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About this talk. In this 122-minute guru yoga session, Lama Zopa Rinpoche opens with His Holiness’s teaching that devotion is the very heart of spiritual practice—the seed from which all realizations blossom. He then guides practitioners through the complete guru yoga practice: visualization of the merit field and one’s guru as the embodiment of all three jewels; extensive offerings both material and mentally-created; prostrations and praises; refuge and bodhisattva vows; tantric vows; guru-blessed purification through mantra; and multiple contemplations on bodhicitta—exchanging oneself for others, taking suffering upon oneself, reflecting on the rarity of the guru’s kindness. Throughout, he returns repeatedly to requests for the guru’s blessings to overcome wrong perceptions and actualize the entire graduated path to enlightenment. Pitched at advanced practitioners within a tantric retreat context.
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Teacher: Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1
Collection: y Mahāmudrā International Retreat (Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1)
Date: 2004-05-02
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Duration: 121.7 minutes
Words: ~9,446
So in the Namachipa, we reach we just got to prostration section. And then all the Buddhas came in, Became a different kind of prostrations. So on page twenty six. So before I begin, I thought since there’s some questions about the well, the this making request to the guru, I So I just read something from his holiness, Durga Khyansuramshi. It’s different traditions in Nyingmak, but it’s quite helpful.
He says like this, devotion is the heart of the Guru Yoga practice. In fact, it is the very practice itself. The qualities of devotion are respect, yearning and ardent faith. Without devotion, the seed of liberation will shrivel and die. Whereas with devotion, all the noble qualities of the path to enlightenment will blossom and grow.
As beginners, we may find that our faith and devotion are not spontaneous. And so at first, it’s important to generate that feeling actively over and over again. To do this, we call to mind the qualities of the guru, especially his kindness leading us out of saṃsāra and in granting us his profound instructions. To help us remember that kindness, we visualize him above the crown of our head and pray to him with intense devotion. As a result, our contrived devotion will gradually be transformed into a spontaneous and continuous one.
Devotion will become so much a part of our stream of thought that at the mere mention or recollection of the Guru’s name, all ordinary perceptions will stop. Disturbing emotions will no longer arise, and our thoughts will constantly flow towards the master. This means that our mind will remember nothing but the teacher. It will be completely captivated by him. Then whatever good fortune may come our way such as an increase in wealth, fame or favorable conditions, we will realize that this is due to the kindness of the master.
Yet we will also know that all these achievements are like a dream devoid of any essence. And so we will be free from any pride or clinging. We will be glad for example to use all this dream like wealth as an offering to the guru. On the other hand, if all kinds of undesirable circumstances befall us or people criticize us, we will understand this as the fruit of having harmed others during our previous lives. Thinking of how we can purify our karma through this suffering, we pray to the Guru, may you grant me your blessings so that I can purify my past actions and may my suffering completely exhaust the suffering of all other beings.
And so we will come to view the unfortunate circumstances as an expression of the guru’s activity, there to help us purify our obscurations. By thinking only of the guru, fervent devotion will arise and her eyes will fill with tears. As Guru Rinpoche said, complete devotion brings complete blessing. Absence of doubts brings complete success. It is through devotion such as this, the realization of wisdom will blossom within us.
So devotion should be recognized as principal seed, the source for progressing along the path, for dispelling obstacles, and ultimately for attaining enlightenment. Focusing on the matte field in front. From the ocean of milk in the most pure environment comes a wish planting tree made of seven precious jewels. And in the center, our own room grew in the aspect of Lama Lo Santo Vandodojichang. Magnificent, glorious, radiant, the total embodiment of all the total embodiment of all objects of refuge.
Around him are all direct and linish lamas. And below on layers in the tree, the deities of four class of tantra, the Buddha’s Nilmanaka aspects, bodhisattvas, pratyaka buddha’s arhats, dakas and dakinis, dharmapratthas. And around the edge, the four guardian kings in their own respective directions surrounded by their entourage. This entire manifestation is the guru, oneness with our root guru, the absolute guru who appears in all these myriad forms in order to guide us from suffering, pure and impure forms. And the awareness that not have the awareness that even every pore of the merit field is the entire merit field.
Then our guru is all the Buddhas, and all the Buddhas are the guru. With this awareness and remembering the kindness of the guru, We visualize manifesting infinite bodies, prostrating, chanting praises, and in our minds, reflecting on profound and extensive qualities and kindness. Your compassion grants even the serve great bless. Supreme state of three kayas in an instant. Guru is a jewel like body, vajra holder.
I prostrate at your lotus feet. You, the wisdom knowledge of infinite conquerors, appearing in any way that subdues with supreme skillful means, you manifest as a saffron rogue monk. Holy refuge savior, I prostrate at your feet. You eliminate all thoughts and their instincts and a treasure of infinite precious qualities, sole source of benefit and bliss without exception, perfect pure guru and prostrate at your feet. Teacher of gods and all the natural Buddhas.
Sources, eighty four thousand pure dhammas. You tower above the whole host of aryas. Kind guru, I prostrate to you. To Gurus dwelling in three times in ten directions, three supreme jewels, no worthy of homage, with faith cushioned notion of their praise. I prostrate manifesting as many bodies as atoms of the world.
At any rate, I must achieve a state of full enlightenment in order to benefit all sentient beings. In order to do this, I need to accumulate extensive merit. Therefore, I’m going to do this practice of making extensive offerings to the merit field. Blessing all the offerings sent out here, blessing all the offerings sent out above in Rumshu’s room, and then blessing all the offerings sent out in all the fpmt centers. So Mongolia, two thousand sets of offerings in Taiwan, Taipei, And Kopan upstairs, over five hundred sets of offerings.
