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About this talk. In this 170-minute session, Lama Zopa Rinpoche guides an extended guru yoga practice from a Mahāmudrā International Retreat. The teaching opens with establishing correct motivation—practitioners generate bodhicitta, the resolve to attain enlightenment for all sentient beings—before the formal practice begins. Rinpoche then leads a detailed guru yoga ritual with homages and supplications to the Gelug lineage, from Vajradhāra through more than twenty historical masters, each verse invoking blessings to actualize Mahāmudrā, the great seal of enlightenment. He follows with an extended Lamrim prayer covering the graduated path: renunciation, bodhicitta, the six perfections, and tantric practices. The session closes with merit dedication and practical instructions for extending all spiritual work to benefit all beings. For initiated practitioners in intensive retreat.
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Teacher: Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1
Collection: y Mahāmudrā International Retreat (Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1)
Date: 2004-04-14
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Duration: 170.2 minutes
Words: ~8,618
On a separate sheet and take the one that has the phonetics. So then, please, as before we start, take a few moments to generate good motivation, remembering our purpose for doing this Mahāmudrā retreat, and not just for oneself. So in the heart, to cherish others trying to cherish others more than self. Making the thought, I’m doing this retreat for all sentient beings stronger. Remember the numberless beings.
Experiencing unimaginable sufferings right now who depend upon us to ripen our minds in order to liberate them. We are completely responsible To free them from suffering, bring them to happiness. Therefore, I’m going to do this profound practice of Guru Yoga. Homage to the great seal. You, the primordial Buddha, chief of all Buddha lineages, dweller in the palatial mansion, spontaneously created three bodies, our request to the all pervading God, Vajradhāra, by generating a mind of compassion and loving kindness, and by completely severing the continuum that clings to holding yourself, May I be blessed to quickly attain the state of Mahāmudrā through the path of total integration.
You are the father of all the conquerors of three times, a holy field of wisdom covering the earth’s ten directions. I request the all wise, Ārya Mañjuśrī, by generating a mind of compassion and loving kindness, and by completely severing the continuum that clings to holding herself, may I be blessed to quickly attain the highest state of Mahāmudrā through the path of total integration. Here in the snowy provinces of this northern country, you are a second Buddha of the Buddha’s doctrine. I request the perfect pure, Lobsang Drakpa, generating a mind of compassion and loving kindness, and by completely severing the continuum that clings to holding yourself. May I be blessed to quickly attain the highest state of Mahāmudrā through the path of total integration.
You are the principal among those holding the teachings that practice the image of Tsongkhapa, great son of Manjughosa. Our request to the Togden Jampal Gyatso, by generating a mind of compassion and loving kindness, and by completely severing the continuum that clings to holding herself. May I be blessed to quickly attain the high state of Mahāmudrā through the path of total integration. After opening the treasury of council of the oral tradition, you matured well the fortunate candidates. Our request to Baso Chökyi Gyaltsen, by generating a mind of compassion and loving kindness, and by completely severing the continuum that clings to holding itself, may I be blessed to quickly attain the highest state of Mahāmudrā through the path of total integration.
After reaching the end of the praxis of the two tantric stages, you attain the body of a deathless Vidyadhara. Chökyi Dorje, by generating a mind of compassion, loving kindness, and by completely severing the continuum that clings to holding yourself. May I be blessed to quickly attain the high state of Mahāmudrā through the path of total integration. Having completely shed the bonds, the eight mundane concerns, you held high the banner of victory, the teaching of absolute truth, our request to Lobsang Döndrup Drakpa, by generating a mind of compassion and loving kindness, and by completely severing the continuum that clings to holding yourself. May I be blessed to quickly attain the highest state of Mahāmudrā through the path of total integration.
Your dance of saffron robes guides all transmigratory beings into the delightful Palace of Three Bodies, a request to the scholar Siddha Sangye Yeshe, by generating a mind of compassion and loving kindness, and by completely severing the continuum that clings to holding yourself, may I be blessed to quickly attain the highest state of Mahāmudrā through the path of total integration. Knowing everything with respect to teachings of Gyalwar Jain Lozang, you are indistinguishable from that very refuge. Our request is a perfect pure Lobsang Chökyi Gyaltsen, by generating a mind of compassion and loving kindness, and by completely severing the continuum that clings to holding itself. May I be blessed to quickly attain the highest state of Mahāmudrā through the path of total integration. Having abridged into one essential meaning all the Buddha’s speech in the sutras, tantras, commentaries, you achieved perfection in putting these into practice.
Our request to the great Siddha, Gendun Gyaltsen, having passion and loving kindness, and by completely severing the continuum that clings to holding yourself, by generating a mind of compassion and loving kindness, and by completely severing the continuum that clings to holding yourself. May I be blessed to quickly attain the high state of Mahāmudrā through the path of total integration. As master expositor to the fortunate candidates, you gave the richness of the nectar of the Dharma that is profound and vast. I request to the great Tantrika Könchog Gyaltsen, by generating a mind of compassion and loving kindness, and by completely severing the continuum that clings holding herself. May I be blessed to quickly attain the high state of Mahāmudrā through the path of total integration.
