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About this talk. Lama Zopa Rinpoche leads practitioners through the meditation on guru devotion in this 121-minute session, focusing on recognizing one’s teacher as the embodiment of all Buddhas despite their ordinary appearance. The teaching encompasses the guru puja liturgy: visualization of a merit field containing gurus and deities; prostrations and offerings; generation of bodhicitta, the aspiration to attain enlightenment for all sentient beings; renewal of bodhisattva and tantric vows; and detailed meditation on seeing the guru as Buddha. Rinpoche teaches four key reasonings: one’s ordinary perceptions are unreliable; Buddhas continuously work for all beings; they manifest in forms suited to each student’s karma; there is no other refuge. He emphasizes that every action of the guru—teachings, criticism, even small kindnesses—serves the student’s path to enlightenment. For practitioners in formal retreat.
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Teacher: Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1
Collection: y Mahāmudrā International Retreat (Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1)
Date: 2004-04-23
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Duration: 121.0 minutes
Words: ~7,470
In the Lomacho Vajocho practice, we’ve now reached dissection of making prostrations to the guru, reflecting on the qualities, reflecting on the actual nature of the guru. The very deep profound meditation on the nature of the guru. So this is page twenty seven. Before we do that, please take a moment to relax, sitting in whatever way is comfortable. Relax, comfortable, but the mind alert.
Then cleansing cleansing one’s mind as evil thought, the Vadhiladhammas, cleansing the channels. Breathing in pure white light, all the blessings in that field. And the swelling, all the darkness of anger, attachment, ignorance. Do this using the nine round breathing meditation. Recollect your visualization of mouth filled in front.
In the most pure of environments, filled with countless Mandavadra offerings. From an ocean of milk arises the most beautiful witch planting tree made of made of various different types of jewels. In the center of the tree sits your own Muguru in the form of Lama, Lozong, Tovong, Dojicang, seated on the lion throne on Lotus Sonamundusk. From his heart, five colored light rays radiate out. To his right, Maitreya and the lineage lama’s extensive deeds.
To his left, Mañjuśrī and the lineage lamas in profound view. Behind, the lineage lamas of of Mahāmudrā coming from Mañjuśrī, coming down all in the form of vajradhara. And on either side, the lineage lamas of the highest yoga tantra lineages. Ghoismajya Yamāntaka, Heruka, and the sixteen drops. In front of your guru, Namaloosa and Tawandhoja chan, is your guru in his ordinary form seated on a smaller throne.
And around him are all your gurus in their ordinary aspect but without any physical defects. All of these gurus are blissfully and joyfully smiling at you with eyes of love and compassion. Think they have total understanding of your mind, they have perfect power to liberate you exactly according to your needs, They have complete compassion and will never abandon even one sentient being. No matter how cruel, no matter how evil sentient beings’ minds are, Buddha never abandons, never gives up, but with infinite loving kindness and compassion, strives constantly for each one of us. Below the guran layers, the deities, four class of tantra, the Buddhism and the Rūpakāya aspects, such as thousand Buddhas is Fortune eight, and thirty five Buddhas, eight Medicine Buddhas, so on.
Bodhisattvas, Panteca Buddhas, arhats. The dakas and bikinis, dancing posture, and the protectors. Around the edges of wish granting tree are the four directional guardians surrounded by the entourage. The nature of the entire matte field is that of indivisible bliss and voidness. The absolute guru, the dharmakaya transcendental wisdom mind of old Buddhas.
All these figures in the mat field are oneness with that. Even every atom of the mad field is all the Buddhas, all the Gurus. Reconnect your determination to not be deceived by your ordinary view of the guru, but to see its actual true nature. With this determination, manifest countless bodies, as mountains prostrating from all directions to the mat field, reciting the praises and reflecting on the meaning of each verse mixed with one’s own mind. Your compassion grants even a sphere of great bliss.
The supreme state of the three kayas in instant. Guru, the jewel knight body, vajra Holda. I prostrate at your lotus feet. You, the wisdom knowledge of all infinite conquerors, appearing in any way that subdues. With supreme skillful means, you manifest as saffron robed monk.
Holy refuge savior, I prostrate at your feet. You eliminate all forms and their instincts, and their treasure of infinite precious qualities, sole source of benefit and bliss without exception. Perfect pure gurus, I prostrate at your feet. Teacher of gods and all in nature, Buddhas, source of eighty four thousand pure dhammas, utah of the whole host of ours. Kind guru, I prostrate to you.