Then in America, under Medicine Buddha, all the other centers. So all the bowls, all the lights, all the flowers, all the tea offerings, all the food offerings. Then in Ravishek’s house in Aptos, and then the retreat place in Washington, then in the individual students’ houses, Derek’s house in Singapore, and Lillian’s house in in Malaysia. Then wherever their offerings set out for the Buddha and not just that, but mentally visualizing numbers more. Then by reciting this mantra causing all these offerings to be received by numberless Buddhas.
May human and divine offerings, and she arranged in mentally created clouds of finest Mantapada offerings fill the entire space. By the power of truth, the Three Jewels, blessings all Buddha’s body suffers. By power, the great mind, the completed two collections. The completely pure and conceivable sphere of reality, may all these offerings become just making charity all the offerings. Making charity of all these offerings, every single home being, every single hungry ghost, every single animal, every single human, every single Sutras being, every single aSutras being, every single intermediate, same being, think that they will gratefully, joyfully receive this, so glad that they have something to offer unto the Buddhas.
Then imagine doing this practice along with them, and we’re all offering together. Putting palms together at the heart, prostration. Prostrating to all the gurus, each one of our gurus with the awareness that what they are is the embodiment of all Buddha, all Dharma, Sangha, and all holy objects at tender actions three times. Offering all the offerings in nature of infinite bliss, the awareness that Buddha experiences these infinite bliss. Generating the greatest bliss in the guru’s mind over and over, prostrating, offering, generating bliss.
Prostrating, offering all the offerings to all the rest of the Guru Purnima field by meditating that their essence is one’s own virtuous friend from their own side, generating infinite bliss in their holy minds over and over. Prostracci, making all the offerings in nature of infinite bliss, all those here, all those at centers, in which it houses, and so forth, to all ten directions, Buddha, Dharma, Sangha, with the awareness, our one’s own virtuous friend from our own side, generating infinite bliss in the holy minds. Frustrating, offering all the offerings, all those here, all those the centers, which is houses, and all in the nature of infinite bliss, to all ten directions, statues, dupa scriptures, or the relics, all holy objects, or prayer wheels. By meditating the essence, this one’s own virtuous friend and own side, generating infinite bliss in the holy mind over and over. Prostrating, making all the offerings, and each infinite bliss to the eight medicine Buddhas so that all one’s prayers be fulfilled.
Thousands of Chinraisi, in order to quickly generate great compassion, take full responsibility to achieve a nice one by oneself alone, for the sake of all sentient beings. Ambodhisattva siddhagava in order to do extensive activities for sentient beings exactly according to their needs, their wishes. With awareness, these, in essence, one’s own virtuous friend in her own side, making all the offerings in nature of infinite bliss, generating infinite bliss in their minds over and over. Then from these offerings, numberless more offerings emanated out, including numberless eight auspicious signs, numberless eight substances, numberless to the seven seven possessions, the universal monarch, seven royalties, and all the various offerings normally in the long lived puja, numberless, filling the earth and sky. All these offerings in nature of great bliss Eminate countless sets of sixteen offering goddesses from the heart and present all these offerings in right field, generating infinite bliss in the holy minds.
Refuge saviors, treasures of compassion, eminence supreme Merritt Field. With pure faith, I present to you a billion times over. Mount Meron, the four continents, the seven precious royal emblems. Precious minor symbols of more perfectly delightful environments than their beings, and a great treasure of all the gods and humans use or desire. But the merit having offered this mandala to the mere field, may I and all sentient beings be able to meet the purest and teachings of victorious ones, which contain the biographies of those eminent ones who live in pure morality, and the brave attitude follow extensively by the suffers conduct, and practice the yogs of two stages, the essence of which is the transcendental wisdom of non dual bliss and voidness.
May I and all sentient beings be able to meet this pure complete teaching of Palamas and Kapha, unification of Sūtra and Tantra right this second. To please you, venerable gurus, I offer objects actually set out in a vision of a pleasure grove on the shore of a wish granting sea. Strew with thousand petal lotuses to captivate all minds. These offerings arise from Samsāra nirvana’s virtues. Everywhere a flower the world in transcendent virtues, the three doors, myself and others.
Myriad fragrance offerings. It is laden with fruits with three trainings, two stages, and five paths. I offer a libation of china tea, saffron brine, delicately perfumed, rich with a hundred flavors. The five hooks, five lamps, and so forth, purified, transformed, and increased into ocean nectar. I offer illusion like consorts of youthful splendor, sand and skilled in sixty four arts of love.
A host of beautiful messenger dakinis, field born, mantle born, and simultaneously born. An obstructed great wisdom, simultaneous with bliss, the sphere of the ature, an elaborated nature of all things. Spontaneous and indivisible beyond thought and expression, supreme out of what bodhicitta offer to you. To cure the four hundred and four affliction cause diseases, I offer all kinds of potent medicines. And I offer myself as a servant to please you.
Praise keep me in your service as long as space endures. For those who’ve taken the bodhisattva vows, remember the extreme urgency. Most important thing in my life is to feel the number of sentient beings, oceans of samsaric suffering by releasing them from the causes of suffering, delusion and karma. In order to do this, I need to generate the realization of the past including bodhicitta, especially bodhicitta. But even having generated bodhicitta in my mind is not enough to achieve enlightenment.
I must also take and abide in pure bodhisattva vows. I go for air fish as Three Jewels. I confess individually all my negativities. I rejoice in the murder, my grating beings. Take hold of my mind for the state of Buddha.
I go for refuge until I’m enlightened to the Buddha, Dharma, Supreme Sangha, Assembly, and I do so to attain enlightened mind. In order to fulfill the aims of myself and others, I should dwell supreme enlightened motive. And toward all sentient beings, my invited guests, I shrine for supreme enlightened conduct. May I become a Buddha to benefit all. Short version.
I go for refuge, the Three Jewels, confess individual my negativities. Rejoice in murder of my grating beings, I take hold of my mind, per the state of the Buddha. I go for refuge, the Three Jewels, I confess individual my negativities. I rejoice in the murder of my grating beings, I take hold with my mind per the state of Buddha. Think, receive pure bodhisattva vows in the presence of right field.