For the welfare of beings as well as the Dharma, you reincarnated again like the venerable Lobsang Chökyi Gyaltsen himself. I request the perfect pure Lobsang Yeshe By generating a mind of compassion and loving kindness, by completely severing the continuum that clings to holding himself, may I be blessed to quickly attain the high state of Mahāmudrā through the path of total integration. You achieved mastery of the profound path of the oral tradition, and were blessed by Lord Buddha himself, our request to the perfect pure Lobsang Trinley, by generating a mind of compassion and loving kindness, and by completely severing the continuum that clings to holding itself. May I be blessed to quickly attain the high state of Mahāmudrā through the path of total integration? You achieve reach the limits of putting into practice the essential meaning of the oral tradition of Jetsün Tsongkhapa, a request to the great Siddha, Lobsang Namgyal, by generating a mind of compassion, loving kindness, and by completely severing the continuum that clings to holding yourself.
May I be blessed to quickly attain the highest state of Mahāmudrā through the path of total integration. With great kindness, you correctly elucidated all the essential precepts of Jetsün Rinpoche’s oral tradition. Our request to the kind Yeshe Tsechin by generating a mind of compassion, loving kindness, and by completely severing the continuum that clings to holding yourself. May I be blessed to quickly attain the highest state of Mahāmudrā through the path of total integration. You propagated everywhere in central and borderlands alike.
The essence, the errorless teachings of the great path. I request the perfect pure Ngawang Jampa. By generating a mind of compassion and loving kindness, and by completely severing the continuum that clings to holding yourself. May I be blessed to quickly attain the highest state of Mahāmudrā through the path of total integration? You mature by means of the Dharma all of Tibetan China, while sporting the saffron robes of the primordial Buddha.
I request the Pänchen Palden Yeshe, by generating a mind of compassion and loving kindness, completely severing the continuum that clings, holding itself. May I be blessed to quickly attain the highest state of Mahāmudrā through the path of total integration. You arrived at the accomplishment of single pointed concentration on the complete and extensive good path of the sutras and tantras, a request to the wise yogi, Ngawang Döndrup, by generating a mind of compassion and loving kindness, and by completely severing the continuum that clings holding itself. May I be blessed to quickly attain the highest state of Mahāmudrā through the path of total integration. O Pratesi, who clarified Lord Buddha’s teaching through verbal explanation and composition with regard to steadfast knowledge like a second Buddha, our request to the perfect pure Dharma Bhadra, by generating a mind of compassion and loving kindness, and by completely severing the continuum that clings to holding yourself.
May I be blessed to quickly attain the highest state of Mahāmudrā through the path of total integration. Your superior knowledge, profound and vast dharmas like Mañjuśrī’s, and your eye of inconceivably great compassion is never closed. Our request to Yongdzin Drukpe Dorje, by generating a mind of compassion and loving kindness, and by completely severing the continuum that clings to holding herself, May I be blessed to quickly attain the high state of Mahāmudrā through the path of total integration. After perfecting the yoga of bliss voidness, you arrive at a victorious stage of total integration, our request to scholar Siddha Tenzin Chödrak, by generating a mind of compassion and loving kindness, and by completely severing the continuum that clings to holding itself, may I be blessed to quickly attain the highest state of Mahāmudrā through the path of total integration. After attaining perfection in the understanding of the profound path, you upheld the banner of victory, the teachings of commentary and practice, our request of Lobsang Drakpa Gyatso, by generating a mind of compassion and loving kindness, and by completely severing the continuum that clings to holding itself.
May I be blessed to quickly attain the highest state of Mahāmudrā through the path of total integration. As hold of the essence, the teachings, three higher trainings, you bear no trace whatever of the stains of moral thoughts. Our request to Lobsang Döndrup Drakpa, by generating a minor compassion and loving kindness, and by completely severing the continuum that clings to holding yourself. May I be blessed to quickly attain the high state of Mahāmudrā through the path of total integration. You reincarnated again, showing the dance of saffron robed monk, like the second Buddha himself, Jai Lozandrapa, our request to the perfect pure Kelzang Gyatso.
By generating a mind of compassion, loving kindness, and by completely severing the continuum that clings to holding itself, may I be blessed to quickly attain the high state of Mahāmudrā through the path of total integration. You clarified for innumerable fortunate ones the treasure of the extensive Dharma’s vast and profound past, our request to the kind Ngawang Jampa, by generating a mind of compassion and loving kindness, and by completely severing the continuum that clings to holding herself. May I be blessed to quickly attain the highest state of Mahāmudrā through the path of total integration. You are skilled in clarifying the noble path free of extremes by means of loud laughter of your stainless logic. Our request is supremely wise, Jigme Wangpo, by generating a mind of compassion and loving kindness, and by completely severing the continuum that clings to holding yourself.
