Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 125-minute teaching from a Mahāmudrā retreat, Lama Zopa Rinpoche guides practitioners through a complete guru yoga and refuge ceremony. He explains the central vision: the absolute guru manifests as one’s root teacher, all lineage masters, all Buddhas, and the merit field—”one manifests as many, many are one.” He unpacks mudra symbolism (vajra for dharmakaya, bell for infinite manifestations), guides bodhisattva and tantric vow renewal, and leads Vajrasattva purification. He then anchors the practice in meditation on precious human life: the eight freedoms from lower realms and long-life gods, the ten richnesses, and how this rare combination can vanish at any moment. For practitioners with Lam Rim foundation on intensive retreat.
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Teacher: Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1
Collection: y Mahāmudrā International Retreat (Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1)
Date: 2004-04-18
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Duration: 125.0 minutes
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So in the Namativa Jotu, we reach the section of prostrations of the guru. This is on page twenty seven. That a relationship to those three types of prostration. And the body performing the mudra or the hands folded together at the heart is physical prostration. The speech reciting the qualities and praise is a verbal prostration, and the most important one, the mind reflecting on the meaning of each verse is the mental prostration.
So before this, we do the nine round breathing. So then recollect the matte field in the space in front. In the center, Lama Lozang Dovandhujicang, The Three Powers of Being. Inseparable from one’s real guru, on the lion’s throne, on the wish granting tree, ocean of milk and so forth. Then surrounding the direct and indirect gurus.
Then coming down below the four classes tantra deities, each one of the matte field is guru. Absolute guru, transcendental holy wisdom mind, old Buddhist, dharmakaya, manifests in all these varied aspects in order to guide. Manifests as conventional lama, manifests as linenge lamas, manifests deities. Even manifesting arhats. These arhats also are not ordinary arhats, but manifestations the holy mind, all the Buddhas.
Manifest the so forth. All of these figures in the mat field are the guru. And the guru is all of these. So also put like this, one manifests into many, the absolute guru one manifests into many. All these figures in the mat field.
Many are one. Even each pore of the merit field is all Buddhas, all Guru Buddha Dharmasanga. Even each pore of the mat field is all the mat field. So absolute guru taking all these different aspects, all these different forms, texts, Buddhas, and Lamas, and so forth, but in reality, all one. They’re all an absolute guru.
All the Buddhas, all the gurus, all the gurus, all the Buddhas. Establishing this mind of Guru Yoga. On the basis of this mind of Guru Yoga, there’s seasons supperable one’s own gurus and all the Buddhas. All the practice is done. Sitting in prayer, mandala, and making heartfelt request to receive blessings.
So have this very clearly in your mind. As Rinpoche said, if you don’t see like this, if you just see guru, ordinary being, then it doesn’t have much feeling, doesn’t make much sense. With this mind of guru yoga, then, we make the prostrations. Thinking the meaning of the verse, mixing that with the mind. I will recite one time in Tibetan and then in English.
Your compassion grants even a sphere of great bliss, the supreme state of the three kayas in an instant. Guru with the jewel like body, vajra Holda, I prostrate at your lotus feet. You are the wisdom knowledge of all infinite conquerors, appearing in any way that subdues. With supreme skillful means, you manifest as a saffron robed monk. Holy refuge savior, I prostrate at your feet.
You eliminated all thoughts in their instincts, and are a treasury of infinite precious qualities. So source of benefit and bliss without exception. Pathe pure guru, I prostrate at your feet. So as Amunshet spent the first day, when you do this prostration verses, even the mudra is expressing is expressing everything. So holding the vajra symbolizes the gross holy mind, dharmakaya, the matte field, dharmakaya.
Ringing the bell symbolizes from the dharmakaya, the guru matte field manifest in infinite sambhogakaya forms. The lotus turning mudra as you do that, you’re reflecting that from infinite manifestations, various four infinite forms are manifested to guide us to enlightenment. So manifests from some bhogakaya infinite forms. Then then as you put palms together, then making a prayer that when your mind becomes one with guru, when you achieve dhamma kaya, you’ll do the same thing. You will also manifest out to guide sentient beings.
So whole thing is expressing the man thought is absolute guru, manifesting through unbearable compassion. Dharmakkha holy mind, all the Buddhas bound by infinite compassion to us sentient beings, manifesting infinite forms to subdue. Teacher of gods and all, in nature, all Buddhas, the source of eighty four thousand pure dhammas, you tower above the whole host of aryas. Kind guru, I prostrate to you. To Gurus dwelling in the three times and ten directions, the three supreme jewels and all worthy of homage, in faith, conviction, ocean of their praise, I prostrate manifesting as many bodies as atoms of the world.
Indeminate, awareness, Kuru Yoga man making of face. At any rate, I must achieve the state of full enlightenment in order to benefit all sentient beings. In order to do this, I need to accumulate extensive amount. Therefore, I’m going to do this practice of making extensive offerings in amount field. Blessing all the offerings that are here, blessing all the offerings that are in Rinpoche’s room.