To gurus dwelling three times in ten directions, the three supreme jewels nor worthy of homage. With faith, conviction, ocean of lyric praise, I prostrate manifesting as many bodies as atoms of the world. 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 merit. The more merit I accumulate, the easier it is to practice, the easier to get realizations, the easier to benefit.
The more merit I have, the easier it will be to do listening or flirting and meditating on the path, and especially to gain realizations. The more merit, the more quickly I can achieve enlightenment, and the more quickly I can free all sentient beings from suffering and lead them to the palest happiness of full enlightenment. Therefore, I’m going to do this practice of making extensive offerings to the most holy object, the most powerful object, the merit field, insufferable from the gurus. Blessing all the offerings set out here, blessing all the offerings set out in all the FMT centers in Rinpoche’s room above, in the various different students’ homes, in Singapore, Derek’s house, in Malaysia, Lillian’s house, in Rinpoche’s houses in Aptos, and also in Washington, the May human and divine enjoyment, actually arranged and mentally created clouds of finest mandible offerings fill the entire space. By the power of truth, the Three Jewels blesses all but as somebody suffers.
By the power of great mind, the completed two collections, completely pure and conceivable sphere of reality. May all these offerings become just so. Now making charity of all the offerings to all sentient beings, offering all offering all these offerings to every single how being, every single peta being, every single animal, every single human, every single being, every single being, every single intermediate being, thinking, now we’re all going to offer these together. Just as I need mat, so do all sentient beings need mat, which is a cause of happiness. Remember, happiness does not come from outside.
It comes by having a cause, and that is merit. Prostrating. Now, prostrating, making all the offerings which in the nature of infinite bliss to all the gurus, all one’s own gurus, and all the linen shalamas, seeing each one of them as being the embodiment of all Buddha, Dham, Sangha, and all holy objects at ten directions and three times. By making these offerings generating infinite bliss in their minds over and over again, do this over and over, prostrating offering generating bliss. Prostrating, making all the offerings sit out here, all the offerings sit out in all the f p and t centers, which is houses, and so on.
All the mentally visualized offerings. To all the rest of the Guru Puja merit field, by meditating that their essence is one’s own root virtuous friend in their own side, generating infinite bliss in their holy minds. Prostrate, offer, generate bliss. Do this over and over. Prostrating, making all the offerings, all the bowls, the waters, all the lights, candles, Christmas lights, fairy lights, all the flowers, the food, tea offerings, all the beautiful objects set out here in room, Rinpoche’s houses, all the centers, mentally visualizing many more, offering all these offerings which are perceived by Buddha’s holy mind as infinite bliss in the nature of infinite bliss to all ten directions, Buddha, Dharma, Sangha, and all ten directions, statues, dupas, scriptures, relics, prayer wheels, and all the other holy objects.
By meditating the essence’s root virtuous friend, one’s own side, generating infinite bliss in the holy minds. Do this over and over. From a straight offer, generate great bliss. So this is a short version. Prostrating, making all the offerings set out here, all the other offerings, which will make you infinite bless, making all these offerings to the eight medicine Buddhas so that all one’s prayers will be fulfilled.
The bodhisattva siddhigabha, in order to do extensive activities for sentient beings exactly according to their needs. And to thousand arms in order to quickly generate great compassion and be able to take full responsibility to lead all beings to enlightenment by oneself alone. By seeing these, in essence, one’s own root virtuous friend in their own side, generating infinite bliss in the holy minds, Do this over and over. From these offerings, numberless other offerings emanate, filling the entire earth and sky. From your heart, emanate countless sets in the sixteen offering goddesses who present these offerings to the merit field, generating infinite bliss in the holy minds with awareness even each pore of the merit field is the whole merit field.
By the merit of having offered this mandar to mad field, may I and all sentient beings be able to meet the pure wisdom teachings with Tare’s ones, which contain the biographies of those eminent ones who live in pure morality, and the brave attitude to follow extensively body supper conduct and practice the yogas of two stages, the essence of which is a transcendental wisdom of non dual blessing and blindness. May I and all sentient beings be able to meet this pure complete teaching of lama Tsongkhapa, unification of sūtra and tantra right this second. So those verses, there are things that one practice visualized in the form of beautiful wish beautiful gardens and flowers and wish planting trees. So that’s the best offering one can make to the guru. So remember, Umsa said the actual meaning of offering is pleasing God’s holy mind.
So best way to please God’s holy mind is offering one’s practice. Those who are taking bodhisattva vows, going to retake these vows. Remember the extreme urgency, the most urgent thing in our lives to be able to rescue beings from their sufferings and lead them to enlightenment as quickly as possible. Purpose of my life is to lead all kinds and human beings to stay the full enlightenment. Liberating from all the sentient beings brings perfect happiness.