What has been degenerated is made pure. What has not been degenerated is increased. Then for those who’ve taken the tantric vows, going to retake these vows. Remember, even if I practice the bodhisattva paramatyana path, still it takes me countless great aeons to achieve enlightenment. For myself, no matter how long it takes, no matter how difficult it is, there’s no concern.
But for that amount of time, those sentient beings with whom I have karmic connection, who depend upon me to free them from suffering and bring them to a state of happiness. They have to suffer so long while they wait. Therefore, I must achieve enlightenment as quickly as possible for them. For this reason, I’m going to take and keep the tantric vows. All Buddhas and bodhisattvas, please listen to me.
I, make a doji from now until reach the essence of Buddhahood, should generate the sego pedas bodhicitta, just all Buddhas, the three times, ensure themselves awakening by generating it. I pledge to uphold the vows, Buddha family to run the purest triple gem, Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha. And the three disciplines, reserving proper behavior, gathering virtuous Dharma, and benefiting sentient beings. I pledge to uphold the vajra Vela Moo to the great vajra family to honor my teachers. I pledge to practice four types of giving six times each day, keeping in mind the life of commitments to great man and family.
For the great Palma family, I pledge to uphold individually the holy dharmas that rose from great enlightenment. Those the outer secret in three vehicles. For the great supreme karma family, I pledge to uphold all vows well and to make as many offerings as possible. I should generate the vows, peerless but achieved it for the sake of all and uphold all surmise without exception. I should deliver those not delivered, liberate those not liberated, give breath to those unable to breathe and place all beings and stay beyond sorrow.
I should uphold all the general and specific tantric vows, equipments, the five families without exception. I should deliver those not delivered, liberate those not liberated, give breaths to those unable to breathe and place all beings and stay beyond sorrow. I shall uphold all general specific tantric vows, equipment to find families without exception. I shall live with those not delivered, liberate those not liberated, give breath to those unable to breathe and place all beings and stay beyond sorrow. Think.
Receive pure tantric vows and presence in that field. What has been degenerated is restored, what has not been degenerated is enhanced, increased. What causes me to have so many obstacles in my practice even though I work so hard and study so much, why I’m unable to gain any realizations is due to all the heaviest negative calm that I’ve accumulated in this and beginning this past lives, which is obscuring my mind. Therefore, I must purify all of these immediately by relying upon the guru manifested as Visualize my vajra either on the crown of your head or at your heart. And in your heart, imagine all sentient beings.
So as you recite the mantra, you also purify them. Says, all your negative karmas, obscurations, and generated smiles completely purified. Generate strong faith that exactly what says has happened in reality. Your mental continuum and that of all sentient beings has now become completely pure. Not the slightest obscuration is left.
Even the heaviest negative karma is accumulated in the relationship with the guru and now completely purified. Then think, from now on, I’m going to abstain from these negative karmas in your heart making a pledge one day, one hour, one minute, whatever. From now until the night is achieved, may I and all others be protected by the Guru Deity and keep every Samaya on the Guru Deity. Page forty nine. Before those having great compassion, I confess with regret and vow never to commit again whatever non virtuous and evil actions I’ve done throughout beginningless time caused others to do in which I have rejoiced.
Though all things are like a dream, lacking inherent existence, I sincerely rejoice in the bliss and joy of all eyes and ordinary beings, and in every virtue that has ever arisen. So rejoicing, extensive rejoicing, first of rejoicing one’s own merit with the awareness. Without merit, there’s no happiness or success. Nothing you can do. Cannot move completely stuck.
Cannot achieve realizations. Cannot even achieve moment to moment happiness in this life. Therefore, all the merit that we can accumulate is so precious. Thank God I’ve collected so much merit in the past. All of this is so precious.
I’m collecting so much merit now, and I will collect so much in the future up to enlightenment. How happy I am, how wonderful, how fortunate, how precious. Main thing is to feel happiness in the heart over and over. Rejoice in all the mad of other sentient beings. Remembering sentient beings also want happiness.
They also don’t want to suffer. Although they always think that the cause of happiness, the source of their happiness is outside of themselves, in reality, this is not true. Man, happiness depends on having the inner cause, the merit. Therefore, every single merit that others accumulate is so precious. Every single virtue, this is the cause of all the happiness, all success, all goodness in this world.
There are a number of sentient beings. They’ve accumulated so much merit in the past. They are accumulating so much now, they will in the future. How wonderful it is. All this three time merit, how precious.
Like an electricity generator, generating this thought over and over again in the heart is rejoicing. Rejoice seeing in all the matter body sufferers. There are numberless body sufferers who’ve generated bodhicitta in their minds. Every single action they do, every single breath is for others. They’re continually accumulating luminous mind and all this mind they dedicate to us sentient beings and use to benefit us.
Rejoice in all their realizations and bodhicitta’s six paramita and all the incredible benefits they do to help others. The numberless bodhisattvas or the numberless merits accumulated in the past, in the present, and everything that will accumulate in the future, how wonderful, how precious. May I become like this? They’re rejoicing in the minds of the Buddha’s once ordinary beings like us, but then through their practice, able to generate good aversion, renunciation, bodhicitta, for great hardship and eventually accomplished the omniscient mind, able to do perfect works for others, effortlessly and spontaneously. Rejoicing in all their extensive activities, rejoicing in their qualities, inconceivable qualities, and enlightened mind.
And numberless Buddhas or the virtues accumulated in the past, they are accumulating now, they will in the future. How wonderful, how precious. They’re remembering the life stories of Śākyamūni Buddha, Lama AnAtisha, lamaskan Kappa, Milarepa, all the great masters of all four traditions, all four scores, the Panchalamas, Dalalamas, Kamapas, the Linenajalamas, Mahāmudrā, their inconceivable qualities, their extensive works for others, and even after they pass away, still benefiting countless beings through the relics, their their teachings, through their writings, through the monasteries they established, through the practices. In numberless ways, these Buddhas constantly guiding sentient beings how wonderful, how precious. May I become like this?