Blessing all the offerings set out in all the f p m d centers, Mongolia, two thousand sets of offerings in Taiwan. Nana Medicine Buddha, Kopan upstairs, houses, all the centers, all the students rooms, wherever these offerings set out for the Buddha, and also mentally creating and imagining infant offerings, blessing and offering, all of these. May human and divine offerings actually arrange in mentally created clouds, the finest offerings fill the entire space. My power truce its visuals, balance of all, but as a body surplus power, great mind, the completed collections, completely pure and conceivable sphere of reality, may all these offerings become just so. So then making charity of all the offerings, all sentient beings thinking going to offer on behalf of them.
All sentient beings need this mat, therefore going to do this practice in the form of a puja, all sentient beings to be able to gain mat. So the more merit we have, easier to practice, easier to get realizations, easier to benefit. Making charity all your offerings to every whole being, every present being, every animal being, every human, every Sutras, every aSutras, every intermediate state being. Then putting palms together at the heart, mood of prostrations, to the mouth fields, know, supperable from the guru. Then prostrating, first of all, to all the gurus with awareness, they’re all Buddha, Dhamma, Samgara.
Offering all these offerings which are in the nature of infinite bliss. How Buddha sees these offerings is in the nature of infinite bliss. Generating the greatest bliss in the guru’s holy minds. Do this over and over. Prostrate often generate great bliss.
You can count on the mala. Prostrating, here, descendants, houses and so forth, which in the nature of infinite bliss, all the bowls, all the lights, the flowers, the food, all the tea offerings, everything. It’s a nature of infinite bliss to all the Guru Puth in that field with the awareness they are all Buddha, Dharma, Sangha. Three times, ten directions. Generated infinite bless in the holy minds.
Prostrate, offer, generate great bliss. Prostrate, offering all the offerings, generating great bliss, the mind of all Buddha, Dhama, Sanghas on every atom, nonetheless bodies. With awareness, their virtuous front and their own side, generating greatest bliss. Prostrate, offer, generate great bliss. Prostrating, offering all the offerings here in all the centers and so forth, which are the nature infinite bliss to the eight medicine buddhas in order for all our prayers to be successful.
Thousand Arms in order to quickly generate great compassion, able to bear responsibility to free all sentient beings from suffering. Bodhisattva Siddhagavas in order to extensive activities for sentient beings. Seeing all these, our virtuous friend from that one side. Generating great bless in the holy mind. Do this over and over.
Prostrati making all the offerings, the all holy objects in India, especially precious stupa, a Buddha became a knighting or guide in Dharmasala, all the holy objects down south, all the pilgrimage places, all the relics, and all the gurus who are in India. Frustrating, making all the offerings in nature infinite bliss, generating infinite bliss in the holy minds over and over. Seeing all these holy objects as manifestation one’s own root cause. Prostrating, making all the offerings, the nature of Namblis to all the holy objects in Tibet, especially the precious holy statue of Bhagavan Buddha himself in the Jyokan Lassa. Mantra statue, meaning for the whole in Drepung, high special high grievous statue in Surya.
And the Pattala, the special Chenrezig statue. And in retting, the special manjushri statue. And all the holy objects in Tibet. Seeing all these as skillful manifestations, absolute guru, and separable from one’s own root guru. Appearing in this way as as holy objects for us sentient beings to purify and accumulate that mat, generating infinite bliss in our holy mind.
Prostrating, making all the offerings set out here, nature imprint blessed all the holy objects in Nepal. All the statues, stupas, stupas, the holy objects, all the gurus in the poem, generating infinite bliss in the holy mind, seeing them all as the root one’s own virtuous friend from the one side. Prostrating, making all the offerings in nature and for a place, all the holy objects in all but all countries of this world. And she’s thinking all the Buddhist countries, in Burma, Sri Lanka, Thailand, there are so many statues to pose. Thinking all of these with with virtuous fans in their own sight, generate infinite bless in their minds.
From all these offerings, numberless offerings emanated out, the sixteen offering goddesses come from one’s heart, numberless goddesses holding numberless offerings, making all these offerings, every pore of the guru field, generating infinite bless in the holy minds. Not just offering all the sun subjects, but also the also the seven rules, the eight auspicious signs, and so forth. Mandala offering, refuge, savior’s treasures of compassion, eminent supreme, filled with pure faith, I present to you billion times over. Mount Meru and the four continents, the seven precious royal emblems, the precious minor symbols, and more. Perfectly delightful environments in their beings, and the great treasure of all that gods and humans use or desire.
By the merit of having offered this mandala to mad field, may I and all sentient beings be able to meet the pure and teachings of Taurus ones, which contain the biographies of those eminent ones who live in pure morality, have the brave attitude to follow extensively body selfless conduct, And practice yogas of two stages, the essence of which is a transcendental wisdom of nondual bliss and voidness. May I and all sentient beings be able to meet this pure complete teaching of Lama Tsongkhapa, the unification of Sūtra and Tantra right this second. Purpose of my life is to feel my kind, mother sentient beings from suffering lead them to enlightenment. To do this, I must receive enlightenment. Without the bodhisattva vows, it’s not possible.
Therefore, I’m going to take bodhisattva vows to benefit all mankind, mother sentient beings. But those who have taken the vows of vows in the past, and go for a fresh, the Three Jewels confess individual my negativity, so I rejoice in the merit of my grating beings. Take hold in my mind, purpose stayed with Buddha. And go for a fresh, until I’m enlightened Buddha, Dharma, Supreme Sangha, Sambi. And I do so to attain enlightened mind, in order to fulfill the aims myself and others I should love, supreme, and enlightened motive.