In order to do this, I must generate bodhicitta, but generating bodhicitta alone is not enough. I must also take and keep pure bodhicitta vows. Short version. I go for red fish, the Three Jewels, confess individually my negativities, I rejoice in my mind, the state of Buddha. I go for red fish, the Three Jewels, confess individually my negativities, rejoice in my our negativities.
Rejoice in murder, my grating take of mind, per state of Buddha. Go for our fishes, Three Jewels, confess individually my negativities. Joy in murder, my grating beings, take hold of my mind, per the state of the Buddha. Think we’ll see pure Bodhisattva vows in presence in right field. What has been degenerated is made pure, what has not been degenerated is increased.
And those who’ve taken the tantric vows, high silver tantra, think even if I practice bodhisattva paramidhyana path, that alone is not enough because it takes three countless great aeons to achieve enlightenment. For myself, no matter how long or how difficult, it doesn’t matter. But for that amount of time, those sentient beings with whom I have connection, who depend upon me to free them from suffering, they have to wait so long. Therefore, I must achieve a night as quickly as possible. Therefore, I’m going to take and keep pure tantric vows.
Short version, All Buddhas, body surfers, please listen to me. I, make a dodgy from now to reach the essence of Buddhahood, should generate sacred spirit of bodhicitta just all Buddhas three times and show himself awakening by generating it. I shall uphold all generals for civic tantric vows, commitments to five families without exception. I should deliver those not delivered, liberate those not liberated, give breaths to those unable to breathe and place all beings to stay beyond sorrow. Or should I should hold of the general specific tantric vows, commitments of five families without exception.
I should liver those not delivered, liberate those, and liberate. Give breaths to those unable to breathe and place all beings to stay beyond sorrow. I shall hold all general and specific tantric vials, equipment, supply of families 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.
What caused me to have so many obstacles to my practice, why I’m unable to gain any realization just due to the heaviest negative calms I’ve accumulated with the virtuous friend. Therefore, I must purify all of these committedness and beginningless past lives immediately by relying on my kind guru manifesting in the form of Samaya Bhajra. Omam, purjnika, home. Good smile, Vajidin says, with your negative comments, obscurations, and generous smiles completely purified. Think from now on, I’m going to abstain from creating all these heavy negative karmas with Nunguru, at least for today, at least for the next hour, at least for the next minute, make a promise to the guru and one that you can keep.
Due to this virtue, may I and all sentient beings be guided by the Guru Deity from now until nice and achieved. May I and all others be protected by the Guru Deity. Keep every smile to Guru Deity. Page forty eight. Before those having great compassion, I confess with regret and bound that it’s commit again, whatever non virtuous and evil actions I’ve done throughout beginning this time caused others to do on which I rejoice.
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. Now doing the process of rejoicing. Let’s all rejoicing one’s own mat. By reflecting how this merit is a source of all one’s happiness, success, all the realizations up to enlightenment come from that. Even moment to moment happiness depends upon merit, the cause of happiness having been generated in my mind.
Therefore, single merit that I accumulate is so precious, wish fulfilling. I’ve created numberless merits in the past. I am creating now, and I will in the future. How wonderful and how precious. Enjoying in the virtue of others and that by remembering that what every sentient being wishes is happiness, what they don’t want is suffering, and this happiness can only come by having a cause of happiness, merit.
Therefore, every single virtue others accumulate is so precious. Sentient beings accumulate so much merit in the past, they’re accumulating so much now, and they will accumulate so much in the future up to enlightenment. How wonderful it is, all this three time merit, how precious. Think of all those people in Dharmasala, fortunate ones, living nose holes, studying, practicing, circumambulating, receiving teachings. All those in the great monasteries down south, thousands of monks, every day upholding the teachings, keeping vows.
All those in centers, temples, monasteries, all parts of the world, everyone who’s living in vows, everyone who’s making offerings, everyone who’s practicing Haridharma, how wonderful, how precious. Every single virtue they accumulate. Those practicing compassion, those who are generous, those who are kind, those who are serving others, not just Buddhists, Christians, anyone, any single person generating virtue in their mind. How precious, how wonderful. Without this, there is no light in the world.
Rejoicing the virtues of bodhisattvas, every single thing even a very new bodhisattva does. There’s no thought of working or seeking happiness for self. Every single action body, speech, and mind suffer is completely focused on working and seeking happiness for others. It’s only the thought of others. Every single moment, even breathing in and out, is done for others.