Requesting. Please have full array of profound extensive Dharma a hundred thousand blowing clouds of perfect wisdom and compassion to nurture, sustain, and propagate a garden of cinder flowers with the benefit and blissful limitless beings. Though your vital body is subject to neither birth nor death, but as a vessel of the mighty king unification, please abide forever according to our wishes, not passing beyond sorrow until some sorrow ends. I dedicate the mass of white virtues thus created so that I may be inseparably cared for in all my lives by perfect pure gurus who are kind in three ways and so attain the unified state of vajradhara. I prostrate and go for a fish, the guru, and the three precious gems, please bless my mind.
I’m requesting you to immediately pass forward the wrong perceptions of incorrect devotion to the guru. I’ve to sold your view of the wide red and dark visions that exist in my mind and minds all my sentient beings. I’m requesting you to immediately generate all the right realizations from Guru devotion up to enlightenment. In my mind and the minds of all monocentient beings. I’m requesting you to pass away all loud and obstacles to agonize the entire, gradually pass through enlightenment.
In my mind and the minds of all monocentient beings. So I prostrate and give refuge to guru and the three precious gems. Please bless my mind. I’m requesting you to immediately pass for all the wrong perceptions of incarnate devotion to guru. Not to solemn your view of the wide red and dark visions that exist in my mind and the minds, all my sentient beings.
I’m requesting you to immediately generate all the right realizations from Guru devotion up to enlightenment in my mind and the minds of all mother sentient beings. I’m requesting you to pass away all out and any obstacles to actualize the entire graduated path to enlightenment in my mind and in the minds of all monocentient beings. I prostrate and go for refuge, the Guru and his three precious gems. Please rest my mind. I am requesting you to immediately pass forward the wrong perceptions for incorrect devotion to the Guru, and to sund your view of the white, red, and dark visions that exist in my mind and the minds of all mother sentient beings.
I’m requesting you to immediately generate all the right realizations from guru devotion up to enlightenment in my mind and minds of all mother sentient beings. I’m requesting you to pass by all out and in obstacles to actualize the entire graduated path to enlightenment. In my mind and minds, all mother sentient beings. All the rest of the gurus. I request the precious guru encompasses all objects of refuge in the past, present, and future.
Please bless my mental continuum. I request the precious guru encompasses all objects of refuge in the past, present, and future. Please bless my mental continuum. I request the precious guru encompasses all objects of refuge in the past, present, and future. Please bless my mental continuum.
Five colored nectar beams flow forth from the guru’s holy body, entering my body and mind and those of all sentient beings. These purify all diseases, spirit harms, negative karmas, and obscurations, especially all the collections of obscurations, negative karmas, and degenerated samayas created in relationship to the holy virtuous friend, such as giving harm to the holy body, breaking the advice, disturbing the holy mind, generating undeversional thoughts, criticizing, giving up the guru, and so forth. From all my door, sense organs, and pores, these are dispelled in the form of liquid smoke or black soot. They are completely purified. My body becomes a nature of light, calm and clear.
My life, fortune, merit, nor my qualities of understanding, realizations are fully developed. The blessings of the guru’s holy body, holy speech, and holy mind enter my body, speech, and mind, and those of all sentient beings. I and all sentient beings are now under the protection of the virtuous friend. Page sixty nine. Source of virtue, great ocean of modest men, treasury brimming with jewels of much hearing, masters, second Buddha clad in saffron, elder of an eye hoarder and make a request to you.
You have the ten qualities suitable for one to teach the path of those gone to bless. Laws of Dharma representing all conquerors, Mahāyāna gurus, I make a request to you. You are wise, patient, honest, without pretense or guile. Your three doors were subdued. You have boasted to ten qualities, no tension rituals, and are skilled in drawing explaining.
Foremost vajra holders, I make a request to you. To those untamed by countless past Buddhas, the unruly migrated to this degenerate age with difficulty subdued. You show unmistakably the good way of those gaunt bliss, compassionate refuge saviors and make requests to you. At this time, when the sunlight teachings of sage is setting, you are not the deeds of a conqueror for the many beings who lack a savior refuge. Compassionate savior, I make request to you.
Even one of your hair paws is for us to fill with merit more highly praise than all the conquerors of three times in ten directions. Compassionate refuge savior, make request to you. Adorned with this regard of three bodies, you manifest an alluring net of skillful means. In ordinary form to lead all beings, compassionate refuge savior, I make request to you. Your aggregates, elements, sense, basis, and limbs are in nature, sukadas, and consorts of five families, body suffers and wrathful protectors.
Supreme guru, essence is Three Jewels, and make a request to you. Arising from the play of omniscient pristine awareness, you are the essence of ten million mandala cycles, pervading lord of a hundred Buddha families, foremost vajra holder, unified primordial saviors, and make a request to you. Unobscured, inseparable from the play of simultaneous bliss, pervading everything in motion and at rest, the nature of all things free from beginning or end, actual ultimate bodhicitta, I make request to you. You are my gurus. You are my gidams.
You are the Dakinis and Dharmapattatas. From now until enlightenment, I shall seek no other refuge than you. In this life, Bodh and all future lives, hold me with your hook of compassion. Free me from saṃsāra nirvana’s fears. Grant all attainments.
Be my constant friend and guard me from interferences. You are my gurus. You are my gurus. You are the dhikkhinis and Dharma protectors. From now until enlightenment, I shall seek now the refuge in you.
In this life, the burden all future lives, hold me with your hook of compassion. Free me from saṃsāra nirvana’s fears. Grant all attainments. Be my constant friend and guard me for interferences. You are my gurus.