May I be blessed to quickly attain the highest state of Mahāmudrā through the path of total integration. You are unequaled in propagating through explanation and practice the most excellent doctrine of protected Tsongkhapa, a request of the perfect pure Tenpai Gyaltsen by generating a mind of compassion and loving kindness, and by completely severing the continuum that clings to holding yourself. Now be blessed to quickly attain the highest state of Mahāmudrā through the path of total integration. By tasting the nectar of the oral tradition of the Lord Jamyang, you wax forth in physical strength and experiential understanding, and request the perfect pure, Könchog Gyaltsen, by generating a mind of compassion and loving kindness, and by completely severing the continuum that clings to holding yourself. May I be blessed to quickly attain the highest state of Mahāmudrā through the path of total integration.
You upheld the banner of victory of the teaching of the practice and age, while dwelling in one pointed concentration on no abode. I request the great Siddha, Vajra Bhadra, by generating a mind of compassion, loving kindness, and by completely severing the continuum that clings, holding yourself. May I be blessed to quickly attain the highest state of Mahāmudrā to the path of total integration. After going to limits of excellence in what was to be abandoned and understood, you shower down a Dharma rain of good explanation. I request the esteemed tutor, Ngawang Gyatso, by generating a mind of compassion and loving kindness, by completely severing the continuum that clings to holding herself.
May I be blessed to quickly attain the highest state of Mahāmudrā through the path of total integration. You attain the rank and accomplished one in the two stages, and so will crown wisest of the wise. I request the glorious Tenpai Nyima by generating the mind of compassion and loving kindness, and by completely severing the continuum that clings holding itself. May I be blessed to quickly attain the highest state of Mahāmudrā through the path of total integration. Owing to the Force your loving kindness for all sentient beings, you upheld the banner of victory, the teachings of sutras and tantras, our request to the perfect pure Trinley Gyatso Phagpa Pelzangpo, by generating a mind of compassion and loving kindness, and by completely severing the continuum that clings to holding itself, may I be blessed to quickly attain the highest state of Mahāmudrā, to the path of total integration.
You are the good friend who extends to all the fortunate candidates. The hard essence is second Buddha, Tsongkhapa, our request to the kind Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Rinpoche, by generating a mind of compassion, loving kindness, and by completely severing the continuum that clings to holding yourself. Now be blessed to quickly attain the highest state of Mahāmudrā through the path of total integration, the treasure of compassion, of refuge for all victorious ones, savior of all who are the objects to be subdued, our request to the perfect pure, tensing Gyatso, by generating a mind of compassion and loving kindness, and by completely severing continuum that clings to holding yourself, now be blessed to quickly attain the highest state of Mahāmudrā the path of total integration. For the sake of faithful disciples, you manifest magnificently on the Dharma seat of all these accomplished ones, our request to the most kind root guru, by generating a mind of compassion, loving kindness, and by completely severing continuum that clings to holding self. May I be blessed to quickly attain the high state of Mahāmudrā to the path of total integration.
Please grant me blessings to see the Guru’s Buddha, to have aversion to Samsāra, to take upon myself for responsibility for liberating all transmigratory beings, and to quickly achieve the common path, and particularly the glorified unification, Mahāmudrā. Please bless my body in you, the Father’s holy body, my speech in you, the father’s holy speech, my mind in you, the father’s holy mind, to quickly become inseparable. So then I’m making a request to the guru, page sixty nine. Pausing after the fourth, fifth, and sixth verse. Source of virtue, great ocean of moral discipline, treasury brimming with jewels of much hearing.
Master, second Buddha, clad in saffron. Elder, Vinaya holder, I make request to you. You have the ten qualities suitable for one to teach the path of those gone to bless. Lord of Dharma, representing all conquerors, Mahāyāna and Guru, I make request to you. You are wise, patient, honest, without pretense or guile.
Your three doors well subdued. You have both sets of ten qualities, no tantrum rituals, and are skilled in drawing and explaining. Foremost, vajra Holder, I make request to you. To those untamed by countless past Buddhas, the unruly migrators of this degenerate age who are difficult to subdue, you show unmistakenly the good way of those gone bliss. Compassionate refuge savior, I make requests to you.
At this time, when the sunline teachings of sage is setting, you enact the deeds of a conqueror for the many beings who lack a savior refuge. Compassionate refuge savior, I make request to you. Even one of your hair pores is for us, a field of merit more highly praised than all the conquerors of three times and ten directions. Compassionate refuge savior, I make request to you. Adorned with the Sugata’s three bodies, you manifest from 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 bases, limbs are in nature the sugatas and consorts of five families, bodhisattvas and wrathful protectors. Supreme guru essence of Three Jewels, I make 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, but of families, foremost, vajra holder, unified, primordial savior, I make 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, Samantabhādra, actual, ultimate bodhicitta, and make request to you.
You are my Gurus. You are my Yidams. You are the Dakinis and Dharma protectors. From now until enlightenment, I shall seek no other refuge than you. In this life, the bardo and all future lives, hold me with your hook of compassion.
Free me from saṃsāra and nirvana’s fears. Grant all attainments. Be my constant friend, and guard me from interferences. You are my gurus. You are my yidams.