Therefore, everything, even the ordinary activities, eating, walking, sitting, sleeping, naturally becomes beneficial for all sentient beings, naturally accumulates numberless matter. Their numberless body sufferers accumulate a numberless matter in the past. They are accumulating now and they will in the future. How wonderful, how precious. Rejoicing in the virtues and Buddhas who once ordinary like us, having delusions, having suffering, the mind completely obscured, But then by generating renunciation, bodhicitta, bearing great hardship, practice the past, they achieve a state of omniscient mind, able to do perfect work for others.
There are numerous Buddhas rejoicing all their virtue in the past, present, and future. How wonderful, how precious. May I become like this? Rejoice in their inconceivable qualities and in their extensive activities for others. K.
Please now fall a rain in profound and extensive dharma for a hundred thousand billowing clouds, perfect wisdom and compassion to nurture, sustain, and propagate a garden of kunda flowers for the benefit and blissful, limitless beings. Numberless forms of oneself is Brahma offering the Dhamma wheel. This purifies negative karma, abandoning the Dhamma. Though your body is subject to neither birth nor death, but as a vessel of the mighty king unification, please abide forever according to our wishes, not passing beyond sorrow until saṃsāra ends. Numberless forms of oneself offering nine thrones.
This purifies negative karma of having disturbed the guru’s holy mind and creates a cause for yourself to have a long life and sit on the throne and guide others. I dedicate the mass of white virtues thus created 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 vajra Vara. And I think. I prostrate and go for refuge, the good, and three precious gems. Please rest my mind.
I’m requesting you to immediately pass for all 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 almost 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 monocentient beings. And I’m requesting you to pass well out in your obstacles, actualize the entire graduated path to enlightenment in my mind and minds all monocentient beings. So Khyatra Chedron, she says, this special quest contains every possible wish that you could have as a Dharma practitioner. So this contains everything a dharma practitioner could want for, could wish for.
I prostrate and go for air fish to the guru and his three precious gems. Please, bless my mind. I’m requesting you to immediately pass for the wrong conceptions, make great devotion to guru up to subtle dual view of the white, red, and dark visions that exist in my mind and the minds of all mother sentient beings. I’m requesting you to immediately generate all the right realizations from guru devotion up to enlightenment in my mind and the minds of all mother sentient beings. I’m requesting you to pass well out and in obstacles actualizing the entire graduated path of enlightenment in my mind and the minds of all mother sentient beings.
I prostrate and go for refuge to the guru and the three precious jams. Please rest my mind. I’m requesting you to immediately pass for all the wrong perceptions from incorrect devotion to the guru after solid your view of the white, red, and dark visions that exist in my mind and the minds of all mother sentient beings. I’m requesting you to immediately generate all the right realizations from guru devotion up to enlightenment In my mind, in the minds, all mother sentient beings. The request for you to pass out and obstacles to actualize the entire graduated path to enlightenment.
In my mind, in the minds, all mother sentient beings. I pro strate and go for Rappish, the guru, and the three precious gems. Please bless my mind. I’m requesting you to immediately pass far the wrong conceptions from incorrect devotion to the guru after solid your view of the white, red, and dark visions that exist in my mind and the 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 the minds of all my sentient beings. I’m requesting you to pass out obstacles, actionize the entire graduated path to enlightenment. In my mind and in the minds, all my sentient beings. Lord, the sages source for realizations. Great treasure and unobjectifying compassion.
Then, the entire host of Mars. Lord, drop a crown jewel of sage and land of snow. To you, tensing get solar, embodying all three refugees. I make request and respect with my three dudes. Please grant your blessings to liberate myself and others.
Please bestow supreme and common realizations. Please best me to become quickly. Thank you. Lord, the sages source for realizations. Great treasure and unobedifying compassion.
Mañjuśrī master stainless wisdom. Destroy the entire host of Mars. Crown jewel of sage to the land of snow. To you, embodying the three refugees, then make a question and respect with my three doors. Please grant your blessings to liberate myself and others.
Please bestow us supreme and common realizations. Please best me to come quickly like you. Lord of sages, source for realizations. Abba, treasure non objectifying compassion. The master, sustain us wisdom.
Destroy the entire host of Mars. Crown jewel of sage and land of snows. To you, embodying three refuges, I make my three doors. Please grant your blessings to liberate myself and others. Please bestow supreme and common realizations.
Please best me to come quickly like you. All the rest of one’s course, two months made dumb contact without missing out even one. Lord of sages, source for realizations. Abhajidar, great treasure, non objectifying compassion. Mañjuśrī, master, stainless wisdom.