You are my girdams. You are the dakines and Dharma protectors. From now on to enlightenment, I shall seek not the refuge in you. In this I have burden on future lives, hold me with your hook of compassion. Free me from saṃsāra nirvana’s fears.
Grant all attainments. Be my constant friend and guard me for interferences. By the force of having thus requested three times, netter and light rays, white, red, and dark blue, stream forth from the places my guru’s holy body, speech, and mind, and dissolve into my own three places one by one and altogether. The four obstacles are purged. The four pure empowerments and seeds, the four kayas are received.
A replica of the guru happily dissolves into me and I am blessed with inspiration. Through the through the power of having made offerings or special quest to you, holy and venerable gurus, supreme field of mind, I seek your blessing, savors, and root for being a bliss, that I may come under your joyful care. Since this is the last session that we’ll be doing the Guru Namativa Jucha. And since we just have a short bit left in the essence and nectar, I’m just going to read the last little bit, which is the way to please the gurus through one’s conduct. So visualizing the gurus in a space in front in front of Namalos and Thoban Dorje Chang, the root guru in ordinary aspect seated on a smaller throne, the Namalos and Thoban Doji Chaing, and surrounding him all the other gurus with whom once made Dharma contact.
Vigilant is very joyful, very happy, very pleased, extremely pleased with you that you’re doing this meditation. And the only the only wish is for us to generate this realization in our minds. And then from one’s own side, recognizing that oneself and all sentient beings been wandering constantly in saṃsāra due to not having generated these realizations in our minds, developing a strong longing and determination to generate this immediately and requesting the guru’s blessings. Having been requested streams of nectar and light rays descend down from the guru’s holy bodies, purifying all the negativities and obscurations of ourselves and all sentient beings, particularly those that are blocking the realization of correctly devoting to spiritual friend. And then filling us with nectar, bringing all the realizations, all the blessings so that our minds can very quickly ripen in the path of correctly devoting to spiritual friend.
Then reflecting as follows. All the happiness and well-being of worldly people and those who have transcended the world are due to the kindness of the spiritual masters. Although this kindness can never be fully repaid, in order to return to some of it, I shall try to please them. Just as farmers exert themselves to plant seeds in a fertile field, why don’t I exert myself in offering homage and wealth to the gurus, the supreme field? Even though they don’t look for offerings and esteem, I should do this in order quickly to complete my collection of merit.
The Buddha said that there is far greater merit in making offerings to a single heir on the body of a spiritual master who teaches one the unerring path than to honor and make offerings to the entire assemblage of exalted ones, hearers, sanjity realizers, bodhisattvas, and each and every Buddha. Many sages such as Naropa, Malaripa, Tramtampa, Sakhupanjan, and Jeuva develop their good qualities by giving up without reluctance their bodies, lives, and wealth for their gurus. Therefore, I shall strive reverently to serve my gurus with body and speech by praising and speaking respectfully to them, massaging and bathing them, rising and prostrating to them, and offering whatever cherished wealth I have. The supreme conduct of the three doors that most pleases the gurus is to make great undeverted effort day and night on the stages of the complete unerring path. I shall therefore please them with the offering of practice in accordance with their instructions.
Oh, spiritual masters, please bestow inspiring strength so that I may be able to do this. Again, visualizing the nectars cascading down, purifying the remaining obscurations and generating the realization in one’s mind, correctly devoting the spiritual guide in thought and action. Feel that you’ve actualized the root of the past in the depths of your heart, stable and unchanging forever. Page seventy six. I’m requesting the kind Lord Ruguru who is more extraordinary than all the Buddhas.
Please vest me to be able to devote myself to qualified Lord Guru with great respect in all my future lifetimes. By realizing that correctly devoting myself to the kind Lord Guru, who is the foundation of all good qualities is the root of happiness and goodness, I shall devote myself to him with great respect, not forsaking him even at the cost of my life. Thinking of the importance of qualified guru, may I allow myself to enter under his control? May I be like an obedient child acting exactly in accordance with guru’s advice? Even when Mara’s evil friends and the like try to split me from the guru, may I be like a inseparable forever?
When the guru gives me work, whatever the burden, may I be like the earth carrying all? When I devote myself to the guru, whatever suffering occurs, may I be like a mountain immovable? Even if I have to perform all the unpleasant tasks, may I be like a servant of the king with a mind undisturbed. May I burn in pride holding myself lower than the guru. May I be like a sweeper.
May I be like a robe joyfully holding the guru’s work no matter how difficult or heavy a burden? Even when the guru criticizes, provokes, ignores me, may I be like a dog without anger, never responding with anger? May I be like a ferryboat, never upset at any time to come and go for the guru? Oh, glorious and precious root guru, please bless me to be able to practice in this way. From now on in all my future lifetimes, may I be able to devote myself to guru in this way.
Realizing how this body of liberty’s endowments is found but once difficult to obtain easily lost. I seek your blessings, Fontegu’s essence, make it worthwhile and not be distracted by the meanness affairs this life. Gas and the searing blaze of suffering in the lower realms, I take half of refuge and its three precious gems. And seek your blessings that I may eagerly endeavor to practice various means for abandoning what is bound with fortune and accumulating purchase deeds. Violently tossed to his ways, delusion, and karma.
Played by whores, the watery dozen to three kinds of suffering. As seek of blessings develop an intense longing to be free from this monstrous ocean of boundless and vicious existence. Having a ban in the mind that views this unbearable prison of cyclic existence as a pleasure grove. I seek her blessings to partake of the treasure of Aria’s jewels by practicing the three high trainings, and thereby to uphold liberation’s banner. Having considered that all these pitiful beings have been my mothers and have raised me in kindness again and again, I seek your blessings to develop an authentic compassion, my dad of a loving mother for a precious child.
So here you just memorize the outlines and you you just very briefly go out over the outline. There is no difference between myself and others. None of us wishes even slys the sufferings or is ever content with the happiness we have. Realizing this, I seek of blessings that I may enhance, bless, and joy of others. This chronic disease of cherishing myself is a cause giving rise to my unsolved suffering.