You are the Dakinis and Dharma protectors. From now until enlightenment, I shall seek no other refuge than you. In this life, the Bardo and all future lives. Hold me with your hook of compassion. Free me from saṃsāra and nirvana’s fears.
Grant all attainments. Be my constant friend and guard me from interferences. You are my gurus. You are my yidams. You are the Dakinis and Dharma protectors.
From now until enlightenment, I shall seek no other refuge than you. In this life, the Bardo and all future lives, hold me with your hook of compassion. Free me from some sorrow and nirvana’s fears. Grant all attainment. Be my constant friend and guard me from interferences.
By the force of having thus requested three times, netter and light rays, white red and dark blue, stream forth from the places of 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, four kayas are received. A replica of the guru happily dissolves into me, and I am blessed with inspiration. So continue on the Lamrim prayer. Through the power of having made offerings and respectful requests to you, and venerable gurus, supreme field of merit.
I seek your blessing, saviors, and rooted well-being of bliss, that I may come under your joyful care. Page seventy six. I’m requesting the kind Lord Rupa Guru, who is more extraordinary than all the Buddhas. Please vast me to be able to devote myself to the 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 qualifying guru, may I allow myself to enter under his control? May I be like an obedient child, acting exactly in accordance with the guru’s advice? Even when Mara’s evil friends and the like try to split me from the Guru, may I be like a vajra 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 difficult tasks, may I be like a servant of the king with a mind undisturbed? May I abandon pride, hold myself lower than the guru. May I be like a sweeper. May I be like a rope joyfully holding the guru’s work no matter how difficult or heavy a burden. Even when the guru criticizes, provokes, or 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 real 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 the guru in this way. Page seventy nine. Realizing how this body of liberties and endowments is found but once is difficult to obtain and is easily lost.
I seek your blessings, partake of its essence, make it worthwhile, and not be distracted by the meaningless fares of this life. Aghast of the searing blaze of suffering in the lower realms, I take heartfelt refuge in the three precious gems, and seek your blessings that I may eagerly endeavor to practice the various means for abandoning what is bound to misfortune and accumulating virtuous deeds. Violently tossed amidst ways of delusion and karma, played by hordes of weighty denizens of three kinds of suffering, I seek your blessings to develop an intense longing to be free from this monstrous ocean of baldness and vicious existence. Having abandoned the mind that views this unbearable prison of cyclic existence as a pleasure grove, I seek your blessings to partake of the treasure of ārya’s jewels by practicing the three higher trainings, and thereby to uphold liberation’s banner. Having considered how 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 like that of a loving mother for her precious child.
There is no difference between myself and others. None of us wishes even a trace of sufferings or is ever content with the happiness we have. Realizing this, I seek your blessings that I may enhance the bliss and joy of others. This chronic disease of cherishing myself is the cause giving rise to my unsought suffering. Perceiving this, I seek your blessings to blame, begrudge, and destroy the monstrous demon of selfishness.
The mind that cherishes all mother beings and will secures them in bliss is the gateway leading to infinite virtue. Seeing this, I seek your blessings to cherish these beings more than my life, even should they rise up as my enemies. In brief, infantile beings live only for their own ends, while Buddhas work solely for the welfare of others, With the mind understanding distinctions between the feelings of one and the advantages of the other, I seek your blessings to enable me to equalize and exchange myself with others. Since cherishing myself is a doorway to all torment, while cherishing my mother’s is the foundation of all that is good, I seek her blessings to make my core practice the yoga of exchanging self for others. Say over to the eight verses.
Determined to obtain the greatest possible benefit from all sentient beings or more precious nor wishful filling jewel, I shall hold them most dear at all times. When in the company of others, I should always consider myself the lowest of all, and from the depths of my heart, hold others dear and supreme. Vigilant, the moment a 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 by violent negative actions and suffering, I shall hold such rare ones dear as if I had found 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 have benefited and whom I have great hopes gives me terrible harm, I should regard that person as my holy guru. In short, both directly and indirectly do I offer every happiness and benefit to all my mothers. I shall secretly take upon myself all the harmful actions and suffering. Undefiled by the stains of superstitions the eight worldly concerns, may I, by perceiving all phenomena’s illusory, be released in the bondage of attachment. Page eighty seven.
And thus, venerable, compassionate gurus, I seek your blessings that all commit deaths, obstacles, and sufferings of mother beings may without exception ripen upon me right now, and that I may give my happiness and virtue to others, and thereby invest all beings in this. And thus, venerable, compassionate gurus, I seek your blessings at all karmic debts, obstacles, and sufferings of mother beings. That without exception ripen upon me right now, and that I may give my happiness and virtue to others, and thereby invest all beings in bliss. And thus, venerable, compassionate gurus, I seek your blessings at all commit deaths, obstacles, and sufferings of other beings. May without exception ripen upon me right now, and that I may give my happiness and virtue to others, and thereby invest all beings in bliss.