Toward all sentient beings, my bodyguests, I should act supreme enlightened conduct. May I become a Buddha to benefit all? And go for refuge as Three Jewels, confess individual my negativities, rejoice in the merit of migrating beings, take hold in my mind the perfect state of the Buddha. And go for refuge until I’m enlightened to Buddha, Dharma, Supreme Sangha, Assembly. And I do so to attain and enlighten the mind.
In order to fulfill the aims myself and others, I should dwell supreme and enlightened motive. Toward all sentient beings, my vodka, I should lack supreme enlightened conduct. May I become a Buddha, friend of it all? I go for refuge as Three Jewels, confess individually on my negativities, rejoice in the murder of my grating beings that take hold of my mind by the state of Buddha. I go for refuge until I enlighten to Buddha, Dharma, Supreme Sangha, Assembly.
And I do so to attain enlightened mind. In order to fulfill the aims myself and others, I shrug, supreme, and item motive. To all also prove to me, my invited guests, I shrank with supreme enlightened conduct. May I become a Buddha to benefit all. Generate very strong faith, receive pure bodhisattva vows and presence in the merit field.
What has been degenerate degenerated, made pure. What has not been degenerated, enhanced and increased. That also our genuine mind rejoicing, remembering the benefits of living Bodhisattva vow. From the moment of taking Bodhisattva vows, an infinite amount accumulated all the time even when sleeping. Even if I practice the bodhisattva paramatyana path but still takes three countless great aons to achieve enlightenment.
For myself, no matter how long, no matter difficult, it doesn’t matter. But for that amount of time, those sentient beings who depend upon me with whom I have established dharma conduct, who rely upon me to free them from suffering, they have to suffer so long. Therefore, I must achieve an idol as quick as possible. Therefore, I’m going to take and abide in pure tantric vows. Those who’ve taken tantric initiation.
All Buddhas and bodhisattvas, please listen to me. I, Mika Doji, from now until I reach the essence of Buddhahood, should generate the sacred pearless bodhicitta, just all Buddhas three times, and show themselves awakening by generating it. I pledge to uphold the vows of Buddha family to rely on the purest triple gem, Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha, and the three disciplines of observing proper behavior, gathering virtuous Dharma, and benefiting sentient beings. I pledge to uphold the vajra Vallam to the great family and to honor my teachers. I pledge to practice four times of giving, six times each day, keeping in mind the life or commitments of great Madhana family.
For the great Palma family, I pledge to uphold individually the holy dharmas that arose from great enlightenment, Those the outer secret in three vehicles. For the great supreme karma family, pledge to uphold all vows well and to make as many offerings as possible. I should generate the vows, appearless but achieved it for the sake of all, and uphold all surmise without exception. I should liver those not delivered. Liberate those not liberated.
Give breath to those unable to breathe and place all beings to stay beyond sorrow. All buddhas and bodhisattvas, please listen to me. I am from now to reach the essence of buddhahood. Should generate the sacred pairs by Achilles, just all Buddhas to three times ensure themselves awakening by generating it. I shall uphold all general specific tantric vows, equipments of five 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 soul. All Buddhas and body suffers, please listen to me. I, make a doji from now to reach the essence of Buddhahood, should generate the sacred pillars, body changes all Buddhas three times, ensure themselves awakening by degenerating it. I should behold general and specific tantric vows, equipments of five families without exception.
I should deliver those not delivered. Liberate those not liberated. Give breath to those unable to breathe and place all beings a state beyond sorrow. Think I receive pure tantric vows in the presence of the mad field. What has been degenerated revived, what has not been degenerated enhanced and increased.
Then feeling great joy remembering all the benefits. A quick path to enlightenment by abiding in these vows, all the promises vajra Dharma made, those who keep these vows purely. Then even those who didn’t yet take the not just tantra but the highest yoga tantra made a mistake. So even those who didn’t yet take highest yoga tantra, at this point, still you can rejoice thinking you have opportunity in the future to do so as Rinpoche has explained. And then we do purification.
Maybe today we do bhaja supper. On the crown of my head is page forty seven. On the crown of my head, a syllable bam transforms into a lotus, an aunt and moon cushion, from which from whom a white five pronged vajra emerges marked by a home at its center. From the home, light shines forth and the two purposes are accomplished. The light returns and transforms into white Vajrasattva with one face and two hands holding vajra bell.
Seated in the vajra position, he embraces his consort, the white vajra Prabhavati, who has one face and two hands holding curved knife and skull cup. Both redone with silks and various precious ornaments. At their crown is an oom, at their throat an ah, at their heart, home. On the moon disc of his heart stands a syllable home encircled by the hundred syllable mantra. Request.
Oh Bhagawan, Vajrasattva, please clear away all negative karma and obscurations myself and all living beings and purify all degenerated and broken commitments. Having been thus requested, light shines forth from the home of the mantra rosy of Vajrasattva’s heart, completing the two purposes, purifying the negative karma and obscurations of all living beings, and presenting offerings to Buddhas and their children. All enlightened qualities in their body, speech, and mind collect in the form of light and dissolve into the mantra rosary and home. Thereby stream of white nectar flows down from these entering the crown of my head and filling my whole body, cleansing completely all my negative karma obscurations of body, speech, and mind. So visualize all sentient beings at your heart.