Bhajrapani, destroy the entire host of Mars. Lausandra, crown jewel of sages, land of snow. To you, guru buddhas, embodying three refuges. Then make a question and spend with my three doors. Please grant your blessings to liberate myself and others.
Please, supreme and common realizations. Please bless me to become quickly like you. Requesting the guru. I request the precious guru encompasses all objects of refuge of the past, present, and future. Please bless my mental continuum.
I request the precious guru encompasses all objects of refuge of the past, present, and future. Please bless my mental continuum. I request the precious guru who encompasses all objects of refuge of the past, present, and future. Please bless my mental continuum. Five colored neta beings are forced in the guru’s holy body, entering my body, mind, and those of all sentient beings.
These purify all diseases, spirit harms, negative karmas, and obscurations, especially all the collections of obscurations, negative karmas, and degenerated samayas created in relationship to the holy virtuous friend. Such as giving harm to the holy body, breaking the advice, disturbing the holy mind, generating undevotional thoughts, criticizing without devotion, giving up the rule, and so forth. From all my door sense organs and paws, these are dispelled in the form of liquid smoke or black soot. They are all completely purified. My body becomes the nature of light, calm and clear.
My life, fortune, merit, 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 all sentient beings. I and all sentient beings are now under the protection of the holy virtuous friends. Making a quest to the guru, page sixty nine. So all these prostrations and requests is not just one guru, but all the gurus.
Source of virtue, great oceans and marred as men, treasury brimming with jewels and much hearing, masters, second buddhas clad in saffron, elders, vanae holders, I make a request to you. You have the ten qualities suitable for one to teach the path of those gone to bless. Laws of Dharma representing all conquerors, may I make a request to you? You are wise, patient, honest, without pretense or gall. Your three doors well subdued.
You have both sets of ten qualities, no tantrum rituals, and are skilled in drawing and explaining. Foremost vajra holders, and make request to you. To those untamed by countless past Buddhas, the unruly migrated as degenerate age with difficult to subdue, you show unmistaken me the good way of those god bliss, compassionate refuge savers, I make a request to you. And this time, when the sunlight teachings are sage ascending, you are anointed deeds of conqueror for the many beings who lack a savior refuge. Compassionate refuge savers, I make requests to you.
Even one of your hairpaws is for us a field of merit more highly praised than all the conquerors three times in ten directions. Compassionate refuge saviors, I make requests to you. So Rinpoche gave commentary to that last night. Each paw in the Guru’s honey body, but also the other disciples, disciples the same Guru, and even the dogs, even the Guru’s animals, Guru’s horse, course, the attendants, wife, children of the Guru’s layperson. Making offering to one of these cumulates, find greater merit and offering to nonetheless Buddhas.
Adorned with the Sukkatas three bodies, you manifest from an alluring net of skillful means in ordinary form to lead all beings. Compassionate refuge saviors, I make requests to you. Your aggregates, elements, sense, base, and limbs are in nature, Sugattas and consoles of five families. Bodhisattvas and wrathful patendas, supreme guru’s essence and Three Jewels, and make a request to you. Arising from the play of omniscient pristine awareness, you’re the essence of ten million mandala cycles, pervading lord of a hundred Buddha families, foremost, vajra Holda, unifying primordial saviors.
I make a request to you. Unobscured, inseparable from the play of simultaneous bliss, pervading everything in motion and at rest, the nature of all things free from beginning or end. Samantabhatra, actual ultimate bodhicitta, I make requests to you. You are my gurus. You are my gidams.
You are the dakines and Dharma protectors. From now until enlightenment, I shall seek no other refuge than you. In this life, pardon 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 dhikinhas and Dharma protectors.
From now until enlightenment, I shall seek no other refuge in you. In this sight, pardon all future lies, hold me with your hook of compassion. Free me from saṃsāra and nirvana spheres. Grant all attainments. Be my constant friend and guard me from interferences.
You are my gurus. You are my gurdams. You are the dakinis and Dharma protectors. From now until enlightenment, I should seek no other refuge in you. In this I have borrowed my future lies.
Hold me with your hook of compassion. Free me from saṃsāra nirvana spheres. Grant all attainments. Be my constant friend and guard me from interferences. By the force of having thus requested three times, nectars 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 of the four kayas are received. A replica of the guru happily dissolves into me, and I am blessed with inspiration. So the special feature of the lamaste of practice, one special feature is integration of the three deities, three special deities in Lama Tsongkhapa. Arising is Yamāntaka.