Perceiving this, I seek of blessings to blame, grudge, and destroy monstrous demon of selfishness. The mind that cherishes all mother beings who secures men bless. It’s a gateway leading to infinite virtue. Seeing this, I seek of blessings to cherish these beings more than my life, even should they rise up as my enemies. Breathe infantile beings, they’ve only for their own ends.
While Buddhas work solely for the welfare of others, for the mind understand distinctions between the failings of one and the advantage of the other. I seek a blessing to enable me to equalize and exchange myself with others. Since cherishing myself is doorway to all torment, while cherishing my mother’s foundation, all that is good. I seek her blessings to make my core practice yoga of exchanging self for others. Determined to obtain the greatest possible benefit from all sentient beings, who are more precious and a wishful filling jewel, I shall hold them as dear at all times.
When in the company of others, I shall always consider myself the lowest to all, for the depths of my heart hold others dear and supreme. Vigilant, the moan delusion appears in my mind, endangering myself and others. I shall confront and avert it without delay. Whenever I see beings who are wicked in nature and overwhelmed with violent negative actions and suffering, I shall hold such rare ones dear as if I’d found a precious treasure. When out of envy, others mistreat me with abuse, insults, or the like, I should accept defeat and offer the victory to others.
When someone whom I’ve benefited and whom I have great hopes gives me terrible harm, I should regard that person as my holy gruel. In short, both directly and indirectly, do offer every happiness and benefit to all my mothers. I shall secretly take upon myself all the half actions of suffering. Under foul by stains of superstitions the eight worldly concerns, may I, by perceiving of phenomena’s illusory, be released in the bondage of attachment. And thus, venerable, compassionate gurus, I seek your blessings at all coming deaths, obstacles, and sufferings of mother beings.
May without exception ripen upon me right now, and that I may confess virtue to others, and thereby invest all beings in bliss. And thus, venerable, compassionate gurus, I seek your blessings at all coming deaths, obstacles, and sufferings of mother beings. Without exception, ripen upon me right now, and that I may give my happiness and virtue to others, and thereby invest all beings and bless. And thus, venerable, compassionate gurus, I seek your blessings all come at death, obstacles, and sufferings of mother beings. May without exception ripen upon me right now, and that I may give my happiness to virtue to others and thereby invest all beings in bless.
Should even my environment and the beings therein be filled with the fruits and negative actions, None wishful sufferings pour down on me like rain. I seek blessings to take these miserable conditions as a part by seeing them as causes to exhaust results, my negative karma. In short, no matter what appearances arise, be they good or bad, I seek your blessings transform them into a path of enhancing two bodhicittas through the practice of five forces contestants the entire Dharma, and thus enjoy solely a blissful mind. Whatever I occasion to meet, I seek your blessings that I may adapt it to my meditation. By skillful means of four applications, may I render this life of liberty and endowments infinitely meaningful by practicing advice and coping through thought training.
In order to rescue all beings and the vast seas of existence, I seek your blessings to become adept in bodhicitta through a pure, selfless wish, as well as by love and compassion, conjoin with the visual technique of mounting giving and taking upon the breath. I seek your blessings that I may eagerly endeavor to put into practice the three Mahāyāna moral codes and to restrain my mind stream with pure body suffer vows, single path journey by all victorious one to three times. I seek your blessings, complete perfection, generosity through the guideline teaching enhancing the mind that gives without attachment, namely transforming my body wealth and collection of virtues over the three times into the obvious desire by each and every sentient being. I seek her blessings to complete perfection and moral discipline, working for the sake of sentient beings and acting virtuous deeds, and not transgressing the bounds of the Pradimoksha, bodhicitta, and Tantric bounds even at the cost of my life. Should even the mirror beings of three realms without exception become angry at me, humiliate, criticize, threaten, or even kill me, I seek a complete profession of patience not to be distraught, but to work for their benefit and response to their harm.
Even if I must remain for notion of aeons and the firehells of Vici, for the sake of even just one sentient being, I seek of blessings complete perfection of joy and suffering. Strive with compassion for supreme enlightenment and not be discouraged. Having abandoned false adorn and sedition of mental wandering, I seek of blessings complete perfection of meditative concentration through a smile, a single point of placement upon the nature of reality, which is all things devoid of true existence. I seek your blessings complete perfection of wisdom through a space like yoga of single-minded placement upon ultimate truth, conjoined with tranquility and great bliss induced by discriminating wisdom analyzing suchness. And seek a message of first samadhi on illusion, by realizing how all out and inner phenomena like true existence would still appear, like a mirage, a dream on the moon’s image in a still lake.
Some sorrow nibbana, like even an asthma of true resistance, or cause and effect, dependent arising, or infallible. I seek her blessings discern the import of Nagajun’s thought, that these two are complementary and not contradictory. And thereupon, I seek a blessings that I may cross the ocean of tantra to the kindness of my navigator, vajradhara, by holding my vows and words of honor, the roots for powerful attainments more dear than my life. I seek a blessings to cancel stains, ordinary appearance, and grasping. To the first stage yoga of transforming birth, death, and the body into three bodies of Buddha.
So whatever appears may arise as a deity. And I seek your blessings to actualize in this life the path of unity, of clear light, illusory body that arises from placing your feet, my protection, and the eight petals of my heart at the very center of my central channel. Should I not have completed the points of the path of time and death, I seek your blessings that I may be led to a pure land, Either through the instructions apply in the five forces, by forceful means to enlightenment the guru’s transference of mind. In short, I seek your blessings, my savior, to be cared for by you. From birth and remitting these throughout all my lives.