Should even my environment and the beings therein be filled with the fruits of their negative actions and unwishful sufferings poured down on me like rain, I seek your blessings to take these miserable conditions as a path By seeing them, it causes to exhaust the results of my negative karma. In short, no matter what appearances arise, be they good or bad, I seek your blessings to transform them into a path of enhancing the two bodhicittas. Through the practice of five forces quintessence the entire Dharma, and thus to enjoy solely a blissful mind. Whatever I occasion to meet, I seek your blessings that I may adapt it to my meditation by the skillful means of the four applications. May I render this life of liberties and endowments infinite and meaningful by practicing the advice and commitments of thought training.
In order to rescue all beings from 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, conjoined with the vital technique of mounting, giving, and taking upon breath. I seek your blessings, and I may eagerly endeavor to put into practice the three Mahāyāna moral codes and to restrain my mind stream with pure bodhisattva vows, the single path journeyed by all victorious ones of the three times. So then we’ll pause here and do the Tsog offering. Please turn to page one hundred and six. There’s just one thing I want to say on page one hundred and eight, the very the very last verse.
This is actually Heruka’s self offering. So the third line, instead of saying, Heruka one more, say, Khorlo Demchog. It should say Khorlo Demchog. The last verse on page one hundred and eight. Two more times.
Pressing the tea. So this is what song of the spring queen. The leftover silk. In the Green Book, page seven in the long life prayer section. Green Book, page seven in the long life prayer section.
The gyro conquering goddess whose lunar eyed face changes with unchanging fates. The feinous calling rave whose manturne malaise fiery pain of our life’s fine lend. Rainmaker adept who brings forth life’s rain. Here now grant your greatest gifts. Victorious goddess, grant life without end.
Hear our prayer, O Lama, whom we revere. You who bear the name of he who perfectly holds living essence, the pure, paradigmatic doctrine and He alone adornment of the earth, and here guides all to liberation’s sphere of peace. Precious treasure, precise and subtle reasoning. Golden lays a light of bright, unerring wisdom. Clarifying without confusion to truth’s most precious things.
Lama remained mutually amongst us, a radiant dharma sun, skilled in sprinkling the waters of healing, fulfilling needs benefiting all, a laughing smile, beaming pearls of skill, humility, and constancy, A deep milky sea of liquid moon morality. Lama remain immutably amongst us, one supremely worthy of veneration. The moon of your Mahāyāna mind ring round by the fever calling camphor of unsullied, unsurpassed resolve. Brilliantly swells the bound of space, unbound the seas, the happiness of now and bliss of always. Lama remain immutably amongst us, the moon guiding our way.
Your teachings are vast spreading rivers of celestial letters. Your dialect is an invincible cutting vajra weapon. Your writings, thousand petalled lotuses unfolding their glory. Lama remain immutably amongst us a guardian of highest knowledge. By the mighty sea of spiritual masters, deities, and doctrine protectors, by the power profoundly penned arising, the unbearing emptiness for all that appears, may all the hopes, our prayers, and aspirations be spontaneously fulfilled.
Page eighty nine, verse one hundred and one. Finishing the Lamrim prayer. Finishing the Lamrim prayer. Finishing the Lamrim prayer. Oh, I thought you finished.
Oh, before you’re doing the lineage lamas. Oh, we’ve done that. We’ve done that. I see. Okay.
We haven’t done. I said this in the section of the Lamrim. I seek your blessings to complete perfection and generosity through the guiding teaching of enhancing the mind that gives without attachment, namely transforming my body, wealth, and collection of virtues over three times the objects desired by each and every sentient being. I seek her blessings complete with perfection and moral discipline, working for the sake of sentient beings enacting virtuous deeds, not transgressing the bounds even at the cost of my life. Should even the myriad beings, the three realms, without exception, come angry at me, humiliate, criticize, threaten, or even kill me, I seek blessings, complete perfection of patience, not to be distraught, but to work for their benefit in response to their harm.
Even if I must remain for an ocean of and the fiery hells of Avici, for the sake of even just one sentient being, I seek her blessings, complete perfection of joyous effort, strive with compassion for supreme enlightenment and not be discouraged. Having abandoned the faults of mental wandering, I seek her blessings, complete perfection of meditative concentration, through the Samādhi of single pointed placement upon the nature of reality, which is that all things devoid of true existence. I seek her blessings, complete perfection of wisdom through a space like yoga of single-minded placement upon ultimate truth, conjoined with the tranquility and great bliss induced by discriminating wisdom analyzing suchness. I seek your blessings perfect so mighty on illusion by realizing how all outer and inner phenomena lack true existence but still appear, like a mirage, a dream, or the moon’s image on a still lake. Samsāra and nirvana, like even an atom of true existence, while cause and effect and dependent arising are infallible.
I seek your blessings to discern the import of Nāgārjuna’s thought, that these two are complementary and not contradictory. And thereupon I seek your blessings, and I may cross the ocean of Tantra, through the kindness of my navigator, vajradhara, by holding my vows and words of honor, the roots of all powerful attainments more dear than my life. I seek of blessings to cleanse all stains of ordinary appearance and grasping through the first stage yoga of transforming birth, death, and the body into three bodies of Buddha, so that whatever appears may arise as a deity. I seek of blessings to actionize in this life the path of unity, of clear light, and the illusory body that arises from placing your feet, my protector, in the eight petals of my heart in the very center of my central channel. Should I not have completed the points of the path at the time of death, I seek your blessings that I may be led to a pure land, either through the instructions of applying the five forces, or by the forceful means to enlightenment of the Guru’s transference of mind.