So as you do this practice, you’re also purifying all the negative karmas, your obscurations, so forth of of every sentient being. Through ignorance and delusion, I have broken and degenerated my commitments. O spiritual master, be my protector and refuge. Lord, holder of vajra, endow with great compassion. In you, the foremost of beings that take refuge.
Then Vajrasattva replies, oh child affirming your negative calm, obscurations, unbroken degenerate equipments are now cleansed and purified. After saying this, it dissolves into me. My three doors become inseparable from body, speech, mind. Through the merits of these virtuous actions, may I quickly attain the state of Vajrasattva and lead all living beings without exception into that same enlightened state. 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 or 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 aryas and ordinary beings and in every virtue that has ever arisen. Rejoicing one’s own merit, remembering without merit, there’s no happiness, no success. Even moment to moment, there’s no happiness. Every single pleasure, every single happiness we experience comes from the cause, virtue, merit. Therefore, all this virtuous so precious.
Created numberless causes happens, numberless merit. In the past, I am creating now, will in the future. All of this is so precious. Feeling happiness in the heart over and over again. How wonderful it is, how precious.
Again, can use your mind if it helps. Think of three time merits, past, present, future, and repeat how wonderful, how precious. How wonderful, how precious. Rejoice in the virtuous sentient beings, same thing. Without creating merit, they’re not able to achieve happiness which is what they all seek.
Therefore, every single virtue accumulated by others is so precious. They’ve accumulated so much merit in the past. The numberless sentient beings who accumulated so much merit in the past are accumulating now, will in the future. How wonderful it is. All this three time merit accumulated by others.
How wonderful, how precious. Rejoice in the virtues of bodhisattvas, numberless bodhisattvas, all their past merit, all their present merit, all the merit that will create in the future. How wonderful, how precious. May I become like this. Every single action dedicated to sentient beings.
They’re rejoicing in the virtue of Buddhas, numberless Buddhas or their past met or present or future. How wonderful it is, how precious. And also rejoicing all the inconceivable qualities of the Buddhas or the extensive activities to benefit others. How wonderful, how precious. So each time we rejoice, collect luminous skies of merit.
May I become like this. May I become like all these Buddhas. Quest to turn the wheel of Dharma. Please let fall a rain of profound and extensive Dharma from a hundred thousand clouds, billowing clouds of perfect wisdom and compassion to nurture, sustain, and propagate a garden of kundra flowers for the benefit and bliss of all limitless beings. Though your body is subject to neither birth nor death, but as a vessel of the mighty king unification, please bind forever according to our wishes, non passing beyond sorrow until saṃsāra 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. Vandal offering. I prostrate and go for refuge, the good, and the three precious gems. Please rest my mind. I’m requesting you to majorly pass forward the wrong conceptions and incorrect devotion to the guru.
I’ve to sublute your view of the white, red, and dark visions that exist in my mind, the minds of all Meluscentian beings. I’m requesting you to majorly generate all the right realizations from Guru devotion up to enlightenment. In my mind, the mind to all mother sentient beings. I’m requesting you to pass away all out from the obstacles to actionize entire, gradual path to enlightenment. In my mind, the mind to all mother sentient beings.
I prostrate and go for refuge, the guru, and the three precious gems. Please bless my mind. I’m requesting you to immediately pass far the wrong conceptions of ingrained devotion to the guru. I’ve to settle your view of the white, red, and dark visions that exist in my mind, the minds, all mother sentient beings. I’m requesting you to immediately generate all the right realizations from guru devotional to enlightenment.
In my mind, the mind, mother sentient beings. I’m requesting you to pass well out and in obstacles, actualize entire graduated path to enlightenment. In my mind and in the minds of all mother sentient beings. I prostrate and go for refuge to the guru and the three precious gems. Please bless my mind.
I’m requesting you to immediately pass away the wrong perceptions from incorrect devotion to the guru up to subtle dual view of the white, red, and dark visions that exist in my mind and minds 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, all mother sentient beings. I’m requesting you to pass far all out and any obstacles actualize the entire graduated path to enlightenment in my mind and in the minds, all mother sentient beings. Page fifty five. I request the precious guru who encompasses all objects of refuge, the past, present, and future.
Please bless my mental continuum. I request the precious Guru who encompasses all objects of refuge, the past, present, and future. Please bless my mental continuum. I request the precious Guru who encompasses all objects of refuge, the past, present, and future. Please bless my mental continuum.
So again, you have to see the guru, insufferable from all the Buddhas. So absolute guru manifesting the right field, manifest conventional nama, one’s own root guru, manifest all the deities, the figures in the mat field. So have to see like this, otherwise, it doesn’t make sense, not comfortable to make these requests. So seeing guru inseparable the whole mat field or Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha. So again reminding reminding to have Guru Yoga mind.
My guru is all the Buddhas. All the Buddhas are manifesting in the form of my guru. 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, spread harms, negative karmas and obscurations, especially all the collections of obscurations, negative karmas and generated samayas that I have created in relationship to the holy virtuous friend. Such as giving harm to the holy body, breaking the advice, disturbing the holy mind, generating undevotional thoughts, criticizing, giving up the guru and so forth.