The body mandaram and the offerings in accordance with Chakrasamvara. So then according to Geshe Sangamo Shi, at this point, reciting the mantras, meditating oneness with these deities. Through the power of having made offerings with prayerful requests to you holy and venerable gurus, supreme field of merit, I seek your blessing, saviors, and root of well-being blessed that I may come under your joyful care. So at this point, we’re going to do the meditation on good version. If you need to, you can just stretch.
I mean, not get up and run away. Just stretch. So going to the outlines for good devotion. So we covered the eight benefits, correctly devoting to the holy virtuous friend. Then we covered the eight disadvantages of breaking devotion.
So now on the section, how to devote oneself to the guru. Then there is devoting through thought, devoting through deed. So in the section devoting through deed, we’re on the section developing faith by seeing the guru as Buddha. Then we’ve already covered the reasonings, why it’s necessary, why it’s possible. And then in the four reasonings, what to think.
So how to generate this? We’re going in the reverse order. So we’ve covered that there’s nothing to trust in one’s own appearance. And now we’re going to meditation that Buddhism, Bodhisattva is constantly working for sentient beings in the form of one guru. So our goal is to change the mind that has no faith that sees the guru and buddha separate into a mind that sees guru and buddha same.
And has such faith that just by recollecting the guru, we are overwhelmed by devotion. Begin by focusing on your gurus in front. In front of Lama Lozentol and Doychee Chan, one’s own kind root guru, seated on the throne and around him in ordinary aspect, and around him, all one’s gurus with whom one’s made Dharma contact in this life. Focus upon these gurus with the awareness that they are embodiment of all objects of refuge. Imagine your guru.
Your guru is looking at you very joyfully, very happily, very pleased because you’re doing these meditations. The only wish is for you to be able to gain these realizations. The only wish is for you to accomplish happiness. Then think, myself and all sentient beings, since beginningless time have been wandering in cyclic existence, experiencing the general and particular sufferings of three lower realms. Why?
The reason is because we haven’t trained our mind in the correct way of relying on the on the guru. Therefore, right now, myself and all sentient beings are going to train our minds in the correct way of devoting to the guru. Please, Guryadam, grant blessings that we may be able to generate the correct realization of devoting to the holy virtuous friend. On the basis of this request, inconceivable streams of nectar flow from the holy body from guru. They purify all negativities and obstacles created since beginningless time, and particularly those that prevent us from generating the realizations in connection with correctly devoting to the spiritual guide.
These come out of all the pores of our body. The nectar then fills up our body and those all sentient beings, filling us with merit, wisdom, long life power, and so forth, and particularly granting all the blessings so that our minds can ripen very fast in the stages of path of correctly devoting to the spiritual guide. Now, first of all, establish that your guru first of all, establish that one has so many wrong concepts in the mind. One sees impermanent things as permanent. One sees things which are empty of being truly existent as being truly existent.
One sees things which are only in the nature of suffering as happiness. Therefore, our minds are full of wrong concepts, and we cannot trust our appearances. Not only that, but we have no no knowledge to see even tomorrow. Even what is going to happen the next minute, we can’t see. We can’t tell, we can’t be sure.
So we are totally deeply ignorant. Recognize that there are so many hallucinations we believe in, so many mistaken thoughts and wrong concepts. Therefore, the fact that we see our guru as ordinary doesn’t prove that they’re ordinary at all. Next, establish in your mind the fact that your guru is Bodhisattva. Make sure you understand and believe that Bodhisattvas have not the slightest thought of seeking happiness for themselves.
Not for one second do they arise a thought of seeking happiness for themselves. They only think of others, and they only work for others with bodhicitta, benefiting all sentient beings. Look at your guru this way. After you establish this, think that bodhisattvas collect two types of merit in order to achieve enlightenment for sentient beings, which includes oneself. There are numberless bodhisattvas working for sentient beings and working for me.
Then there are numberless Buddhas who’ve completed the two types of merit and ceased all gross and subtle defilements by actualizing the path, method, wisdom, who have omniscient mind. As you do this meditation, keep focusing on your gurus in front of you, cultivating this awareness, applying it to them. These Buddhas who have a mission mind see all sentient beings including myself. They see all my sufferings, all my needs, all my karmas, my characteristics, my level of intelligence, everything. They conceal the methods that fit me, that lead me from happiness to happiness towards enlightenment without the slightest mistake.
As well as knowing the methods for numberless other sentient beings, every single one of them. Keep focusing on your gurus. Not only this, they have perfect knowledge of my own mind. They see everything directly. They can see all the past, present, and future, everything.