In short, I seek your blessings, my Savior, to be cared for by you, from birth and remitting me throughout all my lives, and thus to become your chief disciple, holding every secret of your body, speech, mind. Savior, please grant that all be auspicious to me to be foremost among your very first circle of disciples, wherever you manifest Buddhahood, so that all my temple and art of wishes, without exception, may be effortlessly and spontaneously fulfilled. That mantra of my prayers promise. Dedication mats. That that section better if you read in English.
Okay. Whatever white virtues I have thus created, I dedicate as causes, enabling me to uphold the holy Dharma scriptures and insights, fulfill that exceptional prayers and deeds of all the Buddha’s body sufferers of three times. So that’s the dedication. Dedicate by others that includes all the sentient beings including Buddhist others and one’s self or one’s family members and then all organizers and then there’s a house and then course, and then all the students and benefactors and the community organizations and And then also to give up their life organization to serve it to symptom exchange, but then all the rest of the symptom beings. So, it was extended to all of the symptom beings.
Then may we be separated away from Mahayanadharma wills and to be able to to to be able to complete quickly the proceeding or actualizing the renunciation of saṃsāra, bodhicitta, the right view, and then two stages. So we decided to dedicate it to everyone, to to everybody. And the physical one, all of this, then all of the things. So that’s was to was to remember that, to dedicate this way, to only just for one’s help. To extend the all person, all person be.
That love on the Philippines, a virtuous, perfectly qualified virtuous friend. Then, as it is explained, how you need to make conducive perfect place. You know, that place where you do the practice, the retreat or thing, that’s not harmful for the health and all those harmonious place harmonious to your practice. However, to be in the right environment, that to be in the country, family, so to be in the right environment. Was important to practice.
Abiding in the harmonious place. Then having a collect merit and then having having actualized the prayer. They meant to them. Having exercised the prayer. So this way, no obstacle to studying Dharma practice, you know, successful with these conditions.
So, you know, time to not be separate. So not only yourself, but your family, and it could bring your family inside, your own dedication and then all the organization. So therefore, it’s good to be in English. And then this way, precisely get paid attention. I mean, those who understand that it’s different.
The others you’re just on a Tibetan, you don’t think the English then, You know that. The aspect is correct. The Tibetan part to be more precise, you know. It’s a good practice. Through the excellence of whatever white virtues there are in saṃsāra nirvana, may all be auspicious to me to be free here and now from all misfortune and hardship, and thus to enjoy glorious and perfect celestial treasure, a temple of the ultimate virgin goodness.
May all be auspicious for the Buddha’s teachings to endure long, through your centers of Dharma, omniscient, Lobsang Drakpa, being filled with hosts of renunciates, yogis and yoginis, striving single pointedly to master the three pure trainings. Having requested your blessings, Lobsang Drakpa, who from the time of your youth made request to supreme Guru Deity, may all be auspicious for you, O Lobsang Vajradhāra, spontaneously to grant the wishes of others. May all be auspicious for all my desired endowments to swell like a lake in summer rains, bringing an unbroken flow of rebirths of leisure and faultless families, so that I may pass my days and nights with your holy Dharma, venerable Lobsang, and thus the light and the glorious of the practice. By the collection of whatever virtues I and others have done. That last can be chanting.
That last part. That speech is correct in English. And the last part can be chanting. These symbols these symbols especially metro athletes. There are no holes.
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To To the Tantacolor, the symbols. So volume two, the back of volume two, the Protected Press section, page twenty eight, but it might go quite fast. Page thirty four. My text is not here. My text is not here.
So Oh. You can do English or leave the Tibetan. We’ve got Tibetan phonetics. We’ve got Tibetan phonetics. Can the other way.
Should you do four face more color first, you should? Four face more color. With great energy and said to have been a Brahmin before have attained a supreme of all cities your Page fifty. Three time medical brothers, made the bodhicitta, the letting the eye cherishing others, ultrasounds to achieve enlightened intercourse and image, which is source of all the happiness, the source of all the happiness, success for oneself, which is source of all the happiness, success of all sentient beings may be a large with the ones who have without delay in second as well as also family members in the house of all of us and then the house of all the organizers here as well as in the house of everyone in this organization as well as all our students and our supporters and as well as all those who develop their lives to organization doing service to a single event. Then in the house of every living being, the six realms of sentient beings in their house without the living second, that which is made to be increased.
Made the bodhicitta out with the holy the holy mind. The bodhicitta, source of happiness of all sentient beings, temporary ultimate happiness, everything, including fully enlightened, made the bodhicitta be generated in the hearts of everyone in this world. What’s the last family members? May the bodhicitta be generated in the hearts of the leaders of this world. That way, the millions of people in this country will have so much peace and happiness, and they are led in a correct path to peace and happiness.
