speak once more. So when we say to do the dedication or to do the prayers, right, there’s slight difference between the two, dedication and the prayers. Dedication, when we do dedication, there must there must some material to be dedicated for certain and certain.
Right? So at the moment, we have we might have create some virtuous action during this course, so that virtue should be dedicated for the sake of generating the compassion and love and the bodhicitta mind for all sentient beings. Right? So in this way, we are going to do the dedication. And normally, when someone is doing prayers, we don’t have certain materials to be dedicated.
So just we’re wishing, saying, know, maybe able to obtain blah blah blah. That is called prayers. And if we have something already been created before, that is called dedication. Okay? So today, we will do dedication because we might have created some good energy.
So just dedicate that for the generation of the compassion and bodhicitta mind. That’s the end of the weekend course.