Also, have perfect power to reveal these methods according to my karma and the karma of all sentient beings. Not only that, but their mind is trained in great compassion that embraces and hooks me and every single sentient being. They have more compassion towards those who have more negative karma, who are suffering more. They have more unbearable compassion towards them. So Buddha never gives up sentient beings even for one second.
And Buddha has perfected all the qualities to guide me and all sentient beings. All the Buddhas are guiding me even now, guiding me in the present time right now. So who are they? There is no one to point to except these gurus. There is no one to point to except these gurus that I see as ordinary, as having delusion, having suffering, having mistakes in the actions.
If the girl manifested lower than this as animals and so forth, it will be difficult to recognize and difficult to receive guidance. If the guru manifested more pure than this, I don’t have the karma to see. I don’t have enough pure mind to see that way. I only have the impure karma to see in this ordinary aspect. So the Guru Buddha manifests in this ordinary mistaken aspect exactly according to my karma to guide me.
How unbelievable. How kind. Repeat this over and over. How kind the guru manifesting in this ordinary aspect to guide me. How kind, how precious.
This is the most precious, most important one in my life. Repeat this over and over. You can count it on your mana twenty one times half the mana or more, and then do fixed meditation. Think how precious it is. How precious it is.
This is the most precious, most important one in my life. This ordinary aspect liberates me from the lower realms, from saṃsāra, even lower nirvana, and brings me to enlightenment by reverending holy Dharma. The various methods, how most unbelievably kind the guru is, how precious, how important. Śākyamūni Buddha, Mañjuśrī, Chenrezig, Tārā, Vajigini, Gosmaja Yamāntaka, as well as numberless Buddhas are guiding me through this ordinary aspect. In this manifestation.
How precious it is. How precious it is, this ordinary aspect. This is the most precious, most important one in my life. Repeat this over and over again, and then do fixed meditation. Each of these gurus, whatever action they do towards me, is definitely leading me to enlightenment.
Doing the action of even giving the oral transmission of a few syllables or verses of Sūtra and Tantra leaves the imprint on my mind that causes me to be nearer to again receiving a precious human body in my next life to meet Buddhism and the Dharma, and to understand the meaning of words of the teachings, and accumulate and purify all the delusions. Like this, they lead me to enlightenment. There is no question that by giving refuge, by giving vows, initiations, or transmissions, and instructions, they’re leading me to enlightenment. Even the other actions such as praising me, talking nice sweet words or lawful words, scolding me, giving me gifts, food, drink, and so forth, even giving me a cup of tea, Even this is helping me, supporting me, inspiring me to practice Dharma, and bringing me to enlightenment. How wonderful, how precious.
My ordinary mind believes that these gurus are ordinary, but these gurus are the ones who are actually doing the work of guiding me and bringing me to full enlightenment. According to my ordinary view, that means the numberless Buddhas are doing nothing for me. That is absolutely impossible. The Buddhas have skies of qualities. Therefore, these gurus whom I see guiding me, taking care of me right now, are the Buddha.
The numberless Buddhas are guiding me in these ordinary aspects as my guru. Without this manifestation that I can see according to my karma, I’m guideless. I am totally guideless. I am totally lost in saṃsāra. Like a baby left in the desert where there’s nothing, nobody to help, nobody to take care.
Like a baby left in a vast desert where there are many vicious animals around, poisonous snakes, and great danger. Being in saṃsāra is like this. Aside from these Buddhas showing an ordinary aspect to guide me, there is nobody. Therefore, make strong determination that these gurus, especially the one that one sees thoughts in, are definitely Buddha, and do fixed meditation on that, holding and recognizing them as Buddha, as kind, as precious, the most important in one’s life. May I not arise heresy even for a second in the actions of the glorious guru?
May I regard what her actions have done as pure. With this devotion, I receive the blessings of the guru in my heart. Choose the master three times created by me, Buddhas, bodhisattvas, and all other sentient beings. May bodhicitta cherishing others, letting go of oneself, letting go of the eye, is the source or the happiness success, myself, nor other sentient beings. Be generated within my own mind and the minds all sentient beings without even a second’s delay.
May that which is already being generated increase. Three times guided by me, Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and all other sentient beings. May all the father, mother, sentient beings of happiness. May three lower realms be empty forever. May all Bodhisattvas prayers succeed immediately.