And thus become your chief disciple holding every secret for your body, speech, and mind. Savior, please grant all be auspicious to me to be foremost among your very first circle of disciples wherever you manifest, Buddha, so that all my temporal and ultimate wishes without exception may be effortless seen spontaneously fulfilled. The merit field gradually absorbs into light, absorbing into the principal figures. Principal figures then absorb into Lamalasana Tova Andoja Chand, who transforms into Lamalasana Tova Andoja Chand, Śākyamūni Buddha with vajradhara at the heart, and comes the crown of one’s head. Then with the awareness that this is the entire merit field, one’s own will grow in this aspect.
Make the following heartfelt requests. The very exalted four bodies, lama supreme deity. To the mighty one, vajradhara, make request. The very exalted dharmakaya, free from obscuration, supreme lama. To the mighty one, vajradhara, make request.
The very great, bliss, exalted, enjoyment body, supreme lama, to the mighty one vajradhara, make a request. The very multitude of supreme emanation bodies, supreme lama, to the mighty one vajradhara, make a request. The embodiment of all lamas, Sama, supreme deity. To the mighty one, vajradhara, make a request. The embodiment of all Yiddhara, make The embodiment of all Buddhas, Sama, supreme deity.
To the mighty one, vajradhara, make a request. The embodiment of all Buddhas, Lama supreme deity. To the mighty one, vajradhara, make a request. The embodiment of all Sangha, Lama supreme deity. To the mighty one, vajradhara, make a request.
The embodiment of all dakkas and bikinis, Lama supreme deity. To the mighty one, vajradhara, make a request. The embodiment of all Dharma protectors, Lama supreme deity. To the mighty one, vajradhara, make a request. The embodiment of all objects of refuge, Lama supreme deity.
To the mighty one, Vashadhara, make a request. To the founder, Bhagawan, Thagara, Aham, perfectly completed Buddha. hungry Shekhar Mune Buddha, I prostrate, make offerings, and go for refuge. Thayata, all money, money, marmalas. Having thus been entreated, supreme gurus, pray grant this request so that you may bless me happily lying on the crown of my head.
And once again, set your radiant feet firmly at the crown of my lotus heart. And do my chairmanship. Another mistake. Okay. Keep going.
Whatever white virtues I’ve thus created, I dedicated his cause, enabling me to uphold the holy Dharma, scriptures, and insights, fulfill without exception of prayers and deeds all the Buddhas and bodhisattvas of three times due to all three time mass accumulated by myself, by all the Buddhas and bodhisattvas, and by all sentient beings. May I myself or the members of my family and all the or the members of this organization, all the students and benefactors, and all sentient beings Never be parted in all our lives from Mahāyāna’s four spheres. And may we reach the end of our journey along the paths of annunciation, bodhicitta, pure view in the two stages. Through the accents or whatever white virtues there are in saṃsāra nibbana, May you all be auspicious for us to be free here and now from all misfortune hardship, and thus to enjoy glorious and purpose celestial treasure of temporal and ultimate. May you all be auspicious for the Buddha’s teachings to endure long through your senders of Dharma, omniscient, nostrand, be filled with host of renunciates, yogis, and yoginis driving single pointedly to master three thirteen.
Having requested your blessings, also, drop off in the time of your youth, may request the supreme guru deity. May all be auspicious for you, O Lord San vajradara, spontaneously, love the wishes of others. May all be auspicious for all my desired endowments to swell like a lake of gloomy rain. Bringing on frog and frog, rebirth, and leisure in faultless families, that I may pass my days and nights with your holy dharma, venerable Lawson. Do a long knife press.
So His Holiness. I’m trying to do it to them. Sorry. I’m trying to do do a different tune. I’m sorry.
How did you do it? Can you do it? No. I’m trying to do the other one. Then mamas, enchanting mother like a brilliant snow mountain, shining consummation of signs and marks, who, when seen, captivates mind when heard, tears the sorrows of heart.
When recall, protest more fears the untimely, giver of life, wish granting will, granted all may be auspicious. Lord of Dharma, in accordance with the various dispositions of those to be subdued, makes clear in the light of your well spoken advice. Sacred Ghanan tradition, essence of Buddhist teachings, and foremost in holy lama, to you, supreme, we make this prayer and supplication. But, number one, to you as kindness as he is that of all conquerors, for those wonders in far places, especially the west. Mind for your loving concern for us, intention to send again to the family of far distant land.
We make this request to Alama, please please live long. Complete holder, scholar, and protect your stay in the sūtra and tantra. Holy spiritual friend, foundation, unwavering constant devotion. Profoundly skilled in methods leading us along the fortunate path of liberation. Unfolding within us all that is moral, warm, and wise.
O Lama, please, please, if not. Master the entire doctrine having crossed the further most shore of the Vastocean Sūtra and Tantra. Observing ethics, foundation of practice, and as the heart of teaching, conscientiously following for Naya. Oh, Lama, please, please, if not. By the power of our pure prayer and karma without ever being separated from our supremely kind Lama, may we joyfully guide as your children disciples throughout infinite lives, And by the sweet and active taste of your holy speech, forever satisfied.
As spiritual masters, yidams, bless us and help us when we accomplish the ultimate meaning of our life. In the striving in the In the depths of our hearts, loving kindness, our precious summer. Then the the dedication prayers. Choose a master three times, guided by me, Buddha’s, bodhisattvas, and all other sentient beings. My bodhicitta, cherishing others, letting go of oneself, letting go of the I, which is the source of all happiness and success, myself and all other sentient beings.
Be generated within my own mind, the minds of all sentient beings, and even a second’s delay. May that which has already been generated increase due to mass three times, get it by me, Buddha’s, body suffers, other sentient beings. May all the father, mother, sentient beings of happiness. May three lower realms be empty forever. May all bodhisattvas prayers succeed immediately, and may I be able to cause all this to happen by myself alone.