From all my thoughts, sense organs and poisees 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, and all my qualities of understanding and 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 holy virtuous friend. Next is making a quest to the guru, page sixty nine. The bone membrane kilometers. So first three verses. The first one is making request to the guru appearing in the form of a pure bhikṣu, a pure monk.
So generate incredible joy able to see the guru, to see all the buddhas in his pure form as a monk keeping pure Vinaya. When you recite these verses, can feel enormous joy in the heart. The next one, able to see the guru and inner as bodhisattva. All the gurus, all the buddhas manifested in the form of a pure bodhisattva. The next one as a tantric master.
So rare, so precious in this world. As Rinpoche said yesterday, so rare, so precious in this world to find such beings. As Rinpoche said yesterday, though one of the things that gives him the greatest joy in his life is that he’s been able to introduce to the student those gurus with whom he’ve made dharma contact. After making dharma contact with perfectly qualifying gurus, he’s then introduced them to his students. So remembering this comment by Ramesh as we recite this.
Source of virtue, great ocean of mar discipline, treasury brimming with jewels of much hearing, master, second, border clad in saffron, elder, vanaya 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 Guru, I make request to you. You are wise, patient, honest, without pretense or girl. Your three doors well subdued.
You have both such attained qualities, no tantrum rituals, and are skilled in drawing and explaining. Foremost vajra holder, I make a 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 ways of those god bless. Compassionate refuge savior, I make request to you. At this time, when the sunlight teachings, sage is setting, you enact the deeds of conqueror for the many beings who lack a savior refuge.
Compassionate refuge savior, I make request to you. Even one of your hair paws 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, sunspaces, and limbs are in nature, and consorts of five families. Body sufferers and wrathful protectors. Supreme guru, essence of Three Jewels, and make requests 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 pleasure holder, unified primordial savior, I make request to you. Unabscured, inseparable from the place, simultaneous bliss, pervading everything in motion and at rest, the nature of all things free from beginning or end.
Samantabhatra, actual, ultimate bodhicitta, I make a request to you. You are my gurus, you are my yadams, you are the dakinis and Dharma protectors. From now until enlightenment, I shall seek no other refuge in you. In this life, the bardo and all future lies, 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 gidams, you are the dakinis and Dharma protectors. From now until enlightenment, I shall seek no other refuge in you. In this side of the bharat and all future lives, hold me with your hook of compassion.
Free me from saṃsāra nirvana’s fears. Grant all attainment. Be my constant friend and guard me for interferences. You are my gurus. You are my gidams.
You are the dakinis and Dharma protectors. From now until enlightenment, I shall seek no other refuge in you. In this life, pardon me in all future lives, hold me with your hook of compassion. Free me from sincere and nirvana fears. Grant all attainments.
Be my constant friend and guard me for interferences. By the force of having thus requested three times, nectar and light rays, white, red, and dark blue, stream forth in the places of my guru’s 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 of the four kayas are received. A replica of the guru happily dissolves into me, and I am blessed with inspiration.
Through the power of having made offerings and respectful request to you, holy and venerable gurus, supreme field of merit, I seek your blessing, saviors, and root of all being blessed that I may come under your joyful care. I’m requesting the kind Lord Guru is more extraordinary than all the Buddhas. Please bless me to be able to devote myself to a qualified Lord Guru with great respect in all my future lifetimes. By realizing and correctly devoting myself to the kind Lord Guru, whose foundation of all good qualities, 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 the guru’s advice? Even my Mara’s evil friends and the like tried 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, maybe like a mountain and mumble.
Even if I have to perform all the difficult tasks, may I be like a servant to the king with a mind understood? May I abandon pride, holding 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, ignores me, may I be like a dog without anger, never responding with anger?
May I be like a ferry bird, never upset at any time to come and go for the groom? For glorious and precious your Guru, he’s blessed 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 and imbalance is found but once is difficult to obtain, is easily lost. I seek your blessings, partakers essence, make it worthwhile, and not be distracted by the meaningless affairs of this life.
And so here we just spend a few moments again thinking on the preciousness of this human life as Ramesse taught past two days. What it would be like to be born in the hell realms, how there’s no freedom at all. No freedom because the suffering is so intense, so continual, so overwhelming. Not the slightest chance to think about Dharma or practice Dharma. There’s nothing you can do.
Therefore, not being born in hell realm. Having this precious human life, even within each second can create the three causes, three great meanings, three great purposes. Happiness of future lives, liberation, enlightenment. Therefore, this life is so precious, must not waste even a second, must continually keep my mind in Dharma. This precious freedom could end anytime.
Therefore, must practice Dharma without seconds delay. Remembering the suffering in the hungry ghost realms. The beings there not able to find anything to eat or drink for tens and even hundreds of thousands of years. But due to the negative karma unable to die, therefore simply experiencing the unbearable suffering continually of not finding food and drink. The fear, the worry, the depression.
No freedom to practice Dharma. Therefore, not being born in these hungry ghost realms is so precious. You can finish anytime. Therefore, must use each second to practice Dharma. Think of the suffering in animal realms.