And as well as the bodhicitta that generated in the heart of all the terrorists and amongst all those people who are creating so much harm to the world, violence made the bodhicitta be generated in everyone’s heart. All those people doing so much violence in this world to be genetic in all their hearts. Without delay in a second. So right now, there’s so much so much, say, killing, so much violence happening in Iraq right now. See, these days, it got worse and very difficult to solve, as well as all of the rest of the a lot of countries where there’s so much violence made the bodhicitta, which is all that without delay in a second.
The local cannabis commission for bodhicitta. May the wisdom realizing the right view the right view, the very nature of the phenomena emptiness, the very nature of the mind to to be actualized in the heart of one soul, all of us here, also family members, and and the heart of all the sentient beings. And that which is generated and made it be increased. May the two stages be exercised. The two stages, the highest tantra, the highest tantra, the the family members, all of us here in the house of all the students and all the supporters and those who give up their life, and the rest of the sentient beings.
And that we have this incredible opportunity in every session and to purify so many lifetimes, so many years of negative karma, so many years of need karma, even just with the beginning of a session, just during prostration, reciting Tathāgata Buddha’s name, so many evils of need karma get purified. Without talking about the rest of the practice, Just even the very beginning of the session, their prostration, their prostration, by reciting just by even without talking about the prostration, just even by reciting this name, so many humans have a different need. Get purified. Not not just so many lifetimes, not just so many hours to deal, not just so many days, not just so many lifetime, but even so many units of karma get purified. Then, say, collective sense of merit and make closer to able to make closer to liberation, to closer to liberation, shorter in saṃsāra, closer to enlightenment, closer to to be able to enlighten, to liberate numberless beings from the oceans of saṃsāra sufferings and bring them in a full enlightenment.
This is solely by kindness of Buddha compassion. His Holiness the Dalai Lama. So please pray to have stabilized all the holy wishes, please succeed immediately as well as all the and my virtuous friends. Due to all the past, present, and future, made it collected by me, I made it collected by others. And this is a particular dedication and of the Guru Yoga practice is the most important dedication.
These are the from where all the success comes for ourselves, for all sentient beings. Due to all the past, present, future, made it, equitable others, one’s self and all the rest of sentient beings, all the family members, and then all the students and the supporters in this organization and those who give up their life to the organization to our service to the teaching of the Buddha and all the rest of us. We always in all the future lifetimes to meet perfectly qualified Mahāyāna virtuous friend and to be able to see only enlightened being from each living side, from other side in all the future life times. And to do only action most pleasing in holy mind of the virtues, trained from each side and from other side and from the future lifetimes. And to be able to fulfill the holy witches of the virtuous friend by each by oneself immediately in all of his lifetimes.
Did you know the past, present, future, I able to offer limitless kinds of benefits to all sentient beings and the Buddha just like Lama Tsongkhapa, by having the same quality with me as Lama Tsongkhapa has from now on in every second of my life, from now on in all the future lifetimes. Did you know the past, present future matters, by others. What exists is what’s the middle level of our mind. What doesn’t exist, say say say so therefore therefore, merits, two time merits, by others and by oneself, appeared to our mind, hallucinative mind, not merely labeled by mind, existing from a society that is totally nonexistent, empty. That’s totally nonexistent, nonexistent, empty.
Now the eye That which exist is what’s merely labeled by mind, but which appear to us to our hallucinatory mind, not merely a level of our mind appearing back, not merely level of our mind, existing from the side that is totally nonexistent. Empty. Totally nonexistent. That one is totally nonexistent. Empty.
Lead all the sentient beings or who exist which is a middle labeled but mind. But what appear to our hallucinated mind, but merely labeled by mind, existing from the inside. That is totally nonexistent. Totally nonexistent coming to our side and totally empty. To that I think I left out I left out something.
After the eye, I forgot. What should we cheat? I think left out. Jumped and jumped with the sentient beings. Jumped over.
Being like jumped over the enlightenment like the motorcycle in the west jumped over the trucks or something. They land the other side. So I so I jumped over the enlightenment and then to other sentient beings. Those people are racing the motorcycle, you see. So particular lineage that Maitreya, we can use that.
Also, realize enlightenment. However, the enlightenment that which what exists is what’s merely labeled by mind, but which appear to our heart in the mind, that is not immediately above our mind and existing from our side. So that’s totally nonexistent. That one that one is totally nonexistent. Empty.
Once they achieve the all the sentiments who are who are tested for a mid level by mind. But the synonyms who appear to our heart, the mind, not the middle level of mind, existing from their own site, non existent, empty. To lead them to and to lead them to that enlightenment which exists is what is the middle level of our mind, which appear to our hallucinated mind, not middle level of the mind existing from the other side. That’s totally nonexistent. That is totally nonexistent from a suicide, and it was totally empty.
By myself alone who exists is what is the merely labeled by mind which appeared to our original mind, I is not merely by mind. One thought that not merely by mind, existing from the outside, that’s totally nonexistent, Totally empty. May or the whole organization may become most beneficial to certain beings, causes to give beneficial yeah. Yes. The the faith with wisdom and Buddhadharma, Sangha, and karma.