May I be able to cause all this to happen by myself alone? Jesus, the master three times guided by me, buddhas, bodhisattvas, and all other sentient beings. May his holy Sadhala Lama, the Buddha of compassion, and all other holy beings, all our virtuous friends have stable lives. May all the holy wishes succeed immediately. Due to mass, the three times created by me, Buddhas, Buddhism, and all other sentient beings, may I be able to offer skies of benefit to all sentient beings as does by having within me the same qualities that lamaskaramkapa has from now on in all my future lifetimes.
Due to the merits of three times created by me, Buddha’s, bodhisattvas, and all other sentient beings, which are totally nonexistent from their own side. May the eye, which is also totally nonexistent from its own side, achieve Gurukshetka Mini Buddha’s enlightenment which is also totally nonexistent from its own side, and lead all sentient beings who are totally nonexistent from their own side, to that enlightenment which is totally nonexistent from its own side. But myself alone is also totally nonexistent from its own side. I dedicate all my merits and my great deviant by Buddhas and bodhisattvas the three times and realized by Sumant Bhadra Mañjuśrī. May I be able to complete the actualized LamaTsongkhapa teaching which unifies Sūtra and Tantra within my mind and spread these teachings to the mind’s all sentient beings.
Thus, may LamaTsongkhapa teachings flourish forever. Due to the merits, the three times created by me, Buddha’s, Bodhisattvas, and all other sentient beings, may I, the members of my family, all the students and benefits of this organization, and all the rest of sentient beings, meet 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 holy minds and virtuous friends. May we be able to fulfill all their holy wishes immediately.
Perhaps in my life, not just to inhabit myself alone, to feel the numbness sentient beings, oceans of samsaric suffering. Therefore, I’m going to make this food offering and make charity to sentient beings. Especially, I’m going to make charity to food to all sentient beings in my body through this connection. In the future, may I be able to teach the Dharma to them. Purify food into emptiness.
And bless and transform it according to data that one practices. Palms together at the heart. Numberless oceans of food, all the food in the kitchen will transform not only the food offerings, but also all the offerings in various different centers, all the offerings that are here, all the lights, and so forth. Offer all of this to the Guru Puja mat field with the awareness of each direct and indirect gurus or Buddha Dhama Sangha ten directions. Every single mat field is one’s own guru, and even each pore of the gurus is entire matte field.
By making all these offerings, which in the nature of infinite bliss, generated infinite bliss in the holy minds, made charity of all this food to numberless hell beings, numberless hungry ghosts, numberless animals, numberless humans, number as suras, number as suras, number as intermediate state beings. They all fully enjoy liberated from all suffering, whose cause actualize the past. They became fully enlightened and form the deity one practices. By offering in this way, we accumulate the sky as mud. Due to all these merits, may I, my family members, all the all the organizers of this course, all the nuns of Buddha house, everyone who’s offering service here, all the students and benefits of the organization, all those who sacrificed their life for the Buddhist teachings of sentient beings, and all other sentient beings, especially those who died for this food, who suffered to fight this food, who worked for this food, created negative calm for this food, All those involved in evolution of this food, may all of us sentient beings in our future lives never separate away from the trouble jam.
Always make offerings the trouble jam. Receive the realizations of the path and good version up to enlightenment without delay even one second. To you we offer desire enjoyment of this circle of magnificent song please stay by being pleased and satisfied. Instead of ungodly, name and bliss. Grant us the holy body, speech, and mind.
Please grant blessings to achieve in this life. So next session is three o’clock. And will be continuing the explanation at one thirty. One o’clock. Oh, one o’clock.
He’ll continue at one o’clock. Also, it’s a very important announcement. It seems the karma yoga lists, people have not been signing up for those, and that’s extremely important. And also not only not just signing up, but but even not doing the jobs they signed up to do. So this is causing some difficulties for organizers.
So please everybody, this is a part of the retreat doing the karma yoga and offering service. This is a part of the retreat. Also, people have been asking for the retreat meditation. So what we’re going to do is if you put down your email, not now during the course, not at the end of the course, but following the course, I will send some of these meditations when they’ve been written out nicely and also other practices that Rimshi has given. So there’ll be a whole potpourri of stuff, and that will be sent to you by email.
So there’s a sheet to sign up on. Thank you very much. Enjoy. So if you’re not discussing the subjects, then please keep the sense. Tony, you’ll be you’ll be downstairs in the second compo.
You’ll be in the second compo. Yeah. So the explanation that the girl gets so suddenly I will be in the second compa. As soon as some of the jobs that aren’t being done, the you know, some of the not doing jobs in the. Definitely, the company is vacuumed.
Can we oh, okay. Alright. Alright. I’m backing off.