Do the master three times get it by me, bodhisattvas, bodhisattvas, and all other sentient beings. May his holiness, Dalai Lama, Buddha of Compassion, all other holy beings, all our virtuous friends, have stabilized, and may all the holy wishes succeed immediately. Due to the master three times guided by me, Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and all other sentient beings, May I be able to offer skies of benefit all sentient beings as Lama Tsongkhapa does, by having within me the same qualities Lama Tsongkhapa has from now on in all my future lifetimes. Due to the masses three times guided by me, Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and all other sentient beings, which are totally non existent from their own side. May the I wish also totally non existent from its own side.
Achieve Guru Shakumini Buddha’s enlightenment, is also totally non existent from its own side. Need all sentient beings who are totally non existent from their own side. To that enlightenment which is totally nonexistent from its own side. But myself alone is also totally nonexistent from its own side. I dedicate all my merits in a way greatly admired by the Buddha’s bodhisattvas for three times and realized by Samantipadra Mañjuśrī.
May I be able to complete the Akshayasam Tsongkhapa’s teaching which unifies Sūtra and Tantra within my mind and spread these teachings to minds all sentient beings. Thus, may Lama Tsongkhapa’s teachings flourish forever. Then the third session. Due to all the mass the three times guided by me, Buddhas, bodhisattvas, and all other sentient beings, may whatever I experience, good or bad, suffering or happiness, sickness or health, praise or blame, gain or loss, good reputation or bad reputation, long life or death, even being born in the hell realms. Whatever I experience may only be of benefit to sentient beings that which causes all sentient beings to achieve enlightenment by myself alone.
So plan to have an hour’s break. I’m not sure if it will happen. If a message comes down, then we’ll ring the bell earlier. So it’s about six twenty now. So to come back seven fifteen.
I have to apologize yesterday. We didn’t read out the dedication, but it got very late. And as you know, Rinpoche kind of ran off, and then I forgot. So we’ll try and do those tonight. And if there’s any more dedications, we’re welcome to try.
And then also there were people who have been requesting the mantra that Rinpoche gave this morning and also the mantra for the stupas and did make a request for the mantra for the stupas and it hasn’t come back yet. So we’ll see what happens. We’ll try and make a request for the other mantra. And very important announcement. So we’re not going to offer the the body, speech and mind tonight because when she hasn’t finished teaching, so we’ve been told to wait till Tuesday.
So there won’t there’s not an opportunity to offer to make offerings tonight. I mean, you’re actually leaving and you don’t you’re not going to be here tomorrow, then you can stand at the back. But otherwise, for everybody, just hold off. And then there’ll be an opportunity in long life Puja tomorrow. So just quickly, the schedule for tomorrow, it’s depending on what time we finish.
We’re having a short session tomorrow morning just to do the thirty five Buddhas. Just do the morning prayers, thirty five Buddhas and general confession. Then there’ll be breakfast. So we’ll plan to start that maybe seven o’clock. Go from seven o’clock to seven forty five here.
Then they’ll be preparing we’ll be preparing for the puja. And then the actual puja begins at eleven o’clock. So tonight we’ll be clearing up and setting up the new seats. And they’ll be setting up all night, I think, probably. And then the puja then starts eleven and estimated that we won’t have lunch till around four.
So there’ll be a big breakfast and then a late lunch and probably no dinner. Maybe some toast, probably no dinner. And then so what after the puja is finished around four, there’ll just be a break. In the evening, we’ll just do the protector prayers and the long life prayers. Unless we hear anything else from Rinpoche.
Tuesday morning, if you want to know what’s planned, Tuesday morning, again, a short session, just the morning prayers, thirty five Buddha’s general confession, then breakfast. Then the electricity is going to be off from eight thirty to three o’clock. No electricity. Nothing. That means can’t flush the toilets, can’t there’s nothing.
So it’s going to be so we’re all going on holiday. We’re going away. We’re going to Longwood and Wurrawong, I think. No, we’re going to Longwood for a picnic with Rimshet. And then we’ll and then something will happen on Tuesday.
Rimshet said he wants to give the oral suture transmission. So something at some point will happen after the picnic back here, and it’s not clear what. And that is the end of the program. So Wednesday nothing that we know of. That is the planned program that is planned that we know of, and that’s the end of the program that’s planned that we know of.
So the final body speech moment will be Tuesday. She leaves Wednesday morning. That is planned. Yeah? Yeah.
Think you we have to talk to the organizers about that. It it might just they might just mean clear it out and then we vacuum and then bring them back in the morning and put them where your box is. I think that this won’t have a box. Oh, okay. Well, tomorrow you need your your you need a new book.
This is a golden book. A golden book. Tomorrow there’s a new umsen, a new book. I can’t hear. I think can I leave this to the organizers?
Because I’m not involved in long life puja at all. So I’ll just leave that. We’ll have a break. Thank you. Okay.
I’ll repeat that. And this is to do with the people who who are traveling in in vehicles every day to not park on the oval because it’s all wet and messy, but instead to leave your vehicles at either Longwood or Warrawong and then bus in tomorrow. Is that right? Great. Okay.
Thank you. Yeah. What time were the offerings? You mean offering to Roshan? Is that in the podium?
It comes in the podium, so it could be around About nine. Alright. Yeah. Okay. Maybe around four That’s in the second book.
Second beam. The the mantra that Ramesh told us to recite this morning that makes you meaningful to behold, that’s the stainless beam one that he gave the transmission for. That’s in this volume two. So you’ve just got to extract that and fit it in. It’s stainless Stainless beam number two.
That’s in the volume two book. How many times do you have to decide it to be books with people you know? I know. Probably all my life. Probably all day.
I think I I I was thinking seven might be good. I was thinking three or seven. Something like that. Well, was thinking three or seven. Yeah.
The others are seven. I was thinking the others are seven, so I was kinda thinking seven. Didn’t say no. No. I don’t it didn’t say hundred thousands.
No. I thought, no. I can start that Okay. So what’s written in my kind of little story, is Oh. Starts there.
It starts here. It starts here. Can we have silence in the Gompa now, please? Talking outside.