If I were now born an animal, would have no freedom to practice, could not understand even a word of Dharma. Each one of these millipedes that we see, each moth is teaching us. Just like us, they were once human beings. But because they didn’t practice, now born in these lower realms having no opportunity. Just like them, we were once millipedes, were once moths.
But due to creating virtue, now we have human life. Therefore, we must not waste it even for a second. The continuum of the mind is the same, but the body changes. Therefore, right now, while we have a body that gives us freedom to practice, free from being born in the animal realm, therefore must not waste even a second, must practice Dharma. Even each one of these freedoms can be lost any moment.
Therefore, there’s not a second delay. Think if I’m born in long life god, the only awareness I would have would be when I was born and then again when I died. Other than that, the mind is in a state of stupa. Having no awareness, not generating any mind, simply using up all the positive virtue that took me into that state. Then the time of death, again, born in lower realms.
I would have no freedom to practice, no freedom to create the cause of happiness, liberation, enlightenment. Therefore, right now, having this precious human life, this is so valuable even every second of it and it can be lost anytime. Therefore, I must practice Dharma. If I was born as a Bambarian, we’ll not even meet with the teachings. Or even if I meet with the teachings, but if I’m not careful, if I don’t purify, if I don’t watch my mind, if I don’t continuously accumulate merit, the negative imprints in the path can ripen.
Even though I’ve met the Dharma, I can lose it all completely even within one life, having no freedom to practice. Therefore, being free from this is so precious that each moment I can practice Dharma, so precious. But this can be lost anytime. Therefore, must practice Dharma without even a second’s delay. If I was now born as a fool, With imperfect senses being mute or unable to hear, no freedom to practice Dharma.
No freedom in each second create the three great meanings. Therefore, right now having this precious life is so important. Must not waste even a second. Must practice Dharma. If I was born in a place where the Buddha’s teachings do not exist or holding wrong views or strong contradictory ideas against the teachings, I would have no freedom to meet with the teachings, no freedom to practice, no freedom at all.
Therefore, now, not being born in either of these states is so precious. Having this precious human life, having an open mind, having met the teachings of the Buddha, even in each second, able to create the cause of future life happiness, liberation, enlightenment. It’s more precious than skies filled with gold. On top of that, having met the tantric teachings and the pure teachings of namsa kapha, precious beyond comparison even each second. Each of these freedoms could be lost any moment.
So difficult to find, so easily lost. Therefore, I must not waste even a second. I must continuously keep my mind in Dharma. Then ten richness that I’m born as a human being this time, that I’m born in a central region, a place where the teachings are existing, a place where there are Sangha existing, acquired number of sangha existing so that I can receive ordination. So the lineage of ordination is existing so that opportunity exists.
So therefore, the teachings are existing. Then I have a healthy body and a healthy mind. This may not be forever. This could change any moment. That I’ve not done any heavy negative actions contrary to the direction of teachings, and that I have strong faith and interest in the Dharma.
Each one of these richnesses is so precious, so difficult to find. In this world, the number of beings who have all these wishes is even very little number, very little number. And this opportunity can cease any moment. Therefore, right now when I have the opportunity to take three great meanings in this life, I must not waste even a second, even an hour. I must practice Dharma.
Then being born at a time when Buddha has come, even though actual Buddha in the Rūpakāya form is not present on this earth, but I’ve met with perfectly qualifying gurus who are transmitting all the teachings of the Buddha. This is so rare. Even now as the Buddha’s teachings are reaching an end. Somehow I managed to meet with perfect growth. Somehow I managed to meet with these teachings just at the last moment.
And not only that Buddha descended but teaching the Dharma. And these teachings existing, being practiced, being actualized, that I can see this happening. And kind sponsors, benefactors, people supporting the Dharma to have these five riches so precious. That this has happened to me is like a miracle. Hard to believe.
Not just each one of these freedoms, these eight freedoms and each one of these ten riches, but I’ve received all of them, the whole package, all eighteen. I have a healthy human body on the northern continent with all the conditions we have to practice tantra, high super tantra, and achieve enlightenment even in one brief lifetime of this degenerate time. With this precious life, with these eighteen things, even every moment I can create the cause of future life happiness. For liberation, for enlightenment. By practicing highest yoga tantra, by practicing lamaskaram Kapha’s special integration, the three deities can achieve enlightenment even in a very short time.
For all of this to come together is so rare, and it can cease any moment. And there is no guarantee it won’t ever happen again. This is just one time. Even looking in this world, very small number, even amongst human beings who have all these eighteen things together. Therefore, I must not waste even a second, even a moment.
I must continuously keep my mind in the dharma. Therefore, there’s never any reason to feel hopeless or depressed. So generate in the heart a sense of preciousness and hold that thought. How precious even each second of this life is. Then generate the awareness that can cease any moment and hold that thought.
Then come to the conclusion, therefore, I must practice Dharma without wasting even a second. And hold that thought. Feel in your heart how unbearable it is to waste even a second of this life without practicing Dharma. And what is the best Dharma? On the basis as a mind of devotion, giving up this life, giving up the happiness future lives, and practicing bodhicitta.
