Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. Closing a 1991 visit to Buddha House in Adelaide, Khensur Rinpoche offers valedictory remarks that make the Dharma center itself the central subject. In this 13-minute talk, he traces the Adelaide center’s origins back to Lama Yeshe’s founding advice, framing the whole chain — from teachers to students to the center’s future — as an expression of accumulated kindness. He echoes Lama Zopa’s earlier teaching on altruism and presses students to move beyond self-concern: to take the advice to heart as something born of direct experience, to volunteer actively for center work, and to sustain harmony as the community grows. The tone is warm and exhortatory, suited to students already engaged with the center.
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Teacher: Khensur Rinpoche
Collection: Khensur R and Lama Zopa (Khensur Rinpoche)
Date: 1991-03-09
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Duration: 13.0 minutes
Words: ~771
Much easier to understand Dharma, much easier to actualize the path, much easier to control the mind. So like that. Then, like this, from happiness to happiness, then one achieves enlightenment. And then with those qualities and realization, one frees also others from suffering selflessly, leading them to enlightenment. So all this is, again, all these opportunities that we have and all this is originally from their kindness as well.
It was Lama Yeshe that advised to kindly start this meditation center in Adelaide. That’s how it started. So all opportunities that are having great qualified master, reliable, has a learned and good hearted and pure, having all the qualifications, qualifications and then we have all the great opportunities to learn practice. So all this again, by going back the route, we start the organization. So I think that’s all.
So that’s all. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you so much. So also I would think that Rinpoche has been like a father, the Kopan monastery and also the organization.
So So therefore, want to mention that so the students, you see, to take the Also, you see, in regards development of the center, also take advice from and you see. So they’re trying to, however, to benefit for other things as extensive as possible. So that way, as I mentioned before, all the benefits. So this is the way how to enjoy our life. You know, with dharma.
Auspicious occasion that has come to Adelaide. So Rinpoche, Lama Zopa has mentioned the importance of the center in having been established for the benefit of sentient beings in the world in general. He’s already covered that the way which accomplishes this end. So it’s necessary for us to take this to heart and to take this to heart and to practice well in accordance with this advice. So, you know, this isn’t just ordinary type of advice that has been given but it’s been given out of his own experience and if we take it to heart it can be a profound means to transform our minds.
So you know, the Adelaide Dharma Center is not the only center which has been established by Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa that in fact, the the have many centers around the world and this is a has been a great blessing throughout the world and it’s brought this out of their great kindness. This great benefit has been brought about. So we’ve we’ve all obtained this opportunity whereby we can study, we can cultivate our minds, we can meditate, but we have to continue and and increase the potential and take advantage of this opportunity even more in the future. So in we all of the students, we must have harmony amongst us and that we have harmony now and and I hope that this will continue into the future and and as Lama Zopa has advised in accordance with his advice to to practice in accordance with the advice as he has given it, and to develop a sense of altruism, and to develop a sense of exceptional resolve, a real enthusiasm to help and try to benefit. We’ve we’ve, through our efforts, benefited many people.
And and there’s and there’s no need to say that to as we improve, as things develop, we will we can benefit even more people in the future. So it is through the great kindnesses of Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa, all of the troubles that they have endured and are continuing that we are able to have this center here and that we have to pray for them and their great kindness and the all of the difficulties which they are enduring to establish the centers. So, you know, the center needs many many people to make it run. And, you know, in accordance with the many of the things that the Lama Zopa has mentioned, the the great benefits which derive from the centers. And that we have to think not only of just ourselves, but we have to think in terms of benefiting both ourselves and others and considering the great benefit considering the great benefit and to to voluntarily work for the center and I ask you to please to engage in this type of work of benefiting the center both for your own and others benefit.
So I think the the students here are studying well and there’s harmony amongst them and this center is going well. And we should keep in mind the great benefit of the kindness of the of the workers the people who run the center.