Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 14.5-minute meeting, Lama Zopa Rinpoche speaks with FPMT directors about acquiring a property for use as a Dharma center. He opens by reflecting on what makes such an environment spiritually meaningful: even sitting briefly in a serene, blessed place brings immediate peace, plants positive seeds in the mind, and can set someone — depressed, elderly, or simply lost — on the path toward enlightenment. The discussion then turns practical: the purchase requires council approval to change the property’s use, and neighbor relations are the central concern. Rinpoche advises building friendships gradually, gauging attitudes toward chanting and increased traffic before committing, and keeping the option open to resell if relations sour. Candid and conversational, this session offers a glimpse into Rinpoche’s characteristic blend of spiritual vision and grounded pragmatism in center development.
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Teacher: Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1
Collection: y Directors Meet With Zopa (Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1)
Date: 1996-10-08
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Duration: 14.5 minutes
Words: ~592
So, you know, different. So that so that makes that makes very meaningful just just to sit in and, you know, say, it’s different. I feel peace. You know? Peace, immediate peace, positive.
Then that positive seed, you know, in your mind, then that sooner or later, they will meet Dharma and meet meet Dharma and understand Dharma as well as heart. And that seed can bring to enlightenment. So I think it can be used for different parts can be used for different different ways to help others. They’re very I think it is very beautiful, but meaningful environment. Meaningful environment.
And people who have depressed mind, unhappy mind, you see, know, for long years. That’s Old people. Or young. You know, when you see a place that is serene, you know, deep deep feeling. Yeah.
Good. No. Just just a single person. Yeah. Yeah.
I would I did and it good. My my car runs into it. Yeah. I said this place is international. I said this place is open to all.
All the blessings at the international from this place. And then with the place of blessed, then maybe in the future. You know, as soon as put as soon as put holy feet on this place, then then, you know, then would affect people who come to. I mean, for that.
Yeah. There’s other ways of pricing. Also, for reading golden. So we buy it. Well, we buy it now, but we have to then apply to the council to change the use of it, to use it as a center/place of practice.
And if the neighbors don’t like Yeah. I think it’s yeah. Let me discuss with the neighbors. Mhmm. And and the span.
Mhmm. Only thing I want. I hope let me go to the place and look and see what they do. Okay. See what they see.
And maybe there are lots of people. Know what saying? And sometimes that you know, probably what they meant. What meant they may not like is they hear, you know, prayer chant. You know, kind of loud prayer.
I mean, chanting is like that. But, usually, like, bird like, musics, you know, things like that in the daytime. I mean, I don’t even bother, you know, like, Western music like that. It’s more the cars and the traffic there. They’re like more cars and traffic.
See. They would bother them. Mhmm. I see. Maybe is it okay to take the risk if the neighbors are happy?
Is it okay to take the risk? Yeah. I think maybe meet him and meet him and make a planting and, you know, kind of a make connection and make them to be known to the people at the same time. You know? And then then you would know a little bit of their mind, maybe slowly.
You check. So more people, you know, than this. More more people coming there, you know, the car parking, for sure. Sorry about that. A bit.
Maybe once once become friend once become friend to know each other, then I think then I think a bit less chance. Less chance. But it didn’t if you didn’t know each other, therefore Mhmm. And they they impatient. Oh, this is easy to sell.
I mean, that might be easy to sell. You buy and sell. Mhmm. And then looks like from maybe if it’s a you know? I mean, it’s a good, you know, profit in another place.
You have the better. Okay.