Letting go self-cherishing others continually. So I’m gonna read that verse one more time. 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 with essence, make it worthwhile, and not be distracted by the meaning spares this time. The gas of the searing blaze of suffering in the lower realms, I take heartfelt refuge and 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 in its ways of delusion and karma, plagued by whores of watery denizens of three kinds of suffering. I seek her blessings develop an intense longing to be free from this monstrous ocean of boundless and vicious existence. Having abandoned the mind that views this unbearable prison of cyclic existence as a pleasure grove, I seek your blessings plantake of the treasure of Aries jewels by practicing the three higher trainings, and thereby to uphold liberation’s banner. So I think I want to stop there. So the separate sheet that has dedication prayers.
Choose the mass of three times created by me, Buddhas, bodhisattvas, and all other sentient beings. May embody Chitta, cherishing others, letting go of oneself, letting go of the I, which is the source for the happiness, success, myself, and all other sentient beings. Be generated within my own mind and the minds of all sentient beings without even a second’s delay. May that which has already been generated increase. Due to the man’s the three times created by me, Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and all other sentient beings, may all the father, mother, sentient beings have happiness.
May the three large realms be empty forever. May all bodhisattvas prayers succeed immediately, and may I be able to cause all this to happen by myself alone. Due to the mass of three times guided by me, buddhas, bodhisattvas, and all other sentient beings, May His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Buddha of Compassion, all other holy beings, all our virtuous friends of stable lives, and may all the holy wishes succeed immediately. Choose a mass the three times guided by me, Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and all other sentient beings, may I be able to offer the sky’s benefit sentient beings as lamaskaram Kapha did, by having within me the same qualities that lamaskaram Kapha had from now on in all my future lifetimes. Choose the master three times guided by me, Buddhas, bodhisattvas, and all other sentient beings, which are totally nonexistent from their own side.
May the I, which is also totally nonexistent from its own side, achieve Guru Shakumani Buddha’s enlightenment, is also totally non existent from its own side, and lead all sentient beings with totally non existent from their own side, to that enlightenment which is totally non existent from its own side, by myself alone who is also totally non existent from its own side. And dedicate all my merits in a way greatly admired by the Buddha’s body suffices three times and realized by Samant Bhadra and Mañjuśrī. May I be able to completely actualize LamaTsongkhapa teaching which unifies Sūtra and Tantra within my mind and spread these teachings and minds all sentient beings. Thus, may LamaTsongkhapa teachings flourish forever. Second session.
Due to master three times created by me, Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, all other sentient beings, may I, the members of my family, or the students and benefactors of this organization, and all the rest of sentient beings be only perfectly qualified Mahāyāna Gurus in all our future lifetimes. From our side, may we see them only as enlightened beings. May we do only actions most pleasing to the holy minds of virtuous friends. May we be able to fulfill all the holy wishes immediately. We still have a little bit of time and it’s totally unpredictable, but I have a feeling I’m sure we’ll come this afternoon.
So and this evening. So let’s do the long life prayers now. This is in the green book, at the back of the green book. So you’re good to do this one time a day. The gyre or conquering goddess whose sooner life fades change through a changing fades.
Fain is calling ray whose mantra name malaise by a pain of our life’s fun land. 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 perilousy holds, living essence of pure, paradigmatic doctrine of vitus. Of here alone a doorman of the earth. Of here guides, blime, liberation, sphere of peace. Precious treasure, precise and subtle reasoning. Golden laser light of bright, unerring wisdom.
Clarify without confusion two truths amongst more festive things. Lama remained immutally amongst us a radiant dam sum. Skilled in sprinkling the waters of healing, fulfilling needs, benefiting all. A laughing smile of being imparts of skill, humility, and constancy. A deep milky sea of the liquid moon and morality, Nam remain immutally amongst us, one supremely worthy of veneration.
The moon of your Mahāyāna mind being round by the fever cooling camp of unsullied, unsurpassed resolve. Brilliantly soils abound to space, unbound to seas, the happiness and now, and bliss are always. Nam remain in you to be amongst us, the moon guiding our way. Your teachings of vast spreading rivers of celestial nectars. Your dialect is an invincible cutting vajra Vapam.
Your writings thousand petal lotuses unfolding their glory. Nam remain in you to be amongst us the guardian of highest knowledge. By the mighty seas of spiritual masters, dailies, and doctrine protectors, by the power profound upon the rising and unbearing emptiness of all that appears. May all the hopes, thy prayers, and afflictions be spontaneously fulfilled. Page thirteen.
Enchanting mother, like a brilliant snow mountain, the shining consummation of signs and marks, who, when seeing, captivates mind when hers, through the sorrows of hearts when recall protects from all fears the untimely, giver of life, wish granting will, grant that all may be auspicious. Lord of Dharma, in accordance to the best, the position to those to be subdued, made clear in the light of your well spoken advice the sacred Gyanan tradition, essence of Buddhist teachings. Of foremost and holy lama, to you is supreme. We make this prayer a supplication. Venerable one, to you is kind as he sees that of all the conquerors.
For those wonders in far places, especially the west. Mind for your loving concern for us intentionally descending again to a family of far distant land. We make this request to Alama. Please please the film. Complete holder, skull, and protector of Stainless Sūtra and Tantra.