And then, generate loving kindness, compassion, particularly in the house of all sentient beings. And able to spread and all the projects. So to receive all the needs for that and all the projects that each center has, they may succeed immediately by similar needs. Individual centers as well as as well general general activities. The the including the statue, five hundred foot statue.
They will construct a as wished to continue complete and abide in this world until comes. So able to cause generate faith with wisdom, that to the Dharma, Sangha, and as well as karma, and to to in the hearts of all sentient beings as well as the bodhicitta, in in everyone’s heart. bodhicitta, they bring bring everyone to enlightenment as possible. And by actualizing bodhicitta in everyone’s heart in this world, then everybody lives their life only benefiting each other. No harm.
And nobody experience war, famine, disease, torture, poverty, and dangerous fire, water, air, earthquakes. So to to a perfect enjoyment and peace, inner prosperity and outer prosperity, inner prosperity, all the realization. My two collections vast space that I have amassed. I’m working with effort at this practice for a great length of time. May I become the chief leading Buddha for all those whose minds were darkened and blinded by ignorance?
Even if I do not reach this state, may I be held in your loving compassion for all lives, Mañjuśrī. May I find the best of complete Guru and paths and teachings, and I may please all the Buddhas by my practice. Using skillful means drawn by the strong force of compassion, may I clear the darkness from the minds of all beings. The points of the path as I have discerned in. My uphold Buddhist teachings for a very long time.
With my heart going out with great compassion, in whatever direction the most precious teachings have not yet spread, or once spread have declined, may reveal this treasure of happiness and age. May the minds of those who wish for liberation be granted bounty’s peace, and the Buddha’s deeds be nourished for a long time. By even this graded path to enlightenment completed due to the wondrous virtuous conduct of the Buddhas and their sons. May all human and nonhuman beings eliminate adversity and create conducive conditions for practicing the excellent path. Never be parted in any of their lives from the purest path praised by the Buddhas.
Whenever someone makes effort to act in accordance with the tenfold Mahāyāna virtuous practices. May always be assisted by the mighty ones, and may oceans of prosperity spread everyone. Page thirty four. And the last of this name, not only modulized its merit one nine thousand times, but all the prayers are bringing success across to actualize. And the unbearable dependent arising and and also due to my special attitude, may all my pure prayers be succeed immediately.
Good morning. So I might do some along with the practice, do some explanation tomorrow morning. So yeah. But if one if one if or sometimes, you see, sometimes the nighttime, the other night. Last night, I would like to find it.
So didn’t make it to a fixed time for this course. But I have got so the for the and then things to meditate during this time. One might get missed missed out. If one is not here, might get missed out during the during the times of the sessional practice. So might get missed out and then get missed out.
And then happened to practice because the mind missed out, you see, and then the practice may not happen. As far as the one is here, it was not sick in a particular heavy things. They’re just too no. Just to mention just earlier. I mean, still we have still we have how many weeks?
Two. Three. Two or three? Two and a half. Two and a half.
Three and a half. No. Maybe three weeks, something like that. So but I mentioned earlier, there’s a lot of time, but I think it’s early. Sometimes things may get late and maybe exhausted and however, those things can happen, but might get missed out.
So just just to mention earlier I mean, restaurants will you know, that you you’re here all the time, but not here. I mean, once not here is only different. The ones but no one’s here. Maybe not. Late and those can happen.
Time to time. Just to just announcing. So tomorrow morning, six o’clock. As usual, tonight, again, silence, please. Silence until lunchtime.
Tomorrow is tomorrow, they’ll still be talking in the afternoon. The over the weekend, Rinpoche said he will he’s planning to give the transmission the oral transmission for the Sūtra of Golden Light. We are planning on Friday to go into silence. Tomorrow, Venerable Thubten Dondrub has agreed to give an explanation to in the afternoon, and also venerable has agreed to demonstrate how to use vajra Bell some point tomorrow. So we won’t go into silence completely tomorrow, but over the weekend, we’ve already had one week.
So from Friday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, there will be complete silence. So please prepare yourself for that. And silence means no talking anywhere. And there are many people who can refer, and they really, really want to get the most from this retreat. So please, please, you have one day to get ready.
Today is Wednesday. Thank you. Please can the Wurundjeri people be allowed to leave first? The Wurrung people. Before you leave Wurundjeri people there’s some notices on the dining room wall.
Would you make sure you read them if not tonight tomorrow morning? Also the karma yoga lists are now on the wall for you to fill in for everybody not just the Wurundjeri people and please look at it because we need people tomorrow to get things rolling. Tse Chen Ling has got display in Buddha’s lounge so go down and have a look at that there’s some other things here as well and could the members of the Hayagrīva Buddhist Centre Western Australian group please assemble outside the Gompa at breakfast break in the morning that’s Thursday for a two minute Dharma meeting if anybody has emergencies during the night the place to go is the dorm three where Sangye Khadro is and she has access to the phone and first aid etc. Adrian D and Yuta Matta could you see Venerable Wong Mo please? Thank you.