Holy spiritual friend, foundation for unwavering constant devotion. Profoundly skilled in method seeding along the fortunate path of liberation. Unfolding within us all that is moral, warm, and wise. O Lama, please peace, ablum. Master the entire doctrine of encroached the furthermost shore of Vastoshana Sūtra and Tantra.
Observing ethics, foundational practice is the heart of the teaching, conscientiously following the naya. O Lama, please, please, live long. By the power of our pure prayer and karma, without our ever being separated by our supremely kind Lama, May be joyfully guided as your children’s disciples throughout infinite lives. And by the sweet and next taste of your holy speech, forever set aside. As spiritual masters, yidams, protectors, bless us, and help us, may accomplish the ultimate meaning of life.
Now striving and listening, and fed to you, meditating as much as we are able, that we may quickly usher in a golden age, and all the while may always remember from the depths of our hearts loving kindness of precious Swam. So the food offering, perhaps my life not to attain happiness myself alone, but to feel infinite sentient beings and their sufferings and being to stay the perfect enlightenment. In order to do this, I need to accumulate merit. In order to do this, I’m going to do the food offering. Generate bodhicitta.
Think I’m going to make charity food to all sentient beings, my body, and through this connection may I be able to teach them Dharma. Purify the food into emptiness. Then a generator is dirty and blessed. Palms together of the numberless oceans of food, nekpa, not just the food in the kitchen or blast, but also all the offerings that are here, all the offerings, all the centers taking opportunity to offer all of them together. Palms together offering to Guru Puja mat field.
With awareness, each one of these gurus is all Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha, ten directions. Every single mat field is the holy virtuous friend. Even each pore of all the gurus is all the mat field. Frustrating offering generated infinite bliss in them. Making charity to numberless hell beings, numberless hungry ghosts, numberless animals, numberless humans, numberless Sutras, numberless asSutras, numberless intermediate state beings.
They all fully enjoyed, liberated from all suffering its causes, actualize the path, they all become enlightened in the form of the deity that one practices. By the suffering starting from bodhicitta, then all the offering, Buddha, Dhama, Sangamo, Gurus, holy objects, so many times numberless merits collected, then dedicating. Due to all these merits, may I, my family members, all the organizers of this course, all the members of Buddha House, everyone who’s offering service, all the students and benefit to the organization, all those who sacrificed their life to benefit others, and all of the sentient beings, and especially all those who died, suffered to provide this food, who worked for this food, who created negative karma for this food, who involved with the evolution of this food, and the benefactors of this food. May all of us sentient beings and all future lives never separate away from triple gem. Always make offerings of triple gem.
Receive all the realizations of the path from guru devotion up to illusory body in clear light without delay even one second. Due to all past, present, future minds, cut it by myself and all sentient beings which are completely empty. May the I which is empty, achieve enlightenment which is empty. Lead all sentient beings for empty. To then stand by myself alone who is empty.
Guru’s assemblies, mind sealed deities. To you, we offer desire enjoyments of this circle of magnificence of. Please stay by being pleased and satisfied. Instead of uncontaminated bliss, grant us the holy body, speech, mind. These crown blessings to achieve in this life.
Mahāmudrā, profound vajrayoga, in samrumbha with method and So next session is three o’clock. If you have time, please, you leave, circumambulate the Gompa mindfully. Again, remembering a meditation emptiness. At one thirty, venerable Tsepal is going to demonstrate the Mudras. So all the various different Mudras that are involved with Tantra.
Then if you are also if you’re not familiar with the nine round breathing, then she will go over the nine round breathing and Mudra for the Mandala offering. So if there are any other questions like this, you have basic questions on the Mudras or sitting or any of these kinds of things, can you bring them along? That’s at one thirty. And that will be in the main Gompa. So if you have prayers and commitments, maybe you can go to the second Gompa.
So demonstrating moods will be in the main Gompa. Also, can I have a show of hands? Tomorrow is a special day. It’s a lunar or a solar eclipse or something special. And it’s also the thirtieth.
It’s precept days. We plan to take precepts. But can I have a show of hands anyone who has not ever taken precepts before, has now ever received the lineage or transmission of the Mahāyāna, the eight Mahāyāna precepts before? Can you please put up your hand? Okay.
There’s only three people. Yeah? Five. Alright. So the only reason I’m asking is we cannot assume that Rinpoche does these things because of diabetes, it can be quite harmful.
So I just want you to be prepared. In the past Rinpoche’s always done this, but we have to be mindful that he’s in very strictly controlled diet. So so we will we will work that all out, just five people. Thank you very much. Just a couple here as well.
Could the bus drivers meet again, please, briefly at lunch, have lunch together, same place as last night, just to finalize the new timetable, which should make lifts a little easier for drivers and passengers alike. Tony’s session, which we’ve been trying to find a time for, is still not decided and needs to be sorted out because we’re finding that there are many other things happening. There will be a Discovering Buddhism teachers meeting on Tuesday at one thirty, which, again, might interrupt there too. So sorry for those people who have to leave and are not going to get the final I don’t think it’s ever going to end that session. The questions and everything are wonderful, but it can’t be today.
I’m sorry. The care of Alder Sungha will be at a meeting also at a time to be announced possibly Monday. But we will confirm that and get back to you. We’re just trying to determine whether Rinpoche will be involved in that meeting or not. So watch this space.
